Breakfast Topic: Share your ragequit moments
by Josh Rose 
Oct 28th 2010 at 8:00AM
Online gaming allows people the anonymity to be jerks if they want to and not face many actual consequences, whether it is trolling, ninjaing a piece of loot, rage-quitting a group because of a single wipe, or getting into a shouting match over Vent. Sometimes we carry real-life events in game with us. We have a bad day at work or break up with a girlfriend or worse, and we are unable to suffer noobs lightly. Sometimes we're rude, telling the guy doing terrible DPS he is bad and removing him from the group, as opposed to trying to help him; sometimes it is far worse.
Back in The Burning Crusade, I was in a raiding guild I particularly liked. Good progression, mostly decent people, raid times that fit my schedule well at the time -- I thought all was good. However, there was on officer who I just did not get along with. So one Saturday, she was forming a ZG raid and asked me if I wanted to go. I said no, I was dealing with something in real life and was about to log. I didn't go into details, but we had a death in the family, and I just wasn't able to really concentrate on tanking at the time. I logged off.
So a couple of hours later, I logged back on an alt and noticed they were still in ZG, so I asked what's up and how many chests they got. The officer went on a rant, just berating me endlessly, taking out their bad raid on me. I gquit on the spot -- all of my characters. Other officers talked to me later and asked me what happened, and I told them ... but I just could not go back after that.
While I am currently in a guild that suits me better, I still wish I had left the previous guild on better terms. So have you done anything in a fit of rage you truly regret, something you actually felt guilty about afterwards?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 8)
Ghangy Oct 28th 2010 8:05AM
Only patch days have the ability to get me to rage quit the game lol
Daniel Oct 28th 2010 8:06AM
I was doing some old Sun well with a pug and we got up to the end where the legendary bow drooped, being the only hunter I salivated.. then the raid leader brought in a friend who was a hunter and gave them the bow when it dropped XD
Orrine Oct 28th 2010 8:14AM
And how exactly do you feel guilty about it? :)
Obsidian Oct 28th 2010 9:49AM
How did that happen, exactly? Unless I'm missing something here if that person was not in the raid to begin with, or at least that Toon when the boss was dropped they would not have been able to receive that loot.
Jen Oct 28th 2010 10:29AM
I think s/he means that the RL brought in a hunter right before that boss, then the bow dropped and new hunter got it.
Daniel Oct 28th 2010 10:30AM
Ah forgot to mention that he was brought in before we engaged the final boss.. still thinking bout it makes me angry enough not to think clear
Obsidian Oct 28th 2010 11:18AM
Oh, that is understandable, at least provided the Raid Leader did not say the bow was reserved before you started. As described its a dickbag move.
joel Oct 28th 2010 1:06PM
you should of /report the RL and his buddy
Mitawa Oct 28th 2010 8:08AM
Edit ZG to ZA. :)
Too many troll "Z" instances. O_o
Josin Oct 28th 2010 8:11AM
Too many troll instances, period.
Wolftech Oct 28th 2010 8:14AM
Well, there is about to be one less :)
Rob Oct 28th 2010 8:10AM
I'm about to ragequit this job, does that count?
exogenesis. Oct 28th 2010 9:43AM
I know that feeling very, very well. I want to ragequit my job due to bad pay and being treated like crap, and colleagues giving me dirty looks simply because I'm on medical leave right now.
If only finding a new job first was easier, eh?
Copey Oct 31st 2010 8:43PM
Two best times in every job:
1. Right when you get hired to that brand new sparkling opportunity that will change your life for the better…
2. When you quit your soul crushing, life ruining, terrible hate filled job.
These are often the same job by the way.
Josin Oct 28th 2010 8:10AM
Awesome picture at the top. I remember trying to do a photoshoot for work with a similar premise. We quickly discovered that monitor glass is pretty solid stuff. Had to use a sledge to get through it, then put the keyboard inside.
I've had several ragequit moments, mostly surrounding a group of former guildies who left, then returned for several months, then left to form a raiding guild, luring away 2/3 of the guild with promises of epic loot. (Including the same people whose raiding commitments they complained about during our runs... weird.)
rich.krzem Oct 28th 2010 8:18AM
Back in Vanilla while raiding with my guild in BWL, we had a new hunter who was a friend of an officer. Now this guild did DKP raids back then, so we all had a set amount of points depending on how many raids we make.
So short an sweet 2 pieces of Dragonstalker armor had dropped and the first one went to the friend of the officer, and the next piece did to. I asked why but was not given a reason. I made a statement in raid chat as to why I was ignored on the gear being given to a brand new raider, and got a whisper from the officer telling me to shut up and dps the trash we were killing. So I sat in my chair turning red and then gquit and left the instance.
Hasmunchies Oct 28th 2010 7:39PM
I absolutely understand and have had the same thing happen to me before. Except it concerned an Eye of Sulfuras (needed to make the legendary mace). I had been a warrior with the guild for a good while and a guildie brought in a friend. The guild was ran by a couple of IRL friends and worked fairly well. Apparently, the new guy was using and ebay account to raid that night. We had MC down pretty well so a dps wouldn't matter too bad. Long story short. We down Rag. Celebration. THE Eye drops. THE Eye is given to the new friend. (Story was that they had gotten him the account so he would play with them and they wanted to give him that so that he might stay... he didn't. First and last time I saw him was that night.)
EaterOfBirds Oct 28th 2010 8:21AM
a few of mine are in battlegrounds and start with me saying #@~%$£&# ROGUES ZOMG...
i play warlock ^ ^
sullyXXX Oct 28th 2010 9:14AM
As a fellow warlock, I totally sympathize with you.
ilovecookies Oct 28th 2010 9:16AM
I feel you mon...