Basically well-adjusted human beings communicate with one another. Seeing a behavior (spamming emotes) that seems odd to you, and asking the person why they did it, is a natural and common response. When he got attacked, he wondered if this is a normal thing likely because he'd never seen it before.
I don't have the cards for it but it looks fun to me. Not the kind of deck I'd play too many games in a row of, but a few games in a burst, sure. I also don't see why "I'd prefer to play this other deck" would ever mean "never play this deck", since plenty of people like to switch things up. Maybe your personal opinions don't apply to everyone else?
How can give you 1/2 Like? :)
Basically every online game of any kind involves well-adjusted humans along with poorly-adjusted postpubertal monkeys inadequate beings, and the latter make the former adjust themselves more. That's why I assume my in-game communications fit the reality perfectly :) Taking my questions were supposed rhetorical & not expressed negatively, hope I helped TS with self-adjustment :D
But I totally appreciate your position in 2nd paragraph despite its difference with mine.
If you find it worth calling someone a "postpubertal monkey" or even just an "inadequate being", then their behavior is worth criticizing aloud. Consistent statement of "this behavior sucks" from enough people has a strong tendency to make the poorly-adjusted people at first embarrassed (so that they stop doing it publicly), and later on if all goes well, just sometimes, they might stop doing it altogether. =P
When talking to trolls and flamers, being verbally tougher than they are makes It very easy to force them to knock it off.
By the way, some online games have surprisingly pleasant communities, actually. Obviously they still have dirtbags playing them too, but the numbers or ratios aren't the same from game to game. Though I believe I've noticed it tends to correlate with community size; little-played games have nicer communities in many cases. There are exceptions though.
'Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens'
Why emote at all? Why squelching fool's not? Why demanding explanations of emotes? Can't get the point.
Basically well-adjusted human beings communicate with one another. Seeing a behavior (spamming emotes) that seems odd to you, and asking the person why they did it, is a natural and common response. When he got attacked, he wondered if this is a normal thing likely because he'd never seen it before.
This is absolutely and totally normal, even logic. Sorry dude, or not
How is that logic to treat people like criminals just because they enjoy to play simple archetype?
Lie, people don't enjoy to play pirate warrior. They just want to win fast and easily that's it. Watch the game, all (original) cards and archetypes that exist, don't tell me pw is an enjoyable deck to play please
I don't have the cards for it but it looks fun to me. Not the kind of deck I'd play too many games in a row of, but a few games in a burst, sure. I also don't see why "I'd prefer to play this other deck" would ever mean "never play this deck", since plenty of people like to switch things up. Maybe your personal opinions don't apply to everyone else?
Please don't get offended, but this, this is exactly my point.
What the hell does the deck someone is playing have to do with them as a person? Like all PW or Highlander Priest players are idiots while let's say Miracle Rogue or Handlock players are the good ones?
How is that logic to treat people like criminals just because they enjoy to play simple archetype?
The deck doesn't have anything to do with them as a person, and it's not logical to treat people like that. You're replying to man-babies. =P
Some people play classes or decks or whatever according to their personality and playstyle -- I play Warlock/Warrior/Rogue for the same reasons I play Black/Red/Blue in Magic; I like to play games in "mean" and/or underhanded ways =P -- but lots of people don't and even those that do will also play things outside their comfort zone from time to time. I play every class sometimes even though I'm not a huge fan of Druid, Paladin or Priest.
I am not blaming a player for competing for prize but prize and title shouldn't be only motivation for playing a game. You can also reach legend with your own deck it's not impossible. Isn't that the real enjoy of competing at something? Bring your own stuff and win? What's the point of being rank 1 legend with same Jade Druid as other 10 million players are playing, same Reno Priest, same PW? That isn't even unique anymore and it all loose sense.
For ban thing: why wouldn't you ban a player that acts like a dick and insults you. I mean I know you can just kick him out of the friends list or don't accept friend request at all but it can become really frustrating for you to face that kind of people from day to day and at the end you won't even allow people to be friends with you (even if they are friendly oriented) which is definitely bad for the game. Other games have ban why Hearthstone wouldn't have it?
Why do you assume they only play aggro netdecks, just because you met them literally one time while they were playing an aggro netdeck? Furthermore why does anyone assume that people who play top aggro decks don't also enjoy those decks? Again, Magic, the longest-running CCG of all time, has a "class" entirely composed of aggro cards; people enjoy aggro. If there's a problem with aggro in Hearthstone, it's game balancing, not player mentality.
The entire setup of Hearthstone is that you can't talk to anyone unless you want to. There's very little incentive to implement a behavior system in a game where every player is blocked by default. In other games you have to block players in order to not listen to their drivel, so banning people for doing things they can expose players to without their consent makes perfect sense. It's not the same here. They COULD implement rules on behavior, but is there much point? Seems like they'd just piss everyone off more; people don't have to listen to it in the first place.
Imo Razakus Reno Priest is the same netdeck BS as Pirate Warrior. What's the difference between those two? Playing control doesn't make you smart player automaticaly. Do you really think those brainless netdeckers play only Pirate Warrior and other face decks? No, they play whatever is number 1 deck at that time. So it shouldn't surprise you if you see someone who plays some 'smart' deck start sending you rude messages even when they win. That kind of players play just to reach legend with no specific reason and to achieve something in their miserable life. I may be rude now and act like a kid but that is the sad thruth of all games not just Hearthstone.
Why would you blame a player for playing an optimal strategy in a competitive game that rewards you for winning?
And Hearthstone is available for anyone (since there is still no banning from blizzard) and has a lot of players right now so that is becoming regular thing now sadly.
...Why would Blizzard ban anyone in a game where all communication and behavior outside of the game mechanics is something you have to opt into?
It really catches me off-guard that such a cheap deck can actually beat a control deck...
It really catches me off-guard when I read stuff like this... what does the cost of deck has to do with anything, and why is control supposed to win? The only thing that triggers me more than Pirate Warrior are statements like this...
It's really funny isn't it? Very few people in the Hearthstone fanbase -- the CCG newbies I guess -- seem to even have a baseline understanding of how these games work. It's not entirely their fault since aggro has been too strong in this game for a while. But like in Magic, Red, one of the five colors (the closest equivalent to a class in that game) is entirely based around aggro. One of the most influential cards in CCG history -- Lightning Bolt -- comes from that color.
Not to mention how equally cancerous control metas are, where games last 10 million years and everyone does nothing until someone does... SOMETHING. And then everyone just responds to it in a chain.
When I come across a PW, it triggers me very hard. But then again, it reached rank 5/4 so it's just as viable as other decks that reach the rank. When I lose to PW, I get very mad and try to friend them so I can just say what I think and then remove him again. For example, when he plays N'Zoth's First Mate after Bloodsail Cultist!!!!! And I still lose to this! It really catches me off-guard that such a cheap deck can actually beat a control deck... What I hate most though is when a friend uses PW in a friendly battle!! ARGH......
I find it really funny that your member title is Southsea Deckhand.
Yes it normal. I despise that braindead deck more than anything and would never touch it. I would do the same if I met you with my Razakus Priest.You deserved it !
I once had someone on my friends list get snippy with me after we played my 80g friend-quest game where I used PW because I also had a pirate quest.
I literally gave this guy 80 gold, and he still felt the need to criticize my deck choice. Even after I told him why, he still told me I could have played a weaker pirate deck to give him a chance to win. In a game where winning literally didn't count for anything.
First of all it is a braindead deck, even more so "than most people think". You either tell yourself that it's not to make you feel better cos of playing it, or you have a different idea of braindead than most other people, but either way it's abnormally easy to play deck (pretty much brainless), with very few decisions that happen to be very obvious and easy if you have any form of experience with any card game before, ending the match before anything can actually happen in half your matches (the reason why PW has so high win rate).
You are allowed to play such deck and there are no rules against it (if anything I think Blizzard is pushing them to appeal to more people that don't know how to play yet wish to climb), but just as you are allowed to click face and win in 5-6 turns half your matches without making a single decision - people are allowed to use emotes. Just like that guy has to deal that people will play bot-like decks for the end of time, as long as they are viable, you should deal with the fact that people will use emotes on you and be toxic.
On top of it you didn't squelch him, but got irritated by it and added him to basically ask for flaming. What did you expect? Oh hey mate, good game, let me tell you the reason why I emoted: *explains why*. No? He will insult... no need even to be smart to figure that out.
Agreed that emotes are irritating tho, I wish there was auto-squelch option like in Gwent, absolutely no reason not to add such option, especially since so many people ask for it and since emotes are only used to BM and nothing else, ever (yes yes someone sometimes maybe says well played once a year cos he thinks so).
Anyways, you played bot-like deck, almost won on a damn turn 5, didn't squelch but instead added a guy to ask him why he emoted... Well played!
You three are in dire need some life experience. o_0
I mean I'll be honest: I emote constantly, but it's not toxic or spam, but actual reactions to what's going on. Occasionally I get a little sassy with a good ol' Warlock "Extraordinary" after my opponent gets something terrible off of Firelands Portal or something, but mostly I'm nice, and I figure that's not what we mean when we say spamming emotes right? xP
I don't know if it's normal or not with Pirate Warrior or other overpowered (or perceived to be overpowered) decks, but for example when I slapped Aggro Druid together for a friend to prove a point and they played it for a few games, she didn't have much if any trouble with people spamming or any other form of BM, even though she pulled off the turn 1 Flappy Bird in multiple games. Point being I think the Aggro and Jade Druid decks are pissing people off more right now (or were recently anyway) than Pirate Warrior is, and it seems like the average player doesn't mind if you're polite. Me and most of my friends say "Well played" and stuff like that at the end of basically every game so I think that helps encourage stuff.
There are always toxic players though, and yeah I imagine decks like Pirate Warrior or the top Druid decks, which people get sick of dealing with, tend to cause this more as there's a knee-jerk rage reaction in some people dealing with that stuff... but at the end of the day it's usually more just poor sportsmanship than anything else; if there's anything wrong with those decks then it's the fault of the developers, not the players. People will play good decks.
Sounds very silly though since you weren't even playing the conventional version. Not gonna lie the thread title made me very curious. xD
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Basically well-adjusted human beings communicate with one another. Seeing a behavior (spamming emotes) that seems odd to you, and asking the person why they did it, is a natural and common response. When he got attacked, he wondered if this is a normal thing likely because he'd never seen it before.
...Why would Blizzard ban anyone in a game where all communication and behavior outside of the game mechanics is something you have to opt into?
I mean I'll be honest: I emote constantly, but it's not toxic or spam, but actual reactions to what's going on. Occasionally I get a little sassy with a good ol' Warlock "Extraordinary" after my opponent gets something terrible off of Firelands Portal or something, but mostly I'm nice, and I figure that's not what we mean when we say spamming emotes right? xP
I don't know if it's normal or not with Pirate Warrior or other overpowered (or perceived to be overpowered) decks, but for example when I slapped Aggro Druid together for a friend to prove a point and they played it for a few games, she didn't have much if any trouble with people spamming or any other form of BM, even though she pulled off the turn 1 Flappy Bird in multiple games. Point being I think the Aggro and Jade Druid decks are pissing people off more right now (or were recently anyway) than Pirate Warrior is, and it seems like the average player doesn't mind if you're polite. Me and most of my friends say "Well played" and stuff like that at the end of basically every game so I think that helps encourage stuff.
There are always toxic players though, and yeah I imagine decks like Pirate Warrior or the top Druid decks, which people get sick of dealing with, tend to cause this more as there's a knee-jerk rage reaction in some people dealing with that stuff... but at the end of the day it's usually more just poor sportsmanship than anything else; if there's anything wrong with those decks then it's the fault of the developers, not the players. People will play good decks.
Sounds very silly though since you weren't even playing the conventional version. Not gonna lie the thread title made me very curious. xD