Rant: Most slow players aren't intentionally trying to frustrate you.

Have in mind you are talking to people that get easily offended when their opponent uses emotes. You are expecting way too much.

Something that happens to me a lot is I'll smack the end turn button and think it went through then get up to get a drink or something, only to come back and realize that the click didn't actually process. I feel bad every time.

my wife started playing hearthstone before I did... she'd be sitting on the couch on her ipad yelling at the people for being so slow, a week later and once I had a deck built we played a game vs each other - I would have my turn finished on the computer and my turn would be over, and it would be 20 sec delayed on her ipad.

I've come across this motto: If everyone you meet is an asshole, you're the asshole.

Likewise: If everyone you meet is lagging, you're the lagger

Agreed, as someone who's made it to legend and goes to the rope semi-often, when I see a rank 15 making a complaint thread about this, the only thing that comes to mind is "maybe you'd be higher ranked if you actually thought through your turns a little bit".

Also, for the people who actually are being assholes, squelch and alt-tab into reddit works great

"TL;DR: Always assume the best out of people, it makes you a better person in general, makes you less likely to get frustrated, and it'll help you read your opponent, leading to your victory."

This. SO much this.

Considering all of my options before making plays, even obvious ones, is my no. 1 Hearthstone rule.

Also, it's the rule I ignore the most. And usually the rule that I swear to remember forever after losing a game because I've broken it.

I was watching some streamer who I guess had made a fresh account so he was Rank 22 fighting another Rank 20+ player and bitching about how long the other guy took to play cards. "Oh, was that so hard? SERIOUSLY, was that so hard?" I turned off the stream (I typically do once streamers start their salty routine, which many do..) and switched to someone else. Does this guy realize that someone who is Rank 22 at this point probably is a newer player since if you play a reasonable amount of constructed you would start at least around Rank 20 after the reset? And as a newer player, do you remember how you kinda had to like read each card to figure out what it does? I mean.. seriously, get over yourself.

Yes, it's annoying if I meet someone who is purposefully BM-ing delays. It happens so infrequently. Sometimes I meet someone who takes a long time to take turns. Sometimes I take a long time to take turns because I am trying out everything in my mind. It's okay by me. I often regret rushing into a play much more often than I do taking a step back to think about the consequences.

Indeed. I'm a pretty deep thinker/slow player myself. And I just recently watched the videos from Hyped when he played in the Soulfire Masters tournament. He's considering everything. Takes his whole turn just to decide whether to play a turn 1 Leper Gnome or coin Defias. And then you realize...man there's actually a LOT of things to consider here. And well, he won the tournament.

TL;DR: Always assume the best out of people

agree wholeheartedly, the opposite has only negative effects, there is absolutely no reason to intentionally make your own experience worse

there is actually no way to BM in hearthstone if the person who is supposed to be BMd is positive about what is happening apart from abusing bugs

The only time it ever bothers me is when someone makes a bunch of moves, brings me to low health, waits for a good ten seconds letting me think "Do I live? Did I win?" and then busting out a spell that does the final damage to kill me. All the other examples I am fine with. I might be annoyed if they do it frequently, but I sometimes take a while to consider my options as well. Everybody does. But to delay lethal after it looks like you have already made your turn's moves? No legitimate reason for that to happen, none. It is especially aggravating if I would have lethal next turn and I get hopeful that maybe I don't suck for once.

I would like to at least try and view the world in some kind of positive light every now and then thank you, I have enough problems going on in my head without someone fucking toying with me.

I think people take this game far to personally. Just relax, take a deep breath, and play the game. The amount of rage a damn card game induces is ridiculous.

Personally I have a dual monitor setup, so I can just reddit or pick a song while I wait.

Don't care what the other persons reason is, its just annoying. But im not gonna cry over it or rage at the guy.

Nope they're assholes.

Fuck this, get mad.

Personally, I think my moves out if I can and my turns start to take longer at around 5 Mana. Until then mostly "drop any card you can play" with maybe one alternative play.

Sometimes my opponent will throw a "Well met" or something like that my way, so I know that my opponent thinks I'm taking to long, to which I apologize. It's just when I play my hunter deck and it's around 8 mana I usually have about 3-4 different ways to go forward, all of which have different consequences and possible counters. Thinking that through costs a bit of time.

On the other hand I've run into a miracale rouge once, that just spammed "I'll be your death" until the fuse was halfway through and then tried the miracle. Fuse ran out before the last attack could hit and I was one turn away from winning myself. :D

From what I noticed it's mostly in the lower ranks where people care about the time the opponent takes, and I was the same way, it's just as you go up in rankings you try to think your moves more and just assume the oponent is doing the same thing (even something like a face hunter still has to think about what he's going to do if he wants to climb the ladder)

Legit... I played next to my buddy for a few months and he was CONSTANTLY burning the rope and even scrambling to make a play then. Almost every game he'd take his entire turn at least twice, sometimes more. He just genuinely could not decide on a play, it's just not that easy for some people to gauge what is best.

Also agree with OP saying stop being so easily offended too, it's like the majority of reddit users especially in the past year or two are seriously the most PC, thinnest skinned weenies on the planet. Toughen the fuck up cause there are far more offensive things in life than a guy spamming one of 6 emotes in a video game and taking a long time to play. How it so deeply affects your emotional well-being, I will never understand.

I'm an extremely fast thinker who often tunnel vision my way into stupid losses. So playing it safe and slow is definitely not something to a shamed of.

Still, sometimes I'm just trying to finish a game and the opponent takes 10 times more time is quite frustrating..........

I'm actually working on playing slower because I feel like I'll have more success. I tend to hammer out my turns really fast and a lot of times I'll end up smacking myself because I could have done a better play if I just thought about my turn more.

Now I force myself to slow down and really think about every possible combination of actions I can take each turn and I'm winning more games

I dont get offended by it but I get annoyed when people take their whole turn to think every time...that's my probably though so I'm not really pissed at my opponent.

The only thing that offends me in this game is when I say well played and concede when I know they have leathle and their response is "Thank you".

I must apologize that I constantly am doing something else while playing and totally space out sometimes until the fuse comes up.

That's my bad. I'm a bad person.

The thing with this game is that it is strategic to do your stuff and then wait for the rope to burn always.

If you end the turn you give away information about your hand, ending the turn after you did your play immediately implies you have nothing left to play.

Sometimes late at night I doze off during my opponents move, and then I suddenly wake up and it's my turn. Sorry.

I tend to take longer turns when i have the coin or innervates in my hand as they can greatly increase the number of available plays to consider.

I wish Blizzard would introduce a Blitz mode, it would get rid of this entire argument in a moment and also make Hearthstone far less time-consuming. They probably won't make one though to stop people farming gold from arenas quicker unfortunately.

Or maybe it's Noxious playing blind folded. Look it up.

i have about 1500 wins in ladder/casual and about 500 in arena so its safe to say iv played over 4000 matches...in my experience not to many ppl take long turns and only very very few ppl are BM me....i think many ppl just exagerate saiyng this happens often....

P.S. english is not my first langage

I never think people are being slow to intentionally frustrate me, not usually anyways.

I just think people are slow because they're mentally retarded and must take seventy god damn years to make a choice in some random casual game. That, or they're probably only halfway paying attention or something. I dunno. Probably the former. I really, really, really, REALLY wish the default choice timer was 15 seconds.

I sometimes go make a coffee between turns.

Every turn? That's stupid. You may have to take some time to plan things out, but you should have a plan for all of your cards based upon your draw and a couple of likely plays your opponent will make. You don't need to build your strategy from the ground up with each turn.

I want a better mechanic to punish people for this. Though it'd just probably just reward aggro and make control and midrange harder to pilot.

You probably like to think that you're Lex Luthor calculating nⁿ iterations of possible game state by going to time each of your turns, but it's more likely that you're just bad at threading multiple strategies together.

P.S: Suck it haters

Yes, some slow players are intentionally slow playing you.

Source: I slow play people who BM. But hey, you guys don't want auto-squelch.

I'm gonna dissent on this one. The average speed of play is grotesquely slow, and I'm really not sure why. This is especially annoying in ranked.

It's not the late game turns or anything like that that gets complained about. It's playing against druid and you drop something to obviously be wrath'd, and the opponent taking nearly to the rope to make that call. I'll see the cards they are playing, I'll know their list, and I will KNOW there is no other play. Not think: KNOW.

So why does it take sooo soooo long?

It's you sitting there at 10 health and the miracle rogue waits so so so long to triple leeroy with no taunts... it's like... did you forget how much damage it does? Surely you have played the deck before? Or is every MR I face a first-timer lol?

Hell, I'll go as far as to say that if you keep on playing the game when you have 100% lost, that's a sort of waste of time and just as annoying as taking forever to make basic, dead obvious plays. I'm at 20 health, have lethal next turn, and aggro hunter is topdecking. Like...what the hell are you going to topdeck for 20 damage? Just concede, there is no reason to play that turn.

You might say "Oh it's one turn dude, who cares?" "Oh he's just DOUBLE CHECKING that leeroy does 18 when attacking face three times!"

Yeah, but it adds up. If you are grinding to higher rank you could be playing a shitton more games if this kind of behavior was discouraged.

I've suffered from server lag so much that I usually assume the other guy has the same problem, but sometimes it's obvious the guy is just slow.

add a 'chess clock' , 10 minutes to each player

your times up? you lose

100 times this. I'm getting more annoyed by people complaining about it than people actually taking turn that take too long.

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the most annoying thing I find is that of the slow players the majority plays aggro.

i mean, WHAT IS THE POINT?? YOURE DECK IS FAST! THE ENTIRE POINT OF YOUR PLAYSTYLE IS BEING FAST!!! SO WHY THE [swears] ARE YOU SO [swears] SLOW?!?!???!!!

On an additional Priest Note, we dont try to Mind Game Ragnaros, Cairne or Ysera on turn 3. And many of us feel absolutely terrible when it happens. So dont hate us for RNG landing a good draw. Hate yourself, for playing warrior and having a deck thats 80% legendaries.

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Your premise is right on--if I see activity on your board, like targeting or hovering over cards or what, you're fine with me. But if it's a minute into your turn and I haven't seen anything, I'm spamming the "greetings" emote until your fuse runs out. I don't want to win a game just because you're away from your keyboard.

Fantastic post. I strongly agree. Personally I don't care much about whether my opponent is BMing or thinking hard. It's hard to decide 100% anyway. In either case waiting is pretty much the only alternative, and most hearthstone players should be content with that after a while, I guess. Think about the mathup, your decks weaknesses and strengths, and think about what you'll do the next sunny day!

Maybe this is a dick move but sometimes i get caught up in others things during a game. For example, I pre plan my move next turn then make myself a snack during my opponents turn and the start of mine. I don't want to trade minions on an empty stomach.

Thanks for the "TL;DR" I've never actually looked at games like that. I always have played games thinking everyone was worse than me, and in a lot of 1v1 games and shit that really worked.

I don't know if it was my attitude, but I always felt that the worse at the game I thought they were the better I would be. Recently, it hasn't been working as much as it used to...

It changes a lot on the way I think about things... not just video games.

Seriously though, thanks.

Edit: Btw, whats with the crazy amount of downvoting in this thread?

Yea but when you take 60 seconds or more to figure out that Leeroy + Shadowstep + Shadowstep with 8 mana equals 18 damage and I'm sitting at 16 then you're doing it intentionally.

Scenario: Zoo plays Voidwalker. I play a Knife Juggler. On his 3nd turn, he uses all of the turn time, then Coins + Sun Clerics it into 2/4 to kill my Juggler. On a scale out of ten, how right am I to threaten him and maximize BM?

you're being overly optimistic, the fact is theres a lot of people who are going afk or alt tabbing during the game and just being lazy about it at the expense of your time. Someone taking 2 minutes on turn 1 does not mean they're carefully considering which 1 drop to use, its more likely they queued and went afk or alt tabbed to do something else then came back at some point during turn 1.

That isn't a good thing unless you're masochistic and somehow like your time being wasted. Also unless you're in a tournament you really dont need to be sitting there agonizing over a play in casual or low ranked, as the outcome isnt really that important.

I ran into a thing on my macbook last night where after taking some action (hero power, play a minion, aim a minion to attack) the game would completely stall. Sometimes it would come back a few seconds later. Once it stalled the whole turn and I missed 2 free minion shots to the face. I tried on my PC after dealing with it for a few games and did a 6 win arena run without running into the issue.

I'm sure my opponents were mad for those unnecessarily long turns but I was just as frustrated.

Also I've been in the exact Zoolock situation you describe. Didn't take the whole turn time but I did spend a moment considering potential outcomes based on the opponents likely 1-2 drops and what they might do with the coin.

I'm nearing 4k wins so probably have played around 6k games and the amount of times someone intentionally bm'ed me by threatening/trolling while waiting for the rope was maybe 10 times total - if that. Over the course of 1 year.

I use the opportunity to think about what they might play and how I might react to that or what my next couple of plays may be.

Another thing to take into consideration that seems to have been overlooked a little bit is when the player is playing on an iPad as well.

I play on both my PC and my iPad Mini and even with the iPad on a known good network or 4G it is noticeably slower compared to the PC version. The app itself is slower, not the connection. I'm not sure if the same thing applies to more powerful iPad models but if it is the same expect more players to "take their time" when Hearthstone expands to Android as well.

I can only speak for myself, but I constantly look at imgur and reddit in-between turns.

I like that in the Priest example he doesn't actually have a play, it's just lag.

I can definently understand and respect that it takes time to make some decisions, Trump is an excellent example of this. But it's not cool when you're spending half of your turn watching a Youtube video, and in that case I'll gladly remind my opponent that hey, it's your turn, if it happens on turn one, for example. I often do other things myself when I'm playing HS, and there are times when I don't hear that it's my turn until the time starts ticking out.

I'm not bothered that much by people who play slowly, usually. When my opponent plays too slowly to my taste, I just do other things in the meantime, like browsing reddit or paying more attention to a stream.

I don't know what is going on, but this game hates wireless. Since I started to play on my Microsoft Surface almost every game is very laggy. Playing on my PC - no problem at all...

I played a ranked 17 match as a druid class against a rogue class. I forgot the turn number, but he ended up rage quitting. I couldn't see which was the better play, but what I chose came down to the rope burning. He had out a azure drake with no other minions. I use ironbeak owl and silence his drake. I then use mark of the wild on my owl. I follow up with a naturalize on the azure drake. The rogue had 9 cards in hand for some reason. He drew two cards. I didn't see the first but the second one which was discarded was his edwin vancleef. My turn ended, and well for the rest of the game it felt like he just got up and walked away from his computer.

I just think about things while opponent have his turn, thinking about all possibilities and preparing my moves ahead for turns 1-4. Usually only hesitating while playing priest and wondering if I should surrender against that turn 1 Cairne Bloodhoof.

I cant alt tab hearthstone for some reason. It always comes back to the front.

"OH MAN LOOK AT THAT ROGUE TAKING HER WHOLE TURN JUST TO DAGGER AND PASS Did you consider that she might be 1 off lethal and she was continuously counting and double checking to make sure that she isn't going to miss it?"

THIS!!! A thousand times This!! Playing aggro rogue I have to count everything and 95% of the times, when it's either I win now or just die, I like to count 3-4 times to make sure I don't screw up! :P

I always assume that people have an ace in their hands, despite how long they take to make a play, if they have cards. I feel this should be written in stone.

This. I once took almost a whole turn to decide because I didn't want to trade all my creatures into the opponents ancient of war because I wanted lethal next turn. I didn't find a that then lethal, but I did find a way to clear their whole board with my hand, and a defender of argus. It made me feel good, because I know that play secured me the win.

Yeah I noticed playtime in this game has increased significantly. To which I'm sorta okay with and I get it.

HOWEVER.

If you are sitting on an empty hand and taking that full turn, that fucker is trying to frustrate you and they deserve the back of my hand for being a jerk.

Or someone is playing on an iPad which has worse lag because of less powerful Wifi or is playing on LTE.

TL;DR is the best.

Yesterday my grandpa kept calling me to help him with MS Word, but he always managed to call right as my turn started. "My Apologies" was used a lot

THIS is why I play Mario Kart 8 in between turns. Waiting for my opponent to react is a huge waste of time.

If I am playing against a mid range deck, I will take my time on purpose. Most people feel like if they rush their turn they will tell me I should hurry up. Then the 'oops' follow.

Recently i also started taking longer on my turns, before i would just make the obvious play, but now that i think about it i definitely win more games.

And i only made this comment to mention that Forsen played vs Lifecoach today and said "Everyone get your popcorn and ResidentSleepers..because lifecoach

I mostly get annoyed at my opponents when they play their whole turn, and then don't end it. They've got no mana left, they've attacked with every minion they have, they aren't going to have 0 cost cards, just end your turn already.

I generally don't take a long time to think about my turns, but my internet connection is kind of shaky so I often find myself disconnecting for 20-30 seconds at a time. (My internet doesn't go out for that long, but for some reason it takes the game a little while to catch up.)

I always get afraid that my opponents think I'm slow rolling them on purpose, so I engage in a pre-emptive squelch.

Guys I just have a shitty connection sometimes. Sorry.

I find the only time I start to get frustrated with long turns is when I'm on a losing streak. Which of course only make me play worse and lose more due to stupid irrational plays.

Its like losing while gambling, then deciding the best way to regain is by betting even more money even quicker, resulting in more loss.

The number of intentional stallers I get is probably something around 0.5% of my games. I don't mind it at all, I often have a video on the other screen, so if I don't have much to think about I can just watch that while the rope merrily burns away, and if I'm in a complicated spot then I can spend their turn planning mine. Also when I win it feels much more satisfying to imagine how much they're raging impotently at their monitor (I have to assume that anyone who does this must get really pissed whenever they lose).

That "TL;DR" is nice. People should read it even if they DID read the rest of the post.

I played a hunter last night. First turn he waits till the rope burns out, does nothing with 1 mana. Whatever, I think, he is afk this will go quick. Turn 2 he hits his hero power then waits for the rope to burn out. The rest of the match he would make his moves within 15-30 seconds then sit there with no mana left till the rope burned down.

they're giving YOU even MORE time to think! use that gift against them.

His plays were terrible; I handily beat him though the game probably took ten times longer than it should have. It was the most frustrating thing to happen to me in hearthstone. I wish I could somehow transcend time and space to make him realize how shitty it is to do that.

I agree with OP, in every sense. Generally my plays are quick enough, or in my mind, quick enough after I've thought about what's likely going to happen the next few turns. If for some reason my opponent starts throwing out emotes, I take even longer. This isn't out of spite, this is literally because they've broken my train of thought.

Don't like waiting for an opponent's turn in a strategy TCG style situation? You're going to have a bad time.

So when a priest is slowrolling me on T2 before hitting my face with his Northshire Cleric I have to assume connectivity issues. Aight

I only get mad when they're slow during their first 3 turns, when the choices should be obvious.

This post was made for the sole purpose of fucking with the guy who made the rant about how frustrating it is to play against slow players. You're pretty much proving BM by doing that. Irony, ho!

if ur slow playing turn 8 with a full hand, i dont mind that one bit. theres a lot to consider there. but if ur slow playing turn 25 with no hand and 1 minion in the board, i question your sanity.

i normally dont mind slow play. but give me the option to play a speed round as well. if you want to take your time, thats up to you. but much like chess, i prefer speed rounds and think they are a lot more fun.

In 1000 wins, the "intentionally trolling slow guy" has happened to me less than 10 times, some of which may have been connection problems.

I would like more game modes, one of them being 10 second turn mode.

I know you're thinking, but some people enjoy fast reactive games.

I think a lot of the time people are tabbed out when their turn starts.

One "Hello" from my Jaina and I see them start to hover over their cards again.
It may be annoying but the "Greetings" emote actually seems to remind my opponent that they're in a Hearthstone game quite often.

THIS THREAD OFFENDS ME

i'm currently in a game with a priest who is at 6 health. he has one card in his hand, which is the "double target minion's health". i've been waiting for him to cast it - it's been hovering in the middle of the playing field - for ten minutes. i've counted, by the songs that have played on winamp. i haven't gotten disconnected. what's the timeout? what the fuck is he doing to make this take so long and not trigger the fuse?

Nobody BMs me, so I never feel the need to time out before I concede. The power of squelch

Did you consider that he might actually have three 1drops in his hand and a knife juggler and he's considering the different possible outcomes that he'll get from each play by turn 3?

I am often in the same position. It still isn't that hard to think of the far less than 10 viable plays over the next 3 turns. And much of them depend on what the enemy will play anyway.

the one time this happens, they're giving YOU even MORE time to think! use that gift against them.

Some people are trying to grind here. Not everyone wants to spend 15 minutes in a game. I assume you haven't played physical board games a lot? Waiting for the other to think and think is never fun when you could plan out your next 3 turns in that time, if only you were able t finally draw and know how to continue. Thinking on limited knowledge can only go so far.

I now play mostly on iPad, the upside is I can play on my couch. The other upside is my wife is beside me or nearby. As she tends to talk to me, watch bad tv, and brings me tasty beverages she often interrupts my turn and my train of thought, with the end result of most of my turns take the full time.

I've also got fed up with myself taking silly loses caused by my own errors so I will take the full time, especially on the first three or four turns. I've found that planning ahead in the early game helps me win more due to a more effective later game.

It's 90 seconds a turn, live with it.

I don't care much if a person takes til the rope burns to make plays, but if you're sitting with 1-2 cards in hand the entire time and little or no minions on the board, I have to question if you're actually thinking of plays or just trying to slow roll into a concede. Furthermore there are people who do this while making emotes the whole time, so they're clearly not disconnected or thinking of a play. For that reason I tend to squelch everybody from the start. If I want to deal with condescending fuckwits I'll go back to playing magic.

I lag occasionally causing every thing I try to do to take atleast 10 seconds for the action to be made. I'd had to concede ranked matches cause of it...doesn't occur every game though only 1 every like 5-6 matches.

Sure, some people occasionally need to weigh options until the rope, but they are not the majority of slow players. I assume the best of my opponent from the get go, which is exactly why I get frustrated when they slow play so casually (and I only really care about this if I'm playing in ranked).

Some people are trying to grind ranks and are giving their full attention to the game. Some people only have limited time to play it each day or at certain times (cig breaks at work are a prime example). Some people have empathy, value their own time, and thus; value the time of others (opponents) they play against. Some people play on their iPad and can't alt tab without disconnecting from the HS app, so they can only play. Some people don't hit the play button if they know they have to go do some shit before playing. Some people are actually trying to play more than browse imgur.

Sometimes you gotta help mom bring in the groceries or do other real life stuff that is more important than your turn, I get it. BUT, If you are slow because you are distracting yourself with alt tab bullshit during your turn, then guess what? You're bad mannered. Oh, but you wanna read the entire paragraph of text on that Alan Watts meme you think is so neat? Maybe share it on facebook before you take your turn? That's fine, because I have no problem waiting for you, provided that during your next turn you plan to go fuck yourself. Stop dicking around with alt tab crap and play the game.

TL;DR Accidentally being BM is still being BM. Stop browsing alt tabs and click end turn.

Or it could be Applejacked.

I was at the cottage for a week, on a 1-bar cell hotspot playing on my ipad. If I infuriated any of you while playing 'slowly' I apologize, but I was going as fast as I could!

Fuck idc what you say. If a mage waits his complete turn 1 to play a manawyrm and his complete turn 2 for a frostball on my 2/3 .. He does it on purpose. After turn 5 you have to think more. Before that you play what u can without losing the tempo or cardadvantage

Slow players are fine. I play slow sometimes, because I need to think. Playing too fast leads to mistakes or misclicks.

However, if someone goes full rope on me twice in a row, I give them a full rope right back. This says "hey, I know what you're on about, and I don't care. Now let's play the rest of this round like grown-ups.'. It usually works.

i only start playing slow on purpose when they start doing bm emotes.

The bm finishes make me chuckle... Had a rogue that toyed with me for 3 turns before a OMG Leeroy + Cold Blood * 2 finish... Silly really, you could be half way through another game by then...

I feel like some do it on purpose... I have had people that would run the time out on the first 3 turns alone and not play anything the first two rounds.

I have to admit.. I concede if this happens. My time is more valuable than winning that round.

I would have to disagree with the last.... Assuming the best in peiople makes a victim of you.

As far as I'm aware this is a reasonably common issue; whenever I am reconnected to a game (my internet connection has been shaky lately), it won't let me make any actions until the rope starts burning.

It's really easy to assume that someone is just being an asshole, especially in a competitive setting, but I try to not to assume anything and just enjoy myself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

(Not that people are stupid/ignorant for planning out their turn, but the idea is the same)

Or, they've dashed off for a call of nature but left it as their turn so they would have enough time to get there and back before you ended your next turn!

Well met!

If I'm taking a while, I'm probably cooking dinner or doing the dishes. Sorry.

I'm pretty sure I've never played against people who look like they just want to extend the game to bother me

I encounter at least one person doing this daily. It's incredibly obvious when they do it.

Always assume the best out of people, it makes you a better person in general

This is absolutely horrible advice . I know it makes you sound and give the impression that you're this awesome positive person, but it's awful advice.

€17,99 for buying the remaining 4 wings after the first one's free? That seems fair to me for a small expansion to a game, I'll pay up.

I'm a slow player. I get to the fuse almost every single turn, unless I had planned it already 2-3 turns in advance, or something easy like a turn 2 Wild Growth.

I'm about a rank ~7-10 most seasons.

I'm sorry that you're in a rush, but I really don't feel bad at all.

TL;DR: Always assume the best out of people, it makes you a better person in general, makes you less likely to get frustrated, and it'll help you read your opponent, leading to your victory.

There is a reason why Starcraft is played on the highest speed setting. So it is more engaging. Hearthstone isn't engaging if I can do multiple sets of push ups between turns.

AS a legend who rarely goes to the rope except in very complicated situations, fuck you slow ass players.

I always stall-bm lethal against any aggro deck; it especially tickles my jollies when it's was a close game. Throw down like a 2 mana hover over minions and hero powers, target something, cancel then BOOM!!! GG,FGT

If you get two games in a row vs lifecoach you will regret that you got to legend.

Sometimes if I'm about to lose a game, but have Leeory + random other cards in hand that don't add up to lethal. I'll wait awhile, play Leeory emote well played and hope whoever I'm playing forfeits. I'm a special type of asshole, but it works.

When I do it it is to intentionally frustrate annoying beatdown and combo decks.

I'm sorry for everyone who has to play me now that i just picked up freezemage and miracle rogue

I must confess that half the time im playing csgo and I just alt tab to do my turn so sometimes it takes me a long time to make a turn since round time is 1:45

Hey, I take time to make decisions and think things out as well.

That being said, you most likely aren't a pro player and never will be. Some people just take a lot of time to make dumb decisions. I mean, when you are in ranks 25-5, we are all just trying to get out of there so we can start playing the real players.

I don't want to assume the best of the worst...I want to assume what is reality. That is that rarely someone is being a dick...the rest of the time the people are pretty dang dumb wasting both our time just to lose.

Sorry but no, it shouldn't take 2 seconds before you run out of time on your first turn. I'm dealing with this right now in my match. Like come on.

Doesn't matter, they should be aware how annoying it is and find a balance between finding the perfect play and playing respectfully. Not every GAME, yes it is still just a GAME, at rank 10 will decide about your future as a HS pro player.

No fuck slow players. Decision making comes after turn 5, only rogues are OK from turn 3