So over time I’ve come across plenty of people who truly believe the game is rigged.
The question is, is it really rigged and in what way ?
When you make such a claim, you need to ask yourself this: in what way is the game rigged and what are blizzard’s benefits from doing so ?
1- The matchmaking is rigged in a way to prevent you from climbing.
The matchmaking is made so that you meet people of equal or similar skill, which means you should be maintaining a win rate close to 50%. If the matchmaking was rigged, why is it that the same players consistently hit high Legend every month and have insane win rates ? Why are those guys consistently hitting Legend if it’s rigged ? Are they just luckier than you ? Why would blizzard rig the matchmaking in favor of your opponent but not yourself ? What are they gaining from this ?
Aside from the few players abusing the system in order to farm weaker opponents, I don’t think the matchmaking is rigged in any shape of form, otherwise everyone would be at the same rank, which is clearly not the case.
2- I’ve teched X card for X deck and I am not seeing the class anymore, what’s going on, is it rigged ?
I don’t believe so. If you think about it from a logical and mathematical standpoint, your chances of playing against X class for the 4th or 5th time in a row is extremely unlikely. The fact that you don’t meet the class you’re trying to counter for a few games is perfectly logical and that’s what’s going to happen in most case.
If you think about it, most times someone puts a tech card in his deck is because he queue’d multiple times against X class. There are 10 classes in Hearthstone, your chances of queue’ing against the same class after putting a tech card is so little (probably 10% or less) so it makes perfect sense for the average player to feel like this is rigged. But that’s just because the odds are against you and instead of keeping playing for a few hundreds of games, they just immediately remove the tech card because it seems not to be working.
If techs didn’t work, nobody’s would’ve been playing Warrior (because it mainly countered DH) or cards such a Golakka Crawler & Boompistol Bully. They were clearly working very well so to claim that tech cards do not work is simply false based on your biased view.
3- I am never lucky and my opponent always have every answer.
I do believe this is something that’s heavily biased. The truth is, you are way more likely to remember the time you got screwed by RNG over the times you got insanely lucky or just had better RNG then your opponent. Most players think they won because they played well and lost because they got unlucky. The truth is, most of your opponents probably thought you got very lucky after you’ve won the game but you’re just unable to see that.
In your mind, you won because of skill and lost because of RNG. In reality, the RNG even itself after a while. If you don’t think so, let me ask you think: why would blizzard go out of their way to give you bad RNG ? What are they gaining from rigging the game in the opponent’s favor and not yourself ? From a logical standpoint, that makes absolutely no sense for them to do so. There will always be a winner and a loser so in 100% of the game at least a player is likely to have better RNG than the other.
4- Packs are rigged and I am never getting anything good
I understand that most people get frustrated when they have bad pulls but you need to understand that on average a legendary is only pulled once in 20 packs. This is a fact proved by million of packs that have been opened. Why would blizzard specifically screw YOU with packs rng over someone else ?
Every time you hit the pity time of 40 packs, there’s someone who’ve been blessed with RNG and managed to pulled 4-5 legendaries in 40 packs.
Buying packs is like the Casino… you are more likely to have average pull and just as likely to have very good results over very bad results. What is blizzard gaining from specifically giving YOU bad pulls and good pulls to someone else ? Absolutely nothing. Because it’s all a matter of RNG, just because you get unlucky that doesn’t mean the company rigged the packs so you get garbage.
5- Final words
I don’t think anything’s rigged… if the game was truly rigged in any way, sharp or form, I do believe sites like hsreplay or similar sites would’ve found something after 6 years and millions of games tracked.
Unless you think this is some kind of conspiracy by blizzard and they paid every single sites to keep their mouth shut… the game definitely isn’t rigged. And you need to ask yourself, for any type of way you think the game is rigged, what is blizzard gaining from doing so ? And why hasn’t it been proven to be rigged after all those years ?
If you think the game is rigged, you need to have actual evidence over multiple thousands of games, not just based on your ‘‘impression’’ because impression is heavily flawed and inaccurate in most cases and I’m sure your view would change if you tracked everything and someone pointed out why you’ve lost x game because of some mistakes rather than having a rigged matchmaking or RNG.
Feel free to discuss.
