What Was ACTUALLY Wrong With Classic Mode

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As The Title Says, Here Goes. :milky_way:
What Was ACTUALLY Wrong With :star:Classic :star:Mode Was…
:star:The Legend Climbing Ladder System for Placements Being Too Long in The Monthly :crescent_moon:Moon​:crescent_moon: Cycle For Players To Focus On Other Things To Work For To Give Money To Blizzard Instead of No Money To Blizzard On :star:Classic​:star:.

So Yeah.
:crescent_moon:Just Bring Back Classic and Make The Legend Climb Shorter and Less Overall Incentive To Keep Staying In Legend (and Can There Be A Classic Tournament Too?).
The :earth_americas::earth_africa::earth_asia:HEARThstONE :earth_asia: :earth_africa::earth_asia: needs to Heart HerSelf With the Blizzard Developers and Make An Everlasting Core Mode As Classic. (You can do minor tweaks until You feel like You have it like Chess where ALL THE PIECES MATTER and the Game Would Be Even BETTER!!!) :star::star::star::milky_way::milky_way::earth_africa::crescent_moon:

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The over abundance of emotes makes me want to bleach my eyes.
You could make a pacifist advocate for war with that text format, impressive achievement.

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What was actually wrong with it is it gave too much XP and rewards to bots, also people didn’t pay as much money because people could just enjoy Classic with cards they have and ignore the “modern hearthstone experience”

Basically it was too good for the players.

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Me after reading the OP

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I think I played 1 real human in my entire climb to legend when I played that mode.

It was all the same basic deck of everything with the charge keyword…

The entire way up.

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That is definitely a lie (or misremembering) because Handlock was one of the more popular (and powerful) decks in Classic mode.

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It’s not a lie.

I wasn’t playing against players.

The bots were all using a basic charge deck.

I didn’t run into more than 1 player on the entire climb that was not a bit using that deck.

When I got to legend, then I ran into my first hand lock.

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Nothing. If players had known that it was in danger of being deleted a lot more players would have played Classic.

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Ah okay, an extreme outlier then, my bad.

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It seemed pretty normal by the time I ran the mode (which was admittedly only a few months before it got removed entirely).

The interest in it just kind of died, and it was a bit wasteland.

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probably was the most popular …among the players the mode had its own sub reddit and

it had many complains about extremelly long queues before bots and when it got flooded by bots people often complained about facing only bots from bronze to legend

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I’d love for a mode in the game to have longer queues to ensure I’m actually going up against a real player (like how Ranked modes work in MOBAs)

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That works for pc only style games but not for mobile device games. If a player needs to wait too long of a time (for them) to get into a game they will more likely close hearthstone and load a different game. The exact opposite of what the company wants. They want to occupy all your discretionary available playtime, so that the most likely place you will make a microtransaction will be with them.

As for Classic, not enough people were buying classic or golden classic packs with IRL money. It became a mode where a player could get enough cards for a deck to farm the mode for the prizes each month and ignore the new releases. The exact opposite goal the company needs any mode to do. Every mode needs to provide an incentive to make microtransactions a likely choice a player will make, and with IRL money. Its why you see so many bundles and special promo offers in the store.

If a mode can be farmed and no incentive is there to make purchases… it will likely get the axe like Classic and Duels got. (I wish they had only discarded Heroic Duels and kept casual around… casual duels didnt have the ability to be farmed like the other modes had.)

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I thought my typing was bad, and I having a learning disability comes grammar. Just wow op.

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I had a similar experience. I played a Druid deck and met my fist human opponents close to Legend. Got Legend a few days later nevertheless. The deck was also pretty good.

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I can confidently say i know i played at least 1 human as well the first, last and only time i played Classic to legend. My daughters name popped up and i yelled upstairs to her while she was laughing that we must be the only two humans playing Classic today.

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in this case the long queues before bots were because welll the mode got boring

youve seen people getting bored of standard meta less than a month after an expansion release

clasic mode went unchanged for 2 years

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Maybe they should add a classic/legacy format instead then…choose the “year” of hearthstone you wish to play. Sorta like that one twist month that was awesome going through all the expansions one per day

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That requires money and resources to create. Both of which they have very little of.

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Don’t bother with them, they are trolling.

Reddit was filled with people going like 84-0 in classic because it was so bot invested.