Celestalon re-iterates Hearthstone is not rigged

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@Carnivore-2587

random variance

There’s no such thing.

By the way, here and in some other quoted passages this guy sounds just like forum… apologists — both clueless and pro-company.

@Carnivore-2587

These conspiracy theories are unequivocally false.

Yeah, about that — ‘conspiracy theories’ in general and those involving evil mega-corporations in particular, that is — check out the full post below:

This game is rigged as hell

There is no such term as ‘standard variance’ — and I’ve probably forgotten more about probability theory and statistics than a substantial portion of those players will learn — ever, just as a little disclaimer and with no desire to swagger, since it’s an advanced topic, few need it in practice, even fewer comprehend it, if you look from a realistic perspective. That ‘everyone [else]’, though, is from ethology or such — an instinctive desire to belong to a pack, herd or other group, elevating …

When looking this up, mostly for the DuPont case as an example — they have blatantly lied about it for decades — I also came across another… character referring to a ‘standard variance’ (it’s not a thing, not a term, just a meaningless word salad, like banana phlegm, farthing flymum). What have I just said about this guy sounding just like those forum shills?

PS For those with short memory spans: compare with ‘random variance’ above.

@Carnivore-2587

Nothing like that has ever been used on Hearthstone (nor have I seen it on any other Blizzard game

I might be taking the phrase out of context a bit (can’t be bothered to open the original post), but no matter.

If you mean RNG manipulation in general, this statement is just blatantly false, I’ve written about it, for brevity, I’m gonna leave just the key reference here one more time:

https://liquipedia.net/warcraft/Pseudo_Random_Distribution .

@Carnivore-2587

but I don’t work on them to officially say that

What do they say in such cases, 'nuff said? In other words, ‘I bear no responsibilities for whatever lies I say here’. Or the guy just has got no clue about what’s going on there.

By the way, those forum types don’t officially work for Blizz, either.

@Carnivore-2587

Anything is possible, regardless of patents.

Yeah, when you’re absent for a year and find your wife pregnant upon your return, it’s probably Darwinian spontaneous life generation — anything’s possible, it’s probably just an ‘RNG event’, right? Right? There’s nO eViDeNcE that an adulter might have taken place, such a mad conspiracy theory must be ‘unequivocally false’.

@Carnivore-2587

You’re aiming your concern at the wrong company/team. You’re thinking of Activision (Call of Duty), not Blizzard (Hearthstone, WoW, etc.).

Yeah, like it’s not their subsidiary. This isn’t even funny.

@Carnivore-2587

Also in this case I also understand the software engineering of it.

They don’t have to rig to make you lose: they just raise the MMR.

Ah, another believer in the magic of so-called ‘MMR’… Or shoud I say, ‘Here we are again…’?

You probably don’t understand it well enough.

@Schyla-1490

People used to claim rigging in MTG when it was a pure card game. Literally the same claims made here. “So and so is using some shuffle rig, no one can get that lucky”

Everyone believed everyone else was some shuffling magician master

What do they call it, a self-illustrating example?

Yeah, like card tricks haven’t been performed by sharpers. No, never in recorded history. See no evil…

@Dallaen-1426

Funny thing about that. When i grew up as a Kid my aunt played cards with me all the time. She was a dealer in Atlantic City for 10 years. She showed me every card manipulation trick you can think of and i practiced to be very good at it. When i started going to MTG tournaments in the 90’s i caught many players using these same techniques and got them DQ’d. I was actually one of the first active judges because i got sick of players cheating like this.(which was absolutely rampant at the time). There’s articles from back in the day talking about how much cheating was going on because of the money involved. So many well known players and house hold names were basically cheaters who never got caught early on because most never knew what to look for.

I don’t know how often it is done now since i stopped playing in the early 2K’s but before that it was a REAL problem.

Ha-ha, nice!

@REEEEEEEEEEE-1789

“I work at blizzard and find blizzard innocent of any wrongdoing.”

Well, that’s almost ‘Bingo!’. One small detail: that guy doesn’t have the gall to openly admit working for Blizzard officially.