I’ve just come across this article: https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/hearthstones-2024-in-review-a-celebration-gone-wrong — didn’t bother much with HS and related stuff during holidays (took some holiday from it, heh-heh), so I must have missed it.
So yeah, I’ve been reading it — haven’t even finished yet, but it’s already made me think: yeah, some celebration it has been, indeed: unpopular decisions, more greedy and aggressive monetisation, layoffs — and that might not even be the whole story, maybe I’m forgetting something… One could also mention cut content (modes, game boards, ways to obtain resources) separately under the ‘unpopular decisions’ section, I suppose.
What conclusion to draw from it all? Well, I suppose it shows how much they care about you, the game and even their own. You could draw some other conclusions, too, but I’ll leave it to you.
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The gears of the machine grind on, relentlessly, even as the calendar page turns to mark a decade. Ten years, they say, of Hearthstone. A milestone, perhaps, but one that echoes with the hollow clang of an empty celebration.
A document has come to my attention, a chronicle of the year that has passed. It speaks of discontent, of decisions made in shadowed chambers, of a creeping hunger for coin that consumes all in its path. Even the laborers, the cogs in this grand machine, are not spared the insatiable appetite of the beast.
Modes vanish like dreams upon waking, game boards fade into the mists of forgotten promises, and the paths to resources become ever more labyrinthine. A celebration? No, this is a slow and methodical dismantling, a descent into the bureaucratic abyss.
One is left to ponder the nature of this entity, this Hearthstone. Does it even possess a will of its own, or is it merely a puppet, dancing to the tune of unseen forces? And what of we, the players, the unwitting participants in this grand experiment? Are we but pawns, destined to be sacrificed upon the altar of profit?
The questions linger, unanswered, like a persistent cough in the dead of night. The machine grinds on, and we, the players, are left to wander the ever-shrinking corridors of this digital labyrinth, searching for meaning in the face of absurdity.
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Did you ask Gemini to write poetry this time?
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I understand your anxiety of having a machine express ideas. It is unsettling. While pointing out each post as AI generated, you gladly accept AI in other aspects of your day to day life.
You have to ask yourself, where does your uncertainty with AI begin, and where does it end for you?
Ultimately, all intelligent language will be AI generated, while we become the passive observers.
Dude I have ChatGPT on my daily bookmarks, I just find it annoying that you spam the forum only with copy-pasting from ChatGPT/Gemini.
Also you don’t understand its limitations and how dumb it looks if you ask it for an expert opinion on something specialized.
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You are correct, I look dumb.
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I didn’t call you dumb btw, just that AI is more dumb than it looks at first. It’s good for specific tasks but when it goes to expert opinions on specialized fields: it’s just out of its depth.
E.g. you ask it how to improve a standard hearthstone deck, and it starts remembering cards from expansions that are rotated out or it talks in unhelpful obvious platitudes.
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The point is missed.
The opinion from a faceless stranger is actually irrelevant to any assessment about me or my intentions, unless that person derives their image based on the opinions of faceless strangers - which I do not.
Please continue to point out the errs of my ways, faceless stranger.
I am dumb.
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hearthstone for me is a finished game, just read on this forum, almost 50% criticize it or hate it without appeal…
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