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Happy Birthday Blizzard, and thanks for your games, especially Hearthstone and the rotation format.
Don't listen to rage quiters, new players will replace them (if they really quit). If they do it means they liked crushing opponents with their money more than enjoying the game, i won't miss them.
Fun, short and tactical game. It's also the kind of game worth playing, where the hours played / cost ratio is good.
kids. dont you see.
the only reason they created the "wild mode" is that they dont have to fully refund you.
otherwise they just couldve created the new desired and supported standard mode , and so be it.
:)
Although I can understand people who get angry because they crafted golden cards which now can only be played in wild mode, I also understand that Blizzard cannot let everyone disentchant all Naxx and GvG Cards for free. They simply wouldn't sell new packs asince everyone just disentchants his shitty GvG and Naxx Cards and craft the viable ones from the next Expansion. Additionally, we simply get a new mode for which the older expansions are banned. That this affects the old mode as well may be bad luck, but in the end everyone can get everything in wild except for these blizzard-points. And (nearly) everyone who is seriously interested in the points is anyway appreciating Standard mode. I also have invested some triple digit sum of money into hearthstone. But simoultaneously, I will pre-order the new expansion and do the rest with buying card packs with gold and crafting necessities as I did until now.
Under the assumption that Hearthstone needs change to stop the game from getting boring, Blizzard has only three ways to go:
1. Keep everything as it is now and avoid power creep.
Maybe nerf some single cards like MC, Shredder and Dr. Boom, but that would not shake up the meta. The new expansion comes, a few new cards will be included in older decks (e.g. Justicar from TGT in CW) and maybe a new deck is generated (secret Paladin, although MC was power creep for Paladin). However, eventually the meta will be stale and a new expansion will only generate slight meta changes if at all. Most people will not have to buy expansions since they will be able to craft the necessary cards easily. -> Less money for Blizzard and probably the game will die sooner or later.
2. Start power creeping the expansions.
This will shake up the meta with every new expansion. Furthermore they do not have to care about nerfing stronger minions, because even Shredder and Dr. Boom will eventually meet their demise in shape of a new 4 and 7 mana powerhouse, respectively. People will have to buy packs, the viable decks will Change a lot and will also get stronger and stronger. Eventually, the early game of the new Zoo will be able to compete with the late game of Handlock and beat it with value ;)
3. Start cycle out whole expansions (no need for power creep).
The meta will regularly change pretty unforseeable. Old decks will be changed from slightly to a lot or will die completely, new decks with completely new ideas will arise (noone knows if after the next expansion an inspire deck will become viable). People will have to buy packs if they want to play Standard, but if they play wild, they probably only need to craft some core cards of the new expansion (although adventures still have to be bought)
In conlusion, I prefer the third option. I also think that wild will end up as something between 1. and 2., i.e. big parts of the expansions will not affect wild mode since the presently available cards will probably be around the same power Level (or even better in case of Shredder and Dr. Boom). Howver, it will happen that a combination of new and old cards will combine to a new top Tier deck as the secrets did with MC. However, I also guess that People will eventually cope with such new decks, as they did with secret Pally (despite secret Pally is still there, the present meta is pretty diverse). Occasionally it will happen that a Combo will break wild mode, but I expect Blizzard to fix such a card quick enough. I don't think they can afford a completely broken wild mode if enough people are still playing it (because also wild mode players will be customers).
But of course, that's only what I expect and what sounds Logical to me. I do not know for sure.
Edit: TL;DR: In my opinion Blizzard took the best Option to keep the game fresh. And there are no signs to be concerned about teh short-term playability of wild mode.
If they gave you full value for all of your cards when they get cycled out, you would never ever ever need to purchase any cards ever again because you could just disenchant all of 1 set and then just craft all of the new set. it would also make the game pointless to play unless you were pro because there would no longer be any progression whatsoever, and gold would be worthless. eventually blizzard would stop making money bc everybody would just be cycling all of their sets to the new ones and then the game would die. do you want the game to die?
:)
Well just gonna give my 2ct here even if someone already said what i'm going to say. I have a bunch of golden crafted legendary cards coming from adventures and some of the most played. like Boom, coming from expansions. So i know what is the feeling of part of the community right now.
I'm really happy that Blizzard introduced this new format, having played MTG for several years, since i know that this kind of rotation will keep the game fresh giving constant shifts to the usable cards and the metagame.
Even if i know is not going to happen some sort of refund/full value disenchant for gold crafted cards, coming from adventures (since you have to CRAFT a golden adventure card and can't open it) will be a nice thing to add with the new expansion coming. This should be a one time thing only. The only reason i say this is kinda simple. When I, and another bunch of people, crafted our gold cards coming from adventures we spent our money, and we was willing to do so, simply because we assumed, and probably this is the error, that we could have played the card forever in competitive format. Note that i put in bold COMPETITIVE, the WILD mode is not a competitive mode at all since is not the tournament mode that Blizzard, and anyone else, will use.
To me, since they changed the rules of the game excluding cards from the competitive scene, a single time full dust disenchant on this cards will be the best option. From now on people will know that if they craft a golden cards from an adventure at some point they wont be able to use it anymore. But that's the thing. Only now you have all the information you need to take the decision if you want or don't want to invest your dust/money so people that didn't have all the information deserve some sort of refund (and the best one is the full dust disenchant value).
Optimism is a way of life :D
If Blizzard gives people a refund they would effectively admit that the change has a negative impact for a vast number of players, and it would confirm that they have no intention to care about wild. I mean it's already clear that they don't intend to care about Wild, but a refund would seal it.
For this reason alone there won't be a refund, even if it would be fair to those who (more often than not) spend money to get gold cards.
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PremiumI continue to marvel at the people complaining they've been injured in some way by these changes. Let's look at the facts:
As you can see, players who favor playing decks with all released cards have suffered virtually nothing. They extremely small percentage (less than 0.1% by my estimation) of players that play in official tournaments might have a beef but no one else.
You keep posting on forums being so sure that WILD mode will have some sort of consideration.
Guess what no one will care :)
"Put your face in the light!" - Tirion Fordring
Wild will be the kind of unmonitored mode. Unfortunately since we are talking about Blizzard, I am afraid wild mode will be dominated by 2-3 decks and it will become repetitive and unfriendly for new players.