RedStar:
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’
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.
PS Maybe something along these lines: Classic - Every opponent is a Warlock - #5 by SparkyElf-2852 and so on.
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 (?).
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to it have failed, for example, I’ve found this piece by me:
By the way, conversing with some of them is probably your biggest mistake.