Except that many are losing real money on it…
Many people are following the streamers’ bad example by playing the brawliseum themselves. This is the same reason gambling was banned on twitch.
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Just because something is legal, popular, or otherwise not frowned upon, doesn’t make it right.
Slavery used to be all of the above in many iterations, in many nations, historically. Didn’t make it the right thing to do.
I’m not opposed to the brawl because it’s a risk I’m well aware of and not taking, thank you very much. I am a proponent of choice and responsibility.
However, there are weaker willed folks with addiction issues that I’m sure are doing exactly what Blizzard wants.
Anyway, just a couple points to play devils advocate. Blizzard has the responsibility to be a good corporate citizen, as do all members of the business community. As such, they often fail miserably in this mandate.
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No, winning 12 games in a roll doesn’t prove you are great at this game at all.
Those who can see the stats will have an advantage.
Others, not so much.
Streamers broadcast their run with the best possible decks they observed or somehow learned. You don’t know. I don’t know. Chances are, they know more than the average joe, hence they know better about the stat and top decks in Brawl meta.
You need this edge to win 12 games in one run.
If more and more players copy streamers’ decks, it will be harder and harder to win 12 games in 1 run using skills.
It will converge to a paper rock scissor situation where you will always have the most lucky player for 0 loss. But it’s really all about luck, a statistical necessary outcome.
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Yeah, even for the best players in the world there’s a luck component.
The brawleseum is just gambling. With crazy high skill you can make your odds less terrible.
It’s a mode that really shouldn’t be having exclusive things attached to 12 win runs.
But it makes them lots of money.
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To be honest, no one but oneself can help with addiction. I started playing World of Warcraft a few years ago and oh my, that game was addictive as hell. Any attempt to play the game seriously requires you to be a no-life. I was in my first year in graduate school and I got so screwed that year. It was during pandemic, and I have to take a semester off to reset myself. My point is game companies don’t and cannot take consideration of addiction. There are so many other games that are far more addictive than the heroic tavern brawl. People have to take responsibilities themselves.
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It’s cheaper to buy card packs with real money than to try to keep getting 12 wins. 
It’ not true.
First of all, if you’re decently ranked (e.g. legend or d1-5) then you should be familiar with all the meta decks and their strengths and weaknesses against other decks. For example, if you are try-harding, you wouldn’t bring pure pally despite the stats being good on HSR because you know it wouldn’t do well against good players. Also, you wouldn’t bring druid because you anticipate a fair amount of aggro players. Game knowledge about meta decks is an inherent part of skills.
Second, it’s not purely luck determined even if you queue into a mirror. If a top legend player play a frost DK mirror against a platinum player, he could easily have a 80%+ winrate.
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Although I agree that the condition is stupid, the MAIN reason why it’s stupid is because it’s on a timer because it’s an event quest. If this were a forever reward then I’d see less of an issue because we could come to it at any time, but the fact that we HAVE to pay 1000 gold for a 1/4000 chance is ridiculous. It’s actually laughable how insulting it is.
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Oh thank you for your time then. I am overwhelmed by your intelligence and superiority!
Behold, good people! Here is the soil in which I grow my many f’s.
However, one will see that the section devoted to Coffee is as barren as the Atacama, the driest place on earth.
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If someone is dumb enough and has such poor impulse control that they can’t resist spending tons on a digital skin, then literally anything will part them from their money. Not blizz’s problem. See a psychiatrist or develop some willpower. Worrying about people like that is like worrying about people who need a warning sign on a ladder saying"Do Not Jump off of this especially at great heights." It’s a fool’s errand trying to protect them. They’ll just move on to the next thing thing and the next…etc. And if exploitation is The Devil better tell that to the entire practice of advertisement because it preys on your need to be “cool” or “sexy” etc. It uses bright colors to entice you and describes the product in ways to get you to buy it. Reality is people use addiction as an excuse cause they’re unhappy when they’re unlucky. It’s digital swag. Nothing could be more unimportant.
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Thank Goodness, Hazama, there is still some voice of reason.