10 Harshest Ways Video Games Punish You For Rage Quitting

Everyone, no matter if you're the calmest or most patient person ever in real life, can completely lose it during the throes of a heated gaming session.

Whether it's because you can't get past a particularly difficult boss or keep getting pelted by someone who is definitely cheating online, giving up and leaving a game when you're frustrated is par for the course.

However, in online multiplayer modes, rage quitters can completely ruin the experience. Leaving one team imbalanced and against an overwhelming force that they now don't stand a chance of beating, there's nothing worse than players who ditch a game just because they're losing.

Not only does it ruin the fun for everyone, but in ranked modes it can completely tank another player's progression or standing in the game, adding even more insult to injury.

Thankfully, some developers have systems in place to either punish or shame quitters in both multiplayer and single-player games. However, in their attempts to lock people into their titles and penalise those who ruin the fun, occasionally studios have gone potentially too far in punishing rage quitters, taking no prisoners when it comes to dealing out the consequences...

Quitting in online fighting games should be considered a cardinal sin. Especially if it's a ranked match and you're up against someone who's absolutely trouncing you, there should be no excuse for rage quitting out, but it's a pandemic that plagues every popular game in the genre.

While most titles figure out a way to punish these players though, Mortal Kombat X thought of a way to absolutely humiliate them. Not only are there the regular penalties and threats of timed bans, but quitting players also have to suffer a brutal Quitality.

Instead of unceremoniously ending the round by fading to black, deserted matches still end in classic MK fashion, with the quitting fighter's head spontaneously exploding.

It's Mortal Kombat through and through, and while it's still annoying to be ditched, at least the remaining player gets to be showered in the brains of their cowardly opponent.