How do you make a player rage quit?

[GIANT_CRAB]

Shit, if you really wanna scare someone out of the match, get your heroes early, accompany each of your allies on a raid and proceed to build small 'towns' all over the map with nothing more than peasants eating all your food. Steal a bunch of goldmines and proceed to kill your heroes. Fill the remaining slots with more peasants, then at the nearest town to an enemies base, have them all use Call To Arms and fuckin' zerg rush it.

Trust me, if no ground unit can get out (at all) through your Peasant Horde, the player may very well just leave.


Also, if you wanna make it fun, play Undead, get three Banshees, no Heroes, and possess all three other types of builders. Get yourself three tank heroes (Tauren Chieftain, Mountain King and Demon Hunter) as early as possible, then just level them up as high as you can, fill their inventories with one Orb of Corruption, one Orb of Lightning, three Orbs of Fire and an Orb of Venom, then bumrush the closest enemy base.

Since they all have strong AOE attacks, you can stun AND slow small attacking hordes with War Stomp and Thunderclap, then run in with your transformed Demon Hunter (Immolation on) rinse and repeat as necessary, half the time you won't even need units around other than to guard your base. Once the other team sees what your doing, a good few times they'll be all "Fuck this, I'm out".

Wow, your plan is seriously gay, where did u learn this from?
Anyway, I still think using Chuck Norris is the best idea.

 

[Direfury]

Simple, I've done it and watched it work. Repeatedly.

the WTF factor is strong here.

 

[HQCosTheta]

So Blizzard thinks if a player is getting constantly attacked, it's harassment? They made campaigns with these things happening (the events at Hearthglen, for example), it's inevitable that some people will learn tactics from this.
It's competitive gaming, you have to do whatever is in your power to defeat the opposition. If one player cannot handle the pressure of being constantly attacked in the game, I believe they should either learn how to adapt or not play the game.
Sorry if I do sound.. arrogant.

The title of the thread is "How do you make a player rage quit?" not "how do I play the game so effectively I win?" I'm not suggesting people stop using tactics or strategy but when people suggest hacking, verbal harassment and profane language as a means to an end the topic has been discredited. At that point we cease to be gamers and become cyber bullies. I have a 3 year old son who loves to play some of the custom games online and I am thankful that he cannot read yet as well as hopeful that he becomes bored with the game before he learns.

I'm sorry I offended you but your offence is born of simple misunderstanding.

[EDIT]

I was going to quote the guy who suggested verbal harassment and prompted my original post but that post was edited/deleted.

Except for a mention of hacking, for the most part the thread is clean now.

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Ban all people with skill, thus those who don't have skill can't complain about being "harassed"

 

[Boris_Spider]

Ban all people with skill, thus those who don't have skill can't complain about being "harassed"

It would be far easier and cost effective to split Bnet into 3 groups:

1) Hackers (those incapable of playing /unwilling to play a real game)

2) Normal (Players that just want to play decent games)

3) TK (for players to see who can TK the fastest

As for the 'fighting', it's not fighting. It's called debating. In the real world few people agree with each other on topics; those that do don't agree because of the same reasons.

//\\oo//\\

 

[Skycraft]

The title of the thread is "How do you make a player rage quit?" not "how do I play the game so effectively I win?" I'm not suggesting people stop using tactics or strategy but when people suggest hacking, verbal harassment and profane language as a means to an end the topic has been discredited. At that point we cease to be gamers and become cyber bullies. I have a 3 year old son who loves to play some of the custom games online and I am thankful that he cannot read yet as well as hopeful that he becomes bored with the game before he learns.

I'm sorry I offended you but your offence is born of simple misunderstanding.

[EDIT]

I was going to quote the guy who suggested verbal harassment and prompted my original post but that post was edited/deleted.

Except for a mention of hacking, for the most part the thread is clean now.

I never mentioned anything about actually typing offensive slurs towards the enemy player :| if they play horribad, I say nothing. If they play better, I say gg.
Silly HQCosTheta

 

[En_Fuego]

The title of the thread is "How do you make a player rage quit?" not "how do I play the game so effectively I win?" I'm not suggesting people stop using tactics or strategy but when people suggest hacking, verbal harassment and profane language as a means to an end the topic has been discredited. At that point we cease to be gamers and become cyber bullies. I have a 3 year old son who loves to play some of the custom games online and I am thankful that he cannot read yet as well as hopeful that he becomes bored with the game before he learns.

I'm sorry I offended you but your offence is born of simple misunderstanding.

[EDIT]

I was going to quote the guy who suggested verbal harassment and prompted my original post but that post was edited/deleted.

Except for a mention of hacking, for the most part the thread is clean now.

"Cyberbullying" isn't against the law and it's not in breach of their terms of use.

In any regard, they can't do anything about it anyway, so who cares? Same thing goes for hacking. Or at least, if they can stop this drop hack, they would have done it, but obviously they can't, because all of their tournament-ranked players are all drop hackers.

edit: for the thing about your kid, the game is rated T if I'm not mistaken, which means "Teens + are suited for this game" If you allow your kid to play it and know the risk and want to stop him but still don't then that means you're a shitty parent. Seriously, if it's bad for him to read what other players say, don't let him play it.

Look at like Xbox Live, they can't actually monitor what people can and can't say (other than impersonating Blizzard employees), so they make the user agree to not cry wolf over it, which essentially is what the terms of agreement is.

 

[Kuhneghetz]

Ontopic:
Saving the game during a very intense battle. Durr
Have a few more fellow trolls doing this will increase the lulz, since each player can only save once in multiplayer.

Offtopic:

I have a 3 year old son who loves to play some of the custom games online

You do know that the ESRB rating system exists for a reason, right?

 

[WherewolfTherewolf]

Saving the game during a very intense battle. Durr
Have a few more fellow trolls doing this will increase the lulz, since each player can only save once in multiplayer.

Lol, great one
You could also get everyone to use all their pauses after you've run out of save ammunition

 

[Direfury]

2+ Undead players, full stocks've fully upgraded Crypt Fiends on both teams, burrowed all around the opposing teams base.

Not quite a rageleave, but the coming "OH SHIT" moment is priceless when all them Fiends unburrow all at once.

 

[HQCosTheta]

I never mentioned anything about actually typing offensive slurs towards the enemy player :| if they play horribad, I say nothing. If they play better, I say gg.
Silly HQCosTheta

I was not referring to your conduct in particular, as I have stated.

"Cyberbullying" isn't against the law and it's not in breach of their terms of use.

In any regard, they can't do anything about it anyway, so who cares? Same thing goes for hacking. Or at least, if they can stop this drop hack, they would have done it, but obviously they can't, because all of their tournament-ranked players are all drop hackers.

It does, in actuality state, in their terms of use :

4. Your Use of Battle.net.

(v) use any third-party software to modify Battle.net to change game play, including, but not limited to cheats and/or hacks; [Hacking]

(viii) harass, threaten, stalk, embarrass, or cause distress, unwanted attention or discomfort upon another user of Battle.net or other person or entity; cheat during gameplay, including but not limited to modification of the game program files; [HARASSMENT]

(ix) transmit or post sexually explicit images or other content which in the sole discretion of Blizzard is deemed to be offensive; nor shall you transmit any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful, racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable content; [HARASSMENT]

B. In the event that you violate any of the foregoing provisions, Blizzard may at its option and without notice to you

(i) temporarily suspended your access to Battle.net; or
(ii) immediately terminate your access to Battle.net; and

From http://classic.battle.net/tou.shtml

edit: for the thing about your kid, the game is rated T if I'm not mistaken, which means "Teens + are suited for this game" If you allow your kid to play it and know the risk and want to stop him but still don't then that means you're a shitty parent. Seriously, if it's bad for him to read what other players say, don't let him play it.

I find it interesting how you have begun attacking my character in an attempt to discredit my grievance and would like to point out that you have not only made false claims about the user agreement but also my choices as a parent while simultaneously stating that simply because cyber-bullying is not a crime that it is something that we should all be morally allowed to do to other people.

Furthermore I do not believe in the sheltering of my children from tiny bits of gore or simulated battlefields it is the online experience which is not rated that I was making an appeal to the community to change.

If when you were young and wanted to play a computer game and your parents told you you could not use that facet of the game simply because of their experiences with the online community would you not feel as if you were missing out on something you would otherwise enjoy because of said online community? Why are you so incapable of thinking about other people to sate your own personal gratification? Is making other people feel bad about their online experience so important to you that would deprive other people of the joy?

You make false claims, you endorse such abhorrent behavior and you insult my very being in a single post.

I find you, En_Fuego, to be a disappointing cross section of humanity as a whole, void of any true intellect.

You do know that the ESRB rating system exists for a reason, right?

I am entirely aware. The ESRB has, to my knowledge only rated Warcraft 3 and it's subsequent expansions. The actual battle.net experience is as of yet unrated as blizzard is unable to control the user created content as with WOW. My son will not be playing on battle.net between the time he will learn to read and the time he will be able to understand that those things being said should not be taken personally.

I understand now that causing immature people to quit simply because you are in a dominant position is what the main topic of the thread was.

My plea to you, the community was to start thinking about the effect that you have on other people. Think about how what you say effects people on the other end.

I see now, that it was pointless.

 

[En_Fuego]

It does, in actuality state, in their terms of use :

4. Your Use of Battle.net.

(v) use any third-party software to modify Battle.net to change game play, including, but not limited to cheats and/or hacks; [Hacking]

(viii) harass, threaten, stalk, embarrass, or cause distress, unwanted attention or discomfort upon another user of Battle.net or other person or entity; cheat during gameplay, including but not limited to modification of the game program files; [HARASSMENT]

(ix) transmit or post sexually explicit images or other content which in the sole discretion of Blizzard is deemed to be offensive; nor shall you transmit any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful, racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable content; [HARASSMENT]

B. In the event that you violate any of the foregoing provisions, Blizzard may at its option and without notice to you

(i) temporarily suspended your access to Battle.net; or
(ii) immediately terminate your access to Battle.net; and

From http://classic.battle.net/tou.shtml

Why is no one ever punished for this then?

I find it interesting how you have begun attacking my character in an attempt to discredit my grievance

Don't put words in my mouth. That's not what I'm doing. I'm just telling you that if you don't want your kid to play the game, then don't let him. That's parenting 101.

and would like to point out that you have not only made false claims about the user agreement but also my choices as a parent while simultaneously stating that simply because cyber-bullying is not a crime that it is something that we should all be morally allowed to do to other people.

I made a false claim, sorry. The fact remains that they still don't punish it, so what's the difference? Also, I never said we ought to cyber-bully because it's not a crime, I just said that it's not a crime.

Furthermore I do not believe in the sheltering of my children from tiny bits of gore or simulated battlefields it is the online experience which is not rated that I was making an appeal to the community to change.

You already know your appeal won't work. Don't bother trying to change everyone in the world (I assume you already know this, just saying). Anyway, if the online is the problem then don't let him connect to battle.net. You can block battle.net if you have Windows XP (or any version that is more modern).

Regardless, the fact remains that if you don't want your kid to do something, it's your responsibility to limit his interactions with it. You yourself said that as he ages you hope he loses interest. Why do you let him do it if you want him to lose interest?

If when you were young and wanted to play a computer game and your parents told you you could not use that facet of the game simply because of their experiences with the online community would you not feel as if you were missing out on something you would otherwise enjoy because of said online community?

My parents let me, so idgaf. However, I never had wifi for my Wii simply because my parents didn't think it was necessary. I never cried or moaned. I simply bought my own router and set it up. They didn't mind either.

Why are you so incapable of thinking about other people to sate your own personal gratification?

I'm fine, thanks.

Is making other people feel bad about their online experience so important to you that would deprive other people of the joy?

Who am I depriving?

You make false claims, you endorse such abhorrent behavior and you insult my very being in a single post.

I made a false claim, sorry, it happens. The fact remains that they don't punish it, so it may as well not be in their terms of use. Whatever, you can "win" this point.

I never once endorsed the behavior. I said it's not against the law and therefore isn't punishable.

I didn't insult your being, I insulted your parenting skills (unless that is your being, in which case I laugh dearly at you)

I find you, En_Fuego, to be a disappointing cross section of humanity as a whole, void of any true intellect.

Blow me.


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[Icedrake]

It's funny how off topic this has gone.

 

[Lambdadelta]

Saving the game during a very intense battle. Durr
Have a few more fellow trolls doing this will increase the lulz, since each player can only save once in multiplayer.

You are my new friend. I ALWAYS do that in DotA especially. People go 'wtf' Sometimes, they even blame the host for not turning save off... now THAT'S WTF.

 

[Direfury]

DotA? all you have to do is stay low level, use items well and disgrace higher level players. They'll rage when their max level character gets owned time and time again by someone who hasn't even levelled up yet.

 

[Kino]

You are my new friend. I ALWAYS do that in DotA especially. People go 'wtf' Sometimes, they even blame the host for not turning save off... now THAT'S WTF.

Yeah custom games are where the real rage-quitfest is, not just DotA.

You have people who leave because...
- Their character died
- No idea how to play a game
- Joined a game thats not DotA
- Picked the wrong hero/built wrong unit/bought wrong item.
- Theyre bored
- The other team beat them last game
- Theres a wee bit of lag
- The host/ othe rplayers are from another country
- Host is from the same country but uses a different internet provider.

And so on and so on.