Basically what I'm suggesting is that I think in Casual Constructed, which is supposed to be a place for people who just want to have fun or learn about the game without it being almost the same as ranked, should allow you to input a list of maybe 20 or so cards or a class or two that you don't want to queue up against (and tell me if I'm just suggesting something that's been said tons of times, but I haven't seen this been said).
This would allow for people who don't want to play against control decks to find decks not running cards like Sylvanas Windrunner, Reno Jackson, Lord Jaraxxus, Ice Block, Doomsayer, etc. Control decks or combo decks who don't want to face aggro decks could select to not face any decks using Small-Time Buccaneer, Tunnel Trogg, Leeroy Jenkins, Mana Wyrm, etc. I think with the large player base Hearthstone has (and given that similar features have already taken cards out of arena), this shouldn't be impossible for the development team to do.
Or there could be a system where you choose to just not face any of a class or two (maybe aggro players don't want to see Priests, and Control players don't want to see Shamans or Hunters).
In Wild Casual there should also be a feature for not facing decks with more than 1 or 2 cards from newer expansions. I know a lot of people who played earlier in Hearthstone and have trouble coming back while facing newer cards they don't have. With Hearthstone's power creep, people who played up until the Grand Tournament or GvG just can't handle new cards, especially the legendaries, when they don't even have many of the older legendaries. I think this might help encourage older players to come back to Hearthstone more often, though I also understand this might be one of the more difficult features I've mentioned to add to the game.
What do other people think? Would this be good? Too tough to implement? I personally think that unless you picked 20 extremely popular cards from a wide variety of deck archetypes and played at a time when servers were lower (which I don't think happens much) that you would not have trouble finding a match even with this.
Too complicated. They should just have a lobby system so you can find like minded people to play with and make custom rules (eg kitchen table games in mtg).
It's just unrealistic to implement. Imagine the queue times and how hard it would be to find a match that specifically matches your criteria.
You basically want to cater a match to avoid a bunch of cards in the game or decks that you just don't like. Why can't you have fun just by playing whatever deck you want? Who cares what the other person brings to the table? It casual, so if you don't like it you can just concede and re-queue.
I do think something like a lobby system would be interesting, Hearthstone right now is a pretty impersonal game. Really, your problem is solved by having some friends to play against.
So you basically don't want unfavorable matchups. Why not have a mode where you play against an AI and the AI concedes if it's going to win instead of killing you.
Basically what I'm suggesting is that I think in Casual Constructed, which is supposed to be a place for people who just want to have fun or learn about the game without it being almost the same as ranked, should allow you to input a list of maybe 20 or so cards or a class or two that you don't want to queue up against (and tell me if I'm just suggesting something that's been said tons of times, but I haven't seen this been said).
This would allow for people who don't want to play against control decks to find decks not running cards like Sylvanas Windrunner, Reno Jackson, Lord Jaraxxus, Ice Block, Doomsayer, etc. Control decks or combo decks who don't want to face aggro decks could select to not face any decks using Small-Time Buccaneer, Tunnel Trogg, Leeroy Jenkins, Mana Wyrm, etc. I think with the large player base Hearthstone has (and given that similar features have already taken cards out of arena), this shouldn't be impossible for the development team to do.
Or there could be a system where you choose to just not face any of a class or two (maybe aggro players don't want to see Priests, and Control players don't want to see Shamans or Hunters).
In Wild Casual there should also be a feature for not facing decks with more than 1 or 2 cards from newer expansions. I know a lot of people who played earlier in Hearthstone and have trouble coming back while facing newer cards they don't have. With Hearthstone's power creep, people who played up until the Grand Tournament or GvG just can't handle new cards, especially the legendaries, when they don't even have many of the older legendaries. I think this might help encourage older players to come back to Hearthstone more often, though I also understand this might be one of the more difficult features I've mentioned to add to the game.
What do other people think? Would this be good? Too tough to implement? I personally think that unless you picked 20 extremely popular cards from a wide variety of deck archetypes and played at a time when servers were lower (which I don't think happens much) that you would not have trouble finding a match even with this.
Too complicated. They should just have a lobby system so you can find like minded people to play with and make custom rules (eg kitchen table games in mtg).
Casual is fine as is.
It's just unrealistic to implement. Imagine the queue times and how hard it would be to find a match that specifically matches your criteria.
You basically want to cater a match to avoid a bunch of cards in the game or decks that you just don't like. Why can't you have fun just by playing whatever deck you want? Who cares what the other person brings to the table? It casual, so if you don't like it you can just concede and re-queue.
I do think something like a lobby system would be interesting, Hearthstone right now is a pretty impersonal game. Really, your problem is solved by having some friends to play against.
Just get some friends, and add people who play what you like, it will happen eventually that you can "choose"
Try an ALL RARE deck mode!
So you basically don't want unfavorable matchups. Why not have a mode where you play against an AI and the AI concedes if it's going to win instead of killing you.
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