Saw those words somewhere, 🛠34.0.1 Hotfix Patch or whatnot, and it made me think… reminisce, even, about some old topic — most likely gone; UPD: managed to find a trace of it (praise DuckDuckGo): https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/hearthstone/t/hearthstone-lifestealer/140066 — how HS is a lifestealer, with the Lifesteal ability, meaning: steal X hours of your life.
Well, it’s called ‘Time Thief’ now. How fitting, don’t you think?
PS Maybe the deleted topic could be somewhat ‘revived’ by the tricks described here, but I haven’t managed to do it yet.
Web archive doesn’t help much, so here’s the bit from the search engine:
Hearthstone Lifestealer - Community Discussion - Hearthstone Forums
28 Dec 2024 I just realized that Hearthstone took 10 years of my life away. Realistically, thousands of hours of life across 10 years, month after month, quest after quest, deck after deck, battle after battle, draft after draft, over and over and over and over and over. But it’s done for me now. Has been done for …
That bit about the ‘keyword’ was written by me in a reply then, I reproduced it here from my memory.