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CMV: Quitting a 1v1 game when you're losing and there isn't much time left in the game is poor sportsmanship

I was recently playing a certain 1v1 online game. The game in question had matchmaking and ranking, but it's still basically just a casual game, not pro-level or overly competitive. 

Now, I'm alright at this game, not great, I lose more than I win, so when I do win I like to savor it a little. That might be coloring my opinion. Recently, I've had three incidents where I was clearly winning a match (in all three cases I believe victory was less than 60 seconds away) and the other people just dropped out. The game doesn't switch over to AI, it just ends and awards you the win. I found this really frustrating, and frankly a little childish. I never quit when I'm losing, I see it through.

My opinion is, barring an absolute need to leave, quitting an online game just because you're going to lose is poor sportsmanship and rude.

EDIT: Okay, clearly I'm in the minority on this one, I'll try to re-frame my thinking, I was frustrated to not get to finish the game, but I never considered that I was making other players grind out a victory (though, in most cases I don't think I take an excessively long time to defeat!) so I will try to be cognizant of that. Thanks to everyone for your clear arguments. Some of you called me petty or juvenile for wanting to see my efforts through, and I don't know what to tell you, I enjoy winning a game on occasion. Not going to feel bad about that.

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You're less than 60 seconds away from a win.. and instead, you get a win in 1 second. Why is that frustrating? You lost a total of 3 minutes of continuing to stomp a player who was in a weaker position, is that last 1minute of the game really that enjoyable for you?   


Very few games of chess end by checkmate, they end when someone knows that they will reach an inevitable checkmate, and if anything it's seen as rude to waste your opponents time when you both know that the game's outcome has already been determined. This same behavior shows up in most competitive games like starcraft where the actual win condition is to destroy every single building which takes a long time and can lead to prolonged losses if you're willing to do things like hide your buildings.. but whats the point of doing that? why lose in 45 minutes when you could lose in 25 minutes and go to the next game?    Why even wait until the point of having any buildings destroyed if you just lost all of your army and they have a large enough army that they're obviously going to win?