Ragequits and you

[Maximum Bert]

Last two games to make me rage quit were Dead or Alive 4 and SFIV both fighting the last boss with characters I wasnt very good with I just hate the artificially inflated difficulty of the last bosses in most fighting games seriously most would be better without a final boss these two especially pissed me off because I thought they had a crap design i.e mr and mrs silver surfer wannabes.

Online I cant remember ever rage quitting I just dont do it I cant disrespect my opponent like that even if they do it to me. Usually if they keep rage quitting on me I just refuse to play them at all. The only real competitive online games I sometimes play are fighting games most of the time I dont get rage quits because it seems in general people have got better about it I remember near the start of the gen you would get rage quits every other match. I do quit if the lag is so atrocious that I cant even move (yes thats happened literally you wait a few seconds for an input to register) cant really call this rage quitting though.

I did get quite a few hilarious rage quits when I used to play SFIV vanilla on Xbox live I main Blanka and so if I wanted to win thats who I would pick I am not a great player but I can shut down spammers easily and its fun to use their own tactic against them i.e keep doing the same move but unlike them just space it better and time it to shut them down then brace yourself for the inevitable learn how to play scrub messages pouring in. One guy even recorded a message saying he was going to kill me that was amusing especially as he didnt seem able to use grammar properly or at all.

One of the funniest ones I had wasnt a rage quit in fact I lost because I dropped the controller from laughing so much I won the first match absolutely dominating my opponent with Blanka then suddenly all I hear is a huge uninterrupted stream of expletives and abuse for the nest two rounds and I mean uninterrupted I had no idea anyone could speak so fast and not run out of air. I have never heard anything like it before or since his voice was also extremely high pitched sounded almost like he had been sucking on helium.

 

[Fractral]

Last time I tried to ragequit dark souls didn't work so well. Turns out trying to throw a wired Xbox 360 controller out a window isn't such a good idea. Nearly hit myself with it.

 

[Something Amyss]

because you can sometimes suicide with a grenade in your hand and take these bastards with you.

What would require being able to survive long enough to get near the guy who kept lobbing grenades my way.

Which is kind of the problem here. I don't mind fighting back, and I'm familiar with losing. These don't bother me. My K/D is about .6 and I don't normally play FPS. I mostly play MW3 with friends. I'm normally happy to simply not be at the bottom of the leaderboards. But when you're constantly locked down by someone, it just seems pointless to continue.

I remember one time, for example, playing Monday Night combat before the devs turned into jerks, me and a friend were the only two people up against a full team on the other side because everyone quit out (presumably because we were losing), and we stuck it out and we managed to give them a nosebleed, and it was GLORIOUS.

But you contrast it with constant spawn deaths, and it's like, why am I even picking up the controller? I can't do anything.

 

[HaraDaya]

Hmm, the closest I've come to a ragequit was Assassin's Creed 2 - the beginning of the game was rather slow, and considering I came to it straight after AC1 it was annoying. I found bad the fact that there was no real tutorial whatsoever in the beginning - you are trust into it and told "here, guards - beat them" then "oh, race your brother. We won't be telling you how, though". Sure, having finished AC1 I didn't need it, but it was just bad it wasn't there for supposed new players. And then the tutorial came and it was too friggin' long. All the while, everybody spoke with the annoying Italian accent and spicing up their speech with Italian words which they then translated. It was totally breaking my suspension of disbelief. But the final straw came when I met with the uncle. Yes, him and his "It's=a me, uncle Mario". I couldn't believe I had to endure the obnoxious Italian and the obnoxious tutorial (and lack of) just so I get the lamest possible joke ever. I watched the whole of the cutscene, then turned off the game and walked away. It took me a day before I came back to it.

I had the same experience. I decided it was time I got into the AC series, I held back because I never beat the first. So I bought them all, and marathoned through the first, and went straight to the second. Yeah I was annoyed at the tutorials, but I plowed through the game. Then I installed Brotherhood.
More.
!"¤%/)¤#=.
Tutorials.

Make them optional. #"¤%. It was an insult to my intelligence.
The game is uninstalled now, I never got past the 2nd hour. Dishonored is a much better assassin game anyway.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

I don't rage quit, i send shit games back

 

[Flames66]

Not really a rage quit...it's more like a preemptive measure.
When I'm playing Team Fortress 2 and after I win/lose a few good rounds, if the team doesn't have Medics and Engineers (especially the first) and an overabundance of Snipers/Spies I get the fuck out of there before the gates open.

The only way you're going to win is if the other team is also devoid of those classes and they aren't skilled.
On most of the servers I play, that doesn't happen. Maybe on official Valve servers, but not the mid/high tier ones.
My skills lie primarily on hard offense/defense, so I'm probably not the best Medic (support) out there. I'm working on my virtual medicinal skills, but I can typically gauge whether or not the match is just going to be a horrendous stomp. I don't want my time wasted and my jimmies rustled.

Where would I find these mid/high tier servers? I was not aware there was such a thing.

 

[Fijiman]

While I tend to rage a lot, I don't tend to ragequit very often. I only quit out of multiplay matches if it's unplayably laggy or it's just a bullshit match, which doesn't happen that often. I can't really remember any of the times where I've actually ragequit a game for one reason or another.

 

[ecoho]

I don't rage-quit. I contempt-quit. This one isn't hilarious by any measure.

I was playing TOR back when it was strictly subscription based. I was a Jedi Shadow tank and had joined up with a group for a 4-man Heroic on Coruscant. One guy was a Commando called "Chief." Mind you, this was on a Roleplay server, so I already had a grimace because of the name. I should have realized that it was a sign of things to come.

Despite the group establishing who would use CCs and that I was tanking, Chief kept running in first, guns blazing, disregarding any CCs thrown down by the other two and cancelling them with his attacks. Not surprisingly, he died pretty fast each time. The rest of us managed scrape through those first few rooms. Chief finally got pissy that our healer wasn't helping him.

I told him that if he wanted to not die, he had to let me enter the room first and make sure he wasn't hitting CCed mobs. Then he got pissy at me. I warned him not to get on my case, as I knew full well how hard it was to get a healer AND a tank for Heroics. He continued to be pissy.

Then I just said, "Have fun finding another tank," and left the group so I could play the game in a more enjoyable way.

A more amusing experience I had with TOR was very similar, only I was playing a healer, so I got to steal a line from DBZ abridged [https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=-FG-9ISHJlQ#t=9s]. I didn't get blown up, though.

dear god were were YOU when i needed a compedent healer!

OT: i got a whole team to rage quit in league of legends once because i built go fast nasus,got a penta, and stole barron from them. yeah they were pissed

 

[Zealous]

Dota pubs will be the death of me. I hop into a game nice and chipper, ready for an awesome game. Then my four unknown teammates pick four hard carries and lock in their choices without consulting anyone. Then we lose the laning phase cause we only have one support and then they push our third tiers while my teammates are screwing around in the jungle.

My w/l ratio is looking like a disgusting mess at the moment thanks to pubs. I really need to get a team together...

Captcha: "Butter side down." Quite so captcha, quite so.

Edit: Oh and on the topic of getting other people to rage quit, I got a game in single draft (again with the dota) where we had a line up consisting of Viper, KOTL, Phantom Lancer, Tiny and Io. One guy quit just after we picked, the others soon followed.

 

[Username Redacted]

Ah ragequitting, a topic near and dear to my own heart. I have many, many thoughts on this issue. Mostly related how to fuck over those who ragequit as much as possible. First some brief thoughts:

1) I don't really think it's ragequitting if it's a single player game. Sure there may be rage and you're definitely quitting but in all likelihood you're quitting at a point that is possible to come back to, i.e. a really obnoxious boss fight. There isn't, unless you're say the controller tossing type, any real harm to be done here.

2) If you ragequit in a fighting game and there weren't any issues during the match (i.e. the connection was fine; if there where issues during the match then for the love of god disconnect when they occur not when you're about to lose because of them) you're a *****. Take your loss. If you don't want to see people taunting you then get better at the game or stop playing it. If you're quitting to preserve a win/loss record then there's a special circle in hell reserved just for you. When I see someone who's 50-0 with a 25% disconnect rate I have a pretty good idea how the match is going to end. You're not any good and you're not fooling anyone.

Building off of point #2, in Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition 2012 (hereafter referred to as SFIV) I've accumulated ~4,000 online matches. I never taunt someone unless they did it first (I'm mature like that -_-). I have never quit on someone. My disconnect rate is 1%. Yes, that means, since Capcom tracks the disconnect regardless of who initiated, that ~40 people quit on me just because they couldn't take a loss in an online game. I can't even imagine the sad sort of person who places such a high priority in the results of something that doesn't really matter and usually isn't even especially reflective of how the game plays in real life.

So, you may ask, why do I care if they quit. A fair question. Well, it's a question of time. I'm usually playing online because at that given moment I don't have someone I could be playing in real life with. I am playing online to test stuff out and to get better at the game. If you quit you're wasting my time on two fronts. The first is that the post-match processing after the ragequit takes longer than had the match concluded normally so you've wasted some of my time there. Secondly I want to play good players. And this is the only sense in which I care about my record but a better record = matched up with other people who have a good record. Now if those people have achieved their record in a legit fashion then results against them are more likely reflective of what would happen in real life. I also play Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 and everything about SFIV applies there as well.

So in my crazy ideal world people who quit (see also: have a high disconnect rate) would only EVER be matched up against other people who quit. To a point. Say if your disconnect rate is over 5% then you'd only ever get matched up with other players whose disconnect rate was 5% or above until you'd played enough matches to (for example) bring you're disconnect rate down to 1%. I like to call this 'Ragequit Hell' because it isolates all the little raqequitting bitches from the rest of the player population and forces them to deal with one another.

TL;DR:
1)The only excuse for quitting is a serious connectivity issue.
2)An opponent taunting or trying to preserve a win/loss record is in no way an excuse for ragequitting
3)Fuck the people who ragequit and try to justify it.

 

[Malty Milk Whistle]

If I ever rage quit, it's because I'm missing shots or opportunities that I know I shouldn't and I usually just say "Oh Bugger this" and leave.

However, I play on a fun server in TF2 with a fair few people who play competitive, so it can get...interesting.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I've never ragequit, in that I never quit in a rage, though I did stop playing Counter Strike altogether because my online buddy owned me every damn game. I just stopped playing CS after a while, no raging in it.

 

[rob_simple]

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You're gonna HATE me for this:

I did that whole thing solo on Hard. I enjoyed that game solo, along with RE:ORC...I think I'm a glutton for punishment.

I managed to do the rest of the game without too much trouble, but you've gotta admit that Lost Planet 2's AI was absolutely useless; you couldn't rely on the team to do anything but absorb bullets.

I guess it just really annoyed me because I liked the first game a lot and turning it into a forced multiplayer affair seemed to completely break parts of the single player; the game would have been much better as a solo game with specifically programmed AI partners for the giant boss fights.

 

[Xan Krieger]

playing Supreme Commander Forged Alliance a few missions in. Basically in order to complete the first two objectives you don't need a huge base or defenses since they're pretty easy. Then you get the third objective "survive for 15 minutes" and the map expands and my fuckin jaw drops. Tier 3 fighters and bombers hit me by the hundreds with no warning. That was such a cheap as hell dick move I wanted to throw my keyboard.

Fun fact: Strategy games make me rage more than other games, I guess because it can take hours to get to the point where you get screwed and all that time ends up being wasted.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Ah ragequitting, a topic near and dear to my own heart. I have many, many thoughts on this issue. Mostly related how to fuck over those who ragequit as much as possible. First some brief thoughts:

1) I don't really think it's ragequitting if it's a single player game. Sure there may be rage and you're definitely quitting but in all likelihood you're quitting at a point that is possible to come back to, i.e. a really obnoxious boss fight. There isn't, unless you're say the controller tossing type, any real harm to be done here.

2) If you ragequit in a fighting game and there weren't any issues during the match (i.e. the connection was fine; if there where issues during the match then for the love of god disconnect when they occur not when you're about to lose because of them) you're a *****. Take your loss. If you don't want to see people taunting you then get better at the game or stop playing it.

You have no idea how annoyed that statement makes me. People don't just randomly GET BETTER at a fighting game just like that. It takes some real effort and time to even learn the basics, let alone learn to deal with someone who knows what they're doing, never mind dealing with the horde of swag combos and crazy set ups online. I absolutely understand how frustrating it is when you're vs someone who is legitimately 50 times better than you. Then he decides to be a twat about it and taunt you for fuck all reason.

So basically, what I take away from that statement is "be good at this game or you can fuck off." Joy. Heaven forbid I play a fighting game because I enjoy simply playing it regardless of how much I win. That would be crazy. L2P scrub.

 

[x EvilErmine x]

playing Supreme Commander Forged Alliance a few missions in. Basically in order to complete the first two objectives you don't need a huge base or defenses since they're pretty easy. Then you get the third objective "survive for 15 minutes" and the map expands and my fuckin jaw drops. Tier 3 fighters and bombers hit me by the hundreds with no warning. That was such a cheap as hell dick move I wanted to throw my keyboard.

Fun fact: Strategy games make me rage more than other games, I guess because it can take hours to get to the point where you get screwed and all that time ends up being wasted.

And that's why you never ever complete the last objective and expand the map before your base and forces are at full strength my friend. Also quick save is your friend, abuse the buggery out of it.
Also for SupCom then the moment you get any tear above 1 then replacing everything with the new tech and send use the old units for salvage/to scout with, otherwise the AI will come in with tear 3 units and curb stomp you.

If it's a map with decent amounts of sea that's fairly connected then build a few battleships. There main cannons have a hefty range and can pulverize bases that are near the water. Prioritise anti-air guns and then when they are dealt with send in the bombers to lay waste to the turrets and power structures, if you see it then bomb the commander into next week too. Set up a ferry point to bring in your ground troops but keep them back until your bombers have done their job. send them in to mop up, witness the devastation and smoking piles of rubble that was once the enemy while laughing like a maniac (this part is optional...but really rather fun)

 

[Darklord008]

I've only really ragequit twice. The first time was in MW3 because...Well, because MW3.

The much more interesting time I did so was in Facebreaker. For those who don't know, that game is total BS, if you don't pick the exact right character, you ain't doing squat. This, combined with the MASSIVE amounts of hand-cramps that this game causes, made me quite rage-y. After about 90 minutes of being wrecked by the same guy, I snapped. I calmly ejected the disk, carefully put it back in its case, and, with one of those weird, half-contented half-shell-shocked little smiles, brought it back to my games drawer...and threw it as hard as I could at the ground, shattering the box.

I actually got lucky. I was borrowing the game from a friend of mine, so if the disk had broken, I would probably have been in deep shit.

 

[Beat14]

The thing that get me closest to rage quitting are servers with up to 20 second respawns in TF2. If I happen to get killed ~3 times in a row whilst achieving nothing with a respawn time of ~18 seconds each, I rage quit or get damn close. After playing for so much time failing like that digs deep.