I have no timer in the bottom of the screen and neither did my opponent. Map: Gates. Chaos Vs Order.

Wouldn't this go in bugs and problems thread?

It should do, but it's Tecness. He's super important so he gets to make his own threads for menial problems. Just like his own race thread.

I don't think anyone looks at the bugs and problems thread anymore...
At least not me.
Oh and in the place where the time previously was, now there's a menu and quality option (thank god). Don't know when that got there o.o

Nope, I doubt that. Every single game I played yesterday had no timer, my opponents said the same. I believe it was a bug implemented with patch 1.31

I think what Exxmorphing means, is because it may cause a factor in lagging, it was taken out temporarily.