Let me tell you it has been the most horrible experience on had from any CCG I played it is like having to jump through hoops just to get my starter deck. I’m playing apprentice lvl rank and it’s all current net decks, not just random cards people put together. It feels like I’m being farmed by higher players on the ladder, not new ones with the way they play these decks.
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Seems like what you’d expect.
Do you find the meta decks once you hit bronze or before?
I think the tons of startup stuff is both to slow down bots at start and to insulate new players from the regular players.
Way before you hit bronze you are facing net decks all the way down.
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Gee it’s almost like you probably dunked on all the truly new players and the matchmaker quickly realized your skill level was in the net deck ranges.
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Everyone seems to have this notion that you have to be a good, or experienced player, before you go to the internet for a deck. That’s silly. You’re facing net decks because most people are intelligent & inquisitive. These decks are successful because, among other things, they are easy to play. There’s no conspiracy.
The only problem here is that you are a cheater. You are not, in fact, a new player. You wanted to farm new players, but it didn’t work. Good.
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I did not try farming new players, but tried to see how it feels from a fresh start as f2p would if they join. Like how would the experience be for them paired to f when I started playing hearthstone back in 2014.
Dang, it’s NightKnight. The guy I’ve probably faced like at least 100-200 times in my 20,000 games lol.
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Don’t they give new players actual usable starter decks that are easy to convert to Meta decks now a days? Not surprising that these new player ranks get to meta deck status fairly easily with the starter quests/achievements giving them a bunch of gold and dust combined with core giving them a much better base than the 2014 trash basic cards.
What did you envision when creating this new account?
Because what we envision is you getting tired of facing tough opponents and wanting to relax playing some meme decking noobs.
Because your reaction clearly shows your expectations were not met.
I expect the same did when I started not a bunch of net decks spam new players trying f2p with more cards than you have. I mean these full-on net decks are high cost not cheap with many high-cost decks in them around 400-1600 dust craft each.
But if this is hearthstone’s future, it’s going to be hard for the new player to join when they are at a disadvantage from rest drop money to craft deck from the start.
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And then what?
You would have gone to a noob crushing campaign?
You are not the same noob from back then. You think you are the only person who got the idea to start a new account? And then what do you think has been happening when the new player ranks started getting packed with a whole bunch of people like you? They started net decking to beat each other.
And then every other smurf escalated the smurf war net decking more and more until it got this way.
But this whole thing started with people like you. It’s just that you are really late do the smurfing party and you missed the times before they started having to net deck to crush the other Smurfs.
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Reminds me of the folks who say they’re going to start roping people because they keep getting roped. Hmm, I wonder why the guy that roped you started roping people? Do you reckon he invented roping all on his own?
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It is designed to frustrate new players to cave in, and just pay the $$ to get the cards.
Enough people do that to be more profitable for Blizzard to set it up this way, than make it new player friendly. It is as simple as that.
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I’d imagine that the better overall way to make profit off of this game is, actually, not to frustrate new players. It’s a myth that frustration leads to purchases. Frustration more often leads to quitting a game than one spending any money, I would argue. Never have I become frustrated with a game and thought “lemme invest money into this.”
What OP is experiencing is the matchmaking system doing its job and recognizing that OP has a higher level of skill than the new players he’d like to steamroll. And so he is being matched against similarly skilled players and these so happen to have the experience and knowledge to know netdecking drastically increases the chances to win because most players (even skilled pilots) suck at building decks.
Moreover, many (maybe most) players want to jump right into competition as opposed to taking the (often high) amount of time necessary to refine a deck. Even if they did take the time to refine their own deck, they’ll find, in the end, it’s very similar if not identical to netdecks. Netdecks are only crowd sourced homebrews. It’s difficult to make a superior deck on one’s own when netdecks are refined by thousands of players.
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When I started in 2018, I got consistently farmed at rank 20 by decks with deathknights and many legendary cards.
I don’t know what was your experience when you started, but for me it was terrible: there wasn’t the duplicate protection so I couldn’t even play rare cards and to craft them I had to dust cards that I had in 1x or 2x (since I was new).
The only thing that saved the game for me was the HoF, which gave me a lot of dust (I crafted every possible card in golden and then dusted it. it was my first gain).
Today the game gives you a lot of packs, gold, even a deck; I refuse to believe the experience is worse than before.
If the problem is that there are only net decks, then it’s nothing new
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We need a lot less of this nonsense on this forum.
If you see nefarious intentions everywhere, the problem is you.
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The best is watching people in Silver/Gold with 25k dust decks stuck there.
Mostly because money doesn’t buy intelligence loll.
If Trump can do it we all can lol… maybe… he was facing full netdecks in apprentice ranks which is sort of unhealthy.
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I’d imagine that multibillion dollar company has a better understanding what gives them greater profits than an average forum poster like you, and wouldn’t do something that is less profitable. Thus, the frustration of the new players is very much intentional. And it works. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be doing it. It is that simple.
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The irony here is that you say this, and then proceed to make make your own assumptions as to Blizzard’s methods. You, too, are an average forum poster. 
Sure, but where is the evidence for this, though.