Feeling Drained from Repeated Losses in Games and Doubting the Enjoyment.
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Do you ever get the urge to play just one more game despite knowing it’s not the best idea? That voice in your head that tempts you to wrap up the night with a victory. And so, you start playing as an irritating opponent who keeps on pausing the game for unnecessary reasons, destroys your unfinished farms, and constantly attacks your defense with cavalry, making you go mad.
Well there are these days and others. Yesterday after losing three in a row my final game was against a Persian TC douche and obviously, the tilting meter was already at an unhealthy level. That being said, for some reason I stayed calm and dropping a castle after 30 mins on his stupid Persian TC was a friendly reminder how much I love this game. I hope someday I can play consistently with a minimal level of tilting, maybe in my 60s ….
I mean, I don’t even enjoy the game. I just like thinking about it.
Do you want people to play against you in a specific way, or is it just losing that is the issue? (Genuine question).
Lately I have been surprised by how many people seem to play the game but not actually enjoy it. Some deep rooted superiority complex or something makes some people not seem to be able to cope with losing – even though the ranked system is designed to give almost all players a 50% win rate.
I think a lot of players need to be able to start enjoying the L’s as well as the W’s, and maybe stop fixating on being better than other people..
No never
Returning from a break. I shoud actually be rusty, but I’m motivated, and I have nothing to lose. The first games are fun. I even win most of them. Wow, this is such a great game, why did I ever think of quitting? I’m not even such a bad player as I thought I were.
OK, this game today was not so good. On to the next. Losing again. How could I throw this? Let’s go on. I’m still positive. Boar kills vil. Housed all the time. What happened? Getting destroyed. Losing streak is in progress. Every game gets worse. All confidence is gone. After 8 humiliations, finally a weak opponent that I can defeat. Going to bed, still frustrated.
The next days it gets a bit better, some wins, but not as convincing as some days before after my break. Always with the feeling that I’m not as good as my elo. And the next losing streak ist just around the corner. It usually ends with an extra frustrating ultra-humiliating loss against Janissaries on Arena. Enough! Uninstalling it again. I hope this time I’m strong enough to never come back.
A few weeks later, the story repeats …
Nah, at this point (age 34) a lot of the aggression/competitiveness I used to have in games is gone. These days I’m just playing for fun. I’m still trying to win, don’t get me wrong, but the goal is just to have fun and I don’t care if I lose 30 games in a row (currently at a 50/50-ish win rate).
In my teens, when I was hyper competitive in online games, yes, losing multiple times in a row would be extremely frustrating. I might even smash a keyboard over it.
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