Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies Heroes/@comment-25546049-20160919170539/@comment-5939269-20160923112321

Strimes49 wrote: Thinklogic wrote: Strimes49 wrote: IG Gaming + Maramok= Awesome wrote: Strimes49 wrote: Thinklogic wrote: Strimes49 wrote: This cringe. I'll let you figure out wat happened.

This battle lasted a pretty long time before I lost connection and lost. Screw off Popcap it's not my fault I have bad connection. Why are you deducting me stars?! To be fair, if there was no penalty for disconnecting you could just disable your own wifi when you're losing so you could "lose connection" to avoid losing stars for the match

But that's just wrong. People should play the game the proper way and not get so freakin triggered when they lose and ragequit. This is a fun game where you're gonna lose no matter what. If you were the very best that no one ever was, wouldn't you get bored of beating everyone? That's why there's so much variety in this game, where you don't know what kind of deck you might end up facing against. And that's why you can't catch all the pokemon. Being a sore loser and conceding defeats the purpose of this game in a way. It's all about trial and error, and it's ok to make a few errors every now and then. Some people should know better, and having a lost connection deducting stars isn't helping them learn, and for me, it's just not fair. They'll still do it. In fact, there shouldn't be an option to concede in the fisrt place, but if it's gonna stay, there should be a punishment for leaving mid-game. I agree! I have to leave waay more then anybody else! When you leave, do you usually come back to find out the opponent conceded on you? That's another thing. Most people think that a lost connection from their opponent means they're gone for good. I think there should be a better message than just plainly "opponent disconnected". That's not telling anyone anything. That's partially Popcap's fault, and the players fault for not figuring out that the opponent could come back. The least they could do is be polite and have some patience. ...well... ok i'm a bit of a hypoocrite on the patience part, but that's because I don't always have time to wait, and I don't actually know if my opponent is gonna come back.

In a ranked match though, when it says "opponent disconnected" most would immedietly press "close" so it ends the game and gives them a win, rather than wait for the opponent to return and risk losing But like I said, it's not the proper way to play. A good player would win the legit way and not do everything in their power to make sure they win every battle they can. Your job defined as a player is to try to win. This means that outside of the bounds of the game, which we would call cheating, your job is to win in any way possible. A good player would abuse any system not defined as cheating to win, as painful as it sounds. A good player would not take a victory handed to them on a silver platter, and then refuse the victory so that "it would be more fair".

Outside of gaming, players get well known for winning. You don't hear about a ton of famous players of games that lose a lot of the time, and that is for the simple reason that being a good player means winning as much as possible.

As sad as it is, if your opponent times out, it is also part of "the legit way" to win by pressing close.