Word:
Ragequit
Definition:
1) When someone gets so angry at the way a game is progressing, players involved, or their own hideous loss-streak, they enter a state of “rage” and leave the game suddenly BEFORE it is officially over.
2) You save the game whenever something great happens, and restart from designated save whenever you die horribly along with other unfortunate events.
3) After saving a game after a non-obvious mistake that makes the game impossible to win or progress (low ammo, life, or almost no health).
Country of Origin:
Europe. The pilgrims in Europe were afraid of being persecuted and ran away to modern America. Bascially, before they got pwnd, they left.
Usage:
I only need 5,000 more experience in Blazblue to reach level 60, but the level 83 I perfected twice RAGE QUIT!!! WTF!??!
Synonyms:
Dishonorable Disconnect (DC), QQQuit (qq’d), pussy walk, noob quit, etc
Antonyms:
Honest Disconnect, pimp finish, corner rape, etc

Ok, get this. You’re entranced in a game online and you’re getting your ass beat, or maybe worse…you’re barely getting beat. Maybe you’re just having a bad day, or the piece of crap beating you is having a good day or finally figured out how to get past your well thought out traps and/or defenses. In any case, you’re about to die, you don’t have any underwear on, and they’re about to steal your only box of apple juice. Wtf…like wtf, how do you compete??? It’s easy, you quit!

Enter the Rage Quit, where if you can’t win, then neither can the opponent. Screw Going Down With The Ship or using this bad match as a learning experience, your record is about to be tarnished! Truly, a fate worse than death! Sometimes, it might not even be a bad game, but something as petty as your favorite map not being selected, or your best character being used by someone other than you, and if you can’t have it, then no one will! Sure, some games might try to alleviate this by also putting in a counter to mark “disconnected” games, but it can’t really distinguish between Rage Quitting and disconnecting because the router went down during the match. Others may simply award a loss to the person to quit first, but people have found ways around this. (TvTropes.org)

While playing BlazBlue yesterday (which I PROMISE I’ll be making a BIG post of soon), a new story suddenly materialized out of the ether. Ragequitting! Let’s face it, people who like anime are fairly passionate for the most part. Needless to say, we get mad a lot. The scope of video game-dom is exempt in no such fashion. I’d even make a point to say this “passion” is often exacerbated. Why, you ask? I’ll gladly tell you you.

A primary mainstay of anime is how majority of it is deep, well-paced, and engaging. So it should come as no surprise these sentiments carry over to video game playing. I did a small, informal survey a while ago plotting anime fans’ likes and dislikes involving genres of games and the results were as expected. Sandbox, or “do anything you want” games weren’t played as much as RPGs or certain fighting games. The amount of people who enjoyed shooting games consisted of about half the pool. In short, anime players like to know what they’re doing AND ESPECIALLY get paid for it. Blazblue (fighting game by Arc System Works [Guilty Gear]) is a prime example. Now we’ll move on to the rest of why anime people ragequit.

With passion comes pride. Some would even say the two are interchangeable, but in my opinion, that’s a whole’nother argument altogether – time I don’t have. Speaking of which, time is a key reason why people get so pissed off. It takes time to train, get experience and get to a “comfortable” level to start mowing down opponents be they computer-generated or flesh & bone. How would you feel if you are a level 60, and get beat by a level 40…you’d be pissed off in ANY game wouldn’t you? Fuck yeah you would.

This is where you have to put the shit into your own hands. Fuck the whole, “keeping your pride, falling with the ship” thing. Screw the ship, screw them. If you can’t win and you worked so much harder, then why let them win right!? They don’t deserve it. That’s the key reason why people get so pissed off and rightfully so about 25% of the time. Luckily, someone else on TvTropes was following the same train of thought as yours truly and compiled an exhaustive list of examples of ragequitting in various games. To to see if a game you have is on there! Most likely it is!

Following examples are ALL from TvTropes

• Command And Conquer 3: Some hardcore players referred to those who “disconnected” as “plug-pullers,” because simply quitting would get you a loss but if the computer couldn’t connect to the server, it was a disconnect.
• Blaz Blue: Some people quit ranked matches just as they’re about to lose. However, the game slaps both players with a Disconnect in their records, even if you never had an intention of rage quitting.
• Team Fortress 2: Actually, Valve makes fun of this with the Pyro’s “BarbeQueQ” achievement, which is awarded if a player you are Dominating ends up leaving the server you are currently playing in.
  • Also, the Scout now has a voice clip that says “Go ahead, Rage Quit! Make us all happy!”
• Left4Dead: This VG Cats strip provides a handy chart.
  • While rage quitting is very common in the game, because of the competitive nature of versus mode, some people will take anyone that leaves, even if they announce they have to go offline, as a sign of rage quitting.
• Street Fighter 4: Thanks to the “Playing to Win!” Achievement, which awards users for winning 10 ranked matches in a row, people are often tempted to rage-quit as quitting just registers the match as a draw on your record and doesn’t break your winning streak.
  • Apparently, some fighting game fans are posting screenshots of rage-quitters in blogs and forums to warn fellow fans of playing against them. Capcom vs. SNK 2 also had a similar honor system.
• Mortal Kombat Armageddon players often post videos on Youtube of opponents who quit a match to avoid taking a loss.
• Sacred 2 offers a rare single-player example of rage-quitting, thanks to the “Survivalist” achievement which awards players who complete the whole campaign without dying. The game autosaves shortly after you die, but if you quit out as soon as you fall, the game doesn’t have time to save, and you don’t get registered for a death.
  • …of course, the drawback is that if you’re a bit too slow to quit out, you might corrupt your save instead.
• Need For Speed Most Wanted and Carbon can also have single-player rage-quitting: if one’s about to get busted, just pause the game and force a quit with Ctrl+Alt+Del. The impending bust won’t be registered, since it didn’t actually happen.
• This was endemic in Mario Kart DS, with players quitting just before the race results, which prevented the loss from being recorded. It was also frustrating for the winner, since if everyone quit they didn’t get their win recorded either.
  • In fact, most races go like this: 4 players first race, 2-3 players by the 2nd and/or 3rd race, everyone but the winning player leaves in the final race.
    • The Wii version is also filled with rage quitters. If someone is put against players whose ranking points are very high, expect to see a handful of people leave after the first game is finished.

  

  • Star Fox Command has it worse. One person disconnects for any reason (ragequitting, connection hiccup, or anything else), the entire match stops. So not only does the quitter get penalized (their dropout count goes up), but so does everyone else (match ends).
• EVE Online: Slamming Ctrl-Q when you run into an enemy in space you can’t beat *might* save your ship (it will engage emergency warp out to a random spot and vanish from scan, even when warp scrambled, which is there to prevent ship death from actual accidental disconnects), but it will earn you the hate and derision of other players.
  • However, if you attacked and had an active aggression timer on someone, there’s a 15 minute window in which your ship can be scanned down and blown up anyway.
  • As of 2008, Ctrl-Q will not save you if you are warp scrambled in any way.
• The Multiplayer Minigame in Phantom Hourglass has a special indicator to let you see if someone is a habitual disconnecter or not.
• Metroid Prime: Hunters has a lot of problems with this, especially when playing on Random. This troper has known people to disconnect as soon as Combat Hall isn’t selected. The game treats shutting off the DS as a loss, but doesn’t penalize you for unplugging your router.
  • Many people also leave if the Oubliette is picked, mostly because it contains the Omega Cannon.
• Metal Gear Online will often have unconscious players quitting before their opponent has a chance to kill them. Likewise, those sent flying by a grenade or shotgun hit might leave.
  • In Survival, defeated teams (especially the Blue Bandits, considered to be a bunch of noobs and campers [no, seriously, that IS their reputation]) do this.
• Real Life example: There has been kids or teens that may leave in a middle of a sports game in frustration if their team isn’t winning or they themselves aren’t doing good enough. It’s either them being a poor sport or being frustrated that they can’t win even though they tried.
  • To be fair, there’s a great difference between quitting when you’re down by one point or whatever and calling it quits because the other team is beating you 100 points to 0 by the mid-game despite everything you do or other circumstances.
• Warcraft and Defense Of The Ancients All-Stars are also very harsh offenders of this.
  • World Of Warcraft has spawned a peculiar form of Rage Quit — whenever a new expansion, or a new patch, comes out with a feature that’s at all controversial, expect a host of ‘They Changed It Now It Sucks and I quit’ posts on the official forums. Which is ironic, since most of them don’t actually quit and can be found six months later following the exact same pattern.
  • Happens a lot in PVP battlegrounds as well. Typing /afk will immediately remove you from a battleground, giving you a harmless and unrecorded debuff called ‘deserter’ that will prevent you from joining another battleground for 15 minutes, but you sure screwed that rogue out of another kill.
• The Neopets multiplayer Keyquest seems to attract many people who quit if they know they won’t win. This is mostly because the player who reaches the goal (=wins) gets much better prices than the others.
• Super Smash Bros Brawl‘s “versus anyone” mode mitigates this problem a little too well: if someone disconnects, they are replaced with a CPU opponent…without you knowing it. Since there is no way to tell if someone drops out save for a sudden change in play style, this mode might as well be an offline mode against three CPU players.
  • Ugh. Its the players that sometimes make it worse. This troper ragequit after so many fights of just people camping to spam taunts and people using Ike or Marth to spam Counter all the time.
  • Clubhouse Games is somewhat better about this feature: the taking-over CPU is clearly marked as CPU so you know that the player quit. If all human opponents quit, you have the option to either keep playing with CPU players or to end the match.
• Tetris: The Grand Master 3‘s Master mode’s “qualified grade” system exists partially to discourage ragequitting: if you do worse than the average of your 4 best games out of the last 7 games (this includes ragequitting, which usually results in a lower single-game grade than if you didn’t), you are given a “demotional exam” in which failing to get as high of a grade as your qualified grade will drop your grade by one. Thus, if you want to keep your qualified grade, and be able to upgrade it, ragequitting is not a very good idea.
• John Madden Football is notorious for having players quit, so they started the trend of showing a player’s Did Not Finish record as part of their stats. If a player quits and you want the win, you must finish the game and beat the CPU. This is all well and good, unless Madden’s notorious Rubber Band AI takes over, causing you to lose a game you would have won but for the dumbass quitter.
• Inverted in Modern Warfare 2, an kill streak item called the tactical nuke can be given to a person with a 25 kill streak which activates a tactical nuke that kills everyone, player included. This will declare the nuker as the winner. It is a way of saying “I am kicking everyone’s ass so hard it is not worth it. Later suckers!”
• The Yu-Gi-Oh online enabled games have a lot of this. The only real attempt made at doing anything about this is an increase to the intrinsic bonuses to playing an online match; Even if you lose, you stand to earn as much currency from the battle as if you had won a low-level computer match. But it’s probably the ranking Ragequitters are more worried about.
• Another Real Life example: Board Games. Pick any one you’ve ever played, and you’ll find at least one case where either you or someone you’ve played with eventually got fed up with losing and turned the board over, declaring they never wanted to play the stupid game anyway— or worse, that “there is no winner because we didn’t finish“. Which is much the point behind online ragequitting, but they’re never that explicit about it.

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