That's pretty much all we could have hoped for.  Was anyone really expecting a concession feature to stop people from quitting?

Changing the verbage isn't going to change behavior.  It just makes the whole experience less of a hassle for the winners.

If everyone dutifully played every game for 15-30 minutes there would never have been a ragequit problem in the first place and the concede mechanic wouldn't have been introduced or even considered.

 The only change I would like to see is a majority vote for Conced. I have played two games tonight where 1 person took far to long to Conced and dragged out the game.

I disagree. It shouldn't be majority vote. It should be everyone on a team concedes or nothing happens. Personally, I like to go down fighting, so I don't expect to do much conceding. My team mates conceding will just let me know that they would like it to end, but are being nice enough not to just rage quit. If my whole darn team concedes I would probably concede just out of respect for them though, but only if there was little or no room for debate about the fact that we were going to lose.

It would have been the same as before had they just left though.

The conceding in this case changed nothing.  Had your last ally conceded though it would have stopped the game.

Regarding the concede button, I don't think that many people know what the word "concede" really means. Regardless, when a full team leaves, the game is over. This is excellent stuff!

This is no different to most other RTSs really except in a lot of other RTSs, most nubs/medium players just tended to sit back, turtle and build up their economy.

So you had a period of 5-10 mins at the beginning where it felt like you were playing (altho in reality, u were just playing Sim City).

You'll find that as soon as you rushed people, most nub/medium players just quit (ie when the fighting starts).

The difference with DG is that the fighting starts from the beginning cos there's no base building.

The other difference is, on other basebuilding RTS's, you could put up towers/defend from your base, which might cost the opponent a fair amount of resources.

Here, if you get killed in the first minute, not only are u giving them few hundred gold (which is vital), you lose 20 seconds or whatsoever and all the time, he's levelling up.

By the time you get back into the fight, u might still be level 1-2, and he might be 3-4.

That's hard. But hey, it's the way it is.

Look dude, you can shove the attitude up your ass, all you do in all of your posts is say that you don't have problems because you always win. GOOD FOR YOU.  Now go jerk off the e-peen somewhere else you fucking mongoloid.

-back on topic

I guess I misunderstood the concede mechanic, I was under the impression that a team concede gave the conceding team favor as if they finished the game, quiting gives no favor at all.

Conceding was not about fixing rage quitting. It was about some situations when you just wasted time, as the game was lost or it was unplayable. Simple as that.

But it needs some polishing:

-all players from the team must agree

-when some players asks for concede, the simple small white text message at the top of the screen is NOT enough, as i barely see it. I suggest making the text red, and/or putting it in the chat box. Or better, make a dialog box pop up for every team member, with a Concede? and Yes! or No! buttons. Basically a vote system and you get to see who voted for No and who voted for Yes, in case of vote fail. But i think this is too much to ask from GPG...

I do not agree that the vote has to be unanimous.  If the majority of the team votes for concede, the game should ends.  So in a 2v2 game, that would be 2 people.  In a 3v3 game, it would also be 2 people.  If more than half your team does not have the heart to keep playing, it's over and the other team should not have to sit there for another 10 minutes to finish it.

I do agree with you on how the mechanic should be presented.  I did not even know there was a text message for concede on the top of the screen.  When someone concedes, it should call a vote (but not stop the action) for the team with the time out vote being continue to play.  Just like how the voting system works for FPS.  Make it so that the concede option is not spammable.

i think you one of the game options should be how difficult the AI take over will be.....

Thx Sorian, now it's clear how it works and it's ok. They just need to make it more visible, when someone asks for concede.

But thats the problem with the game now.  I didn't pay $40 to play the first 5 mins of a game.  It's not like most games last long if a teams getting absolutely rolled, 12 mins or so on the most played maps.  So why not make it so the concede option isn't available for the first 10 mins of a game at least that way the rage quitters still get stuck with a DC(which i thought they said was going to be seen in lobbies) and if a game is still not salvageable the concede option pops to save people 5 or 10 mins. 

The quick concede just hurts the people who actually enjoy playing games out.   Ok everyone rage quits in the first 10 mins and i'm playing ai,  fine end the game.  But now if my team starts well the other team concedes out and i dont get to enjoy the game i'm winning.  Which leave the other option, play a game out only when i'm losing, seems like a great system punish me for actually wanting to play the game the game i paid for.  I know it hard to keep people from quitting games there losing and a concede option is an attempt to keep people in the game but giving them a way to rage quit and not have any punishment for it seems just as dumb.