I can walk to get a glass of water while still playing on mobile, but I can’t on my laptop. Is Microsoft discriminating against me?
Don’t be a dolt lol.
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80+20+2= over 100%! pls nerf this new math. XD
Well nobody outside of probably top 10 would ever use a notebook to track and even if you could I think that too should be banned in tournaments. The reality is when I hit legend I just don’t see the point in trying to rank, I am not good enough to make worlds or masters or whatever and so when things like deck tracker exist and I see that as minorly cheating, like it does things for you like remembers which secrets could still be in circulation, these are things we all have the mental capacity to do, but when you’re thinking of that at the same time counting if you should tutor out a card, counting damage on the board, deciding which 5 cards to play that turn in some instances. Sometimes that sort of information slips your mind. People aren’t playing most optimally almost never, even in legend.
Its not cheating, not even minorly. Blizzard has authorised the use of deck trackers, therefore it cannot be considered cheating as it is allowed.
You dont have to like that fact, but you do need to accept it.
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there’s “purists” in every game. for the most part blizz has ignored them. they released vanilla wow classic and listened to those people and almost everyone stopped playing and then those people left to play on illegal pirate servers. they’re rereleasing wow’s first expansion and there’s tons of changes those people don’t agree with and again they’re threatening to go back to pirate servers if blizz doesn’t do what they want. but at this point, blizz doesn’t care. they’re such a minority of a minority that blizz would lose tons of money catering to them, which would be idiotic obv. lol. imagine they made hsreplay bannable. the backlash. lol
Can you not use that logic to justify anything that gives someone an advantage in a game? Mutli-boxing, botting, what have you?
it is the same as playing a shooter game with crossplay, players with a console play mostly on a tv with low hertz vs a pc player with a perfect gaming monitor. so pc has advantage.
someone said not everyone can afford a gaming pc so have an disadvantage. this is the same for players who used an controller in cod mobile, so they disabled it to make a balance. and thats good. (i never played the game)
i am a fair gamer and i don’t want to use an back ground program, i am afraid for a ban. if it was fine then they had build it in game already, i think IF pro players didn’t use it they had banned the program from the game.
they should be programming that players with and players without the decktracker are separated from each other. same for crossplay in call of duty, you can put it off also.
and i saw that decktracker showing numbers on opponents hand in which round the card was drawn or it was in opening hand, something you can never ever do when you use a note, if you have to write this down also it costs even more time. and hard to count because all card backs are the same.
and more games have options to have an advantages over others, soundcard, expensive headphones, better pc is higher graphics. but some put everything low because you can see more and better fps (long ago around cod 2). field of view in some games. as ppl said, (i use 80 fov in cod because i want to experience console play) without buying one.
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They should just implement an in-game deck tracker. 
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There are lots of streamers who don’t use this particular overlay and track it just fine. There are some (like Kibler) who don’t use the overlay that shows them what “created by” cards the opponent is still holding. They do just fine at remembering those as well.
It’s possible, just not for everyone. In this respect the trackers actually level the playing field.
Personally I get the most use out of trackers with, in order:
- Remembering played cards. I will forget what cards have already been played. My shirt term memory sucks thanks to way too many years spent doing way too many drugs. In longer games I’ll easily lose track of if I played both of X or if one of those was past game.
Don’t even try to make me remember how many bombs are in my deck!
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Secret tracking. For the same reasons as above I have trouble remembering which secrets I’ve already tested for. Sometimes I’ll forget about a secret existing altogether (like shadow clone, which is practically never main decked).
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Tracking “created by” cards my opponent is still holding. Knowing they can’t have a board clear because they’re holding a dragon is a huge benefit. See above for why I can’t do it without a tracker.
My win rate is much higher on PC vs Mobile. The tracker definitely lets me play at my potential.
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multiboxing and botting are not the same thing at all. in wow multiboxing is allowed. and even when they updated the thing to say what software wasn’t allowed they made sure to make very clear that multiboxing itself is acceptable.
Do you multi-box, out of curiosity?
At any rate, my point is if you are going to throw out the logic that anything that gives any amount of advantage shouldn’t be allowed, the game would essentially be unplayable. And so, I’d say this logic isn’t useful in this discussion.
i have a literal potato that can barely run one instance of retail or classic. so no, i haven’t ever boxed. that doesn’t change blizz’s stance either way though.
No, it certainly does not. Albeit, Blizzard has recently prohibited the use of some third-party programs in regard to multi-boxing. Blizzard’s official stance also does not negate the many arguments against multi-boxing. But that’s for another discussion that’s been beaten to death.
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it was to try to combat bots. there’s plenty of more expensive things that boxers can use without getting in trouble but are too much of an investment for bots to use.
Alas, it did affect many multi-boxers. 
Edit: I mean, real people.
it ruined casual boxing, yes. but it didn’t get rid of the 40 man mega boxers that make people so angry in wpvp. 
but yeah we know where each other stand, now. we can let this one go if you want. lol
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It’s not unfair if everyone has access to it. At that point your just gimping yourself for the sake of a perceived idea of sportsmanship.
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Mobile platform players don’t have access to the tracker and yet they are matched against those who use trackers.
Again, it’s very bad taste of Blizzard to “allow” a 3rd party performance enhancing software for some of its players.
Blizzard has never promoted such software to allow players disadvantaged gain awareness of the existence of such softy, nor did Blizzard give players with 3rd party software a different treatment in match making.
Allowing athletes with enhancement drug to compete with those who don’t is not sportsmanship like.
Expect it’s not cheating. It allows you to remember information you SHOULD know at all times. Remembering information isn’t a skill anyways. It provides no advantage, it only saves you time.
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Tell that to poker tournament or casino, can you bring a card counting software to the game. Or ask golf player, can he bring a software to calculate the angles and paths before each strike.