So a couple of things to clarify about my question, first I have played hearthstone before but not much and it has been years so I didn’t get anything extra for a long time and I probably don’t have anything new does that matter?
I played a lot of Magic the Gathering, also a bit of a few other games like Pokemon and Spellfire so I enjoy trading card games.
I don’t plan on putting any money into the game at all, but willing to do daily or weekly quests even if it takes me out of my comfort zone.
I am not worried about any sort of player vs player competition now, just really thinking of doing any story modes I have missed or playing vs the computer for quests.
I am not in any hurry to gather everything just wanna chill and play something from time to time when I don’t want to play active games like WoW or Zelda.
If you want to just grind out gold enough for all the solo content no. If you want to play actual hearthstone matches, then probably it matters alot. Without new cards, you will struggle to even live long enough to complete quests, unless you reroll them to do in battlegrounds. Even in that mode, they are building a higher paywall by the day, but its still the most fair.
Yup. It will just be very slow unless you have gold banked up. I largely ignore regular HS, so I reroll my quests for BGs when possible. I spend just enough gold each release (about 4k) to get all the rares and most epics, then the rest of the gold is banked for heroes or emotes I want.
honestly the game is pretty friendly to new players and F2P accounts in my experience! its defo possible to play and di well on ladder through stuff like the tavern pass, it is a little bit grindy but if you enjoy hs its really nothing too bad
the solo content is really fun but not incredibly rewarding unfortunately
Spellfire? There’s a game name that I have not heard in quite sometime. I think that was the TSR TCG game that I an opportunity to play-test and give feedback on between rounds at a very large Magic PTQ.
I told the TSR reps that Spellfire had some potential, but it needed a large overhaul to give it more of a D&D feel and that the game had bad mechanics that needed to be re-designed. To which, the TSR reps laughed at my feedback and told me that Spellfire boosters were already being shipped for sale to Barnes & Noble. I learned later that to get Barnes & Noble to carry their product, a deal had been struck to buy back any unsold product that did not sell in a timely manner, which pretty much bankrupted TSR when Spellfire sales ended up being horrendously bad.
In the early to mid 90’s, there were so many bad CCGs that were released and did poorly. I remember Battlecards, Vampire (The Eternal Struggle), Galactic Empires, Illuminati, Star Trek, Titan (The Arena), James Bond 007, Blood Wars, The Crow, Rage, Hyborian Gates, Arcadia, Mythos (I liked the artwork for this game, Netrunner, etc…
Probably the best efforts to compete with Magic were games like Shadowfist (another game that would have benefited from more R&D before being released) and Pokémon.
Yes it’s possible to do F2P relatively well with two caveats. One you will need to play Standard because Wild has dozens of expansions (not a big problem since the Devs are bad at balancing Wild) and Battlegrounds are massively P2W at the selection of hero screen, and two: you will need to wait for at least 2 rotations to have almost all popular netdecks (the next rotation is early 2025).
But you have to play regularly for the quests as you said to get XP/gold, and you have to optimize how you spend gold and dust.
Hey! Vampire the eternal struggle is still alive and was fun while I played it. I collected Galactic Empires and played with one friend and collected and played Illuminati new world order with multiple friends. They were all not bad games really. Ah yes, the old days, when I could have friends and not be a total loser hated by all. Oh well.
You could try the game, do the tutorial and try the seasonal decks.
If you want to get a feel of the game first, there are players streaming on various websites like Twitch.
The rating mechanics roll on performences and wins a lot. There isn’t a very deep bottom of the barrel. If you are not doing very well, you would be expected to become better.
As for me, the game is very often frustrating. But these days i tell myself not to Q if i don’t want to play. Hearthstone will not turn around just for me and i have to adapt to the game.
If it’s not working at all, you may be better off dropping the game early. But it’s free at first so you may have nothing to lose.