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Subject: Anyone else annoyed by quitters?
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It must happen every other game or so: I get assigned to a team for 4 vs. 4, and after a minute or two, one or two teammates just quit, so the remaining two of us are getting smoked.

Drives me nuts. Now I've vented. I feel better.

  • 06.07.2007 3:54 PM PDT
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Posted by: NoobWinegeek
It must happen every other game or so: I get assigned to a team for 4 vs. 4, and after a minute or two, one or two teammates just quit, so the remaining two of us are getting smoked.

Drives me nuts. Now I've vented. I feel better.


I'm one of those. ;]
har har.

  • 06.07.2007 3:56 PM PDT
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Yeah...it happens to me alot when I play hardcore...

Once a person or two leaves your pretty much guranteed and loss (most of the time) and your ranking suffers because of it.

  • 06.07.2007 4:07 PM PDT
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This debate is going to rage on for the coming months until Halo 3 comes out.We all now know and hopefully Bungie knows they screwed the playlists up badly.The whole situation was handled very poorly and unprofessionally.I do understand the logistics behing having to compress the playlists because of population decline.I can understand this now.What is not understandable for some reason is why a BTB Skirmish playlist and BTB Slayer playlist were combined?The state of BTB Slayer before they were combined was already in complete decline.Horrible profanity,racial slurs that would make some racists blush,extremly bad homophobic comments,kids screaming at the tops of their lungs and so on.....This is why you would find most serious gamers in ranked BTB Skirm.I know that's where i spent a majority of my time,not because i didn't like playing BTB Slayer,it's because i just got sick of sitting in the pre game lobby and having an extreme headache once the game starts.Then having 3 or 4 people team kill and once again shout profanity at me and call me every name under the sun.Why waste my time right? So most nights would result in me just playing BTB Skirm or Team Skirm.

So then the news comes that both lists will be combined.Well the whole BTB community went up like a bar fight over the last beer.Everyone knew that this playlist would be watered down to the point where it is unplayable to the serious gamer.Well guess what Halo 2 fan,we all now know that this playlist has indeed become unplayable.Quitters,racists(kids and adults),brutal profanity,brutal homophobic comments,betrayers,cheaters and i could go on.My point being that yes all this stuff happened before but it is 10 fold now.As i said in a previous post the quality of gamer on Halo 2 has absolutly hit rock bottom.Now i ask what was done to prevent this.If Bungie denies they didn't know this was going to happen... well all i'll have to say is if your that slow on the uptake...how can you hold a job designing video games? You knew this inevitable.You have chucked the serious competitive and for the most part clean gamers to the wolves and said,"aw they'll stop whining about it after awhile". News flash boys....it ain't going away! and why not you ask? Have a look on these boards daily or for that matter any board about Halo 2 and you will see the same complaints everywhere.Good gamers who are serious about the BTB having to step into a filth pool every night and be told by 11 year old Tommy in suburban Columbus that he is going to have relations with our mothers and then have relations with our dead bodies,this will be followed up by some brutal racism and then screaming profanity.The game starts one of us gets a power weapon and he spends the next 3 mins trying to betray us cause he says he called it.SOMEONE TELL WHERE THE FUN IS IN ALL OF THIS?We will also have 3 other screaming kids on any team and 2 other guests.The guests run aroound with smgs either team killing or killing the dude sitting right beside them.My personal favourite is the game you enter and on your team is 4 guys all playing on the same tv.The tv is probably a 12 inch toshiba wich is 20 years old and they are playing quad screen.Lot's getting accomplished there.

Too finish this off folks BTB Slayer is now officially unplayable in 9 out of every 10 games.The lists should never have been combined.If we want to wait 20 mins to get a match in BTB Skirm i would gladly take that over the crap we have to endure now.

  • 06.07.2007 4:33 PM PDT
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Probably the only thing more annoying to people I play with is how badly I suck at this game. I just can't seem to make even minor improvements.

  • 06.07.2007 4:34 PM PDT
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If you want to see quitters, try playing BTB.
I love me some BTB, but when half of each team quits, it's NTB (normal team battle) on HUGE map.

God -blam!- quitters.

-edit-
after posting i saw that the guy up there ranted about BTB also.
good job.
i second that opinion.

[Edited on 06.07.2007 5:02 PM PDT]

  • 06.07.2007 4:54 PM PDT
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I agree, its very disappointing after waiting for the game to set up and everyone to join, to then have one or two of the people on a 4 person team quit. It's just a waste of time for everyone. And hurts people's hard earned ranking.

  • 06.07.2007 6:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: NoobWinegeek
Probably the only thing more annoying to people I play with is how badly I suck at this game. I just can't seem to make even minor improvements.

Just keep playing. You'll get better. I'm not very good myself but I've definitely gotten better during the few months that I've recently started playing regularly. But yeah, people who quit annoy me. I don't mind so much if someone quits on a slayer match because sometimes 2v4 isn't all that bad but when someone quits on a skirmish game, you're team is badly handicapped. I also don't mind if people on my team quit towards the very end when our team is guaranteed a loss.

[Edited on 06.07.2007 6:39 PM PDT]

  • 06.07.2007 6:37 PM PDT
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A perfect example. I get into an unranked BTB match of CTF. By the end of the game, EVERY one of my so-called teammates bails out. Half of 'em were gone by the midpoint of the game.

Bungie ought to make some kind of penalty for quitting during a game. Even in unranked games. Or Microsoft, whoever has the ability. People think they need to win every time and when they start losing, they punk out and quit.

I'd rather have a standybyer than a quitter. :-)

People are going to think I'm a real whiner. :-D

  • 06.08.2007 7:25 PM PDT

i hate quiters to but it happens people quit alot i even have people that quit when im winning so i just say -blam!- and go on


earlier i went into teamtraining with 8 people so no one would quit on either team and guess what every one quit exept for me and another one of my friends and his guest so we just messed around till the gane was over but its sucked that all my other friendsquit out cause they were being -blam!-s

  • 06.08.2007 8:26 PM PDT

I can't possibly be the first one to say this, so I'll just say it anyway: If you don't like quitters, play with a full party. If you don't like quitters on the other team, play customs with friends you know and trust.

  • 06.08.2007 9:56 PM PDT
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Posted by: xl OC Girl lx
I can't possibly be the first one to say this, so I'll just say it anyway: If you don't like quitters, play with a full party. If you don't like quitters on the other team, play customs with friends you know and trust.


Sounds like a simple explanation, doesn't it? Sometimes, and I know you know this, you can't ALWAYS get a full party. And to answer the question, I absolutely hate quitters. If you have a good enough team, you can always come back. I have came back from losing 49-37. Yes, my team got 13 kills to win the game before the other team could get 1.

  • 06.08.2007 10:05 PM PDT
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yes, i am very annoyed by quitters. they have caused me to drop 2-3 levels in rank and are making me very ticked off.(and making me face off against lower level players that i shouldn't even be playing)

  • 06.09.2007 12:16 AM PDT
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Of course, most of the people who take the game seriously enough to participate in forums are those who take it seriously enough to not be quitters. We're sort of preaching to the choir.

But wouldn't it be fun if Bungie could somehow put some kind of indication by a player's name of how often they quit? A little public shame might do a little good. :-)

  • 06.09.2007 4:33 AM PDT

lowl

I hate when all in ur team quits , u got no chanse 2 win

  • 06.09.2007 4:53 AM PDT
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To the OP and everyone else who agrees with him..........

I think you should all just accept that some people don't take a video game seriously enough to even care what happens in a MM game. If the quitter isn't having fun in a particular game then why can't he quit and start another ? its his / her choice and totally acceptable as they have paid good money to have fun online............Your whining only starts when you lose a game and your excuse in the lobby afterwards is that you were a man down !!! being a man down doesn't really make that much of a difference actually.

Welcome to the world of online gaming........................................and get over it.

Im pretty sure everyone has quitted at least once at sometime, so we are all guilty.

Oh, and if anyone would like to reply to this and state that for halo 3 there will be RP for quitting in games................I say so -blam!- ing what !!!! I play the game as its a hobby and fun, not a stupid -blam!- ing number or military rank.

Anyway if you aren't good enough and clever enough to change tactics and strategy in a game when 1 or 2 people down, then maybe you should write a post asking such questions for help instead of this continuous whining about quitters.

  • 06.09.2007 5:14 AM PDT

"because spartans cant wort wort wort anything"

Made me laugh so hard.

"But wouldn't it be fun if Bungie could somehow put some kind of indication by a player's name of how often they quit? A little public shame might do a little good. :-)"

That would be the answer. I think it is Japan that has billboards with pics of criminals. Very low crime rate there. On the other hand, sometimes you have to quit, like when someone on your tream starts cheating, I immediately bail. It all depends on much of the foolishness you can take.

[Edited on 06.09.2007 6:27 AM PDT]

  • 06.09.2007 6:24 AM PDT

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well, the problem is that some people quit immediately after the game starts, before the two teams even come into contact.
And its very difficult to win in skirmish or team slayer if its 2-4, simply because you cant realistically fight all of them off. one guy can guard their base, on can spawn kill at yours, and the other two can score. this almost always happens to me if two of my team quit.
And i think another problem is derankers who suicide and lose your team the game. I think there should be a boot option for someone who has more than 6 suicides. but only in MM.

  • 06.09.2007 6:39 AM PDT
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Posted by: soupcan
well, the problem is that some people quit immediately after the game starts, before the two teams even come into contact.
And its very difficult to win in skirmish or team slayer if its 2-4, simply because you cant realistically fight all of them off. one guy can guard their base, on can spawn kill at yours, and the other two can score. this almost always happens to me if two of my team quit.
And i think another problem is derankers who suicide and lose your team the game. I think there should be a boot option for someone who has more than 6 suicides. but only in MM.


Again, like i commented above.....................its his or her choice if they want to quit. Your mention of people quitting before a single shot has been fired is a good example of what i was saying. Certain maps are horrible and we all have at least 1 map in which we hate to the death, therefore they quit cos its just there horrible map. I for one would rather someone quit out on a map in which they knew they were going to be horrible at from the start, than have them staying, just for the sake of staying and getting wasted everytime......playing 3 v 4 with 3 decent players on your team is better than playing 4 v 4 with your bad player playing like he may aswell be deranking ??. for example, im just so bad at beaver creek........i really don't know why, just always seem to be bad on it. So i will quit and maybe the team would have a chance.

But seriously, i don't mind people quitting as i respect whatever reason they have for doing so. Its there gaming experience and its upto them what they choose to do. Like the Girl said above !, if you really, really feel that bad about people quitting, then get a party together from off your friends list.

  • 06.09.2007 6:49 AM PDT