Reworked Leaver Status

[Trigshot]

I'm under the impression that the leaver system does not work properly. There are still way too many leavers and disconnects in many of the games that I play, so I feel the best course of action is a reworking of the leaver percent system.

Currently, I've played 880+ matchmaking games, and still have a 0% leaver status. This means that I could technically play 60 straight games and leave every single one of them before I started to be denied access to matchmaking.

My solution is simple: calculation for leaver percentage needs to be done ONLY for the last 50-100 games played by that player.

This way, the threat of becoming a leaver would be much more real. It would force players to realize that they can't simply abandon their teammates, and all it would take is 7 games out of 100 and they could potentially lose the privilege of playing with matchmaking.

[Sherwood]

I'm reluctant to agree.
Sometimes, you may find yourself in circumstances where you may have to leave a game frankly. Say, a household member is severly ill and might need to be taken to a doctor/hospital out of the blue. These circumstances can last for many months. The proposed system would punish players who are misfortunate. The current system is fairer for out-of-the-blue leaving periods. I don't know if I worded my concern properly so it makes sense.

You see that you have the ability to leave 60 games and still be able to queue.
I see it that you have 60 games where if you have to leave due to urgency, you can do so without worry.

I don't want sincer leavers to be punished for doing the right thing due to misfortunate circumstances in the pursuit of punishing the punishable.

Isn't losing MMR enough?

[MojahKahf]

I feel that the team should be able to keep voting to give dcs more time to reconnect. If a person rages, etc. 60 times in a row and still has an acceptable leave %, then they have earned that by not leaving a ton of games -- but I feel that voting for extra time would prevent many 5v4s on account of true technical difficulties. Teams would still ave the regular 3 mins of pauses, but could opt to hang in there 5v4 while an ally reboots his/her slow computer, deals with a short blackout, etc., if needed.