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Should reporting someone exclude them from playing together again?

Artist Bogrim·5/8/2015, 1:36:53 AM·3 votes·743 views

We had a player who openly admitted to being drunk and started feeding to the point where we just forfeit the game without hesitation. You can imagine the joy of getting the same player on our team in the next game, throwing the game as equally hard as the last one. I can't help but think there's not a whole lot of logic in matchmaking if it's a system that will pair me with a player I just reported and clearly did not enjoy playing with.

There have also been times where a player who was really toxic in one game, turned out to be a really good player in the next. That kind of experience feels good because it's like erasing the toxic experience of your last game and redeems the memory of that player, like giving them a second chance. Still, I can't help but think those cases are more rare.

So what do you think, should reporting someone make the matchmaking system avoid putting you together in queue again?

4 Comments

Deep Terror Nami5/8/2015, 1:57:58 AM1 votes

In anything but the highest elo games, so many people play (depending on the game mode) that you have little chance of ever seeing the same person again, and I mean ever. Unless both of you requeue at the same time; wait a minute to requeue to prevent that and you'll probably never see them again.

Now to address the proposal: In the lower elo games like I mentioned, you have almost no chance of seeing them again anyway, so this feature would have almost no impact or literally none at all for most people. Basically wouldn't hurt or help. But for the highest elo games, they often see the same person over and over again; blacklisting people would actively change the pool of people they play with, and they could directly choose who they play with by banning the rest.

Long story short, it would do almost nothing and could not be implemented in higher elo where it would do something. Just wait a minute between requeuing if you don't want to see the same people, and if you don't want the same group after a dodge you need to drop and requeue.

(P.S. I voted "just dodge", but I mean "just leave the queue or wait to requeue")