Last week, we reported on a Japanese Street Fighter V player known as World_Combo, who was one of the first two players to reach the Super Platinum rank online. However, World_Combo was stripped of over 9000 league points after evidence of rage quitting was presented to Capcom. Consequently, World_Combo was knocked all the way back down to Bronze rank.
That's not the end of this story, though. Eurogamer has followed up on World_Combo, and it turns out that the former quitter is now ranked 29th in the world at the time of writing. In other words, World_Combo continued to fight even after being penalised for rage quitting, and eventually made it back to Platinum rank. It only took them around a week to do it, too.
Clearly, World_Combo is capable of competing with some of the very best Street Fighter players online - so it's a bit of a shame that they resorted to quitting out of matches in the first place. Still, we reckon that this makes for a reasonably inspiring twist, and a happy ending to this particular saga.
[source eurogamer.net]
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As long as the game counts as a win for the remaining person and any good stats are saved rage quitting isn't an issue. Its Capcoms fault. Rage quitting will always be here as we have immature people playing games with no barrier to entry.
Have the implemented a system where you get penalised for rage quitting now then? Not retrospectively, but built into the game? Because if not, he might have just rage quitted his way up the ranks again, surely?
@Jake3103 Not yet so he may well have done but Capcom already know about so it would be foolish on his part.
Also if you love puns then go to the eurogamer comments on this story, it's quite something.
I got online yesterday and I couldnt find a single opponent. So disappointing.
If theres no punishment for cheating then scum will cheat.
I got to talk to a guy on the dev team for left 4 dead, was really cool to discuss what was considered for implementation for people who rage quit, a shame they ran out of time to actually implement anything though.
I've put in maybe like 70 online matches in. Casual and Rank, and have not fought a Fang player yet. Mostly Ryu's and Ken's.
You can dock his points, but its useless against Za Warudo's combos.
I'm always fearful of Capcom classifying disconnections as rage quits. Evolve had the same problem (sort of) in that your ranks was wins vs losses and when the game crashed you gained a loss. And it crashed a lot.
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