quitters ruining my experience

i was playing Gears of War 2 today and after about 2 months with this game i am pissed. The reason i am pissed for is the relentless quitting that takes place withing GOW2. I presume that this doe snot only happen with gears, but a bunch of multiplayer games for xbox live. Ive played countless games where i could have won the match if we simply would have had one more player. Something that also happens all the time is that ill be playing the game, and after about a round or two the losing team begins to slowly quit. If your losing take it like a man and stay in the damn game.

Which brings me to my main point. I think they should create a system for gears where if a player quits they are banned from playing gears of war for 3 full days starting from the moment they quit. I understand that it would be very difficult, but they coudl probably make a system where it can tell if a game was laggy or not, because some games are just too laggy to play in so laggy games should be exempt, but if a player quits in the middle of the game or right before the game begins, they should be banned for 3 days. Now i know that sometimes emergencies pop up that are very important to attend too, but if it was something really serious it would probably keep you away from multiplayer games anyway as you would be too preoocupied with emergencies. Also i noticce a correlation between quitting and players who have a higher rank. it seems that when a team is losing a player with 3 stripes will usually quit which pisses me off also.

SO this would be a proper measure to make sure people stay in the games and everyone has fun. I believe when one player leaves, the game isnt as fun. anymore because of the disadvantage the team has to deal with. Also when one quits sometimes all the players of that team begin to quit. Ive played many rounds where i was the only player playing due to the whole team quitting. They should also move people down a rank if they quit to teach them a lesson. And if they were to petition their rank going down then they shoudl sign an agreement saying they will not quit anymore, or they will be terminated from gears online for 3 months. I kno i seem like an extremist, but those people are pissing me off and i cant even play a full game most of the time without someone quitting liek a sissy.

Quitting is very annoying. While I think a ban is overkill, every game should have stat tracking that includes matches dropped. This information should be visible to the community, and if permitted by a game's population, affect matchmaking.

On an unrelated note: Your text is easier to read if you split it into paragraphs, thread creator.

A 3 day ban is pretty excessive. Don't players lose exp when they quit? I don't play gears online but that's how Halo 3 worked.ikn3z

Thats a bit too much. I dont wanna be banned for 3 days just becauses my ethernet cable was pulled out by mistake.

TF2 is even worse because you can be changed to the other team at random. Oh so i captured the intelligence twice to only make myself lose.. NICE.

craigalan23

:lol: Hey Craig. Yeah, that's a pain in the ass. I hardly ever play in a game with people I don't know, but a while back I was playing a Dustbowl when that happened. I was really racking up the points (~150), number one on my team...and I get moved to the other team in the second round. So I'm now playing with all the people I was dominating, who are all really pissed at me.

oX Palantas bid farewell, cruel world!!!
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[QUOTE="ikn3z"]A 3 day ban is pretty excessive. Don't players lose exp when they quit? I don't play gears online but that's how Halo 3 worked.HaunterC4

Thats a bit too much. I dont wanna be banned for 3 days just becauses my ethernet cable was pulled out by mistake.

[QUOTE="HaunterC4"]

[QUOTE="ikn3z"]A 3 day ban is pretty excessive. Don't players lose exp when they quit? I don't play gears online but that's how Halo 3 worked.InsultToInjury_

Thats a bit too much. I dont wanna be banned for 3 days just becauses my ethernet cable was pulled out by mistake.

yeah a ban is excesive... satan knows I've lost like 4-5 Exp points on Halo3 because my ISP failed on me...

but every game should have some kind of penalization for quitting (like losing 1EXP on halo3)... I hate quitters specially on RB, most of them do it because they want the achievements for winning 5 in a row on ranked matches but I mean c'mon.. you shouldn't stack 5 in a row if you quitted like 10 games between that because the other player was kicking your *** at the beginning of the song... or worse... the ones who wait to the very end of the song to quit... making you lose even more time playing against them...

Play Call of Duty World at War, team deathmatch... I know how you feel when you say quitters are a pain in the ass...

I play with a good set of friends, playing cause we like to, then clan members and quitters alike, whom we beat in a close match leave.

Weird thing is that they complain (sending us direct messages, we are usually in party chat, don't like dealing with cocky kids) about us camping or lagging, literally right after the match is over, funny coming from the host (only four bar connection in the room...)

Now for the ban... 3 days seems a little bit over the top, I mean, down them a rank, or yes show it to the community, but 3 days does seem a bit excessive.

Until a local preference search option is added to gears and I can have a non-american/european host the match then I will quit when I please.DopeyDavoid

I used to play WoW and the one thing I stll like about it is if you are in a PvP battleground and you quit early, you can't join another battleground for 15 minutes that you are logged on (you can't just log out, wait and then after 15 min you can play again).

This wouldn't completely eliminate quitters but I think that it could make it less of a chance of happening.

wait... that sig looks familiar :lol:

i was playing Gears of War 2 today and after about 2 months with this game i am pissed. The reason i am pissed for is the relentless quitting that takes place withing GOW2. I presume that this doe snot only happen with gears, but a bunch of multiplayer games for xbox live. Ive played countless games where i could have won the match if we simply would have had one more player. Something that also happens all the time is that ill be playing the game, and after about a round or two the losing team begins to slowly quit. If your losing take it like a man and stay in the damn game.

Which brings me to my main point. I think they should create a system for gears where if a player quits they are banned from playing gears of war for 3 full days starting from the moment they quit. I understand that it would be very difficult, but they coudl probably make a system where it can tell if a game was laggy or not, because some games are just too laggy to play in so laggy games should be exempt, but if a player quits in the middle of the game or right before the game begins, they should be banned for 3 days. Now i know that sometimes emergencies pop up that are very important to attend too, but if it was something really serious it would probably keep you away from multiplayer games anyway as you would be too preoocupied with emergencies. Also i noticce a correlation between quitting and players who have a higher rank. it seems that when a team is losing a player with 3 stripes will usually quit which pisses me off also.

SO this would be a proper measure to make sure people stay in the games and everyone has fun. I believe when one player leaves, the game isnt as fun. anymore because of the disadvantage the team has to deal with. Also when one quits sometimes all the players of that team begin to quit. Ive played many rounds where i was the only player playing due to the whole team quitting. They should also move people down a rank if they quit to teach them a lesson. And if they were to petition their rank going down then they shoudl sign an agreement saying they will not quit anymore, or they will be terminated from gears online for 3 months. I kno i seem like an extremist, but those people are pissing me off and i cant even play a full game most of the time without someone quitting liek a sissy.

Quitters shouldnt have to deal with anything, maybe they dont always have time to play the game all the way through? Either way, it doesnt impact you in anyway, when the server has an open spot, someone else will fill it. If not just step up your game and man up.hooded1man

Quiting is an option for gamer's who need to quit.

Stop being little babies, it is an online live community, and people do have thing's to do in life.

Quiting is an option for gamer's who need to quit. Stop being little babies, it is an online live community, and people do have thing's to do in life.

Davroar-Serpent

I'd like you to quote who you think is being a "little baby" in this thread. Or were you talking about all of us? Insulting most everyone in a thread's a great way to get your point across. Welcome to GameSpot.

Obviously, no one's complaining about people who quit for legitimate reasons, like connection failures or their house being on fire. Gamers are upset by people who agree to participate in a fair contest, and then at the slightest sign of losing, quit and waste everyone's time. Yes, people have things to do in life. If you have something to do, like go to dinner with your boss in five minutes, then you shouldn't start an online game where your quitting is going to ruin other peoples' experience. That's impolite. It's like getting together for a game of golf with a friend, who after his ball goes into the water on the second hole, informs you that he has to leave because he's getting married in five minutes. At best, quitters practice poor time management, and at worse, they're just asses.

[QUOTE="craigalan23"]

TF2 is even worse because you can be changed to the other team at random. Oh so i captured the intelligence twice to only make myself lose.. NICE.

Palantas

:lol: Hey Craig. Yeah, that's a pain in the ass. I hardly ever play in a game with people I don't know, but a while back I was playing a Dustbowl when that happened. I was really racking up the points (~150), number one on my team...and I get moved to the other team in the second round. So I'm now playing with all the people I was dominating, who are all really pissed at me.

oX Palantas bid farewell, cruel world!!!
Palantas joined team Spectator.

Yeah i just go straight to spectate whenever that happens. I'm getting really annoyed by quitters because whenever they do well they stay but as soon as my team starts doing better they all run away. Whenever that happens i go to my base and avoid all of them. Kinda off-topicbut is ranked full of hackers too?

So if I want to play some multi player while my son takes a nap and he wakes up early I should be banned for 3 days because I had to go get him out of his crib. Sounds fair, maybe you should just deal with it.

spendinbig

Weird how there's this correlation between people losing in games and their kids waking up. It must be some psychic link. Seriously though, while I think a ban is overdoing it, quitting happens way, way too often and follows scores too closely to just be caused by real-life interruptions. Sometimes in a game, it's almost comical, the way the momentum will shift back and forth between two teams, with people quitting when their team's no longer sure to win.

Kinda off-topic but is ranked full of hackers too?

craigalan23

I doubt it. Most everyone stays in player, including the hacking community.