Hearthpwn

No f*&king way.

Everytime It's the same friendly greetings.  Such nice words.

Hey! He used the proper form of "your". That's rare.

Sad thing is,  you would never get the chance to say a nice thing like that in reply.
You are already off their friends list before you read the first word.

Why are friends so hard to find :(

My sentiments exactly. It's just not worth it. Recently I beat someone and I hadn't accepted a friend request in a really long time, so I decided I would accept it and actually say something nice, you know - try to make a friend. After all he had a sweet all-gold maly rogue deck. But of course he called me a fa**ot and then removed me from friends before I could tell him I liked his deck.

The hearthstone ladder environment feels extremely immature and toxic sometimes. Sometimes I get mad when I lose too, but humility is a skill which needs to be exercised. If you can't swallow your pride and compliment your opponent once in a while, do you really deserve to be among the higher competition for which you strive?

Your ladder opponents are real people - just like you. You have something incredibly relevant in common with them - a hobby you likely take seriously, spend lots of time on, and are passionate about. Your opponents are much more like you than you think. They're actually friends, not enemies. So be nice to them. And if anyone has the courage to accept or initiate a friend request and attempt, over and over amid the flames, to say something nice - I commend you. Peace

Gotta love it.  I've become friends with players who initially talked trash.  

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No f*&king way.

I've had both experiences; I was playing a Swarm Shaman deck (Get as many guys on the board as you can, then Bloodlust) and had this guy friend me to gush about my deck. Earlier today I got a 30 Druid Card quest so just threw together a ton of cheap druid cards, beat this guy playing Murloc Paladin (Not Anyfin) and got called a F-ing Douchebag.

Eh, who cares.

If it's the same FOTM deck I just hold off on the request for a few hours then accept and swiftly type up a storm of trashtalking before removing; there's nothing sweeter. If it's a deck I don't see every second match then sure, I'll chat for a bit.

lol that child should learn to lose!

But to be IT i always use to accept every friend request, even after a lucky win :D sometimes i get only bad words (and i smile a lot), sometimes (rare times!) i find nice players that just want to talk about last match, deck used or strategy! Nice ppl stats %? 2 on 15+ request on last months!

Yeah. I understand being salty sometimes, but almost every time I accept the friend, it's a bunch of abuse and then they are gone. Very meaningful interaction! 

I risked it the other day, since I was playing a very unique deck so I though he might want to talk about it.

He was nice!!

They usually unfriend before I can respond in any way. 

One time some salty player added me just to message me "garbage"  I said thank you and he is still on my friends list. We spectate each other for free packs to this day. Love is hard to find but it is out there. 

Yeah, I should probably just accept them all and just let the bs slide of me. At the end of the day, who really cares.

I always accept the friend request a few days after the game. They usually forget who you were by then.

I did this to one guy. He forgot who I was and started naming his friends trying to remember who it was. I kept replying "I can't believe you don't know who I am bro". Love trolling the ragers.

I laugh at the people that complain - and keep the ones that don't.

I often friends request people with comments like; "Tough break, or I cant believe that happened" I accept them all because why not!?

I usually add people if I see a cool deck I would like to get to know.
Only once I added someone because I was salty. Lost to someone playing cancer shaman with name "PigGod" (Only Italian people like me have names like that). I just wanted to tell him "Jesus does not love you"

I don't mind adding salty people as well, it's funny to see them rage :D

It's a gamble. Typically it's a good idea to wait a little bit after a request. I found that doing that, most players tend to be nice if they forgot you were the one who shrekt their net-decked try-hard list.