You may as well change the name of this to something else, it is so far removed from where it started, especially with your latest moronic changes. First you let your greed for $$$$ ruin W.o.W. and now you have done the same to what was once a masterpiece. Watch out recycling bin, got a big ugly mess coming your way.
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Iām sorry, but I have to agree, Iāve been playing this since itās inception. If youāre going to force deck building in any comprehensible sense at this point, you have an obligation to the people that donāt pay to win ā¦ what cards are allowable for the deck system of say āstandardā which you completely neglected to do ā¦ as well as many other foibles. OR do away entirely with free mode.
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we do appreciate the āfreeā mode but that balance is now all messed up.
i canāt even begin to think of the hell a new user would have to go through to understand this format. Iām even willing to accept this is april 1st but youāve obviously gone though great lengths to stress an idea.
100% concur, this is nothing like a card game with deck building elements based on design concept or strategy anymore, It either degrades into a net decking clone and copy ladder grind of 2-3 deck meta types, and/or is nothing but a total RNG festival, the ability to make any kind of calculated plays is diminished to āI hope RNG mechanics swings my wayā¦ oh it didnāt, tick up another lossā The reward for skill vs luck is far to skewed in the favor of the latter now. I Accept some RNG in the game, but the balance is so far gone itās not worth playing anymore, and the format changes are what have pushed me to leave the game now. Nice try Blizzard but like everything you touch now it just turns to garbage, you are fast becoming the new Activision.
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The biggest problem: Blizzard ignores their own forums. They moved to twitter and reddit for constructive feedback. Theyāre a triple A company, bought by a triple A company, but act like theyāre a fresh off the streets indie company.
I really donāt understand the hatred people have for netdecking. If you donāt like it, youāre entirely free to build your own. Nothingās stopping you. Many people will also customize whatever they see on HSReplay/etc to fit what they are matched up with the most. You donāt really have a way to tell if someone built the deck themselves or grabbed it off of the net, eitherā¦ particularly since in most games you donāt see the entirety of their deck, so you canāt know they arenāt running something different than the most popular netdeck.
And itās great for people who arenāt good at deck building, which is a solid chunk of the user base. Like, I like slay the spire, griftlands, neoverse, etc, but Iām nowhere near as good a player as say Firebat or Regis. Piloting and constructing (or drafting) are two separate skills, though people who are good at the latter tend to automatically be good at the former. Reverse isnāt always true, though.
I just donāt understand the vitriol aimed at people who want to spend their time piloting and playing the game, rather than theory crafting and continually fine tuning their latest deck. More power to people like Kibler who pretty much never netdeck, but most of us arenāt Kibler. And in my mind, thatās perfectly ok. I donāt understand why people have a contrary viewpoint on the subject.
That all said, I do thing RNG has too big of an impact, but i also feel like that was changed a lot with the new Core set and Barrens cards. Definitely room for further improvement on that score, though.
Iām not sure that Iād rank that as the biggest problem, but itās certainly in the top 10 if not the top 5. Many (most?) of the stickies are about issues from years agoā¦ itās really unprofessional of them to keep such stale data pinned so prominently. And a lot of changes get posted on playhearthstone or the launcher but never show up here. (And mobile not having the launcher definitely makes it harder for mobile players to keep up on news.) Run some dev AMAs here instead of Twitter/Reddit.
And then thereās the whole mess that is their esports platform, where things get streamed on YouTube to a minuscule amount of viewers since it both isnāt on Twitch and because they only rarely announce esports related stuff on their other communication channels, either. Like, tweet out when a match starts and tweet who won it right after it completes. Post on the forums when matches will be airing, and update it with match results as well. Take a hard look at moving back to Twitch instead of YouTube, where you can significantly grow the numbers of viewers.
Thereās many things theyāve done recently that are moving in a positive direction, but there are a good amount more that really donāt make sense. And the QA for some patches over the year has been problematicā¦ itās probably quite overdue to consider setting up something like the WoW Public Test Realms for testing major changes like this patch. Thereās enough players who would check it out and help report bugs. And it would let deck tracker developers prep for patches ahead of time, instead of rushing to update right after things go live.
At the end of the day, though, HS is still my current favorite game. I wonāt dispute that itās certainly expensive; I spend about $600/year on it or thereabouts, plus I sub to like 5 Twitch HS streamers and have YouTube premium to follow HS content when Iām not actually playing. I also get more enjoyment out of HS than I would get from 10 AAA titles. Part of that is because I can play in short sessions sometimes and make progress, and a large part is because I can play it on my tablet when Iām in too much pain to sit at my desktop computer.
Anyways, thatās my .02 gold pieces.
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Ok Net decker. Cut and paste your way through life riding the coat tails of people with skill. Welfare in game welfare in life.
The new mode āclassicā, isnt that a clone of how it all started?
It used to take skill and thought to build a deck, it was always a surprise what people came up with, now everyone uses the same few cards copy and pasted from the last 5000 games everybody else is playing, this happened because Blizzard decided to give everyone cards that win the game with no setup, skill or planning, they just throw one or two of any one of a few certain cards down, usually just one, and you know which card I mean, and all the work you did wearing your opponent down is undone with ZERO work or setup on their part, quite frankly I hate to bring politics into it but sure seems like Blizzard is catering to the āI want my trophy without actually putting in the workā generation, hard to see it any other way anymoreā¦
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This guy only has 3 posts
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This one only 4 posts.
Probably the same guy replying to himself on different accounts lol
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Says the one with only 33 posts.
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Ugh , no. It has nothing to do with Blizzard, and iits 100% on the community. When HS first launched, HSreplay and other meta sites werent around. As HS gained in popularity, meta sites popped up to cash in on the popularity.
Blaming Blizzard for netdecking has got to be the dumbest thing ive ever heard.
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Again. There is a game mode called āClassicā wich goes back to the roots. Why arent you playing there, instead of venting here?
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I think you would not complain as much, if your famous deck building skills would be enough to beat a net decker, right?
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Your post is actually dumb, itās not about who provides the website to get netdecks, but about who designed the game the way that you either play the 3-4 superior decks or youāll never see light beyond gold league. And that clearly isnāt the fault of HSreplay and the other websites.
Ugh, its the fault of the players. Just like everyone plays meta builds on LoL, DOTA, CoD, WoW, etcā¦ etc. etc.
The PLAYER wants the best chance to win, thus the PLAYER seeks out meta decks. Again. its on the community, not Blizzard. Netdecks were around from day 1. Reynadās Zoo decks were being ānetdeckedā in beta.
But that doesnt count, for some reason, right?
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Just play Classic lol
You donāt get it, do you? I can build 1 million decks in Hearthstone, but if the devs design the game in a way that of those 1 million decks only 5 can really contest, because everything else falls short due to the gamedesign forcing us to play specific deck archetypes, then itās not the fault of the players. They just do the only thing they can do to enjoy the game: Following the design.
Nobody enjoys to get stomped in 40 out of 50 games with their super creatively own creations because the game isnāt made to support that.
It seems that youāve got very limited experience when it comes to card games, otherwise youād know about how strong the design-corset in Hearthstone is compared to other games, and how much more freedom would be possible.
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