I think there’s too much randomness for a different reason. So many decks are based on winning with a single card, and so you have awful countering random cards (e.g. take a card from someone else’s f’ing hand) that just ruin the entire game in one move. Or don’t, in which the one card wins. Complete garbage.
It does mystify me why so many here act like HS has EVER been super serious game. The tone has always been light hearted, the game simplistic, and RNG has been around ever since day 1 with Ragnoros and Nat Pagle and Sylvanus etc. There has never been a time where I have understood the mindset of a hardcore HS player. If you want a serious skill to the max type game you are playing the worst one you possibly can. Go play MTG if you want a game worth taking seriously imo.
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Many years ago, Mark Rosewater, the head Magic the Gathering designer, identified three key player psychographic profiles, Timmy Johnny and Spike. I don’t think those profiles are perfect or anything, but the idea that Spike takes piloting skill seriously is in my opinion spot on. I identify as Spike (ish) myself and I think you’ve got the reasoning backwards. I’m serious about games because I enjoy being serious about games; I do it for it’s own sake. And yeah I am aware of the absurdity of writing a small book of a forum post discussing some aspect of the game seriously, but if this makes any sense I don’t take my seriousness very seriously, I know it’s just a stupid game. All it is, is an inclination I tend to fall into regarding how I enjoy consuming the content and it’s not that much deeper than that.
I guess I’m just trying to say that some frogs like their flies raw, others like them well done, others with ketchup, and still others like taking their flies seriously and it’s really just a matter of personal taste. The problem becomes when some people (cough cough) start thinking that their personal tastes should be universally forced upon everyone.
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I have been here for the entire thing.
I would confidently wager that the player base is the smallest it has ever been.
But it’s still here. Player bases shrink over time.
That’s the nature of gaming.
September 2023 was the best month for non-Chinese Ranked popularity since August 2020.
https://hearthstone-decks.net/how-many-players-reach-legend-in-hearthstone/
Although to be honest the “non-Chinese” part is basically cope. Without any regard for product quality, losing the Chinese market cost Blizzard more than anything else.
so were the survivors of the Titanic.
One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
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if you say so then that must be true.
Are you sure games are not decided by some malicious sentient rigging AI?
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Oh, heh, that actually would help everything make sense, honestly.
It would be much easier if we played without cards…
You choose a class, start the game, there are no decks and no cards, just one infinite Prison of Yogg-Saron on the board. You click on it. Next turn your opponent klicks. Then you again…
The algorithm decides who wins the match.
This is how the game works anyway…
If you’re perception of the game is that it doesn’t have any skill, that says more about your skill level than it says about the game.
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One day you will wake up from the illusion you try to defend so desperately.
You’re the one defending an illusion here, friend.
I like it how instantly you always answer 24/7 as if this forum were your life. 
I like how someone is online at the same time you are and it’s immediately a conspiracy theory
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But you are always here as we all know. 
You don’t even sleep, you are just here all day.
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