You actually start in the middle with SR (sportmanship) but at the bottom for DR. So you get matched with the lowest skilled drivers that are mostly just clumsy, not intentionally hitting you. Yet when you advance in DR, people will start to deliberately hit you to preserve their hard earned DR. (Goes up or down based on your finishing position)

The SR rating has been broken for years and is easily manipulated. The further you go up with skilled players, the more you'll encounter those that 'game the system' and hit you in such a way that you get a penalty...

It was good at the start when GT Sport came out, mostly enthusiasts that wanted to race 'clean' contact free. When it started getting bad PD added strict penalties for contact. But then streamers complained loudly as well as the fast drivers that think 'rubbing is racing'. PD dialed the penalties back, even turned them off at some point. GT7 started with hardly any penalty system in place so from the start people treated it like bumper cars :/


Anyway in GT Sport 4 out of 5 online races were good, respectful, hard racing without pushing people of (in the higher SR/DR ranks at least, plenty mess at the lower ranks of course). In GT7 4 out of 5 races are shite. Not worth the aggravation.

I have crumbled controllers with my hands as well :/ PS3 controller pulverized, don't remember what game triggered me so badly lol. I've also snapped a Wii mote in two, I didn't think it would actually break lol. It might have been Zelda Skyward Sword, the one with motion controls where it kept doing the wrong slashes, reacting to my back swing, not willing to register a thrust. I abandoned that game so must be it.

Challenging games are still fun, games with frustrating obstacles (boss battles) I stay clear off nowadays. It's not so much anger anymore, it's more the feeling of wasting my time and getting frustrated instead of doing something that is more enjoyable. People always mention to feeling of accomplishment when beating a hard boss. I just feel "never again" what a waste of time. Now back to the fun stuff.

If I get stressed or blocked into a situation I cannot get myself out, then I just look up a guide.

Nonetheless, I rarely quit a game unless it's just downright broken or the performance side isn't up to what would be needed to finish the game suitably, case in point, I had to drop Another's Crab Treasure Switch version recently because the game simply runs badly on it and stutters too so I just had to give up on it despite the fact that I was enjoying aspects of it and how approachable a Souls Like it is. I'll come back to it on the Switch 2 sure.

Otherwise, I guess Luigi's Mansion 3 is the only high profile game I ever thought "not having fun" with so I dropped it halfway through.

Yep, GT7 sucks online for many reason but that sums it up and yeah, Skyward sword deserved all wiimotes to simultaneously be snapped in half, twas such a shit experience. I feel ya man, I was having great fun with Lies of P until the spiked the difficulty at certain points near the end, instead of feeling good about killing those bosses that were way to difficult for there own good all I felt was relief and the same for finishing the game which I just did. Had they lightened the bosses a bit it would have been more fun, seems they really wanted to be dark souls but didn't understand how. 

Another crabs treasure is on Switch but not PS4, fuuuu. Thanks for the heads up, I'd probably have bought that if I seen it, thought it was 9th gen exclusive. 

I don't rage quit.  I might get frustrated but I mainly internalize. Not vocal. If I like the game and am in a tough spot I often try to push through it. Sometimes it works. Other times not. If not I may come back to it the next day. Days. Weeks. Months and in extremely rare cases years. I might switch to playing something else.   Other times I may just not want to return but in those cases typically didn't like the game that much to begin with.

Ehhh If I'm roadblocked (say, spending more than half an hour on a single thing) I just lower the difficulty, grind a couple of levels, or look up some winning strategy.

I'm not some Twitch streamer to throw myself at a wall again and again, I have a job and other more important things to do with my time.

I've never broken a controller, TV or hardware in a rage.
I've quit games before either for good or a long time out of annoyance, boredom, or a silent rage.

A sane response but do you think challenging games save the players money? If your stuck on a game it extends its life. 

Damn, I'd quit anything challenging if I broke a TV, off. I'm sure it happens though, I seen youtubers destroy their expensive rooms over Shadow of the erd tree. Damn, I'd barely get up off the chair these days. 

Sure, that's the whole reason NES games are the way they are. Nowadays games tend to be artificially lenghtened through sidequests and other inane completionist stuff far more often though.