Anybody else here just have terrible experiences with player matches? It seems this is where the scum of the SF community go. Not only do they have garbage attitudes, but quitting 2 hits from death seems to be applauded. What the hell people, what is wrong with you?
 
First Guy - Perfected round 1. He hit me once round 2. Got me down to 50% round three. After the loss, he quit the room and sent me a lovely message telling me how I am a shity scrub, and how flowchart kens are all homos that love giant dick. I kid you not. 
 
Second Guy - Garbage Honda. Destroyed him every round, then he quits with 15% health in the 3rd round. I ask him why he quit, he simply responds he has no idea what I am on about. Cute.
 
Third Guy - A legit Elf. It goes all the way to round 5, and I some how get a pretty massive life lead. He whiffs an ultra, and immediately quits. No response, but I see him still playing....so I know it was yet another rage quit.
 
I was done after that. What the hell, does this happen to you guys as well? I had more people rage quit today then the past 3 months combined, coincidently this was the first time I made a public player match room.
 
Pathetic.

And that is why I don't do player matches.  I've actually played against some really good people in ranked matches so that's where I go.

The second guy might have had a seizure :P 
 
 
you dont know 

I play player matches because i'm AWFUL at SFIV and i won't get such a bad record by playing in Player matches.  
on the PS3, i NEVER have problems like this. the only problems i actually have are with people who play really unfairly (which is expected for a fighting game.) 

Well, in my 24 hours of playing this game, nobody has quit on me. However, this is most likely due to the fact that I've been destroyed every match. 

Huh, when I used to play it on my PS3. (Now I just occasionally play the AI on the hardest setting, they are a bit too predictable though.)
 
That kinda stuff never happened. People would quit after the match and the only mail I got was friend invites.
 
Of course this was the couple few months when the game first came out, so I have to assume everyone decided being a dick was a better solution.

" The second guy might have had a seizure :P   you dont know  "

Player Matches are all I play currently because my game isn't at the level I play at because of my busted controller. I can get by pretty well, but I'd rather not go into Championship Mode without a Focus Attack button to get through walls of Tiger Shots.

Well he had one thing right, the loving huge dick part.

Are you new to online gaming or something? 

" @lordofultima: HEY!  it's called a joystick "

Player matches suck. I agree. People still pick the boring characters of ranked and championship and if you beat them once they very rarely keeo playing for more rounds. The only place I get bad messages in SFIV is the Player Matches. In Championship it's all GGs.

" Player matches suck. I agree. People still pick the boring characters of ranked and championship and if you beat them once they very rarely keeo playing for more rounds. The only place I get bad messages in SFIV is the Player Matches. In Championship it's all GGs. "

Funny story:
 
I decided to play a player match and set the filters so it searched for "Same Skill". And so I got into a round, he played Ken, I played Rufus. He was worse than me! I cannot remember the first round too well, but I won with about 10% health. In the second round, I got off a few sweeps and throws, then he disconnected.
 
I was so happy with myself ^_^ Then I proceeded to play a few more matches (I turned off the same skill filter because it wasn't getting any results) and got completely obliterated.

" @Scooper said:

" Player matches suck. I agree. People still pick the boring characters of ranked and championship and if you beat them once they very rarely keeo playing for more rounds. The only place I get bad messages in SFIV is the Player Matches. In Championship it's all GGs. "

Well, why stick around to get brutalized by a player blatantly superior to you?  People would rather play those on their own skill level, that they at least stand a chance against.  Feeding the ego of some super player and losing so badly you may as well go eat a sandwhich at the start of the round and get the same result, isn't fun.  People get sick of that one super player who keeps coming into every single lobby and running the joint.  It really is annoying to average players.  Everyone taking turns losing to one guy who can't realize he should maybe move on himself and seek players on his own level is not fun, it's the anti-fun.  It sucks all the fun out of the game. "

"  I'm not here to suck the fun out of people's game by not giving them a chance,

Hard to say since I dont do player matches that often.. But skill level you encounter will definately vary. 
Obviously if you stay in Championship mode you'll play ppl at least ranked closer to yourself or in your category. 

Yeah championship mode I don't use because it's impossible to find games late at night. Pretty much all player matches for me. As for riding rails, naw man that ain't me. I've grinded a few in my day, however.

To me, player matches are the best opportunities to get a good fight and actualy learn smothing from it as opposed to the one stop you have in CM and ranked.  In CM, you have a slew of random fights most of which are against scrubby players that grinded their way to G1 thouggh you DO occasionally get a really good fight.    Yes I win points but I never learn anything from a single match because the next one is usually a world of difference from the previous fight. 
 
The problem is that if you win, you cant be sure if it was a fluke or not, and if you lose, thats it, you may not meet them again for a while.  Give that same person a couple more games and they may learn you and THATS where the real fight happens, all of a sudden you have to switch it up and think about what you're doing instead of going through the motions.
 
I go to CM to try out new combos, I go to Player match to have some real fight sessions.

"@Scooper said:

" Player matches suck. I agree. People still pick the boring characters of ranked and championship and if you beat them once they very rarely keeo playing for more rounds. The only place I get bad messages in SFIV is the Player Matches. In Championship it's all GGs. "

Well, why stick around to get brutalized by a player blatantly superior to you?  People would rather play those on their own skill level, that they at least stand a chance against.  Feeding the ego of some super player and losing so badly you may as well go eat a sandwhich at the start of the round and get the same result, isn't fun.  People get sick of that one super player who keeps coming into every single lobby and running the joint.  It really is annoying to average players.  Everyone taking turns losing to one guy who can't realize he should maybe move on himself and seek players on his own level is not fun, it's the anti-fun.  It sucks all the fun out of the game. "

" To me, player matches are the best opportunities to get a good fight and actualy learn smothing from it as opposed to the one stop you have in CM and ranked.  In CM, you have a slew of random fights most of which are against scrubby players that grinded their way to G1 thouggh you DO occasionally get a really good fight.    Yes I win points but I never learn anything from a single match because the next one is usually a world of difference from the previous fight.   The problem is that if you win, you cant be sure if it was a fluke or not, and if you lose, thats it, you may not meet them again for a while.  Give that same person a couple more games and they may learn you and THATS where the real fight happens, all of a sudden you have to switch it up and think about what you're doing instead of going through the motions. I go to CM to try out new combos, I go to Player match to have some real fight sessions. "

I rage-quit all the time. It's great. I'll rage-quit while I'm finishing someone with an ultra just for fun. I'll rage-quit when they finish with an ultra just to see what sorta message they send me. I rage-quit halfway through the first round, I even rage-quit if they take too long at the character select screen (if they haven't chosen by the time the clock hits 15, I'm out, damn slowpokes). Sometimes, I won't rage-quit, I'll just choose Gief and spinning lariat spam while browsing the internet on my laptop. 
 
I am the reason why Player Matches are no fun and I did it all so you would post this thread. Bwahahahaha!

" @lordofultima: I don't know about you, but I get worse playing against random assholes. The vast majority of people on Live are utterly horrible, and use tactics that are, well....scrubby. Playing them like you play an advanced player does not work. I have to use the same shitty tactics they use to win. I actually have to mash during block strings occasionally, that is how bad it gets! "

" I rage-quit all the time. It's great. I'll rage-quit while I'm finishing someone with an ultra just for fun. I'll rage-quit when they finish with an ultra just to see what sorta message they send me. I rage-quit halfway through the first round, I even rage-quit if they take too long at the character select screen (if they haven't chosen by the time the clock hits 15, I'm out, damn slowpokes). Sometimes, I won't rage-quit, I'll just choose Gief and spinning lariat spam while browsing the internet on my laptop.   I am the reason why Player Matches are no fun and I did it all so you would post this thread. Bwahahahaha! "

"Hahaha, best post in this thread. Nicely played Symphony. "

player matches are kinda a coin toss, i have found maybe ten really good players who knew their combos and links in and out.  More often than not i find people who mash dp or their character's equivalent and do it so constantly that building a real offense is not worth the effort because a good player would never do that.
 
My real problem with player matches and really online in general is there is no character variety.  Every good player i've played has used ryu or balrog with 5 ryus to every rog.  How am i supposed tol get better when i face similar tactics from the same characters all the time.  

I really only stick to Champ Matches.

" I'll just choose Gief and spinning lariat spam while browsing the internet on my laptop.   

" @Symphony said:

" I'll just choose Gief and spinning lariat spam while browsing the internet on my laptop.   

I swear this is what most Gief players do. "

" Well, in my 24 hours of playing this game, nobody has quit on me. However, this is most likely due to the fact that I've been destroyed every match.  "

I'll be honest here, I have quit during a match-however, it wasn't out of rage, rather the fact that I went WTF from seeing how fucking awesome they were.
 
Mind you, this was on Marvel vs Capcom 2.

" I'll be honest here, I have quit during a match-however, it wasn't out of rage, rather the fact that I went WTF from seeing how fucking awesome they were.  Mind you, this was on Marvel vs Capcom 2. "

You quit because somebody was too good? I would love to get my ass handed to me in a random player match.

" @dbz1995 said:

" I'll be honest here, I have quit during a match-however, it wasn't out of rage, rather the fact that I went WTF from seeing how fucking awesome they were.  Mind you, this was on Marvel vs Capcom 2. "

You are part of the problem. "

" You quit because somebody was too good? I would love to get my ass handed to me in a random player match. "

I actually go fight player matches when I feel the need to just relax and not really care about winning, hence why I play as Dan a lot. You aren't wrong about the scum of the Street Fighter world gathering there (tons of people playing as Ken who have no idea how to play as him) but I don't tend to have too many problems with rage quits.