Rage quitters, make me... rage.

[Niode]

So I was playing Risk Factions last night, enjoying playing a couple of ranked matches with my buddy. Had a few wins in a row, some giving me a good run for my money, some just rolling over and conceding defeat (I don't mind people who concede defeat, sometimes it's not worth the time and effort to put up a stand when it's inevitable you're going to lose anyway, it's quicker to concede and look for another game). Then the rage quitters start to appear, FOUR matches in a row where the entire opposition rage quitted in the last few turns. Funnily enough, just as I was about to win. Now, four matches doesn't sound a lot, but if you have ever played Risk with 4 other people, you will know how long this fucking game takes to play. So yeah. 3 hours of my life I'll never get back and have nothing to show for it. I swear I must have half the people who play Risk Factions on Live as an avoided player by now.

Why the fuck can't devs put in some sort of netcode where if the rest of the players 'disconnect' when you are clearly in the lead it gives you the victory. The netcode is so bad on that game that if the host leaves the game (again because you are trouncing him and he starts to cry) that the game is instantly over, ruining the entire game for everybody else, nobody gets any points.

I don't proclaim to be amazing at Risk, but I'm fairly decent, I used to play it every Monday night at the pub when I was at Uni. So I'm quite well practiced in it. There has only been one person who gave me a run for my money so far. It's fucking ridiculous. What do these dicks gain from disconnecting from games because they're losing? I can't win a fucking game because chumps are fucking disconnecting.

Rargh

[lisalover1]

I encounter rage quitters all the time; they're annoying as hell. However, a couple of games do have a system for giving the win to the person in the lead at the time of quitting. The game where RQs can be the most infuriating is in Fat Princess. More than a couple times, I have been on the winning team, completely obliterating everyone else, then in the last few seconds, a bunch of people on the other team quit, and I was forced onto the losing team just before the end. Bullshit.

[ryanofcali]

Abusing mod powers there Niode? You are acting just like rage quitters deleting my posts.

[Frag Mortuus]

I agree. I have not gotten the achievement for winning a 5 player command room game because people RQ all the time.

Niode, What is your gamertag? We can try to meet up online XBL and play a few matches.

Mine is Frag Mortuus.

[Gnashvar]

The game looks interesting too bad I don't have an Xbox360.

[AmishSamurai]

I always make it a principle to leave AFTER a round/game is over, lest I be called a ragequitter because it's 3 in the morning and I'm half-asleep at the keyboard.

[J T]

For a game like RISK that takes os much time, it should have options for ending early.

"You have decided to quit the game, do you want to...
a.) concede defeat
b.) finish this game at a later time"

Then, if these options are not utilized enough, then they can have some sort of rage-quitter reputation system where it clearly marks you as a rage-quitter so nobody will want to play you anymore.

[dsheinem]

Personally I think that...

BAH! SCREW THIS!

[J T]

Personally I think that...

BAH! SCREW THIS!

RAGE QUITTER!

[J T]