Overwatch 2 developers have finally acknowledged the biggest problem that its community faces whenever they play ranked games in the popular team-based first-person shooter.
Overwatch 2 has been a huge success following its official release in October 2022.
While its playerbase is mostly satisfied with the game, many players are also disappointed with the current state of ranked games where players tend to quit mid-game.
With one less player in a ranked match, a team is placed at a huge disadvantage and would most likely lose the game.
The culture of leaving ranked matches has discouraged many players to play this mode, but the Overwatch 2 team wants to do something about it in the near future.
“What are you doing about match leavers? They’re constantly ruining metal rank games. Can we have a harsher punishment?” a player asked during a question and answer session with Overwatch 2 developers on Reddit.
“We agree that we can do more to disincentivize leaving games, especially at the end of competitive seasons,” Overwatch 2 systems designer Gavin Winter replied.
“We’re considering making ranked penalties partially carry over from season to season and we’d like to make sure that leaving games is never optimal for progressing challenges regardless of whether you’re in ranked or unranked.”
However, it is also important to note that while the Overwatch 2 developer is aware of the current state of ranked games, their course of action on how they plan to make things better moving forward was not explained.
The seeming lack of a roadmap from the Overwatch 2 team only raised doubts from some, with a few even thinking that Winter’s reply was to merely appease the already disgruntled ranked game players.
“How will you differentiate crashes causing ‘leaves’ rather than actual leavers perhaps looking for core files? Or would you blindly punish any disconnect equally,” a concerned player inquired, citing that his game tends to crash on Nintendo Switch.
“90 percent of my disconnects are due to game crashes upon dying in the game, for which competitive bans are much more infuriating than if my internet went out.”
