Are you one of those guys who enter internet games only to leave when you find yourself losing? You are? Well fuck you, because the rest of the gaming populace out there hates it. You ruin everyone’s good time by making it impossible to enjoy a victory. At best you are replaced by someone else but at worst you totally ruin the entire experience for anyone involved. Unfortunately, there is nothing we were able to do about you except for bitching over the microphone … until now!!!

The guys over at Bungie, you know the Halo team, are going to make sure that rage-quitters won’t get the last laugh anymore. Brian Jarrard, Halo’s community director sat with Xbox 360 Achievements today in order to make it absolutely clear that rage-quitting breaks the rules, and the Halo team is going to do something about that:

“I think one of the new things people will be excited about too, is how we’re going to be able to penalise people who are habitually quitting out of games, which isn’t exactly cheating, but it creates a really negative experience for everybody else in the game,” explained Jarrard. “We actually have new tools now to detect that and eventually, people who do this habitually will actually be penalized,” he continued, “We want to be able to remove them from the population so they can’t make everyone else keep having a bad time.”

Yes, you heard him, he said, “remove them from the population”, He is basically looking for ways to totally excise rage-quitters from online play. What a champion!!!

There are no details as to how this might work, but one would suspect that Halo: Reach will track how many times you leave immediately following a loss. With vigilant community managers they could easily make sure that only habitual rage-quitters are targeted.

Fan reactions to this announcement have been mixed. Some say it is too extreme while others welcome the change. What do you think? Is this a needed step in the right direction for online community management, or is rage-quitting a right that frustrated gamers everywhere have?

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