Will already acknowledge that for me to have been banned 8 hours I have to have left before. I admit I have left twice already this season for personal reasons out of my control that I had to attend to in real life, but I just thought fair enough and accepted it.
I have played OW since day 1 of OW1 and dont quit games. I have however just loaded a Competative game on Xbox, selected the map and then it never progressed to character selection as normal. The game then put me back to the Competative home page but was greyed out like it was searching for another game so I thought maybe it didn’t add enough players so was searching again. Then it just popped up on bottom left of my screen saying Failed to connect to server and then changed status to show I was banned from Competative for 8 hours. This is a joke!
First of all I didn’t lose internet connection or disconnect from Xbox live. I also never lost connection to the game itself as it never kicked me out to the OW logo page to log back in, yet I got banned for disconnecting from a game that it didn’t even fully load up for me. Fair enough if I joined and was in lobby waiting to start and disconnected, but then it should give me an option to rejoin. This didn’t even give me that option to rejoin then just banned me for 8 hours basically forcing me to stop playing altogether for np error of my own.
Even the Battle.net site shows a server maintenence message and that disconnects are likely (the game does not show this message). How is that my fault then and I am punished for it. These bans are just ridiculous to even justify. If I lose my access to my account and competative after all these years and they do nothing about it, I will never purchase any Blizzard related again.