It’s the same thing with bought entries. Everyone gets offered garbage decks over and over. That’s why the gold farming barcode bots have under 1 win averages on the Leader Boards. They burn through 100s of garbage drafts before they find the One. If all the barcodes needed was just spend $2 and you get guaranteed god draft they wouldn’t have such low win averages on the Leaderboard and don’t have to risk sketchy website to buy Hearthstone account when they can just buy legit runs through the game. Blizzard wants most of your Arena runs to be garbage so you waste more resources for more runs. They don’t give you easy god runs paid or not. They give you god runs once in a while to keep you hooked much like how slot machines work. They periodically hand you the high to keep you coming back to chase the high.
Shuyin, I have been adding players I played against and asking them whether they are entirely f2p, or did they do any cash purchases. Myself I have done 1 shop cash purchase, just to have advantage over f2p players. The rng correlates with my opponents cash purchases. No purchases, I get good rng, more than 1 purchase, my opponent gets good rng.
Also your latest edit suggests there is rng tampering present?
No tampering is requred for RNG. It’s not a set interval and you don’t need someone with their finger on the button to manipulate the odds one way or the other. Throw in some positives in the mix and with enough interaction people hit those positives and chase them. That’s what the It’s rigged cult calls rigging.
Shuyin there has been enough anecdotal claims of rng tampering to call for statistical analysis of the game matchmaking. You have been defending the game for long time, do you have any proof?
It’s rigged toward whoever is closer to the 50% win rate.
Paranoid delusions aren’t proof that something exists.
Should be easy enough to do this - create two accounts and fund one, then have a player play equal amount of games on each with the same deck. It’s important that they don’t know which is funded.
Few hundred games each should do it.
Truth is in the middle in this case. If people are very dogmatic there’s no rigging they may be PAYING AND LOSING so they know you are off; if you were not off they would win; but they paid and don’t win so how could you be right?
Also if Blizzard wants to rig the game they would not do it that way because it’s easy to prove it because various third parties collect stats that would cover it.
I think what Blizzard actually does is they have an extremely accelerated MMR algorithm (a very high K-Factor on their Elo-rating system).
That means they seem to cause players to lose easily after a small win streak and vice versa in order to increase played-time.
Through years of claims that game is rigged someone must have gathered the data. Where is it?
Exactly. Where is the data that the game is rigged?
The claims keep coming up, yet no evidence of rigging is ever provided!
It’s only rigged when one loses… never when there’s a win, that’s skill 
Have I told you I love you lately? 
Yes, it does and they force 50:50 win rate with this system.
They don’t exactly force it so much as aim for it. Players can overcome ane climb.
After all this I still haven’t gotten an answer to this simple question.
Why have I, a free to play player, make it into legend every month if the system is rigged towards people who spend money? I hit legend this month with a deck that was just over 2k dust actually.
Come on, that’s such a softball question. It’s obviously just cherrypicked human intervention so that we have one or two occasional exceptions to the otherwise ironclad algorithm forcing all the rest of us to 50/50 every time. You purposefully let ONE imperfection into an otherwise perfect system to allow the sheeple to suspend disbelief. Give us a hard one next time, why doncha?
/THE MOST SARCASM POSSIBLE
So you’re saying I am basically Neo. The one! I accept.
Who ever said it was rigged towards people who spend money? I thought we were talking about whether the game is rigged or not (to which the answer is yes, it is). Paying money to Blizz just shows one is a sucker. I think you must have got confused with the psychology of paying or not paying and the expected results based on paying or not paying, with the game being rigged or not. Which is understandable, since paying money does increase the likelihood for a player to win, because the cards which cost the most money or dust are generally the most powerful cards. But it has nothing to do with rigging. The beginning of Hearthstone taught us that. People would juat use F2P Huntar deck and go face and win 55% of the time and make it to legend no problem. But never more than ~60% winrate. Why never more than 60% winrate? Because the game is rigged. If anyone ever gets above 60% winrate, the game starts hard searching for matches/decks/players to cause you to lose. Again, this is already long since proven.
There have been many decks in metas where the win rate was far above 60% and it stayed like that for weeks and sometimes over a month before they changed specific cards in those decks.
It’s so beyond stupid that people think that suddenly losing after a string of wins means rigged system. You’re facing better players the higher your rank goes wth do you expect to happen? Easy wins to the top 100? So many idiots here. How can you fail to understand a concept as simple as ranked based matchmaking? The entire point of such a system in ANY game is to match you up with equally skilled people. There is 0 reason they’d need to rig it when a basic match making system eventually guarantees a winrate of 50%. No trickery is needed.