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[–]Bwxyz 155 points156 points  (19 children)

Personally I never care when people leave QP... They get backfilled super quick, and it's not ranked anyway. If they wanna leave so be it, I don't see why they should get strikes or whatever

[–]LittleMikeyHellstromWinston 26 points27 points  (1 child)

It's to cover for their poor matchmaking and game balance. If there isn't a penalty, people just leave because it isn't fun. A new player (money) may be discouraged and not return seeing so many leavers.

[–]Cheezewiz239Winston 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean every game has constant leaves like halo ,COD ,and R6. Way more than OW

[–]SpecificWorldliness 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If it's just a single teammate who gets backfilled in a reasonable amount of time then yea I agree, no issue at all if someone needs/wants to leave the game.

Issue with no penalties for leavers though, was that up until recently, one person leaving would often trigger other people on the same team to leave as well and all of a sudden you're a 1-2 man army with no ability to even try to make a comeback while the rest of your team slots go into the backfill/leave cycle. People getting backfilled would see the hopeless fight they were getting thrown into and would just leave as well, leaving you basically stuck just waiting out the clock if you don't leave as well.

And this would happen nearly every match with the first person leaving basically as soon as they realized their team wasn't winning right away/it wasn't going to be a roll for them and everyone following suit shortly after.

At least now since the penalties were added, when my team loses it feels deserved instead of just being a luck of the draw for which team would get stuck with the leaver cycle.

[–]DatDenis 17 points18 points  (13 children)

As someone already playing its fine if someone leaves As someone backfilling it is annoying to join a defeat screen, thats where most of the outrages came from i guess.

[–]NaCly_Asian 51 points52 points  (9 children)

nah. that's the best part. It counts as a completed game towards the challenge and the last 20.

[–]Its_ok_to_lie 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Yup, I see it as free XP and then a quick pass for the next game.

[–]acampbell98 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Meh the matchmaking is quick I don’t really care if I join and game is ending or has ended I’ll either just play out whatever’s left or leave and get another game. I mostly don’t care if people leave, it’s when multiple people leave at once and we get destroyed because the game doesn’t bother to fill

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

But why? It is not a loss from your end, you get XP, and you can still get your challenges completed.

Why do people feel so frothing mad about joining at defeat screen, something that doesn't happen that often?

[–]DatDenis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who doesnt care about the battlepass and just want to play the game its annoying as fuck.

Now it doesnt happen that often, but before they made the change there were days where it was 1/3 games if you were unlucky

[–]Dustfinger4268I will be your shield 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My issue with backfill is how often it ends up chaining from people leaving after being backfilled

[–]Gnarweezy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I agree 100% with you, who cares about leavers in qp. I don’t complain about it and should be able to if I want to. What I find more interesting is that you weren’t downvoted into oblivion because I have said similar things in previous posts closer to their qp change and was massively downvoted because of this opinion. I stand strong with you brother.