Why Do So Many Gamers RageQuit All The Time?

Why do so many gamers instantly rage quit when they get killed, join a lobby that isn’t 90% full, or when they join a server that is SLIGHTLY different to how it should be?

A classic example of one of the most rage infested games in existance is Left4Dead 2. Why is it one of the hardest games to get a game in? I’ll explain below.

• Lobby creation - This is a whole new game. Left4Lobby is a great game until, after around 10 minutes, someone starts a game of Left4Dead. Random chit chat and a constant stream of ‘Bumfucker has joined’ ‘Bumfucker has left’ can provide hours of entertainment. On a non sarcastic level, people rage lobbies too much. If you don’t want to join a lobby, then stop using quick match and select a game in progress manually. By doing what you do, you ruin the game for others.
• Valves Official Dedicated Servers - These are run by Valve obviously, but the upkeep is incredibly poor. Although no mods are run on them, they are hosted on what appear to be overloaded machines, and on crap connections. Lets also note that the European ones are constantly down. So, when people do join a lobby, and the leader has opted to go to an official server, most people will ‘ragequit’ due to crap ping or lag due to server overloading.
• Best Available Dedicated - This means that the server will not use an official dedicated server. Instead it will find one that somebody has paid to run, or hosts themselves if your like me. The problem here is that they lobby leader could be the admin, or the admin may join mid game. There is also the case the admin may decide he wants the server and boot you all mid game. As a general rule, if someone doesn’t go in the other teams way, and the lobby leader is against them, they will cry admin and ragequit. Whether the person is admit or not is completely irrelivent. The other points are self explanitory.
• Modded Best Available Dedicated – 75% of the time, when the lobby joins a modded server, nearly half the players will say one of the following: ‘Noob Server’, ‘Shit modded’, ‘putain server’, ‘fuck this i’m leaving’. This could be from seeing a tank spawn with a weapon in its hand (cosmetic), the killer of a witch carries her as a trophy, or the server could simply have stats on it. Generally, people will rage quit.
• Losing a Game – Losing to the other team, this goes without saying, if you lose, you must leave the game immediately without reason. Maybe call cheats before quitting to encourage others to follow you. When this happens it is incredibly annoying. Often, when this does happen, others will follow, and you may as well go back to playing Left4Lobby for 10 minutes, rather than try and carry on.
• French People Rage More - French people ragequit for literally no reason at all. Sometimes saying ‘english please’ will cause them to spout angry french words at you and then ragequit the game. If you find yourself as an admin, and a french person joins your game, it is often better to kick them out and let someone from another country join. They will only end up leaving after 5 minutes anyway. French people generally only play with their own kind, so they can discuss the tastyness of frogs and how everyone else sucks compared to them.
• General Angryness – Sometimes, you don’t even need to do anything to cause people to rage. Just existing is enough. Sometimes, stealing a kill, or doing something they do not approve of is enough to cause a spam of abuse before they hit the quit button and destroy all things near them.
• Trolls – Sometimes, people will troll. It happens in all games, but Left4Dead does have a high amount of trolls. Join a game, spam voice commands, and often either team kill, or kill themselves. They will not leave until others ragequit or they get votekicked. Trolls often work in groups or with a friend due to the votekick ability. Having a friend on the team will ensure they can never be kicked.

The above can probably apply to most games that have some form of multiplayer versus component. In left4Dead, it just so happens to be that this component is the general basis of the game. It also happens to be why this game frustrates so many people. The majority of the community appear to be angry children or trolls, and sadly, valve have not really done anything to stop this. A recent block function was added, but this causes more harm than good, and is well documented on the Steam forums.

Perhaps if they ever make Left4Dead 3, we might see an improvement on the above. Its unlikely though, and there is very little you can do to counteract it.