Me and my wife played hearthstone, doing all grinds since release for like 5 years.
We didnt stop playing because it was too expensive
we stopped because it was too uncomfortable
We like console more than pc due to the ease of use, and it costs less and takes up much less space than our old pc’s (and less stuff to break or maintain)
Pc kinda sucks these days and its just uncomfortable to sit at a desk all day
But im not saying pc is bad, im just saying it doesnt work for us and many others
Mobile is just awful though, gaming on mobile is just awful. The battery drain, forward neck leaning and sore backs.
Not to mention updates usually breaking the game.
Now ive heard console hearthstone ideas getting hate, i dont know why.
“There is no market for card games on console” not true lmao
“Its too hard to code all the card interactions”
No its not lmao, they cards are programmed with a strict set of rules that automatically communicates with the other pieces in the game.
“Its not profitable enough” except all they do is profit lmao. Its one of the most expensive games to play, and doesnt require as much money to make.
Also, i mean most of the og players quit for a reason, might as well try to scoop up the console community, it is a bigger community anyways.
So im perfectly aware of my ability to have big blind spots in this field so Im not overly confident in my assertions. But Im sure they have looked into console platforms as an additional revenue generator and my instinct says the cost of converting the coding of the game and maintaining the updates and changes for it as well as keeping it stable when the platforms have their own updates too would just be too much of cost to make it worthwhile to them. Even if they broke even and it was as if it cost 0 to do it but made them 0 in the end, that’s still a no from a business perspective.