I get why Classic is done

[SparkyElf-2852]

@Selwynn-1560

If all you have to add is to put people down and act superior, why even bother? Aren’t you already so superior to the rest of us that you’re making yourself unclean by slumming it down here with the unwashed?

So what’s the problem, then? Instead of complaining, rejoice and ‘remember this day, for you are graced with my presence.’

@Anubis-21859

The main reason Blizz plans to remove is, simply, the lack of players.

Have they told you this themselves?

@Anubis-21859

Even if they fixed the bot issue, there would be no guarantee that the mode would become significantly more popular and, in terms of business, profitable for them.

Now, as for the second part, I think you might be getting closer to hitting the mark. How about continuing this line of thought a bit further, until we come to more realistically looking assumtipons? It’s comparatively not that hard to build a full or at least playable Classic collection and enjoy it indefinitely. Of course, this atrocity will not do, especially for such a company, known for its generosity, people should spend more, so shut it down!

@Anubis-21859

If the number of bots outweighs the players, then chances are that the game/mode was doomed from the start.

Are you trying to tell us that HS as it was released was doomed from the start?

Oh, by the way:

@Anubis-21859

After all, a big part of the bot thing is that the percentage of players is small.

No, it’s not. You probably haven’t seen those bot waves in the days of yore, even when there was just one Hearthstone (i.e. no Standard/Wild/etc), if memory serves.

@Anubis-21859

And I bet that most players are like Fireseal about this subject: “I’ve never played and/or I have no interest in it.”

If you target audience is twelve-year old kids or something like it, then yes. Those a bit older have likely played original HS — back when it was cool, so you can’t say they aren’t familiar (i.e. clueless about the mode), at the very least.

@Izizero-1732

The truth of the matter people don’t want to face is that vanishingly few people had any care for classic.

Another loud (lout?) statement without any figures to back it up.

@Izizero-1732

The node flopped for the same reasons more people paly standard sets than legacy basically everywhere: Mostly no one wants to keep face the same meta tyrants forever, and anyone who tells you otherwise has some serious rose tinted glasses.

Ha ha, that almost sounds like wishful thinking — assuming that the audience is that smart to think in such categories. Instead, you’d typically hear something about ‘mOaR nEw CoNtEnT’ — a mentality also excellent for the target audience of a product with this kind of marketing, by the way, so there’s no surprise this kind of sentiment is so popular here.

At the risk of looking narcissistic, I’ll still self-quote a bit from another topic, to which I refer everyone interested, since, as said, the discussions on these forums do get repetitive and I really don’t feel like going through the same thing again and again:

@SparkyElf-2852

What’s more, to continue with this analogy, few have ever ‘read this book’, i.e. made their own deck, for example, even once — but yeah, surely it’s more exciting to keep buying new books with bright covers, taking a look and throwing them away, because they get old. Way to go!

To that, I could perhaps add another analogy. Picture a kid coming to a theatre for an opera, sitting there for half a minute, picking his nose, then declaring, ‘I’m BORED, why don’t you play some NEW CONTENT, because I’m FRUSTRATED? You should respect MY OPINION!’

Sounds ludicrous? ‘It all makes perfect sense expressed in dollars and cents, pounds, shillings and pence’ — cultivated ADHD, urge for INSTANT GRATIFICATION and overconsumption resulting from it are very suitable for selling more junk regularly and often.

Alright, that’s probably enough grumbling for now.