Weaker is not better. It's more boring. People want to feel powerful when they play a game; they don't like to feel as though they are just pushing some cards around the table. The answer to having things too powerful is not to nerf the powerful thing; it's to buff other things so they are more powerful.
But Hearthstone clearly will not take this route, based on past history (never having buffed a card in their history, except maybe including more beasts in Rexxar's pool), and thus the game will probably slowly dwindle as more exciting games take over the player base.
Bottom Line: Standard hearthstone has gotten really stinkin' boring, and weak cards don't help fix that.
People do wanna feel powerful, but the same people also wanna feel the balance between classes. Blizzard introduces powercreeps, for some classes each set, while the others just sit in the corner crying. OR, they print neutral powercreeps, then every single deck feels the same. Remember PK, Cobalt, Bonemare, Creeper core? That saw play in 8 (even priest sometimes) classes. IMO, best way to solve this problem is to tone down cards a little bit for the sake of balance. So, even if some of the classes get less support, others just don't rampant, because they are not unbeatable.
I appreciate that Hearthstone devs are making sure to keep the game simple and avoid the trap of powercreeping that most Tcg/ccg fall into. Look at Yugioh right now, the next new generation of cards are always stronger than the previous ones, Powercreeping so they could sell. It's a never ending cycle, that's why that game is so unrecognizable from the game it originally was. I don't want that to happen to hearthstone. Shame on those who wants powercreep, you don't know any better.
The Year of the Mammoth was too strong. We all know that. Powering the expansions down was a must.
However one must introduce new decks. Rise of Shadows is not introducing new decks. It is recycling old decks
Spell Hunter
Tempo Mage,
Secret Paladin,
Dragon Paladin,
Big Priest,
Control Priest,
Tempo Rogue
Thief Rogue
Control Shaman,
Malygos Shaman
Zoolock
Handlock
Control Warrior
These are not new decks. Weaker cards cannot have weak themes. Shuffling the meta by making the Tier 3-5 cards Tier 1-2 is lame. Rise of Shadows isn't even tweaking decks like how Control Warrior cold turn into Quest Warrior, Odd Warrior, Control Mech Warrior, or Control Dragon Warrior. And with all the anti -combo hate, we wont even see combo decks, the ultimate freshmakers.
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People do wanna feel powerful, but the same people also wanna feel the balance between classes. Blizzard introduces powercreeps, for some classes each set, while the others just sit in the corner crying. OR, they print neutral powercreeps, then every single deck feels the same. Remember PK, Cobalt, Bonemare, Creeper core? That saw play in 8 (even priest sometimes) classes. IMO, best way to solve this problem is to tone down cards a little bit for the sake of balance. So, even if some of the classes get less support, others just don't rampant, because they are not unbeatable.
I appreciate that Hearthstone devs are making sure to keep the game simple and avoid the trap of powercreeping that most Tcg/ccg fall into. Look at Yugioh right now, the next new generation of cards are always stronger than the previous ones, Powercreeping so they could sell. It's a never ending cycle, that's why that game is so unrecognizable from the game it originally was. I don't want that to happen to hearthstone. Shame on those who wants powercreep, you don't know any better.
The Year of the Mammoth was too strong. We all know that. Powering the expansions down was a must.
However one must introduce new decks. Rise of Shadows is not introducing new decks. It is recycling old decks
These are not new decks. Weaker cards cannot have weak themes. Shuffling the meta by making the Tier 3-5 cards Tier 1-2 is lame. Rise of Shadows isn't even tweaking decks like how Control Warrior cold turn into Quest Warrior, Odd Warrior, Control Mech Warrior, or Control Dragon Warrior. And with all the anti -combo hate, we wont even see combo decks, the ultimate freshmakers.