Gaming Rage - What Type Are You

ARE YOU A RAGING GAMER? 25TYPES OF GAMER The FPSer What they play... CALLOF DUTY Cover me, l'm reloading! BATTLEFIELD HALO What makes them RAGE? • Poor party connection (there's always one) • Bullets that apparently don't count • Campers & the dreaded 'Assassin' perk The MMOer What they play.. Out of my way. nOOb! WORLD OF WARCRAFT STARCRAFT STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC What makes them RAGE ? > Hackers & stolen accounts • Messages regarding relations with their mother • People stealing the good stuff on raids The SIMer What they play... GRAN TURISMO Hey, don't cut me up! NEED FOR SPEED F1 What makes them RAGE ? • Dreaded last lap syndrome • Missing out on that precious 0.1 second • People who are losing & decide to take you out The LAD What they play... FIFA That was not offside!! PRO EVO FOOTBALL MANAGER What makes them RAGE ? • 'Slimy' passes and 'dirty' goals • Rewatching opponent's replays Outrageous penalties 5n The COMBATANT AKA "The Button Basher What they play.. TEKKEN Finish him! STREETFIGHTER MORTALKOMBAT What makes them RAGE ? • Button mashers • Choosing the wrong character • Impossible bosses The Rage Scale Gamer rage consumes us at a frightning pace. One minute you're simply raising an eyebrow at a questionable refereeing decision. The next, you're in a heap on the floor with your controller half way through your TV. Well that escalated quickly. DEFCON 1 WHAT THE..? REF!! DEFCON 2 ARE YOU SERIOUS?! WRITE OFF! DEFCON 3 ARRGGHHH! INCOMING! DEFCON 4 iiO\=v# Error DISCONNECTED! You have been disconected from the Call of Duty Black Ops II Servers DEFCON 5 [..] 90' GOAL NO NO NO!! 7 C. RONALDO COMMON CAUSES OF GAMER RAGE There are certain gameplays that provoke a particular sense of frustration, due to their regularity and your perceived lack of control over these situations. THE SQUARED GOAL Your opponent has a l-on-1 with the goalkeeper and instead of trying to score a respectable goal, they square it to an unmarked team mate for a tap-in. Disgraceful. GK FW FW LAG You get the kill Poor connection causes a delay between See the You fire first what you do and the action on screen, enemy meaning you don't realise you're being ARRGHH!!! You're dead. shot until it's too late. RIP soldier. CAMPERS An enemy hides out in one spot, employing no strategical movement, just waiting for the next victim to walk into his firing line. Clearly a skill-less tactic. Reasons why you lose when gaming And quite simply.. 1% LOSING When you consistently fail to achieve your goal, frustration and a sense of denial builds, YOUR OPPONENT IS 99% SIMPLY SUPERIOR whilst red mist descends. The result is an THE GAME HATES YOU explosion of rage and expletives, AND WANTS TO RUIN YOUR LIFE These statistics may not be entirely foctual Stats & Stories Gamer rage has overcome the best of us, temporarily transforming completely sane beings into red faced monsters. Here are just a few anecdotes from those that have succumbed to the crazy within. I knew someone who tore a PS1 controller in half when he lost on FIFA 189-0 is the world record loss on FIFA. Ouch. I was trying to finally beat "Through the Fire and Flames' on Guitar Hero expert, only to fail at 92%. I got ultra rage and swung the guitar into the screen, breaking both. Guitar Hero II was the first single video game to retail at more than $1 Billion I raged pretty hard at Halo, punched the screen and shattered it There have been over 5.2 Billion double kills in Halo 3 In a Football Manager induced rage, I launched myself at my wardrobe (which was clearly to blame), punching several holes in the door 44,000 Football Manager players playing at one time There are My brother in law was getting destroyed on COD so he threw his PS3 controller at the ground, only for it to bounce across the room and smash his brand new 3D TV 32, shots have been fired on Call of Duty games online (that's 32 OUADRILLIONI) Sources http://elite.callofduty.com/ops2/globalstats http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2259886/Boy-15-breaks-record-189-0-win-FIFA-ga mer-makes-83-000-playing-Call-Duty.html http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2012/04/02/eight-years-of-halo-by-the-numbers/ media