Why shouldn't I be allowed to quit a game?

Actually, the people complaining are usually the allies of said rage quitter. It really impacts the outcome of the game when you quit, thus ruining the experience for your ally/allies.

If you don't want a random assortment (and thus the potential of two UB opponents) of Demigods then play custom. Other people are trying to enjoy the game, and I don't see why their fun needs to be ruined because you've decided that hero x, y, or z is overpowered. At least with a custom game you can see what you are up against and your ally doesn't have their fun ruined.

At least with custom if someone drops/leaves the rest can all just decided to remake the match rather than worrying about stats.

It really doesn't matter. It's not like anyone can stop you from quitting.

Rage quiting is when you leave the game only because you got killed. If it's an unfair match-up where you have next to no chance of winning then I don't count it as a rage quit.

They should just make the game end (other team wins) if everyone on one team leaves, instead of switching on a stupid AI.

Agreed... the complaint is if my teammate decides to quit leaving me with AI... which effectively means I have little chance against tougher opponents.  And also, you can make whatever arguement you want about demigod a or b is OP.  What you can't say is that whoever chose those demigods has a clue how to use them, so just quiting a game and leaving someone high and dry is lame.  I would not object to a vote to surrender option though... that way, if its clear there is no chance in hell a victory is to be had, then the TEAM can agree to dump... not just the WAH demigod A is OP guy. 

You don't quit the game simply because you will ruin it for everyone else.

Imagine someone doing this in a real life sports game. Just stepping off the field leaving the team one man short because he thought that the enemy was too good.

Any person doing this IRL is an asshole and the same goes for online play.

Just stay in the game and watch and learn, no demigod is that overpowered.

if you don't like the matchups you get in pantheon games you should stick to custom games... leaving at start ruins the game for everyone else.

Says the person who favours Erebus, despite having higher win ratios on other demigods. I wonder why that is?

Enough people claimed that Erebus was overpowered, that he got his first nerf in a patch released this week. Please don't claim that no demigod is overpowered. The game has just been released, OF COURSE there are balance issues.

Then, your parable doesn't correlate to the experience I related above. First of all, there are no "enemies" in sports. Second, if you were in a boxing ring for fun, and a guy weighing 200 pounds stepped into the ring, I'm pretty damn sure you'd step out of the ring as well.

It just sounds like you are bad and a sore loser. Maybe you should play with bots for a bit and learn some tatics. UB is a sad, sad joke unless you let him farm you in the begining. Or heck, if you think they are so "op" and ruining the game for everyone, why don't you play one and even the sides?

It's true... no Demigod is SO overpowered that they warrant quitting right from the start.  Also, I used to quit after 10-15 minutes if things were going really poorly, but recently I've been a part of some startling comebacks.  So anything really is possible.  And third, it really sucks for the other players to have you replaced with an AI.

THAT SAID, the community hostility towards rage quitters is kind of ridiculous.  Players have the right to resign when they feel beaten.  All this could be resolved with a resign feature.  A team should be able to vote to resign.  That way the losing team isn't stuck playing a 45 minute game they don't want to.  And the winning team isn't stuck playing against bots.

So I agree with you that players ought to be allowed to quit, and the attitude of players towards people who leave is frustrating, annoying, and childish.  However, I don't think the reasons you've given for quitting are very good.

I haven't played an online game in years but Demigod made me want to try it out. Now, I'm a noob and even worse, I suck. I got no problem saying that, and I have no problem getting beat. But I quit a game last week because of the nastiness not only of the opposing team but my own team mate. We were even winning. But the game apparently was taking too long for these studly afficionados so when my own team mate started verbally abusing me, I left the game.  I'm not a bit sorry. Like I said I don't mind getting beat, but so many nasty remarks and jokes really sucked the fun out of it.

Of course, I suppose it's a moot point since I haven't been able to get in a game since the last patch. But, I'll submit there can be reasons to quit besides losing.

maybe you should try finishing games for once... you actually learn can learn a lot from other players and from losing. and i know its a lot more fun if you win the game, its always more fun when you win anything, but unless the game is absolutely brutal and its not even close, isn't it fun when you kill an enemy hero, or make one last epic push even when you know you've already lost. and if you think playing against to ub's means you've already lost, you obviously don't know how to play as a team. because if you get the ub's underlevel early they're useless later on. you should find ways to beat heroes that you think are overpowered instead of complaining about them and quiting everytime you get in a match with them.

I haven't been a part of a single game where I thought there was no chance to win. Many enemy team configurations that you would think would tear through anyone(UBx2 + EB, etc). But the funny thing is, all the games I've played are conquest, so the only goal is to kill the citadel. Once the other team gains the large advantage, they start buying citadel upgrades, usually more creeps. Which allows my team to farm those creeps at the choke points and therefore catch up in level and begin our push. I've had many many comebacks that the original poster here would have quit out of.

Just because you think someone is stronger or better than you, doesn't mean you can't beat them. I consider what the original poster is saying as rage quitting as well. He's raging over the fact that he believes certain demigods are OP. It's no different than the person that gets killed over and over again because they have no idea how to stay alive and play cautiously when they're out leveled.

I get a lot of enjoyment out of beating teams that think they are going to win from the start or think they are going to win for sure at any point during the game. A couple of times the opposing team has started their 'GG' while our citadel was getting hammered and my team has then turned the tide and ends up winning. You're never out of it. Ever.

Your logic here fail, you wouldnt get a half an hour fun, because when you start having fun, the enemies leave. Why would they stay and have half an hour wasted just because you want the childish pleasure in crushing an opponent when they could have joined another game with better odds and had half an hour of fun instead?

See the evil circle?

Me playing Erebus -----> Erebus having a higher win ratio?  

I don't lose very often no matter which demigod I use.

You are kind of missing the point bringing up boxing since it isn't a team game. You aren't ruining it for anyone but the opponent (and maybe the audience).

But you are really the one missing out by quitting, the best games are those where you beat the odds. I played a game where my two teammates gave up and left me alone to play 1vs3. I still managed to turn the game and win, it was really fun

My perception of a "die-hard-have-no-life-online-competition fan" is someone who can't handle losing a game so he ragequits and pretends like it was some game imbalance instead of him just being bad.

Are you sure that's not you? It sure sounds like you.

ive played vs 3 rooks it was, id say that was much worse than 3 ub's...

and if u r having problems vs ub as reg =(

Lol, who cares...have no regrets.  If its not fun, quit.
I try not to, come-backs are quite entertaining. 

People should not "quit" games, period. Why bother playing if you anticipate quiting if things do not go your way?

better question for OP should be, "Why should I be allowed to join multiplayer games at all?"

I think everyone who is rippig on the OP shouldnt be allowed to join games due to poor attitude. 

famously overpowered? UB is rather weak, and counterable comparitively.

That said, a good player can come back from a poor situation very easily in this game. If you aren't a good player you should probably be learning from whoever is beating you, and not ragequit. I would go so far to say you should never quit in the first 15 minutes, and probably not the first 30.

I'm tired of seeing newbies die once to me and leave the game.

 

lol what a noob.

Ok but for people who say spit is OP they should be banned from playing till they realize how wrong they are.

To the OP:Depends what stage of the game you quit out. If were 10 minutes into the game and you get killed a couple of times, but can still win, and you quit out then I do object to that, and you've jut wasted the time of everyone else playing the match.

If the game is a forgone conclusion then feel free to quit. Im sure some time in the future there will be a "surrender" feature put into the game so *I* dont have to waste *my* time finishing off an obviously defeated opponent.

Also I'd just like to add, that people aren't always right about there being "no hope". I was playing a game only last night when one of my team mates had decided that we were screwed, and my response to him was "We are?". Well that was just before we gained control of the artifact shop and I was able to buy the all father ring I had been saving up for. I started pushing on one side of the map to try and get control of a side spawner with an erebus teammate, and it took 3 of their demigods to keep us at bay. Meanwhile our giants steamrolled their citadel, so we ended up winning.

Eventually there will come a time when someone thinks they will lose for sure, but doesnt. Noone predicts 100% accurately.