Ragequits and you

[Yuno Gasai]

It's been a while since I've played any competitive games where ragequitting is an option.

I still remember the days when I used to play Guitar Hero III online competitively. Every other person I went up against would choose Through The Fire And Flames by Dragonforce for their first song on Pro Face-Off, and because I had to play that song so many times I got to learn the patterns and eventually got relatively okay at playing it. People continued to pick it, apparently assuming I would do terribly so they'd win, but as my score quickly rocketed above theirs, they'd ragequit.

My most recent ragequit would probably be people leaving LFR when I still played World of Warcraft.

If you're on about the times when I ragequit.. pretty much the only circumstances are when I'm being verbally abused (non-stop) or if the server/my internet is being horribly laggy.

 

[ItsNotRudy]

I 'rq' Dota games when it's really a lost cause and I dont' want to sit in base looking at a slow as hell enemy team not pacing to end the game. My time is too valuable to sit there not being entertained. Disconnect, next game.

 

[RoonMian]

I never ragequit, never did it, not even once.

But one ragequit of someone else made ME so angry that I nearly punched through my monitor.

A few friends and me, we were playing a game of Civ V. I spawned on a peninsular and one of my friends spawned northeast of where my peninsular joined the continent. It was early in the game, nobody had a lot of units, he just created his first settler and instead of settling to the east where he had an absolutely awesome spot (five resources, a natural wonder and access to the sea) he decided to play aggressively try and block me in on my peninsular.

I was having none of it but didn't want to be a dick either so instead of just taking away his settler with my archer who discovered the ploy I instead declared war and just shot at the settler. That doesn't kill the settler, my friend just got the message that I didn't want his settler there. But instead of getting the message he tried time and time again to squeeze his settler past my archer. When that didn't work he moved a combat unit (he was persian, it was one of those immortals scimitar-warriors) to kill my archer and and found a city to block me in. So I had no choice and finally stole his settler. We had been at war for 10 or 15 rounds at that point.

That's when he ragequit and had the balls to tell my other friends playing that he quit because I "just took his settler away without reason or warning."

I was so furious steam was coming out of my ears.

 

[The White Hunter]

I don't get mad, I get even. It's a game and there's no need to get angry over it, if it's doing that then it isn't funa nd you should probably just stop playing.

The best rage I ever experienced was on Bad Company 2, I got so much hate mail from this enemy sniper who had knifed and teabagged me and thus became my target for the afternoon. Over the course of 3 or 4 matches I swear I must have took him down near 100 times, each time with a single shot to the head from a good distance.

My inbox was filled with so many hate filled PM's it was hilarious.

Edit: That said if I drop into a game and one team is basically just spawn camping and has all teh helicopters and shit then yeah I'm gonna leave pretty quick.

 

[Jedi-Hunter4]

2 rage quits I have seen by others while players that come to mind are. On battlefield 3 some poor sod just kept coming across me time and time again, wasn't going after him or anything, was just poor luck, he had died something like 18 times, his record to me was 0-15 was kind of hoping he would stick around so I could extend my Nemisis streak even further, but think I knifed him on the 15th, don't blame him for leaving lol, was obviusly one of those days.

The other which was more of a proper rage quit was on Fight Night Champion online. My guy is Jabber with a killer left hook, they guy I came up against was just a heavy hitter, insanely slow as anything but shed loads of power, think roid rage. I normaly like it when they are a bit like that as I get in and unleash the killer left hook, but this guy had obviously put in most of his xp on power.

Anyway first round was still figuring this out and he knocked me down, starts screaming down the mic, "it's going to be a first round KO your going down ***** etc". So limped through that round, then the next round think he put me in the danger of knock down zone. By the 3rd though I had figured out I had much more speed, thus ensued 8 rounds of the finest points boxing you have ever seen, won every single round an his guy was pretty torn up, he's just yelling down the mic "jab jab jab, come on this isn't boxing!" which told me everything I needed to know about this guy if he thinks being fast and jabbing is not part of boxing.....any by the 11th he was just screaming and rage quit. Once I had figured out just how slow his guy was he pretty much couldn't touch me. Not my fault he made a very unbalanced charter.

Generally I don't use my mic unless talking to mates online, so I'm not yelling or anything. I wouldn't say I rage quit but do have my "i'm too old for this shit" and "today is not my day" moments where obviously not in the groove and bug out. Although if it's like madden or fifa, fight night where it's 1 vs 1 I generally stay to the end so not to ruin it for the other player. Unless you know I'm not just getting thrashed its a full on massacre.

 

[banthro]

I have witnessed a Call of Duty (World at War) ragequit so full of rage, that I heard the dude's controller shatter as he threw it at the wall. It. Was. Glorious.
I myself don't really ragequit. The last time I did was just when the Shogun 2 Fall of the Samurai expansion came out, and I was too poor to afford it, but still wanted to play multiplayer. I think the rest explains itself.

 

[The White Hunter]

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.

Oddly enouh I generally find that the official servers have a good balance of classes a lot of the time, there's usually a few medics at the very least and if not I'm a fairly competent medic, heavy and sniper and I'm rather good at locking down pathways with walls of lead.

I joined a server yesterday occupied entirely by scouts and the attacking team was well balanced. It wasn't fun.

But anyway medicing can be pretty fun, and I find it's often the best way to put a stop to a spy, they often try to disguise as medics I find and when you're the only medic they're looking at a swift beating with a bone saw.

Playing medic is usually fun in games anyway, particularly in bad company 2.

 

[maninahat]

I rage quit on single player games, when some bullshit glitch or spike in difficulty makes a portion of the game unplayable. I tend not to be raging, but I am pretty frustrated when I try the same sequence twenty times, only to be flummoxed yet again. The most recent was probably in the final level of Far Cry, involving a certain volcano crater and a gang of roving, rocket mutants.

The most frustrating though had to be either in Far Cry 2, where a glitch destroyed twenty hours of gameplay saves, or the fucking, uncheck pointed, triple escort bank mission on GTA 4.

 

[darkfox85]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGfDn8W2Zwg

With FPS games I tend to cause the rage quits. I remember this one time a poor soul thought he could out sniper-duel me in Team Fortress 2. By this third death he had converted to a spy and still I beat him. Accusations of cheating were thrown about. 5-0 up to me and he quit suspiciously quickly after the fifth point. My childish and sadistic side loved it, but the mature side of me felt bad.

But with RTS games I just suck. I can never do what I need to do quick enough! Unfortunately before the game?s even started I get called a ?fag? and a ?stupid kid? (pro-tip, calling someone a stupid kid always backfires) and then all the misogynistic slurs you can think of that many people on this forum say don?t exist in the ?real gaming community.? I never type anything nasty back because it makes me feel dirty. But then I still lose the game. I?ve never had the satisfaction of putting a belligerent sexist twat in their place in an RTS. Sadly, they?re just better players. So I just stop playing altogether.

More power and respect to those of you who beat them, but let me tell you, losing to them is a real sore experience. Not so much ragequit. More, glumquit. :-/

 

[Mook_StyFawker]

He stayed in for a while the trooper. Then I did my one instance of talking in the game...

"If you don't like me running; stop me".
[your opponent has left the game]

I applaud you, good sir. That is one of the most bad ass things I have ever heard/read said to a trash talking kid online.

Once again, the only rage quit I can remember recently was from Borderlands 2, last night actually. I was trying to do a mission in the Campaign of Carnage expansion where you have to blow up a bunch of escort buzzards and blow up cargo buzzards and steal their cargo in a set amount of time. In the final round of it they send normal buzzards in constantly, which do just enough damage to be annoying.

After two failed attempts, I only have to pick up one more piece of cargo and kill one more escort buzzard and I'm finished. Out of nowhere, three normal buzzards swarm me, put me into Fight for Your Life mode and before I can even shoot a bullet, they fly away behind a building, making it impossible to get a second wind.

I didn't so much as rage quit the whole game as rage quit that mission. I don't freak out often in games because of bulls**t, but let me tell you, last night I had to suffer through a lot of it in that game.

 

[Techno Squidgy]

It's bunny hopping in games that gets my blood boiling. Normally I'm fast enough to shoot them down, but getting caught out at corners frequently starts to make me just a tad... volatile. This is when my less sporting side flares up and I forget about the objective. I was playing Black Ops 1, I think, and there was this one guy, constantly hopping about the map. Hopped around every corner, then went straight to prone once he hit the ground. I got fed up, especially seeing as the server had a no hopping rule, but no admins were present nor a votekick feature. I switched to a shotgun and chased this guy round the map, killed him 5 or 6 times in a row, without him killing me. The guy gets mad and leaves.

I calm down and resume playing the objective.

We're down to the last few seconds of the round, points pretty much even. I'm the only guy sitting on the point, just about to capture which would bring us the final few points we needed to overtake before the clock ran out. I'm down to my pistol, with only a few rounds in it. A guy hops round the corner. I fire off the 5 shots in the mag, but miss 3 of them and try to reload. I was dead before he even hit the floor. I punch the desk, type 'GG' and fuck off for a cigarette.

 

[Smeatza]

Lozking mined some iron ore.
Lozking mined some iron ore.
Lozking mined some iron ore.
Lozking mined some iron ore.
Lozking mined some diamond ore.
Lozking mined some diamond ore.
Lozking mined some diamond ore.
Lozking mined some diamond ore.
Lozking was killed by a cave spider.
Lozking has left the game.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

I've actually almost stopped ragequitting myself through a therapy known as Dark Souls. The premise being that if you dash for the power button enough times, only to boot up the console and load the game again and have lost all your souls and humanity and die on the same spot anyway, you eventually can't be f***ed. Here's conclusive evidence of the spectacular results: Started a new character a few days ago, only just got to Parish through Darkroot Basin and a few other things, after having done the Catacombs laboriously, walking around with 80k souls and 13 humanity. I die, then fall of a ledge on my way back, and I didn't even flinch. I just said to myself "F***...that'll be another half an hour to get back..."

Once you've dealt with that kind of loss, other games don't really affect you as much. -_-

 

[SSJBlastoise]

I've only managed to make 2 people rage quit before.

The first one was in NBA 2K11 and I chose Oklahoma (favourite team) and in the game they were good but not quite the best and the guy I played chose Miami (wasn't really a surprise). I started off slowly but came back and was up by about 10 points with a couple of mins left and then I got sent back to the menu because he had quit. I managed to have a nice little laugh about it.

My other one is one of my favourites though. I was playing MW3 all or nothing and I was going pretty well, usually close to winning and then I had a good streak and one map I got a quick kill which meant I got the scavenger perk and could use my gun which helped me get 7 kills in a row and helped me win. This kind of thing happened a couple more times and then I get a message from one of the people playing to say "stop using guns you asshole". I had a good laugh and then messaged him back to say "maybe if you get some kills you can use them to?". He then tried saying you aren't supposed to use guns in it and eventually quit after I kept winning. I was having a great time owning him and laughing at his rage quit.

Personally, I try to never rage quit because it isn't in the spirit of the game, especially in 1v1 games like FIFA or Madden. I mean, sure, I get pissed if I'm getting owned or playing like crap but I eventually get over it without rage quitting.

 

[Something Amyss]

never did and never tried to get someone to do it. its a dick move.

Which is why it's so popular.

I usually don't ragequit so much as ennuiquit. I just sort of tired, and it's like "why am I doing this? This isn't exactly fun."

I got killed at spawn three times in a row by a guy in Call of Duty last night. This was improbable enough (especially considering, without dying, he seemed to have more than one frag grenade), but if you can't even survive being spawned, then why bother playing?

It gives me ennui.

 

[Something Amyss]

I've actually almost stopped ragequitting myself through a therapy known as Dark Souls. The premise being that if you dash for the power button enough times, only to boot up the console and load the game again and have lost all your souls and humanity and die on the same spot anyway, you eventually can't be f***ed. Here's conclusive evidence of the spectacular results: Started a new character a few days ago, only just got to Parish through Darkroot Basin and a few other things, after having done the Catacombs laboriously, walking around with 80k souls and 13 humanity. I die, then fall of a ledge on my way back, and I didn't even flinch. I just said to myself "F***...that'll be another half an hour to get back..."

Once you've dealt with that kind of loss, other games don't really affect you as much. -_-

Once I'd dealt with that kind of "loss," I don't think I'd ever play the game again.

 

[MHR]

I only ragequit singleplayer games when I die and I know I shouldn't have died.

Multiplayer games like TF2 it's always the badguys raging. I wish the Barbe-QQ achievement had a counter. Before the update a few days ago, you lost 2 dominations every time a person you were dominating ragequit which got real annoying.

 

[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.