Can we please get severely punished for repeatedly dropping out of matches?

(DrRageQuit) #1

Getting a little tired of dropping ranks because people wont play out a game thats not looking promising. I totally understand that sometimes a real life event gets in the way, and you have to drop out. But there are far too many people who just decide a game is over because the enemy team beat you to the objective and immediately quit.

Then theres the people who queue for all maps to reduce the queue time but immediately quit out of the lobby if its not the map they want, or theres a party of players on the other team.

X Number of drops from a game in Y amount of time = Ban for 12 hours/48 hours/7 days depending on how often they’re doing it. It would also be nice for the other players on the team to have their rank protected if a teammate drops, but that leaves it open to exploitation with party members dropping to protect teammates - Only way to resolve that would be not to make a players rank so massively dependent on how other people play.

Thoughts?

(SnakekillerX) #2

Think its ironic that your name is DrRageQuit.

I personally don’t see that many drop outs while playing ranked, even when one team is stomping the other. More likely I’ve notice a team will forfeit instead.

(Press E) #3

I completely agree. I posted a thread expressing my opinion as to why ranked should be based more on personal performance. I really hope the devs realize this is a viable fix to an issue that makes solo queues horrible to dredge through in time for season 3

(bontsa) #4

This is already a thing. Quitting match while in warmup or game (I think the trigger is as long as map has loaded) results in penalty that starts from something like ~30 minutes and expands with each quit until 7 days.

Also the game does offer them chance to join back after dropping. Game cant tell if person quit due rage or simply connection hiccup. This return window is something like 3-5minutes, theres console message in chat that its safe to leave without penalty once this “comeback time” is over. Player who quit wont also get their penalty until this time is over, obviously. Dont know what happens if game ends before the safe to leave- message is displayed, do they get a penalty or not.

I’m not entirely sure how long person needs to be “clean”, not quitting, to reset the count and start from first penalty again.

If you do have evidence of players somehow not receiving these penalties as should, you should file a bugreport.

Also worth mentioning as a reminder if a player drops and its uncertain if they just lost connection or such, F5 key opens vote menu where you can vote your team a at least 1 minute break. Longer if your opposition (or someone unattentive on your team) agrees on your explanation for pause and doesnt unpause when grace period is over.