Yes. Since the beginning they've plagued Xbox Live and they've never went away. I'm talking about them bitch ass quitters. A species created and utilized by the Xbox Live community to a tee.
By definition a quitter is.... a person who gives up to easily. In my dictionary, a quitter is nothing more than someone who can't stand the heat so they gets the fuck out the kitchen! I mean c'mon peoples, if your really that bad at video games then stay off online play and practice by yourself until you're good enough to play against people.
I've seen quitters in every array of game type. Sports games, rhythm games, first person shooters etc. It never ceases to amaze me just how many people quit a game. Halo 3 is notorious for quitters, whereas Call of Duty 4 does well with this problem and randomly inserts a new gamer onto the team that has just went shorthanded. Some people might not play against as many quitters as I have but ever since I started playing Harmonix's Rock Band online it just reminded me how much of how I despise these low-lives!
Speaking of Rock Band, let me rant on it's online play. I usually play Guitar Score Duel or Tug Of War's. My girlfriend does the same but usually sings or plays drums. I've rarely seen anyone quit doing the singing or drumming. Which is a plus. But it's a whole 'nother story when it comes to playing with the gee-tar.
5% of the time you'll get the odd gamer who automatically drops out of a game because of a faulty connection. The other 95% of the time gamers quit is because they're losing too badly or they want to keep an achievement alive (ie. Tug Of War Streak/Score Duel Streak). It especially sucks when your more than half way through a song and they just up and quit on you and your not even awarded the win! It's B.S. These type of gamers I tend to always avoid and feed the "Quit Early" to their reputation. If they're lucky enough they'll even receive a nifty message from me saying... "ur a quitter, lulz!" or "that was cheap, ya pussy quitter". Most of the time I never get a reply back but sometimes these guys have the audicity of replying back to me with the ever so clever "fag" or an lousy excuse saying they didn't know they quit. Whatever... I suppose this whole blog post could've been avoided if Harmonix took after GH3 and gave the win to people after mofo's quit. I sure hope a patch comes out soon so no more people bitch about these quitters.
I guess the moral of this post is to not be a quitter. Be a gamer.
Number of times I said "quitter" in this blog= 10
Number of times a quitter has quit on me since writing this blog= 5
The only time I'll ever leave in the middle of a game is if an emergency arises... Or if I just feel like leaving.
Did I mention I just took an awesome dump about a minute ago? yeah, it felt awesome. Seriously, I just lost 5 mother fucking pounds. 5 MOTHER FUCKING POUNDS!
It can be really annoying when someone drops from a game, especially if I've had trouble getting into one in the first place. I tend not to get too frustrated by it, though. There's always another game to be played somewhere.
This happened to me in rock band earlier today. We were near the end of a song and I had been losing the whole time but came back at the end and before the Hit Every Fucking Button on the Fretboard portion ended the guy quit. I suggested to him that he should end the circle jerk BEFORE joining a game next time and inquired as to whether he was the pitcher or the catcher. No reply so far.
It happens a lot. And I hate it! Yesterday I stopped playing because there was a mother yelling my name every ten seconds. She did it in a horrible Spanish accent. That's what I hate more than quitters. Mums gaming on kids accounts. And yelling please shut up and quit. Please do.
Another problem about rock bands online.. is it will often match you up with the same person you just played against. Iv been in a situation where I was matched up with a guy I had just beaten.. beat him again.. and recieved an incredibly angry voice message accusing me of purposely playing and beating him over and over again to get my kicks.. etc.
usually I only quit if my connection is bad and im lagging out all over the place causing the game to be pointless.. but i have also quit guitar hero 3 matches because idiots on there will insist on playing through the fire and flames on expert over and over again like they are some kind of legion of sadomasochistic pseudo-guitarists. Screw them.. I wont play that song more than once a day.
The first time I ran into this problem was back when I used to play StarCraft online. It seemed that in every other team match half the players would just randomly quit, causing the match to become terribly unbalanced. It really killed my urge to play online for a while.
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The only time I'll ever leave in the middle of a game is if an emergency arises... Or if I just feel like leaving.
Did I mention I just took an awesome dump about a minute ago? yeah, it felt awesome. Seriously, I just lost 5 mother fucking pounds. 5 MOTHER FUCKING POUNDS!
I don't quit I just keep on shooting.
I see you like the interwebs. Good on ya bud.
It's because most people don't play games to play them, they play to do better than an opponent. When this fails to happen their motivation is gone.
@007
Yeah same here. I ate a crap load of homemade mac & cheese, and it's as if a whole person dropped from by butt.
@MrSadistic and 007
Easy weight loss program, I'm on it too!
"OMG I'M LOSING! BETTER QUIT SO IT DOESN'T HURT MAH RANK!"
Yeah, pretty gay. Overly competitive people need to relax.
It can be really annoying when someone drops from a game, especially if I've had trouble getting into one in the first place. I tend not to get too frustrated by it, though. There's always another game to be played somewhere.
This happened to me in rock band earlier today. We were near the end of a song and I had been losing the whole time but came back at the end and before the Hit Every Fucking Button on the Fretboard portion ended the guy quit. I suggested to him that he should end the circle jerk BEFORE joining a game next time and inquired as to whether he was the pitcher or the catcher. No reply so far.
It happens a lot. And I hate it! Yesterday I stopped playing because there was a mother yelling my name every ten seconds. She did it in a horrible Spanish accent. That's what I hate more than quitters. Mums gaming on kids accounts. And yelling please shut up and quit. Please do.
"I'm talking about them bitch ass quitters. A species created and utilized by the Xbox Live community to a tee."
Quitters have been around a whole hell of a lot longer then xbox live.
Another problem about rock bands online.. is it will often match you up with the same person you just played against. Iv been in a situation where I was matched up with a guy I had just beaten.. beat him again.. and recieved an incredibly angry voice message accusing me of purposely playing and beating him over and over again to get my kicks.. etc.
usually I only quit if my connection is bad and im lagging out all over the place causing the game to be pointless.. but i have also quit guitar hero 3 matches because idiots on there will insist on playing through the fire and flames on expert over and over again like they are some kind of legion of sadomasochistic pseudo-guitarists. Screw them.. I wont play that song more than once a day.
The first time I ran into this problem was back when I used to play StarCraft online. It seemed that in every other team match half the players would just randomly quit, causing the match to become terribly unbalanced. It really killed my urge to play online for a while.
Coop it's spro, nice post brother!
P.S. Play more TF2.
I ran more into quitters while playing GH, but that's probably because I rarely play RB online.
LOL @ GrayFox. I'll be on TF2 this weekend mo-fawka!