Why did I lose 200 mmr from a disconnect?

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I pushed for hours to finally get to 1600 and I’m defending a base when I suddenly get disconnected. I’m trying to reconnect, despite everything else working like youtube and my wifi saying it’s fine. I cannot connect to the wow servers whatsoever for like 20 seconds. I keep trying and I can’t.

Finally I reconnect and log in after maybe 30 seconds and boom. Deserter debuff but now I have lost 200MMR!?

Are you kidding me?!

I took me almost a week to get here from 1400. What kind of punishment is this?

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You lost 200 because you disconnecting screws over 7 other people.

If it only happens on rare occasion then its not making a difference to your rating in the long run.

If it’s happening often then -200 isnt nearly enough.

One 60 second grace period that resets every couple weeks wouldnt be the end of the world for blitz i suppose.

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What is wrong with you? You’re talking to me like I’ve done something bad intentionally. The game was going great, about 30 seconds in and I get a random DC. Nothing else disconnected from my internet it was just the game.

I’m finally back after around 25-30 seconds and instead of just letting me continue I’m booted out and punished with -200MMR.

This shouldn’t even happen

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Cool story bro.
Have a nice day.

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Right…

Yea it wouldn’t be the end of the world.

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I agree here, why does it give you deserter buff and boot you out of the BG on a DC instead of just waiting for you to come back. Surely booting you out of the BG is worse for the team than allowing time to reconnect?

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Because people have been asking for this themselves. BiG pUnIsHMEnt tO plaYerS thAt DiSCoNnEct oR aFk pLs

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While waiting for BG to start, I was kicked out of BG for no reason and also got -200.

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its not a blitz issue, its your internet provider or PC that’s the issue
try changing those before complaining about a DC

maybe you need to upgrade your CPU/GPU or update your drivers

  • if it was server side everyone would get DC’d and no1 would lose rating . it would be a draw
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That’s not how it works. And why are you suggesting a hardware upgrade or a driver update for an issue like this? They have nothing to do with it. It’s not like I’m trying to play WoW on a toaster…

it depends on my ISP, my connect to my ISP and the connection from my ISP to Blizzard servers. If nothing else on my end disconnected, then something between my ISP and Blizzard had a problem.

And I think by now for minor drop outs of connection there should be a fail-safe in-place to prevent you from just being booted off the game. Once you’re reconnected within that 1millisecond of disconnect, everything should be fine rather than fully logging you out. Forgetting all your saved login details and causing the client to go completely offline. And yet I’m still able to open new websites, change songs on spotify and nothing on my wifi monitor showed a dropout.

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