Killer Instinct Developer Will Send You To Jail If You Rage Quit Too Much

[lestatdark]

Soleron said:

lestatdark said:

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Plus, this isn't just an issue that anyone can just "reform". We're talking about basic human psychology, how biology and evolution pressure has put hardwire psychological traits in most people which just don't know how to react in a "sportsmanship" way when they're confronted by a losing scenario. 

You see professional, well known sportsman in every circle cave down to it in day-to-day basis. Why should anonymous people over the internet, playing a videogame that's supposed to take their mind off day-to-day pressures, simply just adhere to a sense of "sportsmanship" because it's the right thing to do, even if it's indeed enforced in a videogame, sport or any other thing?

So just because it's difficult there shouldn't be any attempt?

If you can cause the people who react badly not react badly, your playerbase wins AND that person you helped feels better about playing the game too. If the feeling when you lose its the problem, maximise the impact of wins and minimise the impact of losses.

Quite the opposite, I do believe this is an issue that should be tackled.

What I'm saying is that it's not something that can be tackled by enforcing an environment in which people have to shown sportsmanship or even persuaded to do so, because that's a formula that doesn't work at 100% even in scenarios where people are almost obliged to do so (professional sports, etc.)

It's a society and psychological issue, compounded with the added cloack of anonimity. This is a good step to separate those who play by the rules to those who don't and it's actually a good incentive to play fair, as most people who would do otherwise, might be discouraged from going down the bad behaviour path since it's gonna label them as so (and that does incredible damage to those who like to act under cloaks of anonimity).