Ragequitting. Goddamn.

[Jailbird408]

So here's the story: I'm playing DJ Hero 2 online, I've played three matches so far, and despite performing perfectly in every single one, my DJP has only risen 6 points. Why?
Well, you've read the subject, so you probably know.
I'm trying to get some 500 streaks, and I damn well know I can, because I've already gotten one so far. I selected the songs that would get me those streaks, and even managed to reach 350 in the third one, but ragequitting occured, and I'm left with nothing to show for my expertise.
(In case you're wondering, I go by the name Kubu, and own the Wii version.)
So I decided to bring my story to the Escapist, hoping to get some reassuring words, or presumably your own tales of ragequits.
I am guilty of ragequitting myself, but I remember performing on a high difficulty, failing hard, and stressing so hard I would have gone insane had I not bailed. One of these ragequitters was playing Beginner and another Easy, though, so I doubt that they went through the same process.

 

[Ordinaryundone]

The only games I've played where the ragequitting was particularly bad were Left 4 Dead and Halo 3. Especially Left 4 Dead. In Versus if your team got behind for even a single round you'd could often expect to lose half or more of your team if playing in a public lobby. Heck, even just starting the game and not playing as the Infected would often make people quit. It was pretty bad.

Then again, that game was also notorious for team stacking and pub stomping, so I've done my share of midgame quits as well. Just the nature of the beast I guess.

 

[Xprimentyl]

I experienced the antithesis of ragequitting: rageENDURING!

WAY back when GTA IV launched, I entered a MP match using the ENTIRE Liberty City as the map, free-for-all, first to 100 kills wins. Absurd, right? Of course. We started out with about a dozen or so people; after all of 15 minutes and the then leader having about 8 kills, people started dropping out, one by one. This went on for about an hour and it finally dwindled down to just me and one other guy! We both had total kills in the 20's (race to 100, remember.) Neither of us had our mics so the next THREE HOURS was total silence of just the two of us griefing each other in heliocopters, drive-bys, rocket launchers in busy streets, etc. Just WAITING for the other guy to quit. Neither of us caved. He did stop playing for a 20-minute stretch (mommy probably called him to dinner or something,) but this did not deter me; I was playing on principle alone by this time. I simply went to his blip on the map, murdered him, went to wherever his blip turned up next, murdered him. When he finally jumped back on, it was like 80-something to 60-something. He tried to mount a silent comeback, but it was too late, I beat him in an endurance match to 100 that took over 4 hours. When the game was over, I found myself just sitting in the lobby, like it never happened. No fan fare, no laurels for my significant feat of manhood. Nothing. I was just starving and had to piss like a racehorse.

... but I won!!

 

[Deathwatch050]

I was pleasantly surprised today to find that even if people on your team ragequit in multiplayer Assassin's Creed: Revelations, your team still gets the points. There were 20 seconds left in the match so I opened the scoreboard and viewed the scores; the top three players on our team had less points each than the top 3 players on the other team, and our fourth player had joined barely 10 seconds ago to fill the spot where another (high scoring) player had left and had 0 points. I had consigned myself to defeat when the game ended and "You placed 1st" came up. I laughed.

 

[MegaManOfNumbers]

Most of the opposing team going against me in WarHawk.

Then again, I would too if I was up against a dude with master proficiency with a rocket launcher!

That'll teach them to rely on the War Hawks every round!

 

[ace_of_something]

It was really really bad when I played Mortal Kombat online. My win lose ratio wasn't very good because most of the time when I was curb stomping people would quit so the only wins I got were me eking by.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

I don't think I've ever ragequit any modern games, I've quit many CoD/Halo/other multiplayer games because of cheaters/modders/aimbots tho if that counts.
As for old school games, I ragequit a ton of NES games in my youth until my grandfather caught me doing it and sat me down to teach me how to play chess. I never won a single game against the man (who was a chessmaster apparently) but after a while of losing to him I slowly learned the real lesson he was teaching me: How to lose with grace and learn from it.

 

[viking97]

christ, ragequitting is such a problem in TF2. specially for a frequent demoman like myself.
allow me to recount a situation that happens WAY more often then it should:

get an ubercharge, use it to destroy all the sentries around the final point, die to a spy right as the uber ends. i don't mind tho, with all resistance crippled it should be a matter of seconds for my team to win. after the deathscreen of the spy, i see those faithful words.

you have been autobalanced. all i can do is pathetically watch as my former allies reap the benefits of my hard work. it's a tear inducing experience.

 

[Flailing Escapist]

I don't know if anyone else has noticed but theres been a lot of rage quitting in Halo recently. Its always been there but recently theres been a lot more of it. It sucks. Theres nothing quite like starting a match and then somebody rage quits because they died first or don't have as many kills as the rest of us. Or at the end of a match when they're only 2 or 3 points away from losing and just rage quit like that.

Its goddamn annoying, I say.

 

[endtherapture]

I ragequit in L4D2 quite often. It's just so easy when your team is so incompetant and just gets bogged down fighting zombies, or as infected just run right into people with no tactics!!

Basically the game isn't fun if you don't get two good teams, so it's easy to get frustrated and quit.

 

[LiberalSquirrel]

It takes a lot to make me ragequit a game. I have a tendency to "rage-continue" instead: as in, I get defeated by a boss, and I immediately go back to kick its ass.

That being said... Lost Odyssey. Splitting a party, making a group composed of 4 mages and 1 (in my case, at least) extremely underleveled, weak warrior, and then setting that group against a boss that reflects all spells (causing them to do no damage to the boss, and the spell damages the caster instead) is a recipe for ragequitting. Bloddy thing. It took me forever to beat that. I ragequit the game twice... but finally beat it, after far too many tries.

 

[ChillzMaster]

I'm not the biggest guy who ragequits online often, losing that valuable XP in Halo 3 early in my gaming career really shoved me out of that habit, but I'm one to walk away from a game that I have to replay a lot of because of a death and far-placed checkpoints a la Dead Rising, RAGE, my first few playthoughs of Fallout 3 and Mass Effect, and most recently, Dark Souls. Sometimes, you just need some time apart, and once your back, these become some of your favorite games (as was the case with Mass Effect and Fallout 3).

-Chillz

 

[Sassafrass]

You know what game is bad for rage quitters? Halo.

Man, fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck those twats that rage quit. I've seen people rage quit when they were killed once, when they go into a negative K/D ratio or when someone beat them to a power weapon/vehicle. Best example was when me and a mate were on BT Snipers and it was me and him against a fucking clan of 8, as the rest of our team had rage-quitted because they were too good. And you know what? Me and my mate won that match after they'd gone. And there's the proof if you wanted it. [http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Reach/GameStats.aspx?gameid=861207990&player=HumanoidCarrot] I totally didn't want to show that off, no sir. ...*Ahem*

Anyway, I've rage-quitted a couple of times, all of them in CoD games. There's something about CoD that gets me going more than Halo, no idea what it is.

 

[Shockolate]

For me, it's a 50-50 chance I'll rage quit in Battlefield 3.

But that's because my processor sucks, not allowing me to play at my full potential.

I always tell my friends: If I had the same hardware as you, I'd kick your ass.

But I don't. And I rage.

 

[minimacker]

When I know I did something wrong, I don't ragequit. I stay there and I learn something new. I know what I need to remember until the next time and I tell everyone that I, indeed, fucked up the match.

If I'm playing with people who fuck matches up without admitting their mistake or ponder about how this or that happened, I get mad.

If they admit they did something wrong, I'm like "Cool, we'll fix that next time."
But if I have to constantly jackhammer in what they should take note of, yet they dismiss it, I get angry.

Hulk smash-angry.

 

[LetalisK]

I experienced the antithesis of ragequitting: rageENDURING!

WAY back when GTA IV launched, I entered a MP match using the ENTIRE Liberty City as the map, free-for-all, first to 100 kills wins. Absurd, right? Of course. We started out with about a dozen or so people; after all of 15 minutes and the then leader having about 8 kills, people started dropping out, one by one. This went on for about an hour and it finally dwindled down to just me and one other guy! We both had total kills in the 20's (race to 100, remember.) Neither of us had our mics so the next THREE HOURS was total silence of just the two of us griefing each other in heliocopters, drive-bys, rocket launchers in busy streets, etc. Just WAITING for the other guy to quit. Neither of us caved. He did stop playing for a 20-minute stretch (mommy probably called him to dinner or something,) but this did not deter me; I was playing on principle alone by this time. I simply went to his blip on the map, murdered him, went to wherever his blip turned up next, murdered him. When he finally jumped back on, it was like 80-something to 60-something. He tried to mount a silent comeback, but it was too late, I beat him in an endurance match to 100 that took over 4 hours. When the game was over, I found myself just sitting in the lobby, like it never happened. No fan fare, no laurels for my significant feat of manhood. Nothing. I was just starving and had to piss like a racehorse.

... but I won!!

Oh wow, I didn't even know GTAIV had this. For some reason I always thought it was just co-op stuff. I need to reinstall that game.

 

[ARCTIC_EAGLE]

I only rage quite from SP games, mostly because I'm killed by some bs where as in MP its because someones better, though in BF3 it could be because the game decided you should die.

 

[BrainiacVeins]

I once broke my controller playing MK9. After the tenth time playing Rayden vs. Shao Kahn in story mode and getting pounced, I just threw the controller across the room.

Still haven't beaten the bastard yet.

 

[AwkwardTurtle]

There are so many people on my avoided list on Xbox Live because I always ALWAYS review people for leaving in the middle of the game. Nothing annoys me more than people who do that.

It particularly annoys me when I can tell it's rage quitting due to our team not doing so well. I never ever try leave a game unless I physically have to get up and do something else. It's just proper manners. There have been many Halo games that end with just me against a team of really good players. xP