[2020] This game needs a Leaver Rating

Originally posted by Yash_swaraj

I think putting players into low priority games for some matches also works. Like Dota, but not as harsh because you will still be playing the normal gamemode. I think most players won't even be angry about it.

Originally posted by Sq33KER

I know league of legends had a similar program in the past with toxic behaviour, locking you to unranked until you completed a certain amount of games without repeating the behaviour. From memory it was scrapped because people who were already toxic were angry they weren't playing ranked and just became more toxic. I could see a similar thing repeat itself if many match leaves are coming from a place of "my team won't surrender so screw them" rather than any other purpose.

Originally posted by sweetpotatofanclub

imo leaver rating/afk punishment is far less urgent than treating the smurfing issues, to the point where i feel leavers/afk are a non-issue. 2 reasons for this:

1. for those who dislike leavers/afks on a more personal level, because they make it harder to rank up: well that doesn't make sense. it's just a probability thing; there's higher probability for an afk on the other team. if anything, in the long run it should make ranking up easier for you. otoh, the opposite argument holds for smurfs.

2. for those who dislike leavers/afks in principle ("they make the comp game not as intended anymore; it makes comp not fair"): i actually disagree, or at least i think this happens very rarely. there are two main types of afks/leavers: frequent leavers and those who have those rare accidental DCs. the first type, this is going to be reflected in their ranking. so actually, when they leave a comp game, this is ideal, bc they'd have already contributed their weight during the time they're actually connected. so tbh, the frequent leavers actually ruin the game the longer they stay in, because they're contributing much more than expected (ie smurfing; so i think this issue would actually be treated by dealing with smurfing).

the second type (the rare accidental DCs) do mess up comp games, but it seems really harsh to hand out big punishments. in either case, it doesn't really make sense to have some kind of crazy leaver punishment, because both types are still playing fair: in the first case, they're technically (but not intentionally) playing fair; in the second case they're intentionally (but not technically) playing fair.

i understand the smurf issue is probably much harder to deal with..but for these two reasons i still think it makes zero sense to deal with the leaver issue first. i'm hoping most (if not all) of the resources are directed towards smurfs, however difficult that issue might be.