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Let me make sure I understand your position correctly. You want to punish players who, for whatever reason, play worse than their rank/score/position would impl
by lobotryas 9y ago
Let me make sure I understand your position correctly. You want to punish players who, for whatever reason, play worse than their rank/score/position would imply they should play?
This sounds absolutely ridiculous to me. There can be dozens of reasons for a player "underperforming". Take whatever punishment the game gives for conceding and leave the game if you are stuck with a bad team of randoms. Or, better yet, make friends or join a clan of like-minded players.
Even if someone is being rude in chat/voice chat - mute them and move on. It's weird to me to see you and other posters in this thread look to a higher authority to solve such a trivial problem instead of doing this yourself.
- always_good 9y agoI re-read their post and don't see how you understood their post that way.
- Anderkent 9y agoThe main complaint of the op is someone 'playing like an idiot'. That sounds very much like underperforming compared to their rank.
- ShabbosGoy 9y agoThe fairest matchmaking system is one where you can advance ranks when the matchmaker predicts you will lose.
- sli 9y agoYou missed an important qualifier. OP is talking about players who play badly relative to their rank on purpose in retaliation for perceiving a team member's skill level as not being high enough. It sounds like it's overly specific, but is indeed a common issue. Especially in LoL.
- juliangoldsmith 9y agoHow much have you played as far as ranked games go? Throwers and leavers are a huge problem in ranked competitive games, like League of Legends or Overwatch. There's a difference between having a poor game, and throwing with Hanzo because your team needed you to play a healer.
- stale2002 9y agoThis is already against the rules in many online games. It is called "intentional feeding". If you are playing a game and purposefully f stuff up, you will be banned. It has to be pretty egregious, but yes this is ALREADY against the rules in the vast majority of online competitive games.
- jstarfish 9y agoDon't the matchmaking algorithms correct for this though? If you're an "A" player and you throw a game, I thought penalties generally applied and you could eventually find yourself downgraded to "B"?
- s73v3r_ 9y agoIf you're an "A" player, there's a good chance that you could make up that penalty, and still remain an "A" rank player.
- stale2002 9y agoNot necessarily. For example, what if a teammate only "throws" a game when the game is already lost (but the game will likely last for another 10 minutes or so) That wouldn't effect win rate very much, but it is still a bad player experience to be with a teammate who is intentionally trying to be bad.