Caught by Alt+F4 trick

Hi All,

I was playing competitive last night and I got caught by the Alt-F4 trick. I got a message that said someone filed a report against me and to see it I could type Alt+F4 which, of course, I did and it shut down the game. It happened about 12:30 a.m. AST in bronze on the Atlantic server. I did not take note of who sent the message. Down one player we lost the match before I could get back in. I apologized to everyone. also i was banned from competitive for 5 minutes. I just wanted to warn players and developers this trick is going around.

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You should thank the person.

Now you will never forget a very useful shortcut.

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To sum it up…

DOH!

its 2018 and people still fall for this trick?
lmao
i remember that one time i pulled that trick on someone in minecraft
he Rejoined and started to say stuff bout my mother
good times

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I can’t believe this still works in 2018 lol

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… nice to see the old tricks still work.

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Nice one m8. Now you know that people like to troll on the internet.

You’re probably the first person to have fallen for this trick in 3 years.

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1999 called, they want their troll meme back

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I’m more shocked that people still try to pull this prank.

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Its been part of the gaming community since the dawn of time. I guess you know now to never believe anyone if they tell to alt f4, it will never do anything other than close the application

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I fell for this too, but only because I was tired and the person trolling me made it seem real. It was a long message saying my account was reported.

Lol. Get Jebaited.

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Damn necromancers… stop bringing things back to life.

IDK why this is coming back 3 months later but this is hilarious lol

Just a tip for the future. Never, for any reason, delete your System 32 folder.

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Hahaha sorry for laughing but this brings me back to 2011 and TF2 went free-to-play. You could spend all day tricking kids to shut their game down. Funny to hear it still works sometimes.

What year is it again?

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If you fall for the Alt+F4 trick in the current year, you deserve whatever’s coming to you.

Also I just realized this how old this post is…