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Almost one year delay.
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Ben Lee initially stating it was their Slay the Spire, which was later denied by Iksar.
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Gacha and Microtransaction ridden, aka the worst consumer friendly monetization.
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They went all out with preorders before even explaing how do you play, which resulted in poor reception.
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The presentation itself was a fiasco, an overwhelming amount of useless informations, where some vital one (like the content of the packs, the gold used for upgrades) were withheld.
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Game still looks barebones.
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I think that the root of majority of all known problems with this game today lies in Iksar himself.
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Terrible dev who is taking advantage of bugs in a gameplay instead of working to fix them (he was caught and recorded doing that few weeks ago).
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Where are all of the microstransactions?
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so some coworker recorded him playing during his work hours
thats odd
despite what you think of the guy, that’s just false.
he even said why he was playing the deck: to expedite their impressions of how fast/oppressive it was and if it was a case of an urgent patch to fix it.
which he figured out it was, and that’s why they rushed the patch for it.
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no,some to me unknown player who stumbled upon him in a game recorded him…at least it’s known that it happened that way…
https:// min.news/en/game/f50991e3c4cad45a1a2be43edb307303.html
why then he didn’t play it in casual or something? why he played it on a ladder? rotten thing to do to other players no matter what.
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are you serious?
how can you ascertain the degree of success of a competitive deck in casual?
he played it in legend, to see how it fares vs the rest best decks.
and after just a few days later the patch was released that fixed the deck he posted why the changes were made.
now, go wear your tinfoil hat if you think that a working man will jeopardise his livinghood for a few ranks in wild legend ladder lol.
that… and the fact that he literally told the whole world (and not the tiny minority of the redditors) of how he checked the deck in the patch notes lol.
such subterfuge 
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Hmm…do you see a screenshot of a game near the end of an article? On a picture is clear that he played it at rank 9 diamond and not in a legend…so,as I said before,it is a very corrupted,rotten thing to do to other players ESPECIALLY as a leading dev!
FFS,he is a dev,if he doesn’t have some other tool to test his game than no wonder that this game is on it’s deathbed!
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Btw. do you really think that he cares about if someone is gonna see him doing that or not? If you didn’t understand 'till now that Blizzard doesn’t care about nothing except money than I don’t know…do you see what is happening in whole company lately not only in team 5???
They screw this game on every expansion and no one ever was fired 'cause of things they do wrong with it and he knows that and he knows that no one above him will care what he is doing!
This is the one that is the worst for me. Mercenaries has no soul. When Hearthstone first came out, the game boards were a huge deal, most other digital card games were on green felt at most. The game was alive, the cards had personality between the art and the voicework.
Mercenaries feels like someone brought up a default background in Unity and added a few sprites that flash.
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- Plays Hearthstone.
- Complains about Gacha/Microtransactions as if it’s something new.
I played pretty much every online card game in the market no dev ever as done what he did thats not how you balance games .
They already have access to mountains of data from games where players far better than him were already using the bug.
In my opinion there is no defense for what he did ,a game dev abussing a bug under the guise of "it will get patched faster if i do " is a disgrace.
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i mean… i don’t like the guy.
but i don’t like consiracy theories that border on the absurdity like this one even more.
Is their balancing process terribe? Probably yes. I mean he admitted that their data collection would be too slow for a hasty patch and that’s why he did hands on experience… and for an AAA studio that’s just… bad.
But apart from that, going into personal attacks on a thing he did for his job and trying to spin it that a man would jeopardise his carrer for HS ranks is just… lol.
What is disgrace is not him playing the deck. That is actually commendable. That was for the betterment of the game. What IS the disgrace is that he had to do that.
What’s also a disgrace is posters who whine about actions that were literally for the good of the game and literally lead to hasty patches to fix issues.
What is an even bigger disgrace is when those whine become personal attacks.
Exactly because blizz cares about money it is actions like that that can cost one’s job in the blink of the eye.
playing games, for personal ranking, even borderline exploiting, while at his working hours.
Do you think that execs care about who he is? He would be fired in an instant.
But yeah, if it makes you sleep better at night that Devs have it personally to top the ladders by exploiting, then wear your tinfoil hat proudly.
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A fairly common problem is that there’s a decent number of people that think ranks actually mean anything to the developers, whether for themselves or for the players. That’s why we get posts talking about how the game is rigged despite that being way more trouble to develop and implement than just doing what physical card games do and just let people spend tons of cash on their own.
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All i got playing Mercenaries was it felt like a knockoff of it’s own knockoff, Runescape chronicles released years ago that wasn’t as good as hearthstone then, but still did everything Mercenaries could have done, better then. And then still got jagexed Since Jagex went the more P2W and less f2p friendly route and made it almost impossible to earn packs as a f2p in a hearthstone competitor.
All the merc fighting, the graphics, missing out on a board, i never thought a game would make me feel like it’s own mode was a discount of it’s own knockoff. But Chronicles was pretty fun actually. It just had the misfortune of being jagexed on a team that had the reverse situation of hearthstone. Great devs and passionate development (even if they were always put on mtx teams), terrible management who just killed a golden goose since it wasn’t laying eggs day 1 and they wanted to charge more for packs despite being a underdog telling people to start all over.
People saying there can’t be graphics in a card game about story really makes me wonder. Runescape chronicles had graphics, was made by a rival team with no card game experience, and actually pretty fun with a twist like 5 years ago and could have been learned from. Why didn’t they just copy that?
A actual hearthstone version of Chronicles for mercs might have actually been pretty fun. or just a properly ran, f2p chronicles. Had jagex not been under bad management or killed their own game for no apparent reason, it could have been a pretty solid hs competitor honestly. The gameplay was great, the monetization was just too much for a competitor to get f2ps to join tho.
probably like Knighthood [knighhood - Android Apps on Google Play]
Was fun at first, but the grind gradually got more and more brutal until all but one of us in the group abandoned. The last remaining guy is a compulsive whale type that also had spend fortunes on Raid Shadow Legends…
All these mobile games are the same, the SAAAMMMMEE. Hearthstone was truly an outlier.
You are fishing sadly for you i wont bite no where in my post did i make it personal.
The only thing i question is his work ethic that in this case was found lacking like i said IN MY OPINION.
Something you dont seem to understand, its just business for me and if you payed more atention you would see previous posts of mine saying that he looks like a fun person to hang around or even have a drink with.
Sadly thats not the qualitys this game needs from him to improve.
The air must be razor thin way up there in that high horse, goodbye.
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I think that no matter what I say you will continue to blindly defend devs and blizzard…I forget how many of you here are in love with them.
End of discussion.
All I know is, as someone who has bought every expansion, every adventure, with something like a 98% collection completion - I have zero interest in mercenaries. It just looks like a cashgrab that none of my existing collection matters for, so why should I invest in an alternate mode when ladder and battlegrounds already keeps me occupied?
Imagine if it turns out it wasn’t fast: the bug would have been there forever 
(can we fix Myra into anubarak already?)
I’m not an expert, but I am of the idea that if he had time to play in on ladder to see if it worked, he also had time to fix the bug (since it wasn’t there, I assume it would have been easy to spot what was wrong).
I don’t think it is wrong to abuse of a bug (even if in the rules it is stated to not do it), I would have done it too if I found it fun.
You can’t really tell what’s a bug and what’s a feature in HS, expecially when bugs usually screw you in unexpected ways rather than helping.
Ah, I just remembered something: in the last brawl (the one with 4 cards) the “2 mana draw a card if you used your heropower that turn” was bugged and drew card if you used the heropower at least one time in the game.
Maybe it is bugged even in the normal mode, I don’t bother trying it, but it’s incredible how these bugs come out like mushrooms