i dont say gg at all because of how overrused/stupidly used it is nowadays

and i HATE a few people i know who say gg in real life...like...what the **** is that?!

and people who say it prematurely annoy me. people who say it at the end of making 1 point in an argument...just...it pisses me off with how it's used anymore. so i dont say it unless the game was particularly good or well played.

My friend made an analogy when another friend of ours raged when the other team GG'd and we got stomped pretty hard.

The 'GG' is pretty much like a handshake after a tennis match or badminton match or whatever. Whether you win or lose that game, you still shake hands as courtesy. Saying 'BG' is after they 'GG' is like spitting in their face and refusing to handshake. Sure, it's a bit of an exaggeration but effectively it holds similar value - at least, it used to.

I make it a habit to 'gg' after every game, regardless of how it went. It's just the polite thing to do, and saying 'bg' just makes you look rude. I wouldn't report someone for it, but it doesn't leave a good impression. You don't want to spew over someone's winning trophy just because you think you deserve it more.

I haven't tested this, but you probably can disable the keybind to enter so it doesn't do anything... which is probably a better idea as it shouldn't affect out of game chat, champ select chat, or post game chat.

For the people who missed it.

I'm sorry but I have to disagree 100%. I say "bg" because it was not a good game, and anyone who has been in a game or felt the rage of trying to win a 4v5 or deal with a 0/17 player on your team will understand. Why not call it a bad game whenever it was a bad game?

It's so aggrivating that this community wants to be trolls and hecklers all day, all game, every time they make a post or act like a jackoff in game, but want to act so honorable about what to say at the end of a game.

To be fair half the time I say GG it's just an impulse from my time playing sc2.

Like stated its more for the sake of good sportsmanship. You dont go to a football game and not shake the other teams hand at the end because your one of your player was hurt or doing poorly.

I highly doubt that you're going to play a game when 20% of your team or more doesn't even appear to the game at all or suddenly walks off the lawn because they stop caring mid game. I at least never heard something like that ever happened.

Maybe that's because the players are not assigned randomly to the teams like in solo queue.
And that's exactly the breaking point: In preformed teams, the team carries the risk of it's members as a whole, because they can decide whether they take a player or not. In solo queue, that's not the case at all and thus, you cannot blame it on the team for having such a player.

Besides, you are arguing against the wrong end. The team with the advantage would be the one interrupting the game and trying to make it less lopsided if it was interested in good sportsmanship, not the one with the disadvantage. They would bench some of their own players or lend some to the other team. Needless to say, if it's about millions of dollars, good sportsmanship does not really matter very much anymore.

Sportsmanship is all about fairness, not about "giving your best and shake hands afterward". That's why you don't let cripples compete with "intact" people, that's just not sportsmanlike. According to you, it would be perfectly fine to put everyone, men, women, cripples, kids, lightweight, heavyweight etc into the same league, just shake hands afterwards. You gave your best, tough luck you got no chance to begin with.

Sorry, that's a very twisted idea of sportsmanship you got there.

When I say good game at the end of the match it is a gesture of courtesy to my opponents. It's a long held sporting tradition to shake the other team's hand and say "good game". I grew up playing baseball and soccer where we'd do this at the end of every game, no matter how badly a team played. It seems to have lost it's roots in good sportsmanship in the online environment unfortunately.

I completly agree. Gg means good game. It always has. You newfags can't come change that four vs five is not gg its bg..