(December 19th, 2014, 09:21)uberfish Wrote: Making arena more difficult isn't my objection - people make a lot of play errors anyway. To use a chess analogy, I view it as the difference between knowing general game principles (the tier lists and strategy articles) and having a computer engine choose moves for you. It feels like cheating to me, in a way that checking a tier list does not.
It's more like learning chess openings. It helps you to not be screwed from the start, but you still have to play and win the game with your own skill.