Thread: Rage Quit

Rage quitters are babies.

it happens, move on with your life. the only reason its a big deal in this game is because the numbers of players is so small that every single person counts. People rage quit all the time in every other game, just that nobody gives a damn because theres 10 other people backing you up.

as far as i know the policy is: who cares.

theres bigger things to worry about

Originally Posted by Hocus Pocus

What's TTP's policy on rage quitting?

Wait.. aren't you in tCz?! I can't keep up with you guys sometimes...

at any rate. Rage Quitting is highly frowned upon, especially in the L4D series games. Not only is it highly discourteous, but it suddenly leaves your (former) team in dire straights, with no forwarning and ability to have a replacement on hand. We consider it to be very low on teamplay, especially when by doing so you are leaving your team with 3/4 of its current strength. In a "gentleman's game" where both teams will hold in order to find a replacement, it then adds a disruption to game play. If the game simply continues, then one team is at a disadvantage.

Generally, all around, not good.

There is no rule against "rage quitting" per say as it is rather difficult to say if it does happen. For example, someone like Kraker may get a page to go take care of a fire and he has to practically hard crash his computer, including L4D in an instant with no warning to go take care of business. Could he have been bitching about a shitty round he was having? Sure. Does it look fishy? Absolutely. Was it rage quitting? No. He had an important job to take care of.

Rage quitting is by far one of the most blatant slaps in the face of the teamplay ideology, much like what Walker said. What matters is the team work and the perseverance to take a pounding round after round and play through the whole campaign or map. This is why I respect those people far more than "leet, epeen, uber players".

How to combat rage quitters? Quite simply, dont invite them to your games. Shun them. Make them take a cold hard look at themselves. If they dont shape up....then they will fall out of favor. If they do, they get welcomed back into the fold.

I do think its important to realize that people playing games with you are people. Like Potemkine pointed out, its not good to assume a person quits from rage, although its more likely rage if they just disappear suddenly. I have a crashing issue, a lot of the TF2 players may have noticed, so I drop out of TF2 games all the time, suddenly. Sometimes I was sort of winding down anyway and I don't have the drive to start steam back up, start TF2 back up and play the last three minutes in a round. I do realize its more disruptive to "rage" in L4D style games than large games like TF2.

For a reference on L4D rage quitting, read this thread:

http://www.texasteamplayers.com/index.php?topic=59334.0

Specifically the high admin stance:

Originally Posted by CivilWars

We can all come up with hypotheticals all day long. Bottom line is if you quit on your team simply because you are losing then you are a non-teamplayer. However, since I can't prove why you quit, just like I can't prove why you chose a certain team in other games where stacking can occur, it is difficult, if not impossible, to admin against. Whether you are an admin for the game or not use your peer pressure to create change if you suspect someone of rage quitting. Talk to them about it, and if it is a problem then don't play with them.

The high admin edict was for blatant cases where people say something along the lines of F you guys, you suck, I quit. That is ban worthy. Just go play the game already.

Originally Posted by ...bigdog...

anyone that rage quits is a nonteamplayer.

they either hate their teammates and rage quit, or they hate themselves and rage quit. those are things they should be talking about with their teammates BEFORE getting all raged out and quitting.

By quitting, they show they are unwilling to deal with the issues of playing with others. Such behaviour wouldn't be tolerated at a poker table, or on the controls of some multiplayer video arcade game, or on a basketball court.

So.....fuck them. See them again, ban them.

Leaving the game suddenly is common for some people, due to Steam, connection issues, game/pc crashes. It's not an easy thing to prove, but after a time, with certain people, a pattern will develope, much as patterns of non-teamplay in other guises develope in people after studying them. You see that in CS:S ban threads often "We've been watching you for awhile, and these are the patterns we see....". It may not be obvious at first, but after a few times playing with someone, you know when you're getting an RQ over a simple disconnect.

Sudden departures happen. If they're caused by a malfunction, there's not much that can be done. if they're caused by a sudden change in RL situation, it is not at all hard to quickly say (or type in chat) "Shit, I have to go! Something has come up!" Courtesy.

i saw this thread and knew it was about Walker

Originally Posted by THATriggerHappy

i saw this thread and knew it was about Walker