Its safe to say everyone has raged in this game, its almost built to make people mad since you are constantly encouraged to win and the enemy team may achieve a humiliating victory over you
No matter who you are, incompetent teammates, losing streaks, being steamrolled, being insulted, being tea bagged, a lot of things accumulate and end up making you feel like awful so how do you release steam?
I mean you can pound the ground, you can slam your desk, you can scream, no writting anything in the game chat tho you’ll get banned, you can develop clinical depression and see yourself as a pathetic lifeform in a toxic codependency with a careless game and an abusive playerbase, no venting in chat tho if you do you are in trouble
I don’t get mad when playing team games. There’s other people there, sometimes making things easier. But also just the opposite. One can only do so much in that environment.
But when I played things like Guitar Hero or something where me missing the note was pretty much all me? I raged a bit after a few attempts at certain songs (I probably completed before)
Just remember it is what it is, and move on.
Or think of Zarya; “It’s only a game, why you have to be mad?”
Scream at my team, continue playing,scream some more,pop a few blood vessels,play more,continue screaming,have an aneurism,continue playing,lose voice from all the screaming,uninstall
This comment is way overdramatic honestly! I highly doubt you can get clinical depression over a video game…If you’re very open for that to happen, you shouldn’t be gaming at all or be on the internet for that matter…
I’ve never had this happen to me and i’ve never gotten so mad over a game in ow where i scream at my team or slam my desk.
Personally i just play to have fun and have stopped caring so much.
Get off, punch a pillow, get back on and play quick play, mute chat so I don’t say something cringe and that no one can annoy me, play a different role, wait for the rage to turn into depression, and then pop off a little bit, then feel better.
Stop playing for the day.
I’d say play something relaxing in the meanwhile, read a book, or even go for a walk. Just disconnect for the day and come back another day or even in a week.
Get a good balance, don’t let the game overtake your life.
GOOD video games do the trick just fine, this is just not one of those
Personally I’m just waiting for the PvE so I can pack my things, show all PvP players my favourite finger and then enjoy the story, characters and abilities (you know, the one thing that get people insterested in Overwatch at all)
Ideally this is what you should do. But sometimes I’m so mad that I can’t focus on anything else and all I want to do is go play a game that actually goes well. It’s not that I can’t relax with a different activity if I really try, but that just takes too much time and effort lol. It’s easier to just go back online and play until I get a good game and feel better.
It’s certainly easier to forget about what is upsetting you if you talk to friends or family though. Not necessarily talk about what is upsetting you, but just talk. But sometimes that isn’t an option so you just rage.
