With how much the gaming industry has adv⛦anced in the past generation, we are now blessed with the opportunity to play all sorts of games with people from all over the world. Whether they are fighting games, first-person shooter games, or party games, there are nearly endless ways to play.
However, with the addition of online play come some caveats. The big one is that there are many people who are better than you at certain games. This leads to many people getting bodied within seconds, and many get so frustrated that they just quit the game on the spot. "Rage quitting" has become a common theme among many popular online games (and some local♔ ones as well). Because of this, many developers issue penalties for people who rage quit, as it dampens the experience for other people in the process.
Get your 🍷☂tempers in check, then, because we're looking at 15 games that punish you for rage quitting.
15 Halo
One of the first games to bring online play to the masses, the Halo ser꧒ies has always prided itself on their varied modes and top notch gameplay. Because the series functions around this style, you'll naturally have some people who leave because they're upset or aren't doing well.
More often than not, the result for this is that you'll be temporarily banned from the matchmaking. In Halo 5: Guardians, the penalty became a little more intricate. Quitting in the middle of a match is just one of the misbehaviors that can be reported. As you continue doing it, you will be banned from matchmaking appropriately. If you continue, y💮ou could get an extremely long ban 𝓡at anywhere from a full day to an entire week. Best if you try to keep your nose clean then.
14 Super Smash Bros. (Wii U)
While Super Smash Bros. Brawl had a lot to learn in terms of how it handled online play, Super Smash Bros. for Wii U had worked out mostဣ of the kinks. Among them was a penalty for people who decided to shut off their game in frustration or leave because they were upset.
The next time you go to boot up the game, you'll receive a notification that you can't play online for 10 minutes. However, you can't just shut off the Wii U and do something else for those f♓ew minutes. The game has to be running in that time for you to be allowed to go back in. The only sad part about this is that the penalty is active if you accidentally disconnect (but that is una෴voidable for a lot of games).
13 Street Fighter V
Rage quitting is a serious problem for some games, and Street Fighter V is one of them. Due to the nature of the mechanics, some people will learn the combos in and out while others are left behind in the dust. This leads many to get utterly creamed before t🐎hey even k𒐪now what hit them. More bodying means more rage quitters.
Ever since the game released, there has been a big problem with these kinds of people. Because of this, Capcom took extreme measures to make sure that it wouldn't happen as much. Any person who rage quits will be banned from online matchmaking (around 24 hours for a few infractions), will lose 1,000 League Points, and will be branded with a special symbol to let all other players know that they're fighting a rage quitter. It turns out the most powerful punch in Street Fighter V doesn't come from any of the characters.
12 Mortal Kombat X
NetherRealm doesn't take rage quitting to the extremes of Capcom, but they do recognize that it's a problem. Instea𝔍d of banning you or taking away your points, they decided to go with a much more subtle appr꧋oach.
Most people that play fighting games online value their ratings. When their name shows up, they at least want a good win to loss ratio so that people don't think they're a scrub. Mortal Kombat X uses this desire to fuel their rage quit penalty. If at any 🌃time during a match you decide to leave, then your head immediately explodes and the win is given to your opponent. As you can imagine, your loss numbers will increase while everyone else gets a win. And there's nothing more painful in a fighting game than handing the match to your opponent.
11 For Honor
For Honor is one of the more recent bꦑrawler 𝄹games. You take the role of a historical soldier and you fight other types of warriors in a match to the death. As you can imagine, this can lead to some very one-sided fights where the person getting the short end of the stick will want to do nothing but leave the match.
While it didn't have a rage quit penalty at first, For Honor now implements a somewhat fair system to prevent it from happening. If someone tries to quit an online match, they will receive a warning that they will be banned from matchma🍌king for 10 minutes. If they go through with it, then they get the ban. If they're the leader of a group, then everyone in that group is subject to the ban (a little unfair, if you ask me). However, to prevent people with bad connectio🍬ns getting banned, there is 30-second grace period at the start of each match.
10 Splatoon 2
Nintendo has more recently been constructing games that lend themselves better to online play, and their upcoming title (at the time of writing this piece) is Splatoon 2 for the Switch. Being a direct sequel to the Wii U game, Splatoon 2 will build upon the onli🅘ne formula of its predecessor. However, this means that Nintendo will be putting a rage quit penalty in place, something that wasn't present in the original game.
If you leave or disconnect, you will receive an expertly-worded mes🐽sage about how that was suspicious activity. If you leave again, then you will be banned from the online play for the game (as the message tells you). No details have yet been given as to how long the ban lasts or if it will increase as you continue rage quitting. I'd go out on a limb and say it would be better to avoid disconnecting, though.
9 Smite
Hi-Rez's online MOBA is so intense that it requires everyone working together at all times. Unfortunately, if someone leaves, the other team is instantly given an advantage... one that almost guarantees an easy victory. Because of this, the team in charge of Smite has some pretty hefty deserter penalties in place to ensure✃ that it doesn't occur frequently.
If you leave during a game and it finishes without you returning (you can return if you disconnect), then you are instantly hit with a 30-minute deserter penalty. If you drop out when people are selecting gods or readying for the match, then you get hit with a 2-minute penalty on the spot. Smite is a s🍷erious game that necessitates everyone on the tജeam be working together. If one person leaves, all balance goes out the window.
8 Pokkén Tournament
Pokkén Tournament was a collaboration between Nintendo and Nam🐭co to take popular Pokémon and put them in a fighting arena. As you can imagine, the game thrives on the online community, where people know how to capitalize on their specific characte🍒rs and earning more wins for themselves.
As such, there is a rage quit penalty in place, although it's not as bad as you might think. If you leave an online match of Pokkén Tournament, then you the match will automatically be counted as a loss and you'll be short of 200,000 coins. However, before you start losing your mind, understand that it's easy to make tha𓃲t money back, and they're only used for buying outfits for your trainer. It's not like they hold massive significance anyꦑway.
7 Overwatch
With a massive game like Overwatch, there's no doubt that people will be leaving matches for various reasons. As such, Blizzard fe🎶lt that it was important to put a rage quit system in place to prevent this. However, it's not quite as simple as banning people from the matchmaking. As a 💞matter of fact, it's a bit more crippling.
Overwatch prides itself on progression. You gain more experience to unlock more items for your characters and get more poꦺints to spend. If you continuously leave in the middle of a match, then you will receive a brutal penalty on how much experience you gain. You will end up receiving 75% less experience if you continue to leave while in an online game. The only way to resolve this is to have a better ratio of completed games, which could take a while depending how far gone you are.
6 League Of Legends
League of Legends is another big MOBA that requires people working on the same team in order to claim victory. If one person isn't pulling their weight, the whole game could come crashing down. Because of tওhis, the people in charge of this game created their own aut𝔍omated system to crack down on players who were abandoning games.
Titled "Leaverbuster", this system will activate if you leave in the middle of a game. Your first infraction will grant you a 6-minute ban on online play. If you do it again, you will receive a 15-minute ban. Furthermore, if the game was ranked, then yo💃u will lose 3 League Points for the first and 10 League Points for every infraction after that. Overall, it's a solid method to discourage players from leaving their teams.