Do you resign when you lose your queen early?

One of my fondest chess memories is a tournament game where I dropped my queen on move 17 (long time control, against a much higher rated opponent). I kept-on playing until he dropped his queen back, and eventually managed to win a fierce endgame.

It depends on the game.

From my observation, it seems that resignation upon losing queen is more often a psychological flaw, than an objective evaluation of the position. Some people just do not want to play without a queen, to the point of obsession. Sometimes people resign when queens are traded off early, even in a dynamically balanced position.
This madness is strong with young players. I think it was Tartakower who wrote jokingly that a new learner desperately wants to checkmate the opponent's king, or even better, to capture his queen.

@AACtrl

Good game. I know the feeling when my opponent hangs his queen. I sometimes get overly confident and end up hanging it too lol

@sparowe14

That makes sense. Usually, when you lose a queen, you lose a queen for a piece and players typically don't resign when they lose 2 minor pieces or 1 rook early in the game, even though that's a similar material loss. I also have lots of opponents who think they won my queen when they really traded both their rooks for my queen.

Depends what the time control is

@Autofill said in #4:

Yes since i play rapid
No point wasting time

Lets play a game

@Butcherooooo said in #17:

Lets play a game
Sure
(Very late reply)