84%, but up until around MSG I had a rule that I would not craft any cards nor DE any cards (unless nerfed for full refund), nor buy any packs. Everything I got was through arena rewards, since that's what I mostly played.
Then arena went standard and I hated it, so I'm playing ladder and starting to buy packs now, but still no DE or crafting unless it's like the one card I need, so I have ended up crafting 3 cards total (I think). I have 21K gold, 13K dust and almost 20K additional dust if I DE'd my duplicates.
I'm weird, I know. Reno saved me, since I generally have one of most cards. I play a lot of Reno decks :).
OK, while I write this we're at 94 votes, almost a hundred. It's still not much, compared to hearthpwn population (let alone HS player base at large) but it's something. And as the rate of new votes incoming has slowed down, we have a sort of stability, so I'm going to try a first back-of-the-envelope analysis.
Trying to find some synthetic index out of this data, since we don't have all the single real values we could consider mapping every 10% interval to its middle value (5, 15, ... ,95). If we do an average of these, weighted by the number of collections which fall in each interval, if I'm not mistaken the result is 71%. This should be close to the collection sizes average.
Distribution-wise, at first I was a bit surprised by the shape of the histogram. In my naivety, I had expected something close to a gaussian (bell shaped curve) encompassing everything, but this is clearly not the case.
Thinking better, the results may perhaps be explained by dividing players into F2P and paying customers. The lower values could represent the F2P guys and the higher ones could represent paying people, with the 50%-60% interval acting as a delimiter. If this was true, it could mean that F2P players are a minority, which TBH is kind of unexpected... or maybe they're just a minority in this sample. People, don't be ashamed to vote even if your collection is small! ;)
Anyway, with said division (and a bit of imagination XD), the F2P data might indeed resemble a gaussian, peaking on 30%-40%. On the other hand, for the crowd who invested cash we have strictly increasing values, peaking on 90%-100%.
In the F2P world, the main factors in growing a collection probably are how long ago people started playing, plus how active and how successful they are. Makes sense that the effects of these factors follow a Normal distribution.
Conversely, for paying folks the effect of buying packs likely outweighs all other factors. Hardly surprising, but what I find interesting is the monotonous (in the mathematical sense) trend of their part of the graph. Can we deduce from it that once you start buying, you end up buying more and more? I'll leave that to you ;)
78,47%. Missing all Naxxramas and GvG. SInce i aim one day to have a full collection i regret dusting: 1 Milhouse Manastorm 1 Nozdormu 1 Skeleton Knight 1 Shifter Zerus 1 The Boogeymonster 1 Rend Blackhand 1 Naga Sea Witch 1 Djinn of zephyr 2 Eerie statue
plus crafting a lot of shaman common and rares in my first month as F2P.
PS: those with over 90%, mind sharing the amount of money you put in the game?
Let's see if they are as open about their expenditure as they've been with their collection size ;)
You #*&^## HAD to make me check how much I've spent in this game xD
Well, the number isn't 100% accurate because transaction history lists mobile purchases as 0.00 but it should be around 2210 euros.
Which is, about 500-600 more than I estimated before I actually made the calculations.
This number includes some blizzcon e-tickets I bought for the hearthstone goodies.
Ouch.
Wow, thanks for your honesty. Mmm, so far i'm 350 euros with amazon coins after 13 months of hearthstone (less than an euro per day, ok). I was contempling the idea to keep this rate every year, buying preorder (50 euros) + 60 packs (70 euros) and the rest of the packs with arena runs. 110 packs + 2 arena per day for 4 months, total 350 packs, is that enough to have a full expansions (investing some dust for the remaining?)
Wow, thanks for your honesty. Mmm, so far i'm 350 euros with amazon coins after 13 months of hearthstone (less than an euro per day, ok). I was contempling the idea to keep this rate every year, buying preorder (50 euros) + 60 packs (70 euros) and the rest of the packs with arena runs. 110 packs + 2 arena per day for 4 months, total 350 packs, is that enough to have a full expansions (investing some dust for the remaining?)
Honestly, I DO NOT know, and noone knows because we will have to actually see how the legendary system will work. But my guess is that you will be able to eventually have full collection with that amount of spending.
Spent 50 Euros + that promotion (I can not remember the name, the cheap one). I am not playing arena, I am buying packs with gold. When I reach 1k gold I buy 10 packs.
Looking at the pool results I am poor :P
But sample is too low, it would be nice to see results from at least 100k players.
sample is too low, it would be nice to see results from at least 100k players.
I agree with you, but had to start somewhere... ;)
And, while still small, the sample size is increasing at a not-so-bad rate: a couple hours ago we had 94 votes, now it's 151, that's a more than 50% increase over a quite brief time.
Spread the word to your friends and buddies, so we'll have more accurate results!
It still won't be a good sample size since most people using this site are at least somewhat serious about this game. Results will be skewed to a the larger collection sizes since true casual players won't vote here.
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I have just over 80%. When I first started playing, I would make a deck, then DE all the cards and make a new deck, and do this repeatedly. I'd also craft many cards I saw other people play, try them myself, and realize I didn't like them, so DE them again. Definitely not a collector's strategy.
It was probably when they announced standard and GvG packs going away that I tried to collect everything and bought many GvG packs. Now I DE all gold cards, all Nerfed cards, and try to collect as many as I can.
I also have 20k dust, so I could bump that up another 5% if I crafted all the rares I don't have, and a little more if I spent it all on a few epics. Zero money spent, but I have been playing on and off since the beginning. I didn't get into the game until Naxx though. Before that I just played a few games and didn't think much of it.
I've got 76%, surprisingly. Honestly, I always thought I had much less. Asides from Naxxramas and the Welcome Bundle I am F2P, but I guess I haven't been dusting Wild Sets, which might put me ahead of some paying Standard players percentage-wise.
I'm also surprised with 90-100 being the most voted choice of them all. Didn't think so many people invested that much in HS. Of course, this is the internet, so we can't expect everyone to be 100% honest. Still, if this poll is even close to the truth, that's very surprising, despite the small sample size.
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Start of Year: Provoke the failure of 3 expansions, force nerfs on otherwise balanced cards, bring deckbuilding to an all-time low and get rotated one year earlier for being such a threat to the game's health. - Genn and Baku's historical entry on the White Book of Shit Design, shortly before retiring unpunished
btw Basic set is 266 cards, so smallest vote value should be 10 % (220) -20% (440)
That's an interesting and fair enough observation. To which I can only answer in two ways:
If the lower step was set to 10%-20%, this would rule out a share of new players, that is those who atm have unlocked less than 83% of Basic cards. You might argue that that's a transient condition, quickly and easily overcame... nonetheless somebody is bound to fall into that segment, and 4 votes so far given to "10% or less" seem to confirm that.
85.3%. seems im still missing a few rares/commons and only have 169/354 epics (opened over 100 un'goro packs and still no primordial drakes) and have 75/163 legendary, only commonly played that i'm missing are pyros/white eyes/deathwing/deathwing dragonlord tho, and i have the dust to craft them if i ever feel the need.
It still won't be a good sample size since most people using this site are at least somewhat serious about this game. Results will be skewed to a the larger collection sizes since true casual players won't vote here.
Well, what you say makes sense, and may be true, but actually we don't have strong evidence of that. For example, I started playing as a casual but joined this site before becoming "serious"; if a poll like this was made in those days, I might have voted as a casual.
Anyway, Hearthpwn users may or may not be representative of the whole HS player population, we don't really know. But if we restrict our area of interest to just the Hearthpwn population, then bingo! The bigger the sample the better, no matter what other factors are.
If you're unhappy with that and want totally complete and accurate data, the only way would be to work for Blizzard itself... and with high enough access privileges, too :D
Short of that, I guess 2nd best option would be to hire a team of professional statisticians and pay them to conduct a large survey. Still a bit unpractical for us common mortals.
Jokes aside, the fact is every approach has its limits. Even the most carefully selected samples can only give a certain degree of confidence. The good news is we don't need a perfect methodology, but rather just one good enough for our purpose. And since the purpose here is not to publish a scientific paper on some research journal, but rather just to have a rough idea of how our collections vary in size, I wouldn't worry too much ;)
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84%, but up until around MSG I had a rule that I would not craft any cards nor DE any cards (unless nerfed for full refund), nor buy any packs. Everything I got was through arena rewards, since that's what I mostly played.
Then arena went standard and I hated it, so I'm playing ladder and starting to buy packs now, but still no DE or crafting unless it's like the one card I need, so I have ended up crafting 3 cards total (I think). I have 21K gold, 13K dust and almost 20K additional dust if I DE'd my duplicates.
I'm weird, I know. Reno saved me, since I generally have one of most cards. I play a lot of Reno decks :).
OK, while I write this we're at 94 votes, almost a hundred. It's still not much, compared to hearthpwn population (let alone HS player base at large) but it's something. And as the rate of new votes incoming has slowed down, we have a sort of stability, so I'm going to try a first back-of-the-envelope analysis.
Trying to find some synthetic index out of this data, since we don't have all the single real values we could consider mapping every 10% interval to its middle value (5, 15, ... ,95). If we do an average of these, weighted by the number of collections which fall in each interval, if I'm not mistaken the result is 71%. This should be close to the collection sizes average.
Distribution-wise, at first I was a bit surprised by the shape of the histogram. In my naivety, I had expected something close to a gaussian (bell shaped curve) encompassing everything, but this is clearly not the case.
Thinking better, the results may perhaps be explained by dividing players into F2P and paying customers. The lower values could represent the F2P guys and the higher ones could represent paying people, with the 50%-60% interval acting as a delimiter. If this was true, it could mean that F2P players are a minority, which TBH is kind of unexpected... or maybe they're just a minority in this sample. People, don't be ashamed to vote even if your collection is small! ;)
Anyway, with said division (and a bit of imagination XD), the F2P data might indeed resemble a gaussian, peaking on 30%-40%. On the other hand, for the crowd who invested cash we have strictly increasing values, peaking on 90%-100%.
In the F2P world, the main factors in growing a collection probably are how long ago people started playing, plus how active and how successful they are. Makes sense that the effects of these factors follow a Normal distribution.
Conversely, for paying folks the effect of buying packs likely outweighs all other factors. Hardly surprising, but what I find interesting is the monotonous (in the mathematical sense) trend of their part of the graph. Can we deduce from it that once you start buying, you end up buying more and more? I'll leave that to you ;)
Use Innkeeper and you can just provide this link about your collection:
http://www.hearthpwn.com/members/Aelfscyne/collection
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My collection is 97% complete. And my gold collection is 36% complete.
78,47%. Missing all Naxxramas and GvG.
SInce i aim one day to have a full collection i regret dusting:
1 Milhouse Manastorm
1 Nozdormu
1 Skeleton Knight
1 Shifter Zerus
1 The Boogeymonster
1 Rend Blackhand
1 Naga Sea Witch
1 Djinn of zephyr
2 Eerie statue
plus crafting a lot of shaman common and rares in my first month as F2P.
PS: those with over 90%, mind sharing the amount of money you put in the game?
I am at 85%.
Spent 50 Euros + that promotion (I can not remember the name, the cheap one). I am not playing arena, I am buying packs with gold. When I reach 1k gold I buy 10 packs.
Looking at the pool results I am poor :P
But sample is too low, it would be nice to see results from at least 100k players.
It still won't be a good sample size since most people using this site are at least somewhat serious about this game. Results will be skewed to a the larger collection sizes since true casual players won't vote here.
About 7.5 inches.
Look, I want to tell you something because you're very dear to me. And I hope you understand that it comes from the bottom of my damaged, damaged heart. You are the finest piece of ass I've ever had and I don't care who knows it. I am so glad that I got to roam those hillsides.
I have just over 80%. When I first started playing, I would make a deck, then DE all the cards and make a new deck, and do this repeatedly. I'd also craft many cards I saw other people play, try them myself, and realize I didn't like them, so DE them again. Definitely not a collector's strategy.
It was probably when they announced standard and GvG packs going away that I tried to collect everything and bought many GvG packs. Now I DE all gold cards, all Nerfed cards, and try to collect as many as I can.
I also have 20k dust, so I could bump that up another 5% if I crafted all the rares I don't have, and a little more if I spent it all on a few epics. Zero money spent, but I have been playing on and off since the beginning. I didn't get into the game until Naxx though. Before that I just played a few games and didn't think much of it.
You should ask me How small is my collection!?
Check out my entry for this week's Card Design Competition. Vote for it if you like it.
I've got 76%, surprisingly. Honestly, I always thought I had much less. Asides from Naxxramas and the Welcome Bundle I am F2P, but I guess I haven't been dusting Wild Sets, which might put me ahead of some paying Standard players percentage-wise.
I'm also surprised with 90-100 being the most voted choice of them all. Didn't think so many people invested that much in HS. Of course, this is the internet, so we can't expect everyone to be 100% honest. Still, if this poll is even close to the truth, that's very surprising, despite the small sample size.
Start of Year: Provoke the failure of 3 expansions, force nerfs on otherwise balanced cards, bring deckbuilding to an all-time low and get rotated one year earlier for being such a threat to the game's health.
- Genn and Baku's historical entry on the White Book of Shit Design, shortly before retiring unpunished
85.3%. seems im still missing a few rares/commons and only have 169/354 epics (opened over 100 un'goro packs and still no primordial drakes) and have 75/163 legendary, only commonly played that i'm missing are pyros/white eyes/deathwing/deathwing dragonlord tho, and i have the dust to craft them if i ever feel the need.