You're describing what is most likely a priest or warrior bot. Beyond annoying, and like you mentioned for those playing on toasters (like me) the rope can sometimes cause you to disconnect and lose the match. But these people who use the auto-clicker/ or just playing taunts aren't "intentionally" wasting yours or anyones time, they are just abusing the system that Blizzard implemented.
You can't say that experience for Rewards track is highest in Ranked modes followed by saying experience is more for the time spent in-game than it is for actually winning the game. This creates an incentive for those who want to farm gold (or reach 400 without massive time dumps on their own) to make bots or just play the delay game into fatigue.
Blizzard can't ban people for this for one simple reason: They aren't gaining something or getting ahead of someone putting in effort. Take Diablo scoreboards as an example. Bots are regularly banned in that game because they are actually taking a spot from someone who works really hard for it. Hearthstone farmers aren't getting to high or even low Legend.
Heroes of the Storm has something similar to Hearthstone in AI farmers who spam chats (They have their own chat though) looking for willing participants to join one-hour long games in Normal AI to get 1.2 Million Exp per game to get more overall levels for more gold/gems to buy more loot boxes. When people thought they were being banned for this, they raised an awareness to avoid farms that was quickly shutdown by the moderators/developers who said that AI farmers aren't doing anything ban-able and that their bans were because of something else.
You could argue that more packs = more opportunities for better decks but no one knows for sure if they're spending their gold farmed on packs and not just cosmetics.
If you don't want to fight a bot and take a free win, just concede and move on. It's not hard to notice them early. A priest player will most likely be using Renethal + Un'Goro Quest followed by a series of never-ending taunts/healing without attacking anything even with the chance too; a Warrior one is either a bot that will constantly hover over their HP indicated by the red glow around it even after it's been clicked (auto-clicker, you can spot them within seconds), or a Taunt Warrior doing much the same as the priest only with armour instead of heals.
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Obviously I was being hyperbolic in my OP about ip banning people that do this but you could at least ban the bots. It would be so easy to ban people that press the button the same time every round with a 1/10-1/100th second deviation. A high school computer science student could do it! They already keep track of this information in the game too, so they would just have to write a conditional statement that compares button presses using the turn timer. They could at least flag accounts that deviate from the norm, or include a report feature for griefing. Since this is a turn based card game, there's no reason people should be pressing the end turn button with the reaction time of a high level fps pro; so no, it wouldn't affect normal players.
As for people having a right, although I agree with u that there is nothing wrong with someone using their entire turn to make plays/strategize; and there are a lot of high level players that do this. This post is specifically talking about people that intentionally abuse their turn time to waste the other player's time. It would be really easy to differentiate between the two just based off player interaction.
I don't wanna be that guy but some of us have lives, and we don't like playing games that don't respect out time. Idk when it became ok for games to waste the player's time, but this mindset is honestly retarded. Some people want to sit down for a quick game of hearthstone on their phone whether they're on break at work, or on the shitter. This kind of playstyle makes it impossible to play a quick game while you're on a break without autoconceding.
This shit is cancer and it needs to die.
p.s. (hearthstone is incredibly unstable on mobile, so if u tab out for too long or too often your game will crash and you will probably lose)
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I have noticed this new thing since I started playing the game again recently where people intentionally wait out the rope till the last second every turn to intentionally waste your time. Its happened so many times and so consistently for these people that I refuse to believe someone hasn't made a bot that does this automatically. This is such blatant cancer that idk how no one has done anything about it yet, these people NEED to be banned.
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In it's current state the card is complete and utter trash, 5 mana to take up 3 spots on the board with 3/2s is often worse for you than it is for your opponent. On top of that you can easily end up discarding the reward as it's meant to be played in a deck built around discard mechanics. They should just make the card put the portal on the board after you complete the quest or discard it. Honestly you'd probably be better off discarding it than actually playing it.
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This is my new favorite wild deck