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Just make yourself a nice cup of tea and enjoy the lower lifeformes of heartstone as they try to click a button ^^
It's annoying but people can do what they want with their time each turn. A lot of players get really frustrated and this leads to them making very careless plays or quitting which is why people rope in the first place.
Don't quit next time. Roper 1, OP 0
Missing lethal since June 2015.
Yes such behaviour can be extremely annoying.
Off topic: what the fuck is up with the "no naming and shaming" policy here, its a legitimate complaint against a specific person, which can come and defend it self should he or she see fit to do so. Such policy directly encourages more bad behaviour in my opinion.
I sometimes rope for no obvious reason because i've got something else happening that more urgently needs my attention, like an important call, etc. Usually I think long enough anyway that it doesn't bother me if someone ropes, I always do something else while playing that I can switch attention to.
Wow, you guys really think all players who rope just sits there and wait to be douchebags? It is possible it happens but i rope alot and its always because im thinking about plays... if someone ropes every turn i just do something else their turn thinking that they are taking the game seriously. You have a set time every turn. Its ok to use it lol
They do it so you either get angry or quit, so I make a point of not doing either. I try to use the time productively, I go and take a piss, or hang out some laundry, or do some online banking or catch up with some forum reading or whatever. The worst thing you can do is sit there staring at the screen spamming 'Greetings' that just encourages them all the more.
The only cancer in Hearthstone is its community.
Playing slow is definately something that makes sense at times. You already got a couple of example here, but let me just add to the cases I've been doing it:
1) Playing while teaching a friend (or my friends daughter) to play the game. Rushing the game makes it hard for them to understand what happens.
2) Streaming, literally this means the same as above, you are chatting with your viewers or explaining things while playing
3) Playing at higher ratings.. alot of the high rated games can go quite slow, depending on deck constellations. Good players can often take quite some time to think through variables.
4) Tactic - to try make your opponent hand you the game. Sometimes your opponent can give you an indication he is impatient and rushes play, and then you might just win by playing slow and having him concede. Easy win.
5) To piss someone off that is behaving in a ridicilous or lame fashion. I've had emote-spammers that seem to have a low attention spam, muting them and playing something else on my iPad while watching his frustration grow can be hugely satisfying..
6) Going max timer and slow-playing back to another slow-player can also work quite well, some of them are only there to try troll you but lack the stamina to eat their own medicine, amusingly enough.
At the end of the day it is only annoying if you let it get to you. It can be frustrating, and is rather pointless to slow-play, at times. But it is also a potential tool to be used to your advantage. I mean, you will see slow-play in Chess, Football/Soccer, Tennis, Golf, whatever. It's a viable tactic to be exploited if it makes your opponent frustrated. It can also be a tool that gives you control if you are struggling to keep up.
Mind you, I don't this very often. But don't dismiss it as something only-annoying-and-pointless. It serves a purpose, at the right time.
Saying 'deal with it' isn't defending BM. It's just acknowledging that Blizzard can't do much about it without pouring a ton of resources in (costs that would have to be passed on to the players) so the best response to it is simply to 'deal with it' because in the long term that's the best way to make it go away. If nobody cared about BM, nobody would do it.
The only cancer in Hearthstone is its community.
If a person does it every single turn, it's possible they're being a jerk, sure. It's also important to remember that not everyone who ropes the first turn or even second does so intentionally. I have been waiting for a match to start, and for whatever reason, the queue was longer than normal and during the time I sometimes end up getting a call or something else happens that I'd normally be able to deal with during an opponent's turn or while taking my own. As a result, I could be slow getting to the match. It's happened before and because I accidentally roped on the first turn, my opponent would more often than not do it back to me. Even after expressing the "oops" Emote (Which is so vague to the point of being useless and probably just made my opponent more annoyed since EVERY emote can be taken negatively if you're so inclined to be touchy) my opponent continued to "Rope me back" even though I didn't do it again.
My advice? Just take the bad players in stride and don't let one or two out of a dozen encourage you to adopt their behavior or assume that everyone is like them. It takes everyone to make a good community, but it only takes a few to ruin a community if we let them.
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The only cancer in Hearthstone is its community.
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Use Nozdormu in rouge and Conseal it ^^
It's not abuse. There's a turn timer for a reason. You can use your full turn duration every turn too if you want to and they probably couldn't care less.
The only cancer in Hearthstone is its community.
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It's not that, I get to rope sometimes too, but when it is consistent and they play up all their mana in 5 seconds and just sit and wait till the end of the rope spamming emotes, then that is trolling.
I always rope back (in a very obvious way) the people that rope me. After few turn they stop it.