Your mother should have swallowed!
Posted by: METALIAN
I agree with you on all this. I lost my temper a bit like most of the other folks. My only intent was to vent about the subject and suggest going custom if you want to goof off.
Ok, duuuuuuude. #1, you're not the God of Halo, so having everyone play a private game to betray each other because you don't like it when they do it to you isn't going to really work. Venting about it is one thing, but then attacking other people for having their own opinions about you and those people is just dumb. Yes, that means I think you're dumb, and that's my rightfully entitled opinion.
If you didn't want people to post negatively to your post, maybe you should have just wrote in something like, I don't know... notepad, or something, so that they wouldn't make you even more angry because the world doesn't agree with you.
Goofing off is fine, but understand that not everyone has a bunch of friends they can do that with whenever they feel like it.... Now, granted, perhaps that's why there's unranked games... but it doesn't mean everyone wants to play a Rumble Pit or SWAT game, or even a BTB.
I agree with you however, having people quit because they don't like the map or gametype really does suck. Maybe even if they quit when your team is losing, yeah that sucks too... but it happens. De-ranking isn't any fun. Myself as I believe a 13, or something like that... have had plenty of experiences with quitters.
I sometimes get frustrated and quit myself, but I sometimes just take it as an extra challenge. I think anyone can pull off a 1v4, and even a 2v4 if their team members are good enough. It's fun to do that, it gives the game a little something extra. Having you get pissed and literally curse the -blam!- out of everyone for not agreeing with you is like having to try to fight off a bee swarm with no arms or legs. IT SUCKS.
I used to have dreams of reaching level 50, or even level 20. I haven't ever, and I'll gladly admit that... but after I found out that around 30 or so people start using Superjumps or only caring about being host, I lost interest. It's a game, and winning isn't everything. enjoying yourself is. Getting so pissed about losing and having people quit on you, just get over it, get past it, and move on please.
I'd rather play a game where people were there to have a good time, and if they lost, whatever, and if they won, hooray. Having a perfect group like that doesn't always happen, but not everyone is there to just "play the game for ranks" such as yourself.
K thanks.
Oh and btw, like the guy above me stated... if you can't play online with ranks, make your freaking own. Play with YOUR friends, who will choose to either play the game or goof around. I've done that myself, and became the unbeatable one out of all my friends, in LAN matches and everything. I didn't even have LIVE then, so ti was good to know that I was the one to beat. Rank yourself with your friends, that way it's fair, and fun at the same time.
Unless of course, you are always like you are on this post, cursing everyone and... well... not having any friends....................then....that might be a problem......
[Edited on 08.09.2007 1:19 AM PDT]