[Ben Brode : Blizzard] 2:0

[SparkyElf-2852]

I’m not a big fan of self-citation, but I guess I’ve gotta do it for once:

@SparkyElf-2852

Re Standard and all that — one more interesting point: the era of Ben Brode, who was (in)famous for his maniacal bellowing laughter (‘Bwahaha!’) and design solutions consistent with this kind of behaviour, some questions having been raised about possible… sources of inspiration, is considered by some in the community to be the golden era of Hearthstone — and that should tell you something. Nowadays we’re regularly seing controversial design choices not even he would consider making.

So this is not surprising.

I can hardly say Ben Brode is a phenomenal designer, and his philosophy about all that infamous randomness and such, as far as I’m aware, seems strange to me, but I guess he just wins by comparison, that’s possibly why some in the HS community remember him so fondly — and subjective perceptions might change over time, that’s why some memories about ‘good old days’ and the like, which sometimes seem better retrospectively than they really were, might not reflect the most objective picture.

What is ‘Marvel Snap’, anyway?