Please bring back Classic mode

[Ratty-11129]

This was the only format I really loved. I know people say it was solved or whatever, but I still really enjoyed making different decks and having access to all the cards.

I loved the simplicity of it; it was relaxing and fun for me. I don’t think I’ll ever enjoy this game as much as I did playing Classic.

I understand the business doesn’t want a mode that doesn’t incentivize never-ending pack buying, but I just wanted to at least voice my wish somewhere.

[Selwynn-1560]

Oh, wow, serious?

I played the last season of classic specifically to get the legend achieve before it disappeared.

I made a basic zoo lock deck and went on a 50+ win streak to legend without playing a single human opponent the entire streak.

Classic was deader than dead and it should stay that way.

That said, you can do everything in wild that you could do in classic except constantly match into bots. The bots are broken up with a few humans sprinkled in now, but that shouldn’t be an issue. Just concede to the human opponents and you will get that fresh hearthstone classic feel again.

[SparkyElf-2852]

I get it, however, there’ve been multiple topic about it. See, for example: Why is there no classic mode? It's the only good mode? - #6 by SparkyElf-2852 and so on. I’ll just leave a link — don’t wanna repeat myself yet again.

[RedStar-21409]

at least bring back the classic mode during the twist mode breaks, we need classic mode

[Carnivore-2587]

I bet it was infested with pure netdecking at this stage. This is the biggest problem of metas that have no new releases. People will gravitate to the best handful of the netdecks to the point of ending up with 2 or 3 of them max.

And then you might learn one of them well to the point of not thinking about how you play (which is not hard in powerless/simple-classic), and that’s where it becomes really dull because the opponent becomes the RNG.

[neverlucky-11992]

Pretty pls. Need a reason to be happy for still not having disenchanted my cards.

[SilentStorm-131293]

“We think we do, but we don’t”

“Don’t you guys have phones?”

[RedStar-21409]

Then why does chess have unchangeable pieces for thousands of years and still remain one of the most interesting and popular games in the world? If the game has balance, and in the classic format it does, then updates are not at all necessary. In the classic format, despite not such a large number of cards, there is also an opportunity for deckbuilding, to create new archetypes. The minimal amount of randomness makes this mode skill-dependent. Hearthstone classic is the best thing that has ever been in this game, I demand this mode to return.

[Carnivore-2587]

@RedStar-21409

Then why does chess

Chess is extremely more complicated, “per round”. It’s like being able to make decks but every single deck is drawn in whole every single round and you can only play 1 card at a time.

By the way that’s not a terrible idea for a new Format. “ChessHearthstone”.

[SparkyElf-2852]

@RedStar-21409

Then why does chess have unchangeable pieces for thousands of years and still remain one of the most interesting and popular games in the world? If the game has balance, and in the classic format it does, then updates are not at all necessary.

Yep.

I think it was already discussed at some point… Moreover, even serious attempts at delivering ‘nEw CoNtEnT’ to it have failed, for example, I’ve found this piece by me:

@SparkyElf-2852

The thing is: there’s a certain old game called chess (of course, you can’t even begin to compare its depth to HS, but still… Even some grandmasters actually played HS in their leisure time, although spending time this way is probably questionable in terms of helping their career), and even a while ago a certain guy called Bobby Fisher, who actually knew something about chess theory, unkile your typical forum ‘expert’ — in fact, he developed substantial parts of it during his era, raised concerns that chess would be ‘dying’ or so due to how well-known the opening theory is and such, so he invented something called Chess 960 with randomised strarting positions, with the idea of avoiding this problem. The thing is, many, if not most, strong players seem to hate it, and even if you see them occasionally do it just for the sake of big money (they’ve got bills to pay, too), they tend to quickly converge to structures and positions similar to those from classical chess, if possible — which is not surprising, given how balanced and harmonious the original position is, unlike many of those random ones. Oh, and speaking of theory — despite phenomenal advances in computer chess (I’m not even talking how far chess theory has advanced since the era of Fisher), there are still breakthroughs happening occasionally.

This may be too big of an analogy, but still something to consider. Besides, I’ve written what I think about those who think they ‘solved the meta’, don’t feel like repeating it now.

Haven’t readily found the post referred to in the previous paragraph yet, but in short, those self-annointed (sic) forum experts typically understand very little of the ‘meta’ — as usual, since they generally understand very little. By the way, conversing with some of them is probably your biggest mistake.

PS Maybe something along these lines: Classic - Every opponent is a Warlock - #5 by SparkyElf-2852 and so on.

@RedStar-21409

Hearthstone classic is the best thing that has ever been in this game

Yep, one of, if you ask me.

For example: Is Classic still worth it? - #5 by SparkyElf-2852, Reason I don't want to quit Hearthstone - #20 by SparkyElf-2852, New player: Which format do you play, most favor, and why? - #5 by SparkyElf-2852, Why is there no classic mode? It's the only good mode? - #6 by SparkyElf-2852 (again) etc (?).