Rage Quit

It’s only 11:00 a.m. and it’s already a rage quit kind of day. I started out playing some of my standard mobile games…and was decimated. From there I called my insurance company about a bill that I shouldn’t have gotten. According to them, since the bill I paid that covered my deductible hasn’t been processed yet, I’m responsible for this one and they’ll reimburse me after they process the other one. Yeah, fat chance…

Things just seem to be going wrong, and it makes me want to throw up my hands and say, “nevermind!” This got me thinking about the concept of rage quitting in general. Personally, I’m not what people would call a gamer. I play a lot of games, but I don’t put a lot of stock in them, so I would be categorized as “casual”. My husband is more the gamer. He is an achievement junkie. If there are achievements for a game, he wants them all. He will get the in-game ones, the Steam ones, and any console specific ones, too.

On the other hand, I don’t really care about official achievements. Sometimes I will set personal goals in a game, like Viva Piñata. Eventually I want to find every piñata and open every color variation. I don’t play the game very often, so that may never happen, but it’s nice to have goals.

In everyday life I tend to be pretty laid back. Not a lot will upset me. Games are different. A lot of the games I play take a long-term investment to build up resources, creating bigger and better things. When my investment doesn’t pan out, it gets frustrating. While playing Hustle Castle this morning, I lost in the arena to someone less powerful than me in the first fight…then immediately rage quit, lol. When I went in to Legend of Solgard, I lost in the arena, not because I wasn’t powerful enough, but because the computer never gave me a single move…at all! Again, I rage quit.

No one likes to lose, but why is it so different for me in games. I believe that games are meant to be my fantasy realm. That’s where I’m meant to be all powerful and invincible. When that illusion is broken, it upsets the balance. I have to go back and create that illusion from scratch again. I guess that’s why I limit the number of competitive games I play. When I play games with other people, I prefer cooperative gaming. If we all win, that illusion remains in tact.

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