I left a QP match before it started because it was my 7th defense match in a row and i was bored, got a 10 match -75% xp so now there’s no point in me trying at all for 10 matches (i always pick some quick arcade mode for these), it doesn’t incentivize me to stay since it’s not my fault there’s no option to pick attack or defense and there’s no real reason why i didn’t even get any other type of matches in that whole time. I get punishing leavers in ranked or half way through a game but if you’re not going to give us any other option why punish when you leave immediately?
Its the same when you get backfill matches 90% of everytime you queue.
Screw that, im not going to sit trough minutes of someone elses steamroll failure.And leaving will get me punished.
But hey its not my fault so its not my problem. I will just afk trough games until the punishment is gone. Spread the joy. If the game cant give me a proper match from the start then i will just share the joy with other people.
I feel you.
I think xp penalties for leaving QP matches are a bit stupid. But, it sounds like they are going to stricter with it.
I don’t get afking in backfill, whenever i get backfill position and there’s more than 20 seconds of game left, more than half the times my team ends up winning in the end.
And it takes more than two or three mid match leaves before the punishment kicks in i think.
You shouldn’t get any punishments for leaving QP, I don’t get their logic. It’s called QP for a reason.
It’s also really annoying when half your team leaves and you wait 2 minutes for backfills to cyckle through. I once had 3 backfills just leave before the fourth stayed and we won the match.
I agree that the xp punishment just doesn’t work, instead there should be more incentive to stay for the whole match. Give us 1 premium coin with every match we play from start to finish. Maybe that would make some people leave less.
B3cause most of you dumb people leave the match at the very last minute so well deserved xp penalty.
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Yep people like u leave the match at the very last minute b3cause your ego cant afford a loss .
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are you slow? i literally said i left before the match started
Are you dumb ? It doesnot depend on whether you leave the match in waiting room .
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I don’t leave any match actually.
You could even argue that -75% xp penalty is a monetary penalty if you have spent money for the battle pass, as it could prevent you from unlocking things until the battle pass season is over, which makes it questionable if that is even allowed legally.
However, if the game is unable to create good matches it should at least ALWAYS allow leaving in the first minute (in QP only of course) without penalty.
So since it doesn’t do that I have no choice but to just speed Lucio into the enemy team so I can continue reading news, while on -75% xp, hopefully ending the match asap. I’m not wasting my time for no reward if I still have things to unlock. Good job battle pass for strongly incentivizing this kind of behaviour.
Why would you leave matches in the first place?
Leaving before the first ults come online is just weird as those ults could turn the whole match around.
Losing a match still gives you more xp than winning with the penalty so you could argue that there’s no point in leaving because of game reasons.
I don’t even know how many matches you’d need to leave to get the penalty in the first place as i’ve never left any willingly. Also haven’t gotten a backfill position in the entire ongoing season. (I think it’s coinsidence, but who knows at this point)
If you just decide to throw when you get a penalty, you’re just ruining the game for others, like what happened to you to make you leave matches in the first place.
You’ll just be feeding that circle of bad matches for people and not helping the matters at all.
If you care about your xp rewards, don’t leave matches in the first place. It’s that simple to avoid the penalty.
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backfill thats why, if you get backfill 99% of the time leaving is the only option to get a real proper match.
No it’s not. Just play the match, it won’t take long to finish it up and you get no penalty.
You can turn it around too and get some winning and backfill xp.
Sometimes a person on a team leaves when the payload is nearly at the finish line, and the backfills trickle in just as the match is won.
And more often than not the backfills are at capture point maps, right after the first round is lost. Plenty of opportunity to win that.
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thats like 5% of all backfill games i get. Most of them are 5 minutes left. Why the hell should i be forced to play unfun matches for a hour in a row. I am not some damned bot meat to fluff up other peoples games. I want a proper match from the start. why the hell should i finish these atches.
it does takes long to finish.
And the next 10 matches i get put into also are backfill
Wich also generally last around 5 minutes or more.
95% of all games i get put into into are backfill.
im not going to finish those. and i will afk trough the xp punishment. Im not going to accept some stupid punishment when the game refuses me to put me into a real match. My time is valuable as well and im not going to spent 95% of that into backfill.
Also chances are high i will start grieving to make sure my team loses even faster so i can go into the next game. Blocking my team with meis walls in spawn for example.
Screw this game and its eternal backfilling
5 minutes left? That’s plenty of time to win, and you get the priority queue after which almost guarantees a full match.
If you afk or grief you are likely to get reported for that. And if you enjoy playing then play the games given as those can be fun. If you’re not having fun while playing, then why are you playing?
If you want guaranteed full matches then i can recommend comp as it gives you both a guaranteed attack and defence along with no backfill.
I got 2 backfills today while playing for 4 hours, try at another time of day perhaps? At a time when the leavers aren’t playing.
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if only that were the case. No, sadly the next multiple matches generally always are backfill as well.
And i play on console to be clear. So if i queue qp as a tank the queue times quite often is 4 minutes for me. So such a long queue time only to join a steamroll loss were people constantly are leaving. Wich is unwinnable and then having to queue again for such a long time.
It seriously sometimes takes about a hour before i actually get a proper game without backfill
Oof the grim reality of the console pool, no wonder our experiences are different. On a good day i can squeeze in 4 or more full matches queueing flex in an hour if it’s peak player time.
At that point i can only recommend comp for proper matches. It’s generally not that different from qp, people just try a little harder.
And a certain loss backfill game is always a good opportunity to practise heroes you rarely play, there’s no pressure to do super well after all.
thats great if you are the only backfill but whenever i join theres generally 3 backfill people of wich i am the only one picking a hero. the others will just be booted automaticly after a while. And tons of players will still leave. So yeah most of the time the backfill matches i get put into arent worth playing