What is the big deal with so many threads on ragequitters? Srsly.

Every game has a prolem with them. Although it has seemed to turn into a fad or something on here being such a big deal.

In all honesty I don't even care anymore. If a guy on my team ragequits I'll try to win before giving up and quitting as well. If a guy on the other team quits then I just think of it as a lucky break. It's frustrating, but there's nothing you can really do about it, so there's no point in crying about it.

Half the satisfaction of winning a game is the actual ending of the game. In a game like command and conquer, company of heroes, starcraft, dawn of war - whatever - when you finally overpowered your enemy, the victory satisfaction (and victors 'right' if you will) was the then destroying of the base. It was sort of the nail in the coffin and ultimate conclusion. When someone bails, it's just poor sportsmanship, rude and takes away most of the satisfaction of victory to the better player because the loser was an immature little twat.

The only problem with demigod is that if it's pretty obvious one team is going to outright win, it can take a _long_ time for the game to end. You can totally wipe the floor with the other team and if they continue to defend/fight back they will still likely lose, but will prolong the actual end a huge amount.

If anything, IMO, there needs to be a concede option that doesnt outright end the game, but either way soups up the winning teams powers/stats or way weakens the enemy structures - so the game can be concluded within minutes rather than 10s of minutes.

2c

*edit  -if it's early to mid game and someone on my team ragequits, I'll bail also. I refuse to play with an ai teammate. Likewise, if someone on the other team bails i'm not overly inclined to stick around either as an ai will never ever be able to match a player in skill, no matter what kind of work they do on them. Ai is for single player plebs, NOT multiplayer players looking for actual competition.

Of course I have, and no they don't - not always. Immature little shits will yes, but half reasonable players will stick around

Hmm can't say I really agree here, I don't enjoy a game that is me steamrollignthe oppositino any more than I enjoy being rolled. Last night myself and 5 other lads had a game that went really really pear shaped for them after abotu 15 mins, it was obvious they would never win. We agreed to rm and save us all the apin of goign through the motions for the sake of it.The 2nd game was much more balanced and enjoyable.

I also played another game 3v3 where the opposite team had a player drop, we didn't rm. Needless to say the 'victory' didn't feel very good.

I have always much perferred a challenging balanced game to a steam roll affair so I'm happy to rm if one team is being smashed.

Kinda like the rage quit - the rage.

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The solution is simple: a small test level, where you fight the AI Demigod and then the system ranks you based on your performance. When you fight against other players online there is no 'game', the system simply does some math based on what Demigods you have on your team and the rankings of the players and when the game is 'launched' your issued with a 'Win' or 'Did not Win' screen.

This removes the unfun aspect of actually playing the game, where you can lose, which takes time. As every pro player knows, no game should ever last more than 30 seconds because anything more and it gets boring and, most importantly, no player should ever have to actually lose because they paid their money and they shouldn't have to put up with this crap, damn it!
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In most those other RTSes mentioned people shout GG when their first units get killed, or a first expansion gets harrashed long enough....

Hell ive seen pro starcraft matches end in a few minutes because a guy lost a couple of drones. At those lvles of play its nearly impossible to  catch up again. Its not really a RAGE quit ...

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The problem is people quiting before the game has been fully decided. Fine if they're outside your citadel and loss is certain, but such a huge number of people quit way before then. I'm talking in the first ten or even five minutes. People leaving because their warscore is a couple levels behind. People leaving because they died a few times. People leaving because they had a hard time holding the middle flags and they are at a disadvantage.

If you're at a disadvantage, then guess what? You're at a disadvantage. You have not lost and the game is not decided. You are just less likely to win.

Just so many people out there who can't stand being in that losing/disadvantaged position. Well, tough it out and you'll learn to enjoy it and become a better player too. You'll get wins from those positions and more importantly, intense games.

How about when a game is 2v2... Yesterday I was playing a 2v2 game both players seemed descent but my team had better flag control so one leaves after 10 minutes... this game wasnt decided and it totally ruined it for me... I ended up having to comp stomp just to get the damn favor points

Haha i hate rage quitters to, i had 2 the other day in a 3v3, one guy quit then the other guy had some window pop up every ten seconds and left. I kept playing though because i hate to quit and it ruins the fun for the others. Good news is though i still wound up winning when i thought i was gonna lose 100%. That victory is sweeter then any other ive had.

The key difference here is most people who play demigod are not "pro" level. They WILL slip up and you can come back, dieing once or twice is not an issue most of the time online.

Even at competative levels of play it is not always the case, I have played 8 season of CAL Counter-Strike Source and I can tell you, if you are down a couple rounds, doesn't mean you've lost.

The problem with this game is that it's usually clear cut who is going to win early on with little way to change it. That is why people quit, because late game turnarounds are non-existant. But zomg, that 10 favor you get just for staying makes it all worth it!