Dear Blizzard (a post they'll never read) BG edition

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Good Morning, noon, afternoon.
This letter is for BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT; not paying consumers/ community

[warning to other readers: rant style]

I’m sure everything I am about to say will only be read by other paying consumers; like I, Then the people who SHOULD (Blizzard)
I came up with these theory because; If our posts were actually being read; things would have changed (performance wise)…

But they haven’t.

Lets talk about it!

Just within the past day or so; it has been shown something has been done with Hearthstone Battlegrounds; because we have a new hero.

My shop has a ! point which means new stuff is available to purchase. So that means things are being worked on in the cash grab department…

So why is everything us paying consumers relay on these forums not being taken care of BEFORE throwing stuff at us to make a quick $$.

Wouldn’t the smart thinking be; “Hey lets read what others have to say; fix them; and if they are happy, they’ll buy all we offer” or is it because we have the suckers who want to show they have $$ and just spend no matter what state the game is in.

I got suckerd into paying $40; $20 main HS pass. $20 Battleground. I could of went without main and just bought BG (Just for the 4 slots) But I thought Maybe… just maybe… the game was going to get better; instead I’m getting robbed.

I got off on a little tangent; back to topic.

First: I want to address RNG. Still having the same issue of wasting refreshes to get what you are looking for. and to tie along with Quests: Half the time the quest you choose is not what Blizzard wanted you to pick; so you have to slowly fight your way to completing it; by the time you are at 12 hit points or about to loose; you finally complete it.
Before anyone says its just how the game is; if its happening to MULTIPLE people; its a in house issue

Second: Kinda back to the quest bit here briefly… If you give us 3 options to choose from; Give the cards to the person who chose such quest and not to everyone else.

I.e Past game I was in. Accepted the quest for murk eye. Did not get anymore murlocs but just one till AFTER I completed the quest; By then though; I was 2 matches away from being demolished. only 2 players (1 other player and myself) were aiming for the murlocs. though somehow the other player got EVERY MURLOC imaginable yet I’m scrounging. and the one who had the murkeye quest

TLDR: Fix your RNG algorithm to accommodate quests.

!!These issues have been Brought to attention, and going on for weeks now. NOTHING has been done about it!!

Third: There sadly (hate to say it) needs to a nerf on some of these quests too. Or there needs to be a a nerf on tier leveling as I stated in How to win in Battlegrounds season 2
this way; players can actually enjoy and build. Not stress over getting to the top so they can be overpowering.

In concusion:
ya know… I saw many posts that said; Us paying consumers, should maybe shut our wallets. Stop paying for Looks and Hit shot fancy shmansies. Stop paying for runestones. Stop giving our IRL HARD WORKING MONEY Maybe then Blizzard will put this $h!t to a focus if they are loosing money.

Battlegrounds is a go to when I want to pass the time; or enjoy my day off of work, Maybe even play while waiting on my resin art to cure. Though with the rate things are going. Maybe its time to hop over to League of Legends, or runescape. Maybe even FF!
OR… If someone makes a private server ordeal like they do with WoW to Hearthstone LMK!

Final conclusion:

I think I said all that has been bothering me… If I have more to say; I will be sure to post it here. Because god forbit I try to talk to someone directly. I get threatened with account termination and/or get sent here to just exercise my fingers talking to a wall.

Im sorry to the community if this was a eye sore to read; though if ya’ll made it this far; again this is for BLIZZARD to see, but thank you

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Although I don’t agree with all your points, and even though I will agree that HS (in all forms) is in a bad state… the 20 bucks for the HS main pass is honestly not bad for what it gives. Without the pass I probably wouldn’t reach level 100 of the road since I don’t play THAT much. And I like the cosmetics that are attached to it.

Other than that, you’re right. Arena, BG, Standard ranked, it’s all just not that fun right now. I still play, but just in moderation.

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Though yes they do look nice… Its more the game play that needs more attention then the looks.

I Just played 4 bg games…

.* grabs tinfoil hat; puts it on *
Got a feeling blizzard is unhappy I am voicing my opinion and the personal vendetta is happening again. Everything I complained about seemed to be 10x worse, and this is after not being on the game for hours after posting this “discussion” Funny they can quickly change code on an account but not the game *takes hat off *
(I know I’m manifesting this by still harboring negative feelings)

back to reality…

It sucks. and I really wish Blizzard would just take the time to read out EVERYONES concerns and actually resolve it instead of adding on more stuff to buy.
Fix the game basically to make everyone happy

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So you want them to actually rig the game? Because you’re literally requesting that the game not be based on rng anymore.

I don’t think you truly grasp how large the minion pool becomes after you tier up a time or two. The odds of seeing any specific minion are likely much lower than you think they are.

There’s a time to roll, but I don’t think you are picking the right times based on your descriptions.

Multiple people can similtaneously suck in the same way at the same mode.

It’s 100% a you problem if you’re wasting your gold refreshing over and over looking for one minion when you have a board state that won’t support said fishing. That’s how you lose and lose quickly.

They need to remove them entirely because they have literally destroyed the competitive meta and replaced it with did you get the right quest for your hero? I had a quest on greybough that had me literaly just trigger four death rattles to get my quest. I mean, I was going to do that the next turn anyway, but sure, you can perma 4/4 all the stuff I was already going to do.

In what universe is that a smart plan? But what if you don’t get such an easy quest with perfect synergy? You lose to the player who did.

It’s a crap meta and quests are total fail.

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Not rig. Fix. There are times ill stay in x tier and fall back on upgrading; because I have 2 of such minion(s) in x tier, wanting the third to make gold because I spent all rounds before hand building on it. I understand the pool gets bigger the higher you upgrade. which then leads to refreshes till I find This response kinda inlines with your second pinpoint; more on it in second response.

Don’t forget the quests that take forever in a day to complete as well.

I think I said it before; not completing till almost dead or as your getting killed.
your 1000% right on synergy. It also happens with minions too though if you haven’t noticed.

i.e you want to go murlocs or dragons; (by free will or that is what Blizz was giving all along), but they keep throwing elementals and pirates in your pool of picking. (also inline with your second point again)

I do understand HS is like the Gambler. Know when to hold know when to fold… you know the song… maybe.
Its just very frustrating when you build up; but then have to switch it out all and throw away all you’ve done cause Blizz wants to switch it up on you… If that makes any sense.

I know I’m all over the place when it comes to BG’s; hence why I warned this was a rant.

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Even with a bad quest you can still get 4th maybe 3rd. You are right though your chances of getting first are pretty slim. Thankfully a 5th place isn’t a big deal and is very doable.

Due to the slot machine nature of BG’s i generally just Menagerie 75% of the time. The other 25% i actually get a straight forward vanilla build and can just pick my tech along the way for later.

For a more balanced and competitive auto battle i would just go with TFT unless you can come to terms with hearthstone BG’s limitations.

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I don’t even bother to read all that but i assume here’s another guy Wonder’s why the game is at it is, calling for balance, calling for better things. Nope. Stop. As long as people spend money on the game that mean the people’s are happy with the current state of the game. That mean they deserve whatever broken bugged and horrible meta the devs throw to them, and they are happy with it

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Lol this is true.

If you pick the “right” quest,the one that blizzards wants you to pick,you will get the apropiate support. If you pick the “wrong” quest,the one that blizzard doesnt want you to pick but which might actually be the easiest to complete,then you have to fight to complete it. Even if it should be far easier to complete objectively.

Same goes for minions in the tavern. There is some expectation of what minion you should and should not buy. If you buy the minions that you should buy you will get the support. If you skip the minions that you should buy or buy minions that bob thinks you should not buy,then you wont get any support and see bad roll after bad roll.
Same goes for levelling. If you level while bob thinks you should stay,you will get horrible shops the next turn.

I dont mind it that much because it has become rather predictable. Its a nice little trick to know.

You have to go where the game sends you. This might seem very obvious and common sense. If you pick the most promising route you will have better succes on average. It all makes sense.
But the funy thing is that this is taken one step further. Where taking the route that bob thinks you should take will give extra benefits and taking a different route will put up extra resistance.

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This is your issue. You can’t pick a tribe until you get the proper minions to play the tribe. Rolling over and over is a total fail strategy.

I got the end of turn effects quest with a razorgore as a reward. I did not play dragon because I didn’t see any and building a board is how you live long enought to reap rewards.

This is because they tried to use the quests to balance hero choice out… making them waaay too hard to complete with good heroes and waaay too easy with many others.

There’s a sweet spot right now of picking middling heroes and winning big with op quest synergy.

The knowledge of when and how to do exactly this and the ability to make it happen are the keys to high ranking, though. What you describe in that sentence is exactly the key to being tops in this mode.

Right now it’s random. If it becomes anything other than actual random then it is truly rigged. If it tends to give you what you already have, that’s rigged. If it requires a tribe to show up every so many rolls, that’s rigged.

It should stay as is.

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The mode is trash now, too much RNG, too much high-rolling.