Demotion/loss of rank because of leaver

Technical Support
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So the issue is exactly as stated in the title. Is this seriously how Blizzard is treating the game and the players? Even the most obvious fixes/things to do for the game seem to be totally alien for the devs. You can’t just make players lose rank and actually get demoted if they had to play a 4v5 game from the beginning. This rank comes from my latest game where we literally actually had a chance to even win 4v5, we lost our dps in the beginning of round 1, and we still made it to the end and the opponent had a hard time to push payload themselves. Even they agreed that they would have lost easy if we had that player in, because even with this handicap, they barely made it. What ticks me the most here is, that the game has no demotion protection extension for situations like this, or that their calibration system would at least consider this as a loss of rank mitigation of some sort. They can’t just give the usual loss of rank points (or whatever that dumb SR system is now) when we literally didn’t have a full team. Yet they treat it like it’s just any normal match.

Like seriously, makes me want to forcibly join Blizzard just to make sure there is at least one in the team who thinks of these pretty obvious things.
And no, the leaver losing rank and one day MAYBE banned is not a consolidation of any sort, since I’m still being punished for it, and this game’s community is full of leavers, so this doesn’t even happen only sometimes and then even less, because 1 leaver is banned for a day or so. This season I can’t even count the amount of leavers my team has had even with both of my hands. Add enemy team too and it’s basically a leaver simulator.

Please, devs and supervisors. use your head a little for something else than just the BP and shop. This game can actually get big again if a miracle like that would ever happen.

Not so kind regards.

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Couple of tips here.

  1. Stop worrying about your rank, it’ll be what it will be.
  2. Stop micro managing progress. 1 game doesn’t make a season, 1 season doesn’t make a climb.

All you’ll do is tilt yourself and carry that in to your next games, dragging performance down.

There is nothing they can do to stop leavers. They can just punish them when it happens. Any “rewards” such as stopping a loss of SR when there’s a leaver is far to easy to manipulate, and ultimately you still lost.

Again, 1 game, 2 games, even 10 games aren’t going to make a season if your objective is to improve and climb.

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While you are correct on some of those points you made, I still have to say it sounds like patting heads of devs instead of demanding obvious fixes. I don’t see how anyone can actually abuse a demotion extension etc fixes that well, when you still can give penalties and ban those ‘‘booster accounts’’ willing to leave a game to help another friend climb. It’s still a loss, true, but not that much. My problem is, that I play in an elo where people leave all the time. If only 10 leaves was even nearly enough for a season. It’s more like 10 leavers in 1-2 days. That does add upp quite a lot.

If you want to improve, you also want you team to want that and keep playing till the end. You can’t really avoid frustration if leavers are this frequent unlike in other competitive games I play. It makes you work even more for a rank you would already have without them. much higher, to be honest, considering I still climb, but very slowly due to extra work because of said issue. It’s kind of like raising a middle finger for all the effort you did before.

To the rest, you are absolutely correct.

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They give the double bird to people who don’t leave and then wonder why there are so many leavers. Gee that’s a tough one