EPTon other hand..i'll always wait for the other guy up to 3-4 minutes...
Etiquitte on Pause/Unpausing games? - Page 2
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The6357
United States1268 Posts
on other hand..i'll always wait for the other guy up to 3-4 minutes... | ||
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PhiliBiRD
United States2643 Posts
however i wish ppl had the same courtesy.. | ||
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lepape
Canada557 Posts
On March 27 2010 08:21 Anther wrote: Naw, that's called taking it too serious =p. I mean sometimes you just have the demeanor of an asshole and to you everyone else seems that way o_o. Actually, I'm the one who doesnt take it seriously. If I can't play because I get an important phone call, I leave. Who cares? It's just a loss in a video game. The guy who asks a stranger to wait 2 minutes for him is the one taking it too seriously, because he cares about his stats. | ||
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Kantutan
Canada1319 Posts
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StorrZerg
United States13919 Posts
On March 27 2010 07:25 Excalibur_Z wrote: If someone suddenly pauses the game and doesn't provide an explanation within about 10 seconds, I'm unpausing it. You need to at least explain why you've paused the game in order to prove that you're not just being an ass. If it's a reasonable request, I'll wait patiently for the other person to fix whatever is the problem and come back, usually up to 5 minutes or so. would really suck if their keyboard went out lolz | ||
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Jonoman92
United States9105 Posts
So yea it's poor etiquette because obviously you won't have a fulfilling game and they just care about advancing in the tourney, getting the ladder win, or w/e. | ||
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Thunder_Sturm
United States36 Posts
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Tamerlane
Canada424 Posts
On March 27 2010 08:15 lepape wrote: You guys are way too polite. I never asked anyone for a pause in any game, because I think that's a lack of respect to the other guy. I agree that pausing the game for a phone call or something mundane like that is disrespectful, but sometimes you just get caught by surprise on something urgent that requires a minute of your attention...and asking for a pause for this is no lack of respect. I think waiting 1min for a pause is just being polite, after all : how much time do we waste searching for games? I've had to pause twice so far in SC2 : - My keyboard wasn't working fine, like if the ALT key was always staying active, I could not even type to the other guy. - Me and my 2v2 partner were waiting for a game, we had constant wait periods of 10 to 20 mins on a saturday afternoon - I went to the washroom for a couple minutes and my teammate had to pause the game so that I could come back on time...our opponents did not mind waiting. Yeah sure, it was my fault for not going before, but when you spend more time waiting for games than actually playing, how retarded is it to not start the search when you have 20:1 odds of being back in time... My point is, there are situations which a pause is required and although you can't expect ppl on bnet to wait 1-2min, I think everybody should do it (at least 1min, everybody can do that), just in case you might need it in the future (I'm not talking karma here, but if half of the players are doing an effort to wait, chances are courtesy might spread). | ||
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AmstAff
Germany949 Posts
some people really think the other person has to wait if they pause, but NO i dont have to wait cause if i unpause you are the one whois going to rage. btw im talking about ladder, tournaments are something different. | ||
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Mista_Masta
Netherlands557 Posts
Sometimes my opponents give me the pause, sometimes they don't. I remember one particular instance where my regular 2v2-ally had to change the batteries in his wireless mouse during the game (...) and the opponents wouldn't let us pause. We still won though  | ||
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Qikz
United Kingdom12024 Posts
If anyone asks if they can pause with me I usually give them like 5 minutes. | ||
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Jonoman92
United States9105 Posts
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UbiNax
Denmark381 Posts
 but unfortunately not everyone is like that :/ | ||
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deth
Australia1757 Posts
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Deviation
United States134 Posts
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iNcontroL
USA29055 Posts
But lately i have these kids pause. And I wait, like 30 seconds.. no word. So I just unpause. | ||
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lepape
Canada557 Posts
On March 27 2010 08:42 Deviation wrote: I give them about the exact amount of time they request up to a limit of 10 minutes. 10 minutes, I hope that's a joke. Even 5 minutes is extremely generous in my book. Seriously, the guy who asks you to wait 5 minutes is being an asshole, no matter what the reason is. He's basically saying ''Look, I have more important things to do than to play this game right now, but since my time is more important than yours, can you please do nothing and wait for me for 5 minutes?''. | ||
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Ranix
United States666 Posts
Except for today I was winning in a match and the dude just pauses it without saying a word.. so I'm like ?.. and unpause it because I assume he is trying to get me to leave. (Maybe a nub that doesn't know anyone can unpause). So he instantly pauses it again, to which I unpause. I ask him if he has a legit reason to pause and he said the phone, so I let him have his phone time. He comes back and starts bitching about how I was being completely retarded for unpausing, while trying to explain from my POV he quits. | ||
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HeyitsClay
Canada336 Posts
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Socke
Germany451 Posts
dont you think thats a waste of time? i play sc2 to have games against ppl, and if i unpause 10 minutes into a 20 minute game i actually end up wasting 10 minutes by ruining my game. not waiting for absurdly long pauses i can understand. | ||
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