Guild Wars 2

This is a disturbing trend. Please stop doing this when you go into a down state or right before a down state and take your death like a pro.

Dude,
If everyone who uses ALT F4 when attacked stopped playing gw2 right this second.
Darkhaven wouldn’t have any players left.

Um this is especially bad in t1…..It takes longer to ALT+F4 than to die and res back. I don’t get people that do it. The thought have never crossed my mind. I don’t die often and when I do I know I Leeroyed right in

I’ll be honest: on occasion I will do the ALT F4 but only when culling creates some silly zerg issues or if I get ganked by griefers who are sitting in the EB jp doing nothing but waiting at the chandelier room to ruin someone’s effort.

If I got killed fair and square then the person deserves those badges from my death and I deserve to pay the repair bill.

So what’s the point of it? To make sure the enemy doesn’t get a badge?

Raincrow.1840:

So what’s the point of it? To make sure the enemy doesn’t get a badge?

From my standpoint there’s only 3 reasons.

1) to grief the griefers
2) to combat the culling
3) to avoid excessive repair costs (if you’re broke)

BabelFish.7234:

I’ll be honest: on occasion I will do the ALT F4 but only when culling creates some silly zerg issues or if I get ganked by griefers who are sitting in the EB jp doing nothing but waiting at the chandelier room to ruin someone’s effort.

If I got killed fair and square then the person deserves those badges from my death and I deserve to pay the repair bill.

This. Same as me. If it is a fight that I feel fair and square, so be it if I lose. Otherwise, Alt-F4 all the way.

What I meant by a non fair and square fight -

For example, when fight start, your char start moving beyond your control. At first I thought I am hallucinating. I even lifted my hand from the keyboard and mouse and I see my char moving on its own on screen.

For example, standing at the stair inside the inner part of the tower wall trying to recuperate from the AOE damage and suddenly you got pull over the wall and into the enemy zerg.

For example, when fight start, some skills refuse to fire off no matter how many times you press the button. This happens often when enemy is down and you intend to spam your spell to finish him off. Your spell just ‘magically’ refuse to fire. And of course, the spell ‘return to normal’ when that enemy revive himself from the down state. Great.

Exploits or otherwise, I don’t care. When such unexplanable things happen, the enemies are not getting my badge. Period.

Raincrow.1840:

3) to avoid excessive repair costs (if you’re broke)

Excessive? How broken are you people in game really?

It costs 10s if i got 1 item on redly broken.I can get 5x 6x more than that atleast before i have to pay 10s.

Quentin Fields.1295:

Raincrow.1840:

3) to avoid excessive repair costs (if you’re broke)

Excessive? How broken are you people in game really?

It costs 10s if i got 1 item on redly broken.I can get 5x 6x more than that atleast before i have to pay 10s.

I’ve drained my funds down to 40s before :p so I could see it being a reasonable way to deal with repair bills when you’re that stinking broke…but then again I’m a firm believer that WvW shouldn’t have repair costs because the travel time is punishment enough.

I laugh because they have to requeue.

I laugh because they are acting like 2 year olds

I laugh because you are all complaining about it. QQ you don’t get to loot them.

I cry because i didn’t get to add 1 badge to my collection of 2000.

Yeah been seeing this a lot in T1, amuses me every time.

Seren.6850:

Yeah been seeing this a lot in T1, amuses me every time.

give it a couple months, you will become annoyed.

err.. . what happen when you press ALT+F4 ? doesn’t that take longer than simply F12 ?

I don’t think it’s really hard to do something like a 15sec delay before you log off during a fight, even if your game crash. Or at least make it cost 10 times more than a normal death, even if you aren’t dead and a lot of people will stop to alt+f4.

It’s really boring to play against VS when it’s not during the prime time, because it’s a real sport for them.

Why do people not search the forums lookigng for a similar post? There are atleast 5-10 other posts regarding this issue.

I only get annoyed when people start the fight with me and when they are about to lose they do it. Otherwise I just shrug and move along. ANet seems to tolerate it so screaming bloody murder doesn’t help at all.

Quentin Fields.1295:

Raincrow.1840:

3) to avoid excessive repair costs (if you’re broke)

Excessive? How broken are you people in game really?

It costs 10s if i got 1 item on redly broken.I can get 5x 6x more than that atleast before i have to pay 10s.

The repair costs are indeed excessive for some people, believe it or not. For example, I don’t have that much time to play GW2 and all that time is spent in WvWvW doing the stuff that gives you no rewards (escorting Dolyaks, scouting, defending, trebbin). I like doing the important stuff that other people find boring, but I get no rewards from it. That’s why I’m broke all the time and I perfectly understand if people want to ALT+F4 because of it.

I’m very tempted to ALT+F4 as well because of the ridiculous repair costs, but I only do it in cases that I feel I have been killed unjustly (by an invisible thief or zerg, because of a glitch etc). But other than that I’m more than glad to give loot bags to those that deserve them.

If nothing else, it is bad sportsmanship. Part of PvP is the risk of death, removing the consequence, trivializes the experience, discards the reward, and degrades the entire WvW aspect.

wtf is this nonsense about if a “fight is fair”…it’s always fair if it’s intentional gaming mechanics (not exploit/hack) and/or it’s a glitch that’s affecting everyone like culling. You have won fights due to culling just like you’ve lost some. There’s absolutely no excuse to alt f4…absolutely none. Fair is very subjective….especially when you have been at the winning end of many of those fights you call “unfair”, and you’ve got exp and loot from people who took their deaths like mature players.

Due to there already being many threads about this issue we decided to close this one, please use the search function before creating threads.

Thanks for your understanding.