You don’t get people to buy packs by making them lose. You get people to buy packs by making them think that they’re better than they actually are. By making it easier to climb than it should be, participation trophy ranks.
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I don’t think its that complicated for them to rigg the matchmaking. Think of websites like hsguru or hsreplay, these have a lot of data, like win % for each individual card, win % for each deck, popularity %, win rate % against other decks, etc. All they need is a piece of code that pre-determines odds and counters you based on this data. Not a big deal.
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Yeah Blizzard has this magic wand that they wave and instantly all the parameters get readjusted to update and maintain the high level impossible to detect rigging.
That’s essentially what I was talking about in my earlier post: If matchmaking is rigged...? - #11 by Scr0tieMcB-1291
It’s still very unlikely. You’re wrong about doing it on a deck level, they’d need to do it on a card level. Take the number of cards in the entire format (currently 1355), then square that number, that’s the number of cells that would be in the table. Then for each matchup you’d need to do 30 squared = 900 lookups (more if Renethal), plug the numbers into a weighted average and calculate. That’s definitely something that a server could do within seconds, but a Hearthstone server does NOT have seconds when it’s trying to matchmake hundreds of players at a time; it has to accomplish a single matchmaking in milliseconds. It’s not really feasible, without intense investment in computing power. In other words, there’s a huge hardware cost. It doesn’t make sense when simpler algorithms do essentially the same thing.
Losing is the premier way to get people to buy packs…please don’t talk about what you do not understand, it’s embarassing.
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But if I buy a pack, it means I p2w’ed a little, so it sounds like an antistategy in terms of their profits.
But when the “it’s rigged” club members buy a pack and then they play until they win and think it’s just because they bought packs.
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From the same 3 people.
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If you wanted to maintain the illusion of fairness, you would have to, but those have nothing to do with each other anyway.
And the same, what, five people always coming in to argue against it. What’s your point?
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I don’t get this idea that it’s hard to rig. You just add bots with high/low percentage draws and/or weighted random effects. It doesn’t even need to be a guaranteed outcome.
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Except that’s not the rigging claims. The claims are deck reading counter matchups. Not bots with high roll RNG.
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It seems the people who claim rigging happens are missing the question. I am not asking HOW it would rig things. I am asking how it decides WHO to rig it for. Seeing as I reach high legend when I try, why was I chosen to have good rigging as a F2P player?
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Isn´t it obvious? You are Chosen One to be Champion of Blizzard defending them on the forums!
That was easy - next question, please.
They dodge these questions. Just like they dodge others such as having them answer how it’s possible to go 17-0 and still not hit a counter deck if it’s indeed “rigged” to force a 50/50.
Like I said before, expect the usual dismissals like them telling you you’re a Blizzard shill, or point to “the patent” in attempt to prove you wrong.
They regurgitate the same nonsense. “It’s already been proven it’s rigged” then you ask them to show the proof and they disappear or go “the patent!”.
You’d have better luck asking a Flat Earther to explain to you how a 24 hour sun exists in Antarctica. They can’t.
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It’s like a new record for how long we went without anyone mentioning it, but now you broke the streak.
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Except i criticize Blizz CONSTANTLY.
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only top 500? so why cant you get to top 1 then?
It’s because Antarctica is on the bottom edge and the sun being an L shape is always visible in Antarctica while everything else not on the bottom edge gets sunrises and sunsets.
I do not have the time nor the desire to do it. I think if I completely devoted myself to doing the work needed, I could.
Is this serious question meant to prove something? Asking for friend.