Why don’t you guys just let F2P players have access to meta decks for 1 week of the month which rotate to different decks from different classes each month?
This would enable players to try new cards that they don’t have, and give them a better sense of the type of gameplay the enjoy based on what they had a chance to try.
Having access to these decks will most likely entice them to play more during those weeks, which would grant them more ingame rewards, which they will be able to use towards cards they actually want without guessing which ones to craft.
The reality is, giving players free cards who complain they don’t have cards in their collection isn’t going to entice them to buy. It’s just going to make them complain even more and expect more handouts.
Giving away free stuff to players who haven’t put time or resources into the game is a great way to piss off those who have stayed loyal and have done both.
Something that I’ve said before in previous posts, When someone buys an expansion, they shouldn’t get a couple legnedaires and a 2,3,4,5 copies of cards that are useless, they should get ALL the cards for that given expansion.
You would end up having a lot more players in the game if you made the game more afforadable, instead of keeping the game overpriced, making it unaffordable for many who would otherwise actually be engaged on a regualr basis.
And one final thing I want to say, I use to be F2P for years, so I understand the prespective from a player who had to play with a very limited set of cards to a player who has all the cards. So I get it.
I’m not sure why so many people feel the need to bend over backward to placate the ProudlyF2P crowd.
Most F2P people pick up the game once and never play it again. Those who stick around for years and still whine about how mean ol’ Blizzard won’t give them everything they want for exactly nothing in return get no sympathy from me.
Wish they would also let arena work like mtgs draft system a bit more. Drafted a card in arena? Get a copy of that card for your collection!
This would also let people who play arena build a collection while trying out fun or weird cards they dont have. And get good at arena so you go infinite (in theory but never really in practice anymore since arena balance is so bonkers).
so OP wants the cost to increase our colletions to increase and you want to kill the game profits and chase away f2p players…no idea why you post heree if you hate the game this much
You ought to not assume intentions. I’ve read my this suggestion before. If we’re trying to encourage more players to newly join / OGs to return, this may be one example of how. I’ve spent thousands on Hearthstone, by the way. I’d nevertheless like to see more players as opposed to bots. I can’t say I’m positive this would work, but as stated above, it is an alternative. I don’t want to “kill” the game, Boreas – I want it to thrive.
Well we already have had what I think was the perfect compromise in the past
It’s basically allowing you to play the last expansion’s default deck of any class randomly
It allows players to try one new archetype of every class with cards they don’t own, but at the cost of being a random class each time, so they can’t just spam the same deck while it is available. It also comes with the benefit that you are technically not restricted to a limited period of time to try a class.
The card still works in wild by giving you standard decks
Was actually a big deception that it never joined the core set
This card was terrible. They never supported it like they said they were going to. I even tried it a few weeks ago to see how it would go and the decks are super weak and you also have zero idea what you’re going to get.
Because they have no idea what the meta will be. It’s okay, a lot of the community is quite intelligent, educated and professional, and they don’t have a clue either. Or maybe they’re right about something once a year.
There is no cost effective way of predicting the metagame with even moderate accuracy, and there never will be. Any plan involving meta decks and actually having a plan in place on expansion release are simply incompatible, and I don’t think Blizzard is interested in preconstructed decks that come out a week AFTER release — they would want them day of.
So it’s not even really about whether Blizzard should do what you’re suggesting. They can’t.
Only if those old players are unbelievably petty. A vocal minority of them certainly are.
Well obviously, it’s giving you standard decks and you are playing in wild. And default decks tend to rely heavily on new cards and are sub-optimized.
Open your collection, create a deck, pick any class
You’re getting the last deck before the custom option (at least it’s how it used to be)
It’s still a way to play archetypes you don’t have cards for and I enjoyed playing that card years ago when I didn’t have a great collection.
I dusted everything on another server to craft it
Never said it was, never said it should.
It’s a card that allows F2P players to play some legendaries for free, don’t expect such a card ot be meta and allow every one to climb the ladder. I think it made perfectly what it was designed for. Plus, if you’re not too much of a tryhard it’s kinda fun to have a random “constructed” deck each game.
It could have used better default decks as some had pretty bad cards from time to time.
I mean, I created an account on another server, then dusted everything available to craft whizban “for free” and play with it on another account I had noting on anyway.
Ive always thought an additional (not replacing) model of subscription would be amazing for us FtP players. My thought would be that for a low monthly (5 bucks each) cost you could gain access to an entire wild set (maybe 10 - 20 bucks for a standard one). Then give an option of paying a flat rate (10 bucks? I dunno) to keep the 5/10 most played cards from that month’s subscription or something. … i just wanna play duels with old stuff without rolling the dice on random packs, tbh. Oh, and if youre disparaging against FtP players you may wanna look into how FtP games keep a wide enough player base for the whales (or partial whales) to swim in while, simultaneously, encouraging non-paying folks to dish out once in a while.
I never quite understood what this means. How is playing optimally “[trying] hard”? The only difference between success in HS and failure is 1.) your choice of deck and 2.) the manner in which we click / drag cards. That’s not exactly being a “tryhard”. Is it? Forgive me if I am missing your point.
The downside of not playing seriously enough is when you run purely on a lizard brain level and don’t engage higher brain functions on strategy.
The downside of playing too seriously is when you stop treating the game like a game and start treating it like a job, transforming the game into an anxiety engine and in-game achievements into a to-do list from your boss.
I personally have some light, nontoxic disdain for BOTH filthy casuals and pathetic tryhards. But most people aren’t capable of nuance so they choose one side of the partisan divide to settle on. Unfortunately this often results in the people in the middle, who have achieved transcendent balance, being called one slur or the other.
