Concern about the Arena Mode unfinished turn-based games

[jobefett]

The rule clearly states:
If your turn-based game is not finished at the end of the Season, the player who spent the most thinking time during the game will lose the game and lose Arena points.

I think that this is not a good approach nor it is fair.

Please correct me if I am wrong.
If a game is at 99%, so its almost finished and the arena season ends. The leading player that should have won would lose the game (and points) because he spent the most time thinking. It happened to me both previous and this season. I dont think it is fair.

I repeat, this is a turn-based game where we play when our private obligations allows. Some playes probably have more free time, others, such as myself, have family and jobs, and limited timeframe for fun.
There should be no punishment for most time thinking because it defeats the purpose of turn-based gaming.

I know that, from certain point of view, that players can behave in an improper manner and spend a lot of time to force game ending in order not to lose the game, so I assume that this is the reason for this rule. But if that is the case, maybe it could be isolated to a last move/moves.
Still, I think that the player with most points earned at that point should still win the game.

What do you think?

[Strode]

I don't play in Arena. Could they just say the unfinished game applied to next season, or doesn't that make sense?

I don't know about this:

Still, I think that the player with most points earned at that point should still win the game.

Unless it were a clearcut example of a game that was 98% over with a large lead. I doubt they could program that.
It seems like you could have shenanigans where a player with a lead (and in T&E you don't always know) could just run out the Arena clock to speak.

Possibly nothing you could do could stop shenanigans of some sort.