This last week I’ve seen an extremely sharp increase in quitting. Anyone else encountered the same. Teammate mentioned that it’s some form of reverse boosting, but I don’t understand how that would work with the current system.
A lot of the top ranked players in crossplay are duoing with a newly created unranked account with very poor stats. When they find a match, the unranked player leaves the party before the map loads in. The match starts up already as a 3vs4 but doesn’t matter since the 2300 onyx player can outslay the gold/plat players they got matched against. The 2nd ranked crossplay player has a twitch stream and I watched how he was abusing the ranked system doing this.
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I don’t know about ranked (haven’t played it in a while), but for social it is most likely the lack of SBMM. Skill gaps are huge and teams aren’t balanced. People just don’t like playing games where they are either completely outskilled and/or have 0 chance of winning.
As long as 343 doesn’t do some serious fixing about the team balancing, i don’t see the quitting lessened, but rather worsening.
Everybody i know is having the same issues with completely inbalanced matches and are getting sick and tired of it. And it’s also not because of smurfing (at least not for me), because if i check their profiles they have a lot of games played (at least 800, but most over 1,000) and they is no sign that they were throwing their MMR down. It’s just a extremely weak or non-functioning SBMM that is causing it.
when i do play, for a few hours a week if that, i have noticed a lot of players leaving more than before.
i often have thoughts of doing that myself but realize id rather not take the chance of getting banned for it somehow.
what keeps me in the games im getting absolutely destroyed is knowing im gonna get the same xp reguardless of my performance, so theres no motivation to play, letting me stand around n let the game end faster.
only issue is when i totally give up, enemy team doesnt notice and goof around like the good ole days when it was fun. 
no motivation to win. no motivation to leave.
Idk but the game hard crashed for me Wednesday on XSX in the middle of a match, so I just put down the game & played something else. Idk if anyone else has experienced this but if so that could explain it?
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If you mean in social, if the game isn’t working good I just leave.
It’s for my own mental health.
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The real problem is when a devs create a plan to punish abusive players, the rest of players will also suffer
Then again abusive players will keep finding a way to abuse system and devs find a new other way… and the process keep repeating til we got abused by the system…
Sometime i think what if devs ignored those system abusive players? Will we reach to this status?
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I’d say people are getting sick of the way the SBMM system works. It seems that the system isn’t so much designed about balancing team fairly as it is about balancing for user retention (likely to increase the odds of users caving and investing into the store). The system is trying to make you have a 50% win-loss ratio at all times, and I think people are tired of being subject to that, either consciously or subconsciously. Greed is at the core of 343.
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And that’s why punishment is ALWAYS the worst choice to stop a behavior. Encourage players to stay in the game, try to eliminate the factors why people are leaving and you almost get rod of tge problem entirely. The ideas and tools are there, 343 is just refusing to use them and acknowledge that a ban only system is completely useless. God knows why…
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I wish it was. In the last 6 weeks i had only 3 days where my W/L was about 50%, the rest of the days it was below 40% every single day and most days below 30%. That while my k/d was close to 2.0 almost every day.
Maybe they are quitting to go play PlayStation?
Psssh, have you seen PlayStation’s new version of Game Pass? It completely blows Xbox’s Games Pass out of the water. It’s cheaper and has more options for which things you want to pay for. Whereas Game Pass, you’re forced to pay a flat rate all year and you are forced to accept asinine benefits like the PC Catalog even though you’re a console player.
The only thing Xbox had over PlayStation was Game Pass and now PlayStation has a better version of it lol Sony is making big moves as usual while Microsoft keeps penny pinching their customers and creating forgettable AAA games.
SBMM & MMR was at high level on the lockdown of corona, lets say that was a “balance” because alot of new people join online games, but this lockdown finished and the new people left,
Tbh, the system now act as a drunk father u dnt know what is going on and i swear that’s aint good for multiplayer games!
I would like to see them keep all unranked players out of ranked matches. Too many are just ruining it. Let them get a rank and then let them get into ranked play.
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Only good method is to stop relying on randoms for teammates and pick genuinely good people yourselves.
But how do they get a rank then, since you have to play 10 ranked matches before you get a rank…
Play against other unranks get close enough to the arbitrary rank, then after the 10 games it can get exactly correct
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