spartaxoxo wrote: »Nobody should ever be banned from this or any game for playing the game the way it is intentional designed. Bad balance and design is the fault of the developers, not players.
valenwood_vegan wrote: »But why stop there? Ban anyone who uses any deck or strategy we disapprove of. On the negative side, we might then run out of opponents pretty quickly.
spartaxoxo wrote: »Nobody should ever be banned from this or any game for playing the game the way it is intentional designed. Bad balance and design is the fault of the developers, not players.
GuuMoonRyoung wrote: »
They are joking... the tone of the post is obvious...
valenwood_vegan wrote: »GuuMoonRyoung wrote: »
They are joking... the tone of the post is obvious...
I guess my sarcasm wasn't, how sad. But I did actually have a point, which is that there have always been and always will be such complaints... oh no my opponent uses that deck. Oh no, my opponent uses that class... that skill... that strategy... that's kind of how competitive games work.
Might it be more useful to identify what is allegedly unbalanced and suggest changes?
AnduinTryggva wrote: »The issue that I particularly have with this patron is that SOME players use this patron only to troll - and I mean trolling as such. They don't use it to win a match. They troll other players only WITHOUT to attempt to win the match other way than trying to make their opponent concede.
That is their sole target: Make the other one feel miserable and push them to concede (and accept a time penalty).
I now know the names of the users who do this (funnily with names that I would place into a specific geographic region in terms of name origin) but as you only learn that name when you already are inside the match I cannot withdraw without that time penalty.
The only thing that could be done about it WITHOUT PUNISHING THE VICTIM OF THAT TROLL is to modify the patron so that trolling is no longer possible.
My suggestion is to increase the costs of re applying the patron too fast and too often. Maybe there are other ideas here to prevent trolling without completely destroying the game idea behind that patron. I don't have any other.
Personofsecrets wrote: »AnduinTryggva wrote: »The issue that I particularly have with this patron is that SOME players use this patron only to troll - and I mean trolling as such. They don't use it to win a match. They troll other players only WITHOUT to attempt to win the match other way than trying to make their opponent concede.
That is their sole target: Make the other one feel miserable and push them to concede (and accept a time penalty).
I now know the names of the users who do this (funnily with names that I would place into a specific geographic region in terms of name origin) but as you only learn that name when you already are inside the match I cannot withdraw without that time penalty.
The only thing that could be done about it WITHOUT PUNISHING THE VICTIM OF THAT TROLL is to modify the patron so that trolling is no longer possible.
My suggestion is to increase the costs of re applying the patron too fast and too often. Maybe there are other ideas here to prevent trolling without completely destroying the game idea behind that patron. I don't have any other.
The line between trolling and playing to win with the button is very thin. One particular player has purchased midnight raid and then spammed the button multiple times against me. One time they even won.
I'm fairly certain that this player played in such a way not because of their higher understanding of the game, but because of poor sportsmanship and a desire to lash out. But, as I mentioned, one of the games they won, so who is to say that they were not "playing" correctly with the additional upside of being a gremlin?