Totally agree, plus now I am getting booted from regular game… CFP and turn rate explanation not helpful. Terrible rollout!
Almost one year delay.
Ben Lee initially stating it was their Slay the Spire, which was later denied by Iksar.
Gacha and Microtransaction ridden, aka the worst consumer friendly monetization.
They went all out with preorders before even explaing how do you play, which resulted in poor reception.
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.
I think that he wrote that to me,but still I do not see where even I said something on a personal level…he really,like really loves Iksar that critics about iksar he takes like a personal attacks on him,yet he is the one insulting people with “tinfoil hats”…strange person.
If that was the case i would have said nothing but i got notified and it was indeed for me.
Regardless i am done with the issue i will be too busy not pulling the mercs i want to waste more time here.
I really do not understand where exactly did he saw in our replies to him something that can be taken as a “personal attack” on him…
But yeah,you have a point,not worth wasting time on this nonsense.
When It stop from being conspiracy to be Just bad practices?
He really has to Go himself to say it outloud for it to be bad?
Because It really isn’t the first time he does something that really goes against what most here want from a hearthstone Head developer.
Be It in his atitude, be take bad feedback into account a lot more than It should, be play a bugged deck on ladder and create some random argument for It(not even gonna discuss If it’s valid or not because It isn’t the point i making here).
Not get me wrong but his work and philosophy is really what made me play hearthstone far less than i used to and stop spending money on it.
but there should be some limit to the absurdities that you hear around these parts at times… like the aforementioned one in this thread that he was purposedly exploiting the bug in order to gain ranks lol.
so yeah, bad practice is them not being able to filter the effectiveness in a good time through their tools and having to resign to play manually the deck to see with their own eyes.
but that’s all there is.
now, some trolls here want to turn every fault of the game into some weird conspiracy (rather than incompetence).
I mean, we have half a page usually filled with them claiming how the game cheats them , how it is rigged, and etc nonsense, so that’s nothing new i guess…
just one more conspiracy theroy to throw in the pile of useless things to laugh at.
according to what he was saying, it wasnt that they needed first hand experience to fix it. what they wanted was to see how prevalent it was and how easy to achieve. If they thought it was easy they were going to push for an emergency “fast” patch, (which they did), else they would simply add the fix it to the regular patch down the line.
Waiting for data to show them that, would be slower than checking manually.
(which btw is a disgrace, just hire more data analysts ffs)
Iksar didnt need to play the deck to see its true nature.
All the info he needed was fully available for a long time from a ton of sources.
I wouldnt care that he played it to test if HS had a decent timeline for patches and fixes.
But HS doesnt have that. The main reason why i throttled down on HS a month ago and just quit now.
And the worst is all the white knights babbling about the timeframe needed to fix and patch whatever the problem is.
That timeframe is a joke in HS. Even minor fixes takes forever.
Minor / easy fixes dont need weeks or months or years to fix.
But in HS everything takes ages and the reason for that is very clear.
The people in charge of monetization are looking on every aspect on who crafted what, disenchanted what, bought what, played what and they actively are in control and have veto on every saying on what to fix or not to fix.
THEY have the final word on everything. THEY are the ones blocking and delaying card changes and patches actively.
You want a patch that fixes obvious problems?
Then you better hope that those same people dont block it because money before playable game.