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Quote from rss8090 >>

I can summarize what the topic creator is saying  in one sentence .

I’m quitting because Hearthstone is now too expensive to play.

The rest are minor reasons.

I agree. It’s on the way to luxury game now.

So, nerfing Fiery War Axe to 3 mana made it unplayable garbage, but Eaglehorn Bow is almost an autoinclude in Hunter even when not running Secrets?

Yes, you are correct.

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I'm F2P and not doing Arena and still keeping up with the cards.

Are you re-rolling 40 gold quest?
Dusting your unneeded gold cards?
Dusting your non-standard cards?
Being realistic about which cards you craft?
(that rank 5 reward is a pretty sweet payoff if you can get it also.  Hitting it every month is equivalent to a free Legendary every expansion.)

I will give you this...  This latest expansion in particular was very expensive.  Just tons of legendaries and Epics that I WANT.  But, as of now I really have all the cards I need.  No must-craft stuff left for me now.  And now I'm working on saving up for the next expansion.  This is really the life of the F2P player.  You scrimp, and save, and earn, and spend wisely.  And in the end you find you may not have every card you want, but you have what you need.

Adjust your expectations and play smarter.

 You're absolutly right, but my question here will be: in a GAME why can't you have what you want along side with what you may need to be decently competitive? If being competitive means to dump what you want to have fun, probably the design idea behind HS is not so right.

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The problem of this expansion from a f2p point of view is that there are many legendaries that see 0 play and there are a ton of epics that are core to meta decks. Look koft, almost every legendary was a joy to open (and i still managed to open a moorabi, feelsbadman), pretty much the same with un'goro.

Farming for epics sucks

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They are creating terrible unfun standard metas. It's because everything revolves around a few overpowered cards/combos. I love my wild egg deathrattle hunter. Only deck I play seriously. 

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Ha ha ha .. people doesnt know for wild, and that there u have bunch of consistent decks for 2-3k dust.. Standard is boring asf, when i wanted to leave game i started playing in wild and stayed there. Wild is so much funnier, every game another deck, u never know what will be pulled out

HAHA yea that was a after tought that i ended up including in the post, shoulden't have, but its a big reason why i stoped playing the game, just adding 1 mana cost to a classic card to balance it? As lazy as it gets.

Intro

After my first time ever investing money into this game by prepurchasing the last expansion, i felt nothing but disappointment. Here is why, please don't turn this thread into a "oh your saulty" nonsense, i am curious what other people think about what i am about to say, Thanks. So i started playing this game in the closed beta when my brother got me a key, i was super happy about it considering that i have played warcraft games since i  was 7 years old. And dont get me wrong, Hearthstone is an AMAZING game with great art work, animations, sound, and good game-play, i LOVED this game when it came out.

First time playing the game:

When i first started playing the game i was free to play player, i took priest because i liked priest, and soon discovered the Injured Blademaster and Auchenai Soulpriest + Circle of Healing combo, and i just had fun with it, without any guide's or anything i made it with my own deck to rank 12, and i was so happy about it. The next few expansions had their major problems of unbalanced cards that never got nerfed, and yea, that's bad. Looking at you Dr. Boom and a few others, but it never killed the fun for me. It is important to note that i was still a fully f2p player, and i always had enough card's because i was good in arena. So everything was fine. Not fine, better then fine, things were amazing, LoE, TGT and old gods were excellent expansions that i enjoyed so much. 

Downfall

And then it started,the down fall of hearthstone for me personally. Karazhan started the process of ruining arena fun for me. MSG was a horrible expansion that added jades and patches. but it was "OK" still. Hall of fame arrived, removing a lot of beloved cards from standard. so they removed around 4 of my most beloved card's from the standard pool of card's, they did that to make it easier for them to design card's later, it wasn't for us, it was just for them... So its year 2017, and Hall of fame happened, and i was okay with it at the time. So what happened in 2017?

2017, the year of the death of the f2p model.

Well, arena was boring and bad, and ladder was full of jades, patches and in general not fun decks. So i was waiting for the expansions of 2017, and o boy o boy there were 3, increasing the cost of the game BIGTIME, and not just that, but the geniuses at blizzard hq came up with a briliant idea, "HEY, said a greedy son of a bitch, lets make double the class legendary's and with that, seal the fate of the f2p players". Well, being a f2p player, it didn't float well with me. so 2017 was the year of classic cards being dumped to wild, and others just got nerfed and most importantly the cost of playing hearthstone sky rocketed. So i was put into the position where i HAD to give blizzard a METRIC SHIT TON OF MONEY, to gain access to card's I used to have by just playing arena alot. KFT came out and i was SOOO happy, i was waiting for the lich king to have his expansion since TGT, and then the expansion ended up being boring, uninspired and pricy, KnC once again sounded great, but ended up being boring, uninspired and pricy aswell, and the LEGENDARY weapons? ended up being garbage. After frozen throne i knew i HAD to buy packs in KnC if i wanted to catch up, and i did, and it felt like shit honestly. We have come to a point were the card design itself has become worse then ever, the game is just WORSE now, at least for me.

Final notes:

the hearthstone team is inactive, unresponsive, and not willing to do nerf's buff's or to add cards midway true. Leaving overpowered cards in the game. They treat us like idiots, saying extra deck slots would confuse us. Creativity in game design is horrible. (talking gameplay wise).  So yea, I am done with hearthstone now. Thank you hearthpwn for being an amazing source of hearthstone information for me for so long your awesome :).PS. Sorry for such a long post, never men't to write so much, but looking back, Hearthstone was a different experience up until old gods where it truly peaked at being amazing, down hill ever since. Those are my taught's, please let me know what you guys think.

O and i almost forgot, team 9 is RETARDEDLY bad at nerfing cards. and what they did to Fiery War Axe is a tragedy, honestly FUCK THEM for that. Fucking idiots dont know how to balance a card so they just toss it into a garbage bin. oke i am done now, bye. (excuse the salt at the end :))

This works great with The Darkness because you can play it, then copy the darkness from your opponent's deck and play it yourself

nice observation :)

I agree with most people here, those ranks are really really good for a beginer. the only problem is that hearthstone is getting more expensive so i recommend preordering this expansion, even if its way too friken expensive.

Easy the most idiotic post i have ever seen on heartpwn...

Are you fucking kidding me? Since launch i was never as mad at blizzard as i am right now.

We all know they are SHIT at nerfing cards, but this takes the cake.

Atleast add a effect u idiots, you could have given it a defensive effect that wont help pirate warrior but still would be good in control warrior... btw warrior does not have a single good weapon now beside Gorehowl which is unplayable.

You do know that forbidden healing is going to eat up the 2 mana that u need to hero power right?