As can you see from the title I just got an 8 hours ban from Lucio ball, but let me explain.
I have a [insert a not allowed word in this day and age] connection, although 100mb, it’s not stable and it keeps disconnecting me throughout the day several times, so when I play competitive I sometimes get dc’d a minute and come back again as soon as I can.
I think the ban system is harsh and unfair, for example, if I got dc’d at the start of the game I still get banned even though no one lost anything, I can understand that to an extent, to not be the first time you do it in a season or a month.
Second, this one is the hardest, I just got banned for 8 hours because of dc, but when I came back I scored 3 goals and we ended up winning 4-3, so I carried the game and still got banned and lost 100 SR, which is unfair.
I suggest a change in the system, because if I am being realistic not all of us have stable connections, even if you guys at Blizzard or America don’t have that issue, but we do and we are getting punished for something that isn’t in our hands, and we can’t change it.
You probably don’t want to hear this, but competitive is not the mode for you if your internet is that unstable. Don’t forget that there are other people in the game, and they think exactly like you when you disconnect: they feel like they are being punished for something that isn’t in their hands. I’m still trying to break the news to you gently, but I’m afraid the sympathy for cases like yours is pretty minimal on these forums.
Good for you that you come back and still try your best to make the most of the game, but if you disconnect for, as you claim yourself, up to a minute, a lot can happen in a game where your team is at a disadvantage of being one man down. Good for you that you came back and carried that Lucioball game, but your team could just as easily be 4 points behind in the time it took you to get back - and even if that is too short a time, no one can predict you are going to make those goals and get the win. You disadvantaged your team by disconnecting, period.
As for disconnecting at the start of the game where no one is really affected, if that goes unpunished, what’s to stop people from match dodging, whether it’s because they don’t like the map or they are up against a player they lost the previous game to.
Apart from that, leaver penalties are the same for DC’s as they are for intentional leaving, because there is no way to make a distinction between people suddenly disconnecting, or people yanking their internet cable. In my opinion bans and SR penalties for leavers are perfectly justified.
What you need to be looking at, instead of blaming Blizzard and their policies, is how you could improve your internet to make it more stable if you really want to play competitively. If it’s a WIFI, try to connect a cable and see how that works out. If it is your provider, try to see what other options are available in your area.
I understand your point, but there are ways around it.
for one, can’t the system tell if I DC or leave? if not why not teach it, I mean leaving is clicking on leave, but DC is a straight disconnection from blizzard applications.
Second, for the DC at the start of the game, I said at least once a season, or once a month, whichever is better, or maybe something else I don’t know.
overall I still think Blizzard implementation of the banning system is a bit harsh, and there are ways to improve it for everyone in a fair way, and I am sure that there are people who are smarter than me in this sort of things at Blizzard that can think of better ideas.
I agree that penalties feel hard if you accidently disconnect. I disconnected and crashed a couple of times myself, and it’s really no fun if you see your SR drop because of that. But I understand why it exists. And my internet is otherwise stable, or I wouldn’t be playing competitive.
It’s very easy to detect this, and I’m sure they already do, but if disconnecting has no penalty, I would just need to unplug my internet cable, or alt-tab and disconnect my WIFI, in order to leave a game without getting punished for it. They can detect the disconnection, but not the intention of the person disconnecting.
I guess I wouldn’t object too much if they would implement this at the start of a game where no one is affected, accept having to requeue… But as I stated, it would give people also a free pass to dodge a match, and in order to not give those people too many free passes, a “free DC” cannot happen too often, making the need for it very insignificant as well.
But apart from all this, can you at least acknowledge that by playing competitive when you know you have an unstable internet, you put your fellow players at a disadvantage? No matter whether there was a penalty for disconnecting or not?
Yes I agree it’s a disadvantage to play 2v3 or 6v5, but I insist that there is a solution or middle ground that would satisfy both my point and yours, and even thinking about it, I can’t find any solution except the one I mentioned where the disconnection at the start of the game is once a month or a season is a free pass and second time is ban as usual.
I wasn’t going to reply to this thread anymore initially, but as a matter of fact, I just had it happen to me. Joined the queue, suddenly I lost connection to the server (while my internet was running fine) and when I came back, suspension and 50 SR penalty. I probably joined a game right as I disconnected.
Yes, it sucks, and it happened completely out of my control, but I understand why those penalties need to be there.
But again, if you know your internet is unstable, isn’t there something else you can do about it? You sure can’t play competitive with it, even if there were no penalties.
It isn’t that unstable, it just disconnects randomly once or twice a day, so sometimes when I am lucky it happens when I am not in a game, or watching youtube.
