User blog comment:Kashicorn/SURRENDERING/@comment-4131177-20130311184811

So, first off, i am on the same page. I hardly feel the urge to surrender, and i dont like  leavers and flamers and ragers and so on.

But Imagine.

Maybe he has trouble in real life.

His girl just broke up, he has arguments with the family, he just lost his job, his car broke and now he has financial issues, shit, there is a whole lot of stuff that can fuck up your real life. And then, after having a shitty day and everything just went wrong, that guy just wanted to go play a game of league. And then, since he is in a shitty mood to begin with, he gets demotivated by a feeder lane. In normal circumstances, he would not throw the game, but he just feels so shitty that he starts rageing, he starts flaming, he starts surrender votes, he vents all his anger.

Unlikely scenario?

I dont think so.

I think many people are just venting their stress in the games. Real life has enough of that stress. When you play 6 games of lol, you will meet 54 other people. 24 of them are in your team. Do you really think that only 2 or 3 people out of 24 have trouble and stress in their real life? It's more. In my country, more than 70% of people between 16 and 30 say that they suffer from stress. let only every 3rd vent their stress in a game, and you got 6,3 stressed people in your team per day that have to vent their frustration. Thats more than one per game.

It is human to vent stress. When people around me flame and rage and spam "surrender" i try to speak good to them and help them  (ganks, wards etc) so they get success moments. It helps a lot. Try it.