Data Reveals This Game Causes Players to Rage Quit the Most!

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• Minecraft, the best-selling game of all time, causes gamers to blast out their infuriation the most, with over 12,000 related mentions on Reddit from gamers!
• Halo, Fortnite, and Rocket League all rank within the top 10 for causing the most rage quits, with a combined total of 9,510 rage quitting posts!
• More than 80% of gamers admitted to having rage quit over losing a game.
• PC gamers are the sorest losers with 39% regularly rage quitting!

With approximately 2.7 billion gamers* in the world it’s safe to say that not every gamer will react the same way when they face in-game bosses or teams that they just cannot beat – in fact, there are 80,521 gaming posts on Instagram containing ‘#ragequit’!

Keen to explore the effects that losing a game has on players, and the reactions it may also cause, TopRatedCasinos.co.uk combined 3,792 responses from a survey of games that made players the angriest with data from thousands of comments on Reddit to find out the top 10 games that cause players to rage quit the most, and why.

Reddit Rage

Minecraft has the most online mentions of rage quitting with 12,200 related reddit comments and posts!

Not only do gamers love to vent about their rage quitting moments, but it also seems they love to watch rage quits! Minecraft rage quitting has the highest YouTube viewing figures of all the games in the top 10 at 23.6 million!

Call of Duty lands in second place with 10,940 mentions on Reddit. The most-watched video containing CoD rage quits has 3,606,686 views! The most common reason for rage quitting CoD was ridiculous kill shots.

In third place is FIFA, with 6,350 mentions on Reddit. The most-viewed compilation video on YouTube has 4,104,713 views!

Battlefield and Grand Theft Auto rank fourth and fifth, respectively, with 4,710 and 4,570 Reddit comments.

In sixth place is Counterstrike: Global Offensive (3,540), in seventh is Halo (3,480), and in eighth place is Fortnite (3,450). Rounding off the top 10, in ninth place is Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (2,680).

Sony’s Bloodborne is in 10^th place with 2,650 related posts and comments on Reddit about rage quitting the game. The most common reason for rage quitting this game was the high number of tries it took to defeat in-game bosses.

Angriest Platform

TopRatedCasinos.co.uk further analysed the data to determine if there is a correlation between video game platforms and sore loser-ship.

85% of gamers have rage quit a game; 8% would do so after every single loss, whereas 46% considered it to be a rare occurrence.

Percentage of PC players who rage quit: 39%

Percentage of PlayStation players who rage quit: 25%

Percentage of Nintendo players who rage quit: 11%

Percentage of Xbox players who rage quit: 14%

The most common emotion experienced after anger was annoyance at 84%.