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why do people give up so easily

epic dude2611··1 votes·1,891 views

I want to know why people give up so easily in games. I do not see how in any way it is acceptable for a person to give up and ruin the experience of 4 other people, please can someone give me an argument why people do this, and maybe my opinion will change.

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MyAccountStolen12 votes

is the person "giving up" 5-0 at 15 minutes and the team score is 6-22. or is it 3 minutes into the game and the guy giving up is 0-1? Big difference.

Míellá2 votes

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is the person "giving up" 5-0 at 15 minutes and the team score is 6-22. or is it 3 minutes into the game and the guy giving up is 0-1? Big difference.

not actually if the person that is 5/0 is playing a hypercarry and the other carries and to much behind, Honestly the game is always winnable until the enemies have destroyed the nexus.

If that's not the case, then the game is lost when:

The team score is 3-6/26 at min 10 One is inting. One gave up completly and opens. 2-3 people giving up.

MyAccountStolen11 votes

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not actually if the person that is 5/0 is playing a hypercarry and the other carries and to much behind, Honestly the game is always winnable until the enemies have destroyed the nexus.

If that's not the case, then the game is lost when:

The team score is 3-6/26 at min 10 One is inting. One gave up completly and opens. 2-3 people giving up.

I mean you arent totally wrong..... but it depends on many things like the ELO of the game, what champs are fed, and how severely deficient are your teammates.

But just because a game might be winnable in extremely rare instances (like two of them DCing at the same time), doesnt mean anyone should hold their teammates hostage so that they can chase that fantasy of a miracle turnaround. Its bad enough they feed and make the game impossible to win, but also troll again by denying surrender votes.

The other day someone jokingly suggested adding "delusional teammate wont surrender" as a report option. Obviously, this wont work, but I personally would love it. Unfortunately for me, I can't get people banned for the things I dislike, much like you can't do anything about people thinking the game is over and wanting to go to the next game.

redniwediS1 votes

Depends on what you mean by giving up. If you're talking about people who think the game is unwinnable or is just no longer fun, so they stop trying and just let the enemy team win, then yes that's just bad and I think is already reportable.

If you're just talking about people surrendering, in which case it's a majority of the team who has to be ready to end the game, it's fine and should not be reportable. There are times where I just want out of the game, and I'll even start a surrender vote sometimes, but if it fails I'll keep playing and trying to the best of my ability. Surrendering is perfectly fine, it's the other stuff people do when they don't get their way that is a problem.

HonorIsNtheHeart1 votes

Much easier to ff a 0/40 game then slowly grind to an inevitable lose. Picture my solo que game if you will. Support doesnt by a sightstone. No one else but me buys wards. No vision. Playing without vision/information is rough. Bot lane has both died 8 times in 10 mins, have 30 cs, spam pinging for help and flaming the team. Top laner gets behind and says if we dont ff at 15 he is going to troll/afk. They have a scaling comp vayne 16/1. Nasus 6/0. Telling me you would not ff? Ive won a 3v5 on the rift before while it was rewarding it was mentally taxing. I dont play for wins i dont play for kills, i play for fun. And getting my butt stomped can some times be a learning experience So the enemy scales better and stomped early game; id rather ff and start another game than spend 40 more mins trying to win with a team that i can only communicate with pings and text. (P.s. the vayne actually said in all chat "hey team lets not win, i want to make a penta montage lol"

:)

You are also excluding people that have 'lives' outside of league. For instance if i get called into work im going to try to offer a surrender rather than afk. What if some one has a baby that starts to cry or they have any emergency.

Food for thought my friend.

Kei1431 votes

People already get punished for consistently giving up (not just surrendering) and having negative attitude.

Anastaecia1 votes

Simple. The game doesn't do a good job at explaining any of this (hell, the tutorial doesn't really do a good job at explaining the basic game).

When you are a new player and constantly see people going off for half a dozen kills early and snowballing, while you are just trying to stay under 10 deaths, how do you think it looks? Only when you see actual comebacks do you understand it's possible, but since you probably aren't contributing to said come-back (because you don't know how, you don't know it's possible, etc), then you probably WONT come back, so you never seen them to believe them.

Goldilux1 votes

if you mean someone gives up and then just afks or ints then yes but that's only because they afked or inted. if they still keep trying even though theyre demoralized in chat, it only means their spirit is broken but they havent fully given up.

KVbqbFsC8e1 votes

Time is money. Sometimes its best to realize a game is over instead of dragging it out for another 15 minutes.

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