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This reminds me of someone I used to play with on Starcraft Broodwar. When victory when inevitable, he would always quit the game to give himself a loss. He con
by NetBeck 7y ago
This reminds me of someone I used to play with on Starcraft Broodwar. When victory when inevitable, he would always quit the game to give himself a loss. He considered it better to have mostly losses on his record so other players cannot gauge his skill level.
- anbende 7y agoOr so he could constantly play below his skill level as the matching system would think he was worse than he is. If he was doing that on ladder, that’s generally considered to be bad form.
- nosuchthing 7y agoIt was also because in the Battle.net chat rooms, your icon would have a higher number if you were ranked lower. So if you wanted to be rank 9999, you just forfeit all your ladder matches.
- rectang 7y agoThere's a term for this: "sandbagging". It happens across lots of rated competitive platforms, from pool to chess to Scrabble to stocks...
- edmundsauto 7y agoHaha I remember my dad teaching me this term during sports teams tryouts, the kinds where you would be drafted onto a team at the start of the year. I was a decent player, but definitely did not try my hardest during tryouts -- if I had, I would have been the worst "first pick", making my team bad. Game theory to 9 year olds?
- sizzle 7y agoWhen I used to play there was rampant abuse of the system by script kiddies who were using hacks to increase their latency to get auto-dropped from the game, which wouldn't count as a loss.