The title says it all. I’m by no means a good player, and usually take breaks from the game a few weeks into each expansion because everyone else gets so good at the game and new strategies are exploited, but I just feel like lately Hearthstone just doesn’t have the fun factor anymore. I play hunter and I know that has never been a very high-ranking deck, but each game I play I get either slammed into the ground or my opponent can’t touch me. There’s really no in-between.
Every expansion that comes out is fun for a while, but then people figure out what card combinations they can exploit to give them an unfair advantage that Blizzard has to nerf and it just takes away from the fun for me. I’ve seen videos and looked ta deck lists but the game just isn’t really doing it for me anymore.
They have definitely succumb to the lowest common denominator, preferring handholding/guided decks, which seems now to be the established norm for Standard.
I assume this is because the younger generation (post cell phone babies) lack the attention span to engage in such complexity. Us old folks of the MUDs, of Everquests, of the golden age of WOW, and perimeter products are not their target audience anymore, nor have we been for awhile.
We who where immersed in the internet gaming community from the start and expected high quality from that period are obsolete.
If you play Hunter for the most part then your deck should essentially be designed with everything going face and never really trading unless it’s important. Forcing the opponent to trade because you have a HP that is 2 every turn and presents inevitability.
It’s how hunter used to play out many many years ago and the game has moved back to that style for now.
The issue with decks getting figured out is a natural one, it just happens in CCGs.
What I think the core issue currently is, is that they there are too many very powerful early game cards. Which means you can fall behind extremly quickly and many games seem to get decided by turn 1-3. I think this is also why many games feel so onesided, because if you start off with a mediocre hand, you are already severely disadvantaged against tempo based decks. Which is ok in principle, but I feel like it is much more consequential now than in the past.
They netdeck which anyone and they mama can do, so it’s not unfair. Also unless stated by Blizz on rare occasion, it’s not an exploit.
That’s fair. While i don’t netdeck myself, i can understand why many people do it. For me, homebrewing is half the fun. But even then i do find myself not having fun so i take a break from the game, been doing that since always though, so it’s not a new thing for me.
None of the decks from back in the day were complicated, you still had to follow the path to victory to meet your win condition(s) n play cards in a predetermined order. Then for netdeckers it was especially uncomplicated since the acceptable plays are already laid out for em.