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Why do some people pause before they leave game?

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Devolved
Profile Joined April 2008
United States2753 Posts
April 07 2015 08:17 GMT
#1
I've experienced this many times, but I've never known why. Is it some sort of hack they're using or is it just an odd form of bm?
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Jer99
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Canada8157 Posts
April 07 2015 08:18 GMT
#2
The latter
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Anacreor
Profile Joined February 2013
Netherlands291 Posts
April 07 2015 08:19 GMT
#3
It's just bm afaik, they are just trying to find the only thing they can do to harass you after you a-moved the shit out of them.
"Peter the Acretree chops some wood"
Dumbledore
Profile Joined April 2011
Sweden725 Posts
April 07 2015 08:20 GMT
#4
Some people have really fat hands / fingers and can't physically hit "F10" without hitting the pause button aswell.
Have a nice day ;)
mooose
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Japan200 Posts
April 07 2015 08:21 GMT
#5
Pause and surrender are next to each other on the menu. Some people click the menu rather than pressing the hotkeys. If they are in a rush to leave the game they sometimes misclick and hit pause rather than surrender.
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Gwavajuice
Profile Joined June 2014
France1810 Posts
April 07 2015 08:24 GMT
#6
I personnaly use the mouse instead of the hotkey to leave a game (never actually looked what the hotkey is tbh) and once every 100 game I may click on pause instead of leave, but usually click on leave game a split second after....
Dear INno and all the former STX boys.
Teoita
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Italy12246 Posts
April 07 2015 08:24 GMT
#7
I thought it was because they missclicked, why bm with a pause when you can just yell at your opponent
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ZenithM
Profile Joined February 2011
France15952 Posts
April 07 2015 08:26 GMT
#8
Yeah, sometimes I pause too, but it's just a misclick.
Aocowns
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Norway6070 Posts
April 07 2015 08:28 GMT
#9
think it started because of some bug a while ago?

like if you, as the winner, left the game without unpausing, i think you would get a loss or something
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Meavis
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
Netherlands1300 Posts
April 07 2015 08:36 GMT
#10
quite a while ago, if a game was paused and both players left it would cause the match to show up much later in history, delaying points from the win/loss.
also some people click surrender instead of hitting N after hitting f10, and sometimes missclick pause instead.
"Not you."
DuckloadBlackra
Profile Joined July 2011
225 Posts
April 07 2015 08:42 GMT
#11
Pause and F10 are right next to each other on the keyboard... I often accidentally hit the pause key when I'm trying to F10+N out
-Switch-
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada506 Posts
April 07 2015 08:49 GMT
#12
missclick for me
virpi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Germany3598 Posts
April 07 2015 08:52 GMT
#13
On April 07 2015 17:49 -Switch- wrote:
missclick for me

same for me. I have a tendency to be unprecise while I'm raging.
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Gullis
Profile Joined April 2012
Sweden740 Posts
April 07 2015 08:54 GMT
#14
missclick for me too
I would rather eat than see my children starve.
Jer99
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Canada8157 Posts
April 07 2015 09:01 GMT
#15
You guys don't use hotkeys?
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Gwavajuice
Profile Joined June 2014
France1810 Posts
April 07 2015 09:12 GMT
#16
On April 07 2015 18:01 Jer99 wrote:
You guys don't use hotkeys?


I use hotkeys, just not for quitting the game. It's not like I'm gonna get better if I leave games faster
+ Show Spoiler +

My routine :

1- sigh
2- say "fuck"
3- type "gg"
4- take a deep breath and click to leave game
5- say "fuck" again
Dear INno and all the former STX boys.
BlueStar
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
Bulgaria1166 Posts
April 07 2015 09:12 GMT
#17
Previously the pause used to be priority in the UI of SC2 over the victory screen.
It was a glitch/bug/bad feature that was removed afterwards.

Nowadays people tend to pause because of the good ol' BM times or just hitting pause by mistake.
Leader of the Bulgarian National SCBW/SC2 team and team pSi.SCBW/SC2
WonnaPlay
Profile Joined September 2010
Netherlands912 Posts
April 07 2015 09:13 GMT
#18
If people don't use F10, N as hotkeys, then which hotkeys do you guys use?
A?
Pursuit_
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States1330 Posts
April 07 2015 09:16 GMT
#19
Once upon a time if you paused the game before leaving it didn't give your opponent a victory screen. They would have to press f10 then leave the game themselves (it still counted as a win for them). For people who didn't know this, it was very counterintuitive to have to 'leave' a game they had won.

Blizzard fixed this in a patch ages ago. I doubt it's bm at this point, most likely just misclicks.
In Somnis Veritas
sushiman
Profile Joined September 2003
Sweden2691 Posts
April 07 2015 09:24 GMT
#20
I'm just surprised there's people that haven't disabled clickable menus. Missclicking on one of those things in game is annoying as hell.
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