How often do you find yourself...

[JaedxRapture]

Well, I'm here now because I was just in the worst group in World of Warcraft history, and had no choice but to fake a disconnection.
I've had to do something similar on a few occasions due to the fact that so many people just suck at WoW, and I was curious to see how often others, if at all, do it.
So, how often do you fake a D/C?

[dgrampa]

I HATE people that don't have the sack to tell everyone they are leaving. Just say you have a family emergency. When you fake a DC everyone has to stand around for 15 minutes to see if you are coming back. You waste everyone else's time. It is a really crappy thing to do. I don't care how stupid your group is, just say you need to go.

[MaliceDR]

Now now, obviously he's taking into consideration the feelings of the other people. Unfortunately, dgramp is right in that your group would likely waste time waiting for you to come back. If you're worried about the group's feelings, don't bail. But if you find little reason to stick around due to noobish behavior or them just being a crappy team, make up some excuse. It may be lying, but at least you won't be getting 5-10 people overreacting filling their guild channel with "so and so is a nub assfag lolololol."

[Ardani]

I've never faked a disconnect. If I'm leaving, I'll tell people that I'm leaving. If they're behaving poorly, I don't necessarily feel any obligation to tell them why I'm leaving, though, just that I am.

[Cychwyn]

"I've *got* to go, sorry" is true. If they ask why I have no qualms about explaining that I need to for my sanity (such as it is :grin:). I've only had to leave a group once, and I've done umpty-eight doomed attempts at LBRS (key for UBRS) and UBRS (Finkle's Skinner) with PUGs. A few good, most full of selfish little oiks who won't listen, can't see that there is something wrong with the "tactics" when wiping on silly stuff and who seem to think the whole world revolves around them. If you're twelve, that *is* an excuse, but 20+ years...?! :shocked: I'll get off my soapbox now. :-)

[dgrampa]

Maybe I should clarify a little. The only time I could see this as possibly being acceptable is if every single person in the group is a complete jerk. If even 1 other person in the group is not a jerk then you are screwing over that person to spite the rest, which is not cool.

Also, people not knowing how to play is not a justifiable reason to fake a DC. Some people just aren't as good at video games as others. Just say something came up and you've gotta go. Simple.

[JaedxRapture]

I only fake a disconnection when the group is really SO bad that I have no other option. I'm not going to outright tell them, "You suck at WoW, please leave!"

Edit: And my most recent group was deserving. One of the members even whispered me later telling me how they were all major assholes.

[The Grailmaster]

faking disconnect is the weakest thing you can do. No matter how bad or how big of jerks they are, faking a d/c is just as bad as anything they are doing. you waste there time, cause if you are the one shining point in the group, they know it and they are gonna wait around for you to relog. It's also immature and shows how little etiquete you have. Making up a lie, like an emergency is almost as lame, the only thing that makes it not as bad, is the others arent left wondering if you're coming back.. Just grab your sack, tell them you dont feel the pug and working out, you're going to bow out of the group and wish them luck. It's straight forward and honest, and in the long run, no one is gonna flame you for being upfront

[Aerath]

I don't tend to do that.

I tell the group they're being a bunch of morons and that I'm leaving.
After which I leave the group and wait for the auto hearth to kick in.

Some times they reinvite, which gives you a good chance to tell people to shape up and try n pretend they actually are good at what they're doing.

[AeroJonesy]

I don't fake disconnects, I just say I'm leaving. I will give an explanation if asked.

[Twoflower]

faking DC is about as bad as the group you have been in. Tell them anything, but tell them that you gonna leave.

to the original question : i never fake DC's.

[mesonm]

I HATE people that don't have the sack to tell everyone they are leaving.


Agree

This is a GAME...Just say you need to leave, and then leave....

[Buffyanne]

I’ve never faked a D/C, I have to agree that I think it’s just as bad as anything the group is likely to be doing since in every group I’ve been in where someone has been dc’d we wait a while to see if they come back on before trying to find someone to replace them. I’ve been very lucky in the groups I’ve had and have only ever had to leave one and that was only just last week. I did tell them though why I was leaving. I am one of those people that hate confrontation but it was so bad that even I got angry and frusterated enough to say something.

[cyradis2003]

Given the tone of the previous posts I hesitste to admit it but I have in fact faked a few DC's in bad groups.

1) I was kind enough to change toons to bring my healer instead of my hunter in a group I had started for the express purpose of getting the hunter's quests done. Started out at a low point but the others needed the quests too so .... meh .... xp for the healer right? The warrior refused to put on a shield. Ok, it is only WC no biggy I guess. The warrior only picked up aggro on one thing at a time, leaving the others to come stomping on my head if I healed him when he started screaming for it (at around 2/3 life he would start /y HEALS! HEALS!) The mage was an AOE moron, I spent more mana on him than the warrior but didn't begrudge it because at least they were on him not me right? About 20 minutes in I ran out of water - remember I hadn't planned to play this toon so I hadn't restocked her and they had summoned me before I really looked through my packs to see what I needed to buy. I asked the mage if he could make me some water since I had run out. He gave me the level 2 water and said he didn't want to make the bigger stuff since it took too much mana. He later complained when I had to ask for more since I had to drink 2 or 3 to refill mana completely. It went down hill from there then after about 40 minutes in and the end no where in site my regular group logged on and started asking in guild who wanted to do Mara on our mains. I DC'd without a second thought or a look back.

2) SM Cathedral on that same little priest. We had cleared and people were talking about doing a second run after we finished the bosses. The bosses went down fairly easily but when the healing mace dropped I said I was rolling need the warrior said no because he needed the dps boost. I rolled need and lost to him but he and his friend started yelling at me for rolling after he told me not to. I had kept the whole group alive the entire run dieing once myself to do so. I felt I deserved a roll on anything I legitimately needed and I didn't feel I owed them an explanation after that.

3) Mara .... same little priest. We started up the purple side and I started getting crap from the warrior for not shielding him. I said I could shield him if he liked, no big deal, the warrior I usually played with preferred no shields until the bosses so I didn't really think of it. He then started calling the warrior a noob and me a noob for playing with him and 2 of the other puglies started laughing with him. I pointed out that the warrior I played with was better geared than he himself was and had a lot more life and probably more armor so he liked the rage that he could build without a shield except for emergencies. This started a round of "are you calling my gear crap? you f**n noob f** ... blah blah blah" so I DC'd the computer and went to watch a movie.

It isn't my job to tell people when I think they are being jerks and I don't always feel like explaining myself or dealing with the whispers in town after I leave. Those are the only 3 times I can remember dc'ing as usually I just stick out the bad groups. Just seemed unlikely to me that no one had ever done it before. I am guessing a lot of folks have and are just wary of posting based on the responses so far. So no, Jaed, you are not alone.


Answer to question ... 3 times in 2 years (that I recall) All on the same toon oddly enough and all over the course of about one month 2 or 3 months ago. I don't play her with pugs anymore since there are more than enough groups in my guild that need healers.

[Tanitha]

I've probably not been playing World of Warcraft long enough to fake a disconnect.

Thus far I've been reasonably up-front. I've got a baby, might need to go at a moment's notice - do you still want to group? If they do and I need to drop it will be a simple: "Baby poo. Got to go" and leave the character logged in as is. If they're still around later, I'll try and catch up. If not - too bad. Either way, when the girl wakes up the game gets logged out and family life continues.

People tend to understand and those that don't? Well. We won't be grouping then anyway so what does it matter?

Although, after seeing the abuse that some people heaped on Cyradis I'm not suprised that a quick disconnect was called for. When people behave like berks even in the face of reason just leaving the party / disconnecting seems perfectly reasonable.

[Grendo]

I feel the need to give a reason before I leave a group, which has happened, and Ive disconnected twice since I started playing since a month after release. Ive seen so many people advertise for a group (ex: 'LFM Baron') and then 20min in have to go because its their bed time, or they have to go do chores, etc. If you knew you couldnt stay, why put the group together? Irks me to no end.

To that end, ill try to be nice about - no reason to be the elitist jerk - and in fact, I will try to never leave a group without finding a replacement, should the majority of the group be decent people (im not about to toss someone else into the fire so I can escape in the smoke).

The two times I did D/C were highly warranted, and similar to Cy's events. In one instance, 3 of the members were horrible in past PuGs, and after politely bowing out with a decent excuse, I was spammed for a good 20minutes in various abbreviated l33tspeak sentence fragments 'zomg!!111one u lving? Y?'. I wasn't about to put myself into that hell a second time.

[Cychwyn]

How about a compromise then. First say "I've had enough of you lot {reason here if you cba or need to get it out of your system}, bye!" *then* disconnect to avoid the spam-tsunami. Best of both worlds? You say that you're off and you avoid the hassle.

Tanitha - if you say in advance what your limitations/conditions are, you are to be commended and absolutely not blamed for leaving when your family needs you. Same for RL emergencies (no, not just the loo, or dinner-time. Ambulance or equivalent) Two words to the group if you can spare the time, then off.

[hypebeasted]

the thing about faking a DC in an instance is that you almost always end up dead and once you have those beloved epics, that repair is going to hurt.