Match history

[Roland the Thompson Gunner]

We have the match history to the left of the board, we can minimize it, but my question to the devs is — why can't we SCROLL it? What's the point of history, if it only shows the fraction of the turns? For example, I have a suspicion that my opponent cheated, because I think that he played more of some cards than he should have in his deck. If I could scroll down, I could count how many of which cards he played. Instead we have infinite threads of "OMG CHEATERS", 99% of which are cleared as misunderstanding and wouldn't even exist if the players themselves could see the whole match history.

[TasteDasRainbow]

I speculate that it wouldn't make a difference, because most of the people screaming cheater don't have things they articulate as wrong. They make the generalization that their opponent 'always has the perfect card' without any standard of proof, and simply leave it at that.

An extended history could be beneficial, but it's not remotely going to stop those people from shouting cheater from the rooftops everytime their subpar deck gets stomped by the meta.

[Roland the Thompson Gunner]

Originally posted by TasteDasRainbow:

I speculate that it wouldn't make a difference, because most of the people screaming cheater don't have things they articulate as wrong. They make the generalization that their opponent 'always has the perfect card' without any standard of proof, and simply leave it at that.

An extended history could be beneficial, but it's not remotely going to stop those people from shouting cheater from the rooftops everytime their subpar deck gets stomped by the meta.

Well, there are some people who really don't know cards well, so when something "weird" happens, they supect cheating. Those could benefit very much from extended history.

Sadly, there are definitely people in this (and really, any) game who don't want to learn and perceive any loss as personal insult to their ego and as a result start finding excuses everywhere. And I'm not saying about legitimate concerns about game's metagame, more like stupid debates like "Countermeasures are cheating because I can't be bothered to memorize them and anticipate my opponents' moves".

[General E. Drunk]

I agee with you Roland, it makes no sense that we can't review the match history after the game (and perhaps even during the game). The log could be easily saved into text form and after the game there could be an option to [copy match log to clipboard]. It would really be helpful for many reasons.

[thebigmacdaddy]

Or perhaps a replay that can be fast forwarded or paused. I don't think cheating is a problem, understanding the game, especially for noobs, is. I'd love to look back and see how an opponents deck wrecked me. Experience and combos is what this game is about. I see all sorts of strats in the ladders, some predictable, some different. It's those different, unsuspecting ones I like. The deck I'm using the most right now to climb, has a combo I was beaten by, as a major knock out blow. It would be great to critique your own play or others, and probably lead to more you tube guides, for those interested.