Team 5, PLEASE give us an in house deck tracker so that We aren’t forced to rely on janky third party programs that mess with Our systems and only work when they feel like it.
Sincerely, M.
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Card games typically don’t provide that tool. I’ve had no issue with the standard third party stuff.
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Except now with the new updates to Android, Arcane Tracker no longer functions at all. Really sucks.
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It’s one of those things that while not strictly necessary, would heavily improve the experience, Quality of Life basically.
Honestly i think an in-game deck tracker would be most beneficial to user experience.
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I had to stop using Deck Tracker because it disables my “s” key. I do miss the tracking features, particularly when I’m on a really good win streak.
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While I have no issues when using deck tracker, it does feel a bit like laziness to not have a deck tracker built-in. This further gives players using a computer an advantage over players using their mobile, which I don’t believe is the intention. But this is Blizzard we’re talking about. We can’t expect too much.
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100% vote in favor of this. Its purely convenience and its nothing a pen and paper couldn’t do, just more time efficient. Is also nice for opponent.
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I don’t forsee Blizzard ever implementing this. Since third-party developers are making deck trackers, why would Blizzard invest resources into something that others are making for them for free?
No one is leaving the game because they don’t have a deck tracker built in so there really isn’t an incentive for them to do anything again since other companies are developing their own add-ons at no cost to Blizzard.
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That’s exactly it.
I just wish they would manage it better. Some don’t like to admit it but if you use it professionally it certainly is an advantage and also yes, you can easily find them if you go looking for them. But how do you know something like that, any add-on even exists?
I personally like the Steam Workshop where on the game page on Steam you can see that there are unofficial add-ons to adjust the play or art style to your liking etc.
There is no mention of any of this in the Battle.net client or in-game regarding in this case a so-called “deck tracker”.
If they don’t want to do something that’s already been done from someone else then that’s fine. But they don’t really acknowledge that anywhere. As if it doesn’t exist or shouldn’t. Of course when asked they won’t say people are not allowed to use them since many popular streamers use them and they didn’t do anything about it. But the way it’s currently handeled you might as well at first glance think it might actually be forbidden.
They should just implement those deck trackers in an offical list of add-ons that are allowed which you can download and enable right there on the spot.
But yeah, I know. That doesn’t make them any money either so why invest resources into that? It’s just really annoying.
I wish more people would care about it and maybe that somehow people then could pay money specifically for that feature or so and that it could happen that way. Would be a really dumb roundabout way and most don’t care that much anyway so therefore… yeah, it’s almost certainly not going to happen. And that sucks.
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Deck trackers are just a tool for your memory, it is quite some years ago i used that tool.
The cirmustances where you need to know what is left in your deck and what your chances are drawing a solution to the board or lethal are nil in many match ups.
Plus from what i remember the decktracker is quite heavy on your computer.
Running a laptop with a i3 intel 620hd 4gb ram 
And that’s another thing. This discussion is about an in-game deck tracker in case you missed it.
Do you think it still would be so heavy if properly implemented into the game? I seriously doubt it. I’m pretty sure that’s because you need a separate program for that.
Another reason why it sucks that we don’t have it. Some people can’t/won’t use it because they have a crappy PC or whatever. (Also a reason I don’t use them; I also have a rather old laptop.)
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Yeah if implemented as a additional feature to the game it would be just a win situation.
Though i dont think blizzard has the urge to sustain / maintain such a feature for the rest of hearthstone its existence
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I don’t think it is neecessary, but it would be very useful.
I use it expecially because of the “pack tracker” feature, because I usually know what I have in my deck.
The other cool part is that it saves gamess statistic; and it also make the screen “complete”.
I wonder one thing: if people stop using HSreplay tracker (for example) and start to use thin game ones, would HSreplay still receive all the match ups information? (probably not)
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When it’s done in the right way I’m pretty sure there is nothing to maintain whatsoever.
I don’t know how applicable it really is but I play Darkest Dungeon on Steam and regularily there will be new stuff on the so-called Workshop you can try out and I’m certain that once that feature was enabled in the game the developers didn’t need to do anything about it as it “maintains itself”.
They’re all basically community projects and those who make those mods have to make adjustments themself if, for example, a new game update comes along.
So if it really is about they don’t want to do it again because others already done it then they should just implement those deck-trackers and whatnot (is there even anything else for that matter?) properly in the game and I can’t see how that feature has to be “maintained” so much.
That’s interesting. And that certainly could be a problem actually.
My opinion on that matter of course would be that they should just make all of this information publically available for those who want to know.
The HSreplay deck tracker is just a roundabout way to get access to that information Blizzard has. And also while maybe very close it’s never the whole picture. But I guess for those interested it’s not that important to really have everything to the finest detail but just the overall tendencies etc.
Realistically they of course won’t make that information available but people still want to know and even with in-game deck trackers we now might need it seperately regardless because they won’t give us that information. Lol.
Funnily enough that is how people at HSreplay would (obviously) be vehemently against something like in-game deck trackers. I think they even made a business out of it. Even more incentive to not have in-game deck trackers. Cool. But that’s just how crazy our world is.
So now with HSreplay and the others that have a vested interest in having no in-game deck tracker as they now have their thing up and running it makes an in-game deck tracker even more unlikely to ever happen. Thanks, HSreplay. I know you just wanted to help people, but now you’ve become the problem.
(Off-topic rant But I guess that just applies to anyone ever in competitive trade and that is unfortunately the thing that humanity has chosen society should be managed with. I for one am very glad for the few exceptions to this twisting madness but I fear they won’t be enough.)
If the people playing in Grandmaster can use it, why isn’t it a core feature?
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They probably will once they can lock it behind a paywall with the Constructed Pass.