Was playing against Shaman combo and they had no way to kill me. I was sitting comfortably at over 90hp/armor. I was going to gain another 50ish armor. I had board control and from what I know of the deck he had no outs. Even if he cleared the board with Expanse, he was facing down an enormous Starship that was summoning twice and would easily wipe his board with the Warlock Starship piece.
The only thing I could think of was that he was going to try practicing the APM to get the combo off. When he tried to do it he ran out of time loooong before he started doing damage.
So, my question is, is there a time where you know you are dead to rights but stick it out anyway?
If my opponent is playing a degenerate/brainless meta deck, I’ll absolutely concede once it’s clear I lost. I won’t give them the satisfaction of getting the killing blow and completing quests while playing decks that take no skill to play.
It’s really unlikely in today’s Hearthstone due to how lopsided synergies can make a game (like what you describe with over one hundred armor.)
But I’ve certainly played tones of games in the last where I was certain I was going to lose but I stuck with it and some insane highroll won me the game.
That’s the downside to the RNG casino, if you want to maximize your chances, you should never concede no matter how hopeless.
It might not look like it, but every little win counts in the long term. It’s like the supermarkets when they put a price on .99 just to profit 1 cent on people who aren’t waiting for that 1 cent back. It adds up with the volume they sell, just like the wins and the MMR gains from those wins add up in the long-term.
Although, to be fair, I’m not THAT patient. I’ll do that in top 200, but I’ll also concede when I’m dead on the board, making sure not to offend my opponents hoping they’ll miss the lethal.
No, they won’t miss that lethal. They’re not top 200 because they miss lethals. Even if it happens once or twice in 3 months, it’s a game I should have lost, and I’ll take the L and learn from it (or at least try, I don’t see much learning for me lately).
If you knew any of the retail store owners, you could ask them and you’ll see that MY answer is MORE correct, by noticing that most of them told mine.
Most of the people don’t know and don’t care about human psychology. The ones who wouldn’t admit to stealing 1 cent from lazy, careless people, are ESPECIALLY not gonna know about foot in the door or anchoring or whichever manipulative marketing technique that is. If they feel like they have to lie to my face, they’re clueless about all of that. People who know psychology are brutally honest.
And anyone with retail ownership experience noticed the very first day that their profits in the end turned out to be twice as big as the % they hoped to earn, precisely because people don’t tend to wait for the lowest coins. Multiply 0,01 by tens of thousands of products being sold every day and see why retail really earns as much as it does.
At least that’s how it used to be while monetary payment was preferred. Now it really doesn’t make sense in most of the countries, only the less developed ones, where people still pay in cash instead of cards. But it was a decent analogy to use (or at least the best one I could think of in short time I had to post the reply).