I have never met anyone who plays at my speed or even close to it. All my games ends with them taking 2-3 times longer than me? I have that deck tracker timer on so its easy to see.
Why is that? Im not even trying to play fast. Its like their brain wont activate unless the rope is burning. No matter how slow they are, they will never miss to play out their round, sure i might see the rope every turn but sure as rain they will manage to spend their mana.
From my understanding most hearthstone players are kinda old, working many jobs at once and feeding their children whilst playing? Did i get that right?
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Most of the time I assume the other player is busy wiping.
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OP is either a troll or a five year old
Me when I’m playing paladin and green card goes brrrrrrr
spotted the slow player lol, u like the rope that much?
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Ah
It’s a troll. Bridge in disrepair, eh?
why u defending slow people
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Having played mtg for years i simply cannot play slow. The match clock in mtg put a habit in me to play fast. 
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I have several things I wanted to say in reply to this, but upon further deliberation I would prefer to keep the ability to post links.
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People will slow play if you’re playing a class they don’t like to punish you or slow play hoping you’ll concede so they have a higher WR at the loss of time efficiency. Usually people do the latter when they start taking a lot of losses playing legitimately and find out that they don’t fit into their MMR.
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Also xp is generated by time spent in matches, so no matter if they win or lose, the most efficient action to take is to spend as long as they can in every match to max out the possible xp per match. Not the only reason people do this, but it is one contributing factor to aid in supplemental rationale.
Some players, incredibly, want to scan their hand for other options than the most obvious play. Sometimes players are figuring out if they have lethal in the next three or four turns. That’s why it can take almost the full clock to decide whether to trade or put 3 damage face when you’re on 27.
It’s not always this. Some players just like to watch YouTube or something while they’re playing because they can’t/don’t want to concentrate.
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Cause they’re Hearthstoned and not Hearthyeeted?
I will never understand how or why this ever was or is still an intentionally built mechanic.
Because its better than only gaining it from winning. The old system was was terrible, you had to win like 3 matches just to get, what, 10 gold? There wasnt an xp system or reward track back then so it was purely gold for buying free packs and that was about all there was… and for folk like me, it’d take a year to earn enough wins to afford like 3 or 4 packs. Very punishingly cruel system to those that didnt buy with money enough packs to have good enough cards to craft a deck to win more regularly.
So getting xp towards the reward tracks each time they reset the tracks based on time spent in matches, means you dont have a cruel system to the folk with small collections and unable to win. Also if you give a flat value for win and loss, you end up with exploiters just auto queuing to auto concede to spam the minimum amount of xp gains over and over again, paired with others that auto queue but hoping to get paired with their own set of bots doing the auto conceding. Like a 75/25 Win/Win in that scenario, and the game is flooded with these exploiters. None of which is enjoyable to the actual humans trying to play having to go thru dozens of matches before one doesnt auto concede on them again.
The auxillery benefit of this choice of xp based on time spent is that is eliminates the above scenario being a bot farming tactic but instead forces the botting folk into a more detectable scripted behavior. They take their time on ban waves in favor to build a profile on the suspected botting accounts and make detecting others like it easier over time. This practice makes it where when the do a mass banning of accounts for the botting it forces the ones selling the bot software to change yet again to go undetected or to give up on the constant adjusting and just close up their shop instead.
The answer is right in front of your face. Most people don’t use a deck tracker or any other kind of meta gaming tools like hearthstonetopsdecks or vicious syndicate. Most people log in once a month, get owned and emoted, then log out. So in short; you take it alot more seriously then they do.
I get that almost anything they do would be just as bad, but promoting gameplay that intentionally draws out your matches just feels and sounds disgusting. Maybe it should be based on how many games you play that last an X number of turns or X number of cards played, but it’s based on time, specifically how long your match goes on. It’s boring.
it eventually caps out so it isnt like two ppl can go afk and gain nearly infinite xp… its just to get the most xp while either afk botting, or half attention playing. others are known to do this roping just to illicit others into ragequitting
Yeah. I never see people from top 1k come down here to complain about slow opponents. It’'s always some schmuck that plays the most obvious thing every turn (bonus point if he complains about losing a lot)
For me, I am most often playing while also navigating multiple tabs and reading. If I sense that my opponent is playing slowly, I tend to care less about being considerate to save their time. If my opponent seems to be playing at a reasonable speed, I’ll reciprocate.
I assume people are working, tabbing out, having connection issues, or roping whenever they’re playing especially slowly.
Look, I’m a Mage. It takes a long time to consider all my discover options.
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