It is all in the details. How and when does the opponent concede?
There are some Master-level players (I play Azul and Carcassonne, both 2p) who concede the moment their winning chances go down to 0%, and not a moment earlier. This I can understand (although one time one of these Masters conceded a game to me when they were 100% winning - they just had miscounted the points - but this, of course, is not my problem )
However, when somebody is in a hopeless position, plays it out and then decides to concede 2 tiles before the end just to avoid the discomfort of seeing the final point difference, I view it as rage-quitting. Since the "concede" button is available, the player is well within their right to use it as they please, so I don't get offended or anything - a win is a win is a win and I'll take it. However, it does seem like a waste of time to me: either concede early or play it out and try to find the best moves anyway.
In Azul specifically, I don't witness a lot of conceded games from opponents, neither in simple games nor Arena. And most of the time when they do concede, it is immediately after seeing the runout of round 5 and realizing that the game is unwinnable, which seems like an OK moment to concede.
There are some Master-level players (I play Azul and Carcassonne, both 2p) who concede the moment their winning chances go down to 0%, and not a moment earlier. This I can understand (although one time one of these Masters conceded a game to me when they were 100% winning - they just had miscounted the points - but this, of course, is not my problem )
However, when somebody is in a hopeless position, plays it out and then decides to concede 2 tiles before the end just to avoid the discomfort of seeing the final point difference, I view it as rage-quitting. Since the "concede" button is available, the player is well within their right to use it as they please, so I don't get offended or anything - a win is a win is a win and I'll take it. However, it does seem like a waste of time to me: either concede early or play it out and try to find the best moves anyway.
In Azul specifically, I don't witness a lot of conceded games from opponents, neither in simple games nor Arena. And most of the time when they do concede, it is immediately after seeing the runout of round 5 and realizing that the game is unwinnable, which seems like an OK moment to concede.