Do you feel like you are desperately defending your belief that Hearthstone card draws and matchmaking are not manipulated by an AI selection scheme? These constant posts make it seem like you feel that way.
Listen. I understand. Part of my point was that players enter a computer card game with the expectation that industry standard RNG is the only operation responsible for drawing cards. To have that expectation ruined would destroy your feeling of immersion (connection) with this Blizzard product, as it would the majority. I am sorry for making you feel like you have to defend their product, but, honestly, the way they chose to code was a design decision that served their purpose. They do not need to defend it, and fans do not need to insert themselves to defend it. The problem that is well exampled by your posts here is that this expectation of unmanipulated RNG is crucial to customers. That is why you feel defensive about a random company’s product. You do not want to feel duped, as if by deception. That is totally sensible. It is a normal way to behave. Bro, this was why I started this thread. I felt that it was important for Hearthstone devs to recognize that their design of the AI.RNG was flawed from the get go. You have helped me prove that point, so thank you for your contributions to this thread.
Lastly, in case cognitive dissonance still influences your willingness to acknowledge the true design of the game, consider the patch wherein it was promised that arena card options would better reflect that class and would cause less lopsided results. That alone is an admission that AI.RNG has been at work. They do not come straight out and say it. Why? Who knows. Maybe they know it will harm that feeling of immersion. If that is the case, then why do they employ it with secrecy to begin with? That was my concluding question. Ultimately, I want to encourage the devs to do away with it. Engineering experiences by poorly simulating RNG is not the best path, in my belief. I want to help them make a better product.