History Main / AntiRageQuitting

* If you quit an online match in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', [[YourHeadAsplode your character's head explodes]] and your opponent wins with a "Quitality" (as pictured above).

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU'' has rules that can disqualify you from playing online such as targeting a single player, idling, and disconnecting during a match. Players are banned for a minimum of 10 minutes and can go higher.
** ''Ultimate'' kicks players automatically for repeatedly self-destructing (falling off the stage on purpose) during matches.

** The games make it hard to "rage quit" to begin with, as the game doesn't let you exit during a Turf War or Ranked Battle fight, meaning that the only way to quit a match is to manually close the software or turn off the console. Disconnecting from a match will result in a penalty that depends on the mode that was being played: points will be deducted from the player's rank meter in a Ranked Battle, the player's pay grade will be cut by 5% in Salmon Run, and the player won't receive any of the cash or experience that they would have earned from the battle.

** In ''Splatoon 3'', if a player disconnects early enough in a match, the match instantly ends in a No Contest and only the disconnecting player suffers a loss. This highly discourages players from ragequitting as soon as the match starts and prevents their would-be colleagues from playing at a handicap.

* ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' makes no bones that ragequitting is for chumps.

** The games make it hard to "rage quit" to begin with, as the game doesn't let you exit during Turf Wars or Ranked Battle, meaning that the only way to quit an online match is to manually close the software or turn off the console. Disconnecting from a match will result in a penalty that depends on the mode that was being played: points will be deducted from the player's rank meter in a Ranked Battle, the player's pay grade will be cut by 5% in Salmon Run, and the player won't receive any of the cash or experience that they would have earned from the battle.

* ''Series/{{Survivor}}'': After two players quit at the same time in ''Nicaragua'', a rule was introduced that considers quitting a violation of the players' contract, and allows the producers to withhold their consolation prize, and if applicable, their spot on the jury.[[note]]This may be waived if the producers feel the quitter had a valid reason for doing so, such as an injury serious enough to demand treatment, but not life-threatening to necessaritate a medical evacuation.[[/note]]

See also AntiGrinding, AntiPoopSocking, and VideoGameCrueltyPunishment for other ways in which developers discourage unwanted behavior.

* [[https://boardgamearena.com/ Board Game Arena]]: If someone abandons a game, the remaining player(s) can kick them out. This gets them a harsher Elo penalty than if they had played it out in addition to a reputation penalty. Additionally, if it's a 2-player game, a hopelessly losing player is allowed to concede a game

* [[https://boardgamearena.com/ Board Game Arena]]: If someone abandons a game, the remaining player(s) can kick them out. This gets them a harsher Elo penalty than if they had played it out in addition to a reputation penalty.

* Combined with ObviousRulePatch: Rage-quitting was incredibly rampant in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' and ''Black 2 and White 2''. In response, ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' has a mechanic where anyone with excessive amounts of disconnects will be blocked from playing online for a short amount of time. If they're playing a rating battle, the ranking will also drop significantly. These people will also be ineligible to play online competitions, or if they disconnect too much during one, they are disqualified--considering rare Pokémon and Pokémon with unique abilities are given out merely for participating in them, that's quite the incentive to keep on playing. It doesn't stop people from rage-quitting left and right, but there's a lot less of it than there was before. This approach was taken up a notch in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' with the competitively lucrative Mega Stones, unobtainable through normal circumstances, given out as participation prizes for the online competitions. Though they're given out to everyone at a later date, rage-quitters will have to wait several months before they can obtain them.

* Every ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' game from ''Mario Kart Wii'' onward has a number-based rank system for multiplayer racing. This rank number increases with good performances in races and decreases with bad performances. However, anyone who disconnects mid-race will suffer a severe drop in points, far more so than if they placed last. For instance, in ''Mario Kart 8'', you begin with 1000 rank points. Coming in last place is a drop of no more than fifty points, and that's only if you came in last place while ranked drastically higher than everyone else in the race. Quitting mid-race is a drop of one hundred points at a minimum, and it can go higher if you keep quitting.

* All ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' games from ''Mario Kart Wii'' onward have a number-based rank system for multiplayer racing. This rank number increases with good performances in races and decreases with bad performances. However, anyone who disconnects mid-race will suffer a severe drop in points, far more so than if they placed last. For instance, in ''Mario Kart 8'', you begin with 1000 rank points. Coming in last place is a drop of no more than -50 points, and that's only if you came in last while ranked drastically higher than everyone else in the room. Quitting mid-race, meanwhile, is a drop of -100 points at minimum.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonGO'''s online PVP takes a simple approach. Rage-quiting simply counts as a loss for the quitter and a win for their opponent.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Mahjong}} Soul'' has a very harsh rank point penalty for coming in last place. Why is this an example of this trope? Because rather than make disconnectors leave the game entirely, the game will instead automate the missing player's actions, making them discard every tile they draw; this is to give the player a chance to come back, but without holding up the game for everyone else. A player who becomes a "discard everything they draw" automaton is extremely unlikely earn any more points[[note]]because they cannot call tiles to win hands; there is a chance that they still can if their existing hand is ''tenpai'' (one tile from a complete hand) and the round goes into exhaustive draw in which everyone in ''tenpai'' splits a 3,000-point reward taken from non-''tenpai'' players (unless ''everyone'' is in ''tenpai'' or no-''tenpai'', in which case no exchange of points occurs) but it is extremely unlikely[[/note]] and will likely bleed points since their freshly-drawn-and-discarded tiles (possibly making the game end early due to negative score) will be ripe pickings for the remaining players. That said, the penalty applies all the same to last-place players who have the sportsmanship to finish the game, creating a MortonsFork for players who may not have any chance of bouncing back into a higher standing.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Mahjong}} Soul'' has a very harsh penalty for coming in last place. Why is this an example of this trope? Because rather than make disconnectors leave the game entirely, the game will instead automate the missing player's actions, making them discard every tile they draw; this is to give the player a chance to come back, but without holding up the game for everyone else. A player who becomes a "discard everything they draw" automaton is extremely unlikely earn any more points[[note]]because they cannot call tiles to win hands; there is a chance that they still can if their existing hand is ''tenpai'' (one tile from a complete hand) and the round goes into exhaustive draw in which everyone in ''tenpai'' splits a 3,000-point reward taken from non-''tenpai'' players (unless ''everyone'' is in ''tenpai'' or no-''tenpai'', in which case no exchange of points occurs) but it is extremely unlikely[[/note]] and will likely bleed points since their freshly-drawn-and-discarded tiles (possibly making the game end early due to negative score) will be ripe pickings for the remaining players.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', leaving in the middle of a dungeon or a raid or withdrawing from the queue three times in a row locks you out from the duty finder for thirty minutes. Both penalties are to discourage people from bailing, and to get people to stop signing up for duties they aren't ready for. The withdrawing penalty was introduced primarily to punish tanks (and to a lesser extent healers) who had basically instant queues due to imbalances between the number of tank/healers and DPS. The Duty Finder would tell how many bosses were killed, and tanks would try to find groups that were on the final boss but had their tank bail rather than fresh groups in order to get a quick clear and be rewarded with their currency without doing the whole dungeon.

!!Examples

* If you quit a ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' online match, [[YourHeadAsplode your character's head explodes]] and your opponent wins with a "Quitality." ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'', meanwhile, either has the quitter {{impaled|WithExtremePrejudice}} or has [[LudicrousGibs their entire body]] explode.

* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfCrestoria'', if you force quit the game at any time during an Arena match, it counts as a loss and you lose the Arena Ticket expended to try the match; you only recover an Arena Ticket every two hours. In addition, staying until the end of the match (even if you lose) has the match count towards Battle Pass rewards; forfeiting or quitting mid-match earns nothing at all. Finally, in order to maintain your battle rank from week to week, you have to fight in the Arena at least forty times and have a win rate of at least seventy percent. Doing both keeps your rank in tact, doing only one of the two causes you to drop one rank at the end of the week, and doing neither drops you by two ranks. Since quitting mid-match counts as a loss, quitting too frequently means that your win rate, and therefore your rank, will suffer if you quit too often.

* '''Punishing players for leaving early.''' A common form of this is having a withdrawal count as a loss on the quitter's record, but no one else's. Repeated quits may result in further actions, such as suspending the player's online privileges temporarily. In the case of particularly egregious offenders, these bans may end up permanent. However, this also punishes players who disconnect for other reasons (such as a power outage, loss of internet connection, or just having to do something else), as well as players who have to leave for rational reasons (such as a [[BladderOfSteel desperately-needed bathroom break]], someone telling them to stop playing, or a life-threatening medical emergency).

* All ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' games from ''Mario Kart Wii'' onward have a number-based rank system for multiplayer racing. This rank 0number increases with good performances in races and decreases with bad performances. However, anyone who disconnects mid-race will suffer a severe drop in points, fare more so than if they placed last. For instance, in ''Mario Kart 8'', you begin with 1000 rank points. Coming in last place is a drop of no more than -50 points, and that's only if you came in last while ranked drastically higher than everyone else in the room. Quitting mid-race, meanwhile, is a drop of -100 points at a minimum.

* All ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' games from ''Mario Kart Wii'' onwards have a number-based rank system, which increases with good performances in a race and decreases with bad performances. However, anyone who disconnects mid-race will suffer a severe drop, more so than if they placed last. For instance, any time you see someone in ''Mario Kart 8'' placed at the bottom with a loss of 100 points or more, that's certainly a disconnect. (For scale, in ''Mario Kart 8'', you begin with a rank of 1000. Placing last is usually no more than -50 points, and that's if you're ranked drastically higher than everyone else in the room.)