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guN-viCe
Profile Joined March 2010
United States687 Posts
April 07 2015 21:39 GMT
#61
I've done this and have had it done to me. It's just BM, back in the day you would have to manually unpause to collect the win, but they patched it.
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DuckloadBlackra
Profile Joined July 2011
225 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-07 21:45:02
April 07 2015 21:44 GMT
#62
On April 08 2015 06:39 guN-viCe wrote:
I've done this and have had it done to me. It's just BM, back in the day you would have to manually unpause to collect the win, but they patched it.


You can't say it's just BM... IT IS ALMOST ALWAYS BY ACCIDENT!

If people want to BM they don't just do a quick pause and leave instantly because that does nothing, it doesn't even annoy the other person. They'll flame or make you kill all their buildings, etc.
Sent.
Profile Joined June 2012
Poland9288 Posts
April 07 2015 21:47 GMT
#63
Sometimes I pause before leaving because I use F8 to pause the game and it's relatively close to F10. I don't even think it's BM unless someone does it but stays in the game for no reason.
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Mistakes
Profile Joined February 2011
United States1102 Posts
April 07 2015 21:47 GMT
#64
On April 07 2015 18:16 Pursuit_ wrote:
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.


This. At one point too it didn't tell you that the other person had left the game (while the game was paused) so when you unpaused the game it then gave you the victory screen.
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My_Fake_Plastic_Luv
Profile Joined March 2010
United States257 Posts
April 07 2015 21:53 GMT
#65
It a passive aggressive cry for humanity.

Ie. the losing opponent is saying with said 'pause' that you didn't indeed deserve the victory...it was luck! For said opponent was being texted or misclicked his control group of mutas or he wasn't actually trying. And said opponent wants you to know that even in victory you don't have control over him, because he goddamnit his own man, not swayed by a computer game and fully aware that victory in a single game with two players and no observers matters little to anyone but said two players, and he is above all pettiness. So he pauses before resigning to let you, the victory take this in, before you're just another random opponent of his (and your) list. He pauses so you know he is human and deserving as victory as you, a fellow human.

(I guess that ended not really where it started.)
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DuckloadBlackra
Profile Joined July 2011
225 Posts
April 07 2015 22:00 GMT
#66
On April 08 2015 06:47 Mistakes wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 07 2015 18:16 Pursuit_ wrote:
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.


This. At one point too it didn't tell you that the other person had left the game (while the game was paused) so when you unpaused the game it then gave you the victory screen.



Why the fuck does everyone keep saying this? WHO CARES? That was a long time ago, it has nothing to do with why people pause now. That's gone.
Thieving Magpie
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
United States6752 Posts
April 07 2015 22:15 GMT
#67
On April 08 2015 07:00 DuckloadBlackra wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 08 2015 06:47 Mistakes wrote:
On April 07 2015 18:16 Pursuit_ wrote:
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.


This. At one point too it didn't tell you that the other person had left the game (while the game was paused) so when you unpaused the game it then gave you the victory screen.



Why the fuck does everyone keep saying this? WHO CARES? That was a long time ago, it has nothing to do with why people pause now. That's gone.


Not that I disagree with you personally--but just because it was patched does not mean there aren't players who still think that this is what happens since they don't keep track of patch notes or SC2 news.
Hark, what baseball through yonder window breaks?
TheLordofAwesome
Profile Joined May 2014
Korea (South)2655 Posts
April 07 2015 22:26 GMT
#68
I sometimes misclick on the menu b/c the buttons are right next to each other.
Mistakes
Profile Joined February 2011
United States1102 Posts
April 07 2015 22:26 GMT
#69
On April 08 2015 07:00 DuckloadBlackra wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 08 2015 06:47 Mistakes wrote:
On April 07 2015 18:16 Pursuit_ wrote:
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.


This. At one point too it didn't tell you that the other person had left the game (while the game was paused) so when you unpaused the game it then gave you the victory screen.



Why the fuck does everyone keep saying this? WHO CARES? That was a long time ago, it has nothing to do with why people pause now. That's gone.


Because it's the only logical reason apart from misclicking.
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blade55555
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States17423 Posts
April 07 2015 22:29 GMT
#70
This would be a good one for Avilo and some Barcode ti answer. Never understood it but most of the times I beat Avilo he would pause and leave lol.
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las91
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States5080 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-07 22:43:19
April 07 2015 22:42 GMT
#71
Used to if you left during a pause it would give you a loss even though the person that paused already left, it was a bug during WOL

People do it now because they have to just get a little fucking with people in since their precious egos can't handle losing a 1v1 game
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Thalandros
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
Netherlands1151 Posts
April 07 2015 22:52 GMT
#72
Missclicks.
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ROOTFayth
Profile Joined January 2004
Canada3351 Posts
April 07 2015 23:04 GMT
#73
lol it's probably a misclick in over 90% of the cases
Thieving Magpie
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
United States6752 Posts
April 07 2015 23:20 GMT
#74
On April 08 2015 08:04 ROOTFayth wrote:
lol it's probably a misclick in over 90% of the cases


I had a friend who would keep pausing, and when his opponent would unpause he would pause again, until he ran out of pauses.

He would then type "______ has left the game"

Its only happened twice where his opponent left. The first time he did it, and one other time a year later. He held on to the practice ever since in the off chance of a free win.
Hark, what baseball through yonder window breaks?
StatixEx
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United Kingdom779 Posts
April 07 2015 23:22 GMT
#75
didnt read too much after the first post but its mostly an accident when they are cliking end game they hit pause instead. Dont fret too much, this is seriously post worthy
DuckloadBlackra
Profile Joined July 2011
225 Posts
April 07 2015 23:25 GMT
#76
On April 08 2015 08:20 Thieving Magpie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 08 2015 08:04 ROOTFayth wrote:
lol it's probably a misclick in over 90% of the cases


I had a friend who would keep pausing, and when his opponent would unpause he would pause again, until he ran out of pauses.

He would then type "______ has left the game"

Its only happened twice where his opponent left. The first time he did it, and one other time a year later. He held on to the practice ever since in the off chance of a free win.


LMAOO!!
DuckloadBlackra
Profile Joined July 2011
225 Posts
April 07 2015 23:26 GMT
#77
On April 08 2015 07:29 blade55555 wrote:
This would be a good one for Avilo and some Barcode ti answer. Never understood it but most of the times I beat Avilo he would pause and leave lol.



Avilo is one of the rare ones who always does it on purpose. The vast majority of the time it's just an accident =)
codonbyte
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States840 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-07 23:36:26
April 07 2015 23:30 GMT
#78
On April 07 2015 17:28 Aocowns wrote:
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

It wasn't that. It was that the "Surrender" button used to be positioned such that it was easy to accidentally click it when you were trying to unpause, especially if your opponent resumed the game before you click.

This has since been corrected, but the tradition remains.

I honestly think people get way to worked up about it. You're not flaming your opponent, you're not wasting their time by making them kill all your buildings. It's simply a small thing some people do to let off a bit of steam.
Procrastination is the enemy
avilo
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States4100 Posts
April 07 2015 23:55 GMT
#79
On April 08 2015 07:29 blade55555 wrote:
This would be a good one for Avilo and some Barcode ti answer. Never understood it but most of the times I beat Avilo he would pause and leave lol.


I do it to signify it was a poor game it's like my calling card. Some people leave a beautiful violet rose, others leave chocolates. I pause the game so that my opponent can pause and reflect upon their fullNa-ness, and contemplate their life choices more carefully in the future.

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I do it cuz i'm mad n salty that i played poorly heuheu
Sup
codonbyte
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States840 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-04-08 00:31:45
April 08 2015 00:22 GMT
#80
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There. He admitted that he gets salty when he loses, and that sometimes he plays badly. Are all you haters happy?

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Of course they're not happy. I forgot that people on the internet are perfect: they never get salty, they never rage, they never have bad days, and they never go on tilt. Must be awesome to be a person on the internet!
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