Why do people rage quit so much?

[EvaPilot1]

I get that my deck is a little bit annoying but I'm not exactly playing a meta deck. I swear about 1/3rd of the time when I win, the opponent uses 3 timeouts and then loses.

I mean, I get that I kill all your creatures, and I get that I make you discard, and I get that me winning often seems to come out of nowhere... but I'm playing black. If you don't expect black to destroy your creatures then I don't know what to say.

I've had people quit on turn 2 after I use a kill spell on turn one and a discard on turn two, and they just leave.

There's cards I hate too but I don't leave as soon as somebody plays authority of consuls on turn 1.

Edit: I'm not talking about conceding, I'm talking about turning the game off or walking away from the computer, so I have to sit through your timeouts.

[B-TTV]

Perchè è un gioco di merda, che non ha nulla a che fare con la realtà. E' pilotato dall'inizio alla fine.

Ecco come sono i match

Io vs avversario + computer.

Gioco adatto agli anziani col portafoglio largo e 0 skill

[The_Dybbuk_King]

Originally posted by Chad "The King" ThunderCuck:

Originally posted by EvaPilot1:

That's called assault, and you'd be more than kicked out.

and if i were stupid enough to stick around or give people there my real name, that might be an issue.

Originally posted by The_Dybbuk_King:

Lmao all i can think of is a guy named Chad doing this

https://youtu.be/mYuF3T7s7XY?si=b9KvlGtkWDoidIo1

that guy absolutely deserved the table flip, but thats a fake video by a channel who just does fake videos like that.

I am absolutely aware of how obnoxious this skit is made to make this person seem. I was comparing your alleged behavior to the video. And if you act like this, you deserve to be banned.

[Chad "The King" ThunderCuck]

oh i get that, but he was still in the right. that guy deserved to get decked over his nonsense.

[Winter Wolf]

@OP: It's human nature for the unsocialized or relatively immature human to regard the universe as their oyster and when the odds go against them, view it as a personal (enraging) insult.

I view this "disconnect against the evil deck player" or "rope until the last second" behavior as an opportunity to get a free win and do something else with my time until my response is needed. There is really no reason to read anything more into the situation than "oh hmmm, free win!"

Your empathy for them is understandable if you feel it, but unfortunately there is no direct way to express that to them. And likewise your approbation is completely irrelevant to them because to them you only exist as a member of "Them" (aka: the others, aka: the universe that done them wrong.) And again, there is no way to communicate it directly except through passive aggressive emotes (that they likely will never see because they closed the program as soon as they hit their rage quota.)

[swagen2167]

You know, today, I played against...

Some deck pumping out artifacts like mad

Some deck running "Nowhere To Hide" or run or whatever. All I know is everything I put out on the field was killed and all my cards were taken from me.

Some toxic deck that killed me without even attacking me and doing damage

Some deck with this stupid enchantment that every time I put out a creature, it comes in tapped and they gain 1 life.

Some green deck that had about 8 12/12s by turn 5

This is pretty much the norm of what I run into. That I get 5 or 6 wins a day is a miracle.

It is what it is. I do a lot of conceding.

[The_Dybbuk_King]

Originally posted by Chad "The King" ThunderCuck:

oh i get that, but he was still in the right. that guy deserved to get decked over his nonsense.

And that is why people have banned you from being in public places with others

[Chad "The King" ThunderCuck]

Originally posted by swagen2167:

You know, today, I played against...

Some deck pumping out artifacts like mad

Some deck running "Nowhere To Hide" or run or whatever. All I know is everything I put out on the field was killed and all my cards were taken from me.

Some toxic deck that killed me without even attacking me and doing damage

Some deck with this stupid enchantment that every time I put out a creature, it comes in tapped and they gain 1 life.

Some green deck that had about 8 12/12s by turn 5

This is pretty much the norm of what I run into. That I get 5 or 6 wins a day is a miracle.

It is what it is. I do a lot of conceding.

its funny, because i mostly run a deck like that, except using simulacrum synethesizers and brawlers, through ranked, and my experience is i have to play for a solid 4-6 hours just to finish my dailys, because nearly every match consists of me never getting my synthesizers, or the other guy having 20 damned "destroy/exile till this card die/exile artifact" cards that they pop out the second i drop a synthesizer. i have never once played against another artifact deck, or similar creature generating deck. but 4 hare apparents on turn 3? oh yeah, you better bet i get those.

[Winter Wolf]

Originally posted by Chad "The King" ThunderCuck:

Originally posted by swagen2167:

You know, today, I played against...

Some deck pumping out artifacts like mad

Some deck running "Nowhere To Hide" or run or whatever. All I know is everything I put out on the field was killed and all my cards were taken from me.

Some toxic deck that killed me without even attacking me and doing damage

Some deck with this stupid enchantment that every time I put out a creature, it comes in tapped and they gain 1 life.

Some green deck that had about 8 12/12s by turn 5

This is pretty much the norm of what I run into. That I get 5 or 6 wins a day is a miracle.

It is what it is. I do a lot of conceding.

its funny, because i mostly run a deck like that, except using simulacrum synethesizers and brawlers, through ranked, and my experience is i have to play for a solid 4-6 hours just to finish my dailys, because nearly every match consists of me never getting my synthesizers, or the other guy having 20 damned "destroy/exile till this card die/exile artifact" cards that they pop out the second i drop a synthesizer. i have never once played against another artifact deck, or similar creature generating deck. but 4 hare apparents on turn 3? oh yeah, you better bet i get those.

Synthesizer decks *are* one of the scourges of Standard Casual Play along side Mono Black (choose a sub-archetype), RDW (again choose a variety of sub-types) and Tokens of some variety. These archetypes are pushed compared to others because they have gotten a lot of attention from R&D without having a lot of balance thrown in.

WoTC's approach to fixing formats is typically ban/restrict until people stop complaining because with so many sets coming out a year and Standard for example lasting a full 3 years between rotations, there is very little they can do to balance it with printings.

This is kind of a no win situation for them if they even try to balance through design. People hate having their archetypes nerfed as much as they hate having their pricey cards banned. And no matter what kind of testing they do to future proof formats they can't predict how we will break things. And they aren't even considering non-tournament settings while designing cards anyway.

That said I think the quarterly (is it still quarterly?) ban/restricted announcements, I think WoTC could be more proactive on that end. And particularly BO1 could use some special consideration in terms of how fragile the formats are when there is no sideboarding.

That said, if your synthesizer deck is running into trouble it might need some tuning to deal with whatever is ailing it. Not getting the key components on time? Add tutors. Not getting enough land (3 should be plenty to start the game with)? Add land fetching or mana fixing or maybe just add more land. Getting wrecked by artifact removal? Run more counters. Or run other forms of protection (This town ain't big enough for example to save your main thing and bounce one of their attackers.)

If you are still losing with it maybe switch to a different deck.

[Shingen]

I understand why you say that but playing against decks that are too control-oriented is so frustrating that it's a completely predictable human reaction.

Good PvP game designers know that it's usually less about the win rate of a mechanic than the perception of the player facing it. If a mechanic generates too much frustration, it's a bad one.

In my opinion, this game would be much more popular with less frustrating mechanics.

[Hannah Barbara]

This forum isn't meant to serve as your diary btw.

[ʍolɟ ǝɥʇ ǝsɹǝʌǝɹ]

stop building unfair decks and people will play versus you.

[Corey Trevor]

Maybe they just are bored, I will quit if I see a deck I don't feel like playing. Not everyone wants to play the same decks all the time. Literally every deck I play with few exceptions is a copy pasta deck. You can only play a basic common uncommon life gain deck so many times in a row.

[Zlehtnoba]

Originally posted by Shingen:

I understand why you say that but playing against decks that are too control-oriented is so frustrating that it's a completely predictable human reaction.

Good PvP game designers know that it's usually less about the win rate of a mechanic than the perception of the player facing it. If a mechanic generates too much frustration, it's a bad one.

In my opinion, this game would be much more popular with less frustrating mechanics.

Players who rope instead of just conceding have no business playing Magic, they should go play Solitaire. Don't want to play against control? Sure, concede and move on. But trying to force their way of playing as the only one, and titling if they don't get their way, is childish. Or, as Winter Wolf said above, unsocialized and immature.

[Shingen]

Originally posted by Zlehtnoba:

Players who rope instead of just conceding have no business playing Magic, they should go play Solitaire. Don't want to play against control? Sure, concede and move on. But trying to force their way of playing as the only one, and titling if they don't get their way, is childish. Or, as Winter Wolf said above, unsocialized and immature.

As I said, this is human psychology. Don't expect a mature reaction if you force someone to deal with an extremely frustrating game plan. Complain about it is a waste of time. Deal with it or play something less frustrating with more creature.

[Frost]

Ropers are scum. That being said, I do understand why someone would rope when faced with a deck like this.

Personally I would just insta concede. My time is worth more to me than denying you a quick win.

Play a toxic deck, expect toxic games.