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Players closing the game to not lose

Quick question, is it a thing for players to intentionally dc so that they don't lose? I started playing ptcgo again recently, and it seems that everytime im about to win, the game just stops moving forward. It will pause right after my knock out or move, and just sit there. I can click on things like normal but it just doesn't move. I thought at first it was a connection issue as I've heard this game does that. But then I noticed it only happens when im wining. Is this a thing? If so...I realy hope this gets adressed. Like asap. Some sort of penalty, or auto win to the player on the receiving end.

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  • PikaCarter2025
    PikaCarter2025 Member Posts: 3,760 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    That's just the game being slow, likely, as well as buggy. Nothing new.

  • jpfr12
    jpfr12 Member Posts: 6
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    What can I say with my experience is that: some players that are about to lose, simply stop playing the game, but thankfully, I end up winning with the message "Opponent went inactive for too long". Maybe it is what is English called "rage quit".

    I never had the case that this app crash abruptly or stopped working. Maybe I am just lucky.

    I hope you can figure out your problem.

  • DoubleCure
    DoubleCure Member Posts: 3,151 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Bad sport players do rage quit and close the game... then it waits for the disconnected player until their timer ends.

    In normal circumstances you will eventually get the win... but there was indeed an exploit that worked if you had a bad connection... as far as I know they fixed it tho.

  • Perfect_Jab
    Perfect_Jab Member Posts: 249 ✭✭✭
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    PTCG Live is terrible and i constantly quit matches. CONSTANTLY.