I have recently caught myself thinking that I am playing a lot of games just because I have spend a lot of time with them and I am too stubborn to quit all that grind I did or because I don't want to quit just because I may find it fun in the future and I would not be able to go back and play catch up with the past year or so. (League of Legends, Heroes of the storm, HS, Paladins, Overwatch ...) .
The question is then simple - are you guys still having fun with HS and all its netdecking and broken mechanics or are you playing because you are so used to it by this point?
I enjoy it. I typically try to win with low tier decks most of the time though. My advise is to try another game that you might enjoy more if you aren't feeling it right now. Don't worry about whatever progress you might have, just do what you like.
I haven't seriously been invested in HS since maybe Boomsday, but have still played it maybe 3-4 times a week out of habit. However, recently that's been cut down to maybe 2-3 Battleground games a week, and if I can be bothered, just enough games to cover my quests.
I don't know exactly what killed my spirit, but I do know it does have to do with just how little you can do if you don't spend $$, and the less you play, the further behind you are and you are basically relegated to playing Tier 3/4 decks if you can scrap one together, or maybe one good Tier 1/2 deck if you spend all your dust on it.
Most of the problems are just inherent with most TCGs, which require you almost to be constantly involved and constantly spending $ to keep your collection up to date, and I just can't keep up anymore it seems. Net decks and broken mechanics are a symptom, but that's just a human issue in any game, if we can optimize the shit out of anything, we will.
The game is what you make of it, I dont play a single meta deck and i probably never will, I dont care about rank in the slightest and failing that i can fall back on arena or battlegrounds, I would be bored out of my mind if i had to play netdecks or the same deck day in day out and i only play a few games a day, God knows how people manage to do a single deck for hours on end i guess people find fun in different aspects of the game, Some like winning and climbing ranks, Some like myself would rather play decks they enjoy that decks that are just good.
Personally i'm a highlander addict, Not the usual highlander rogue, Mage and hunters although i do really like the rogue deck, My current favorite is a highlander beast druid.......Its complete trash and has a win rate probably under 30% at this point but i enjoy playing it, Highlander dragon decks and highlander mech decks are also favorites but they are complete trash, Why play highlander dragon mage and have a decent win rate when you can play highlander mech mage and lose.......But when you do win and you manage to win against meta decks with just meme decks its alot of fun, Oddly enough though i get more salty friend requests when i win with a meme deck than i ever did playing regular decks, You would think losing to the same decks over and over would annoy people more than losing to someone just playing for fun but it seems that is not the case, Its more a case of "My broken netdeck lost to a meme deck, Must add this person and insult them for not taking a game serious!".
I don't enjoy it as much as in the past but I still love it as a game and I keep playing it, even grinding to legend every season. I usually build what's fun to me in the meta, reach legend then go into quest mode to not fall behind. Most of my Hearthstone time is spent on qualifiers in weekends. The best way to farm packs IMO
Over the course of the last year ive gone from consistently reaching/ pushing for legend into pretty much a filthy casual, being content with my rank 5 chest at the end of the season. Generally that means a couple of games a day, but ive taken extended breaks during shaman stone when even logging in was more than I could endure. I decided to log back in today after a week or so away and ill be honest the game feels close to being enjoyable again. The shaman nerfs seem to have been effective- whether that's because galakrond has been actually significantly weakened or the community has been irrationally scared off is up for debate, but ive faced a variety of decks and had pretty enjoyable games.
If there are further adjustments to a few problematic cards (nec apoth, maybe dragons pack and a few others) there is a solid foundation here that could lead to a good expansion overall.
Just to add that Varron2 makes some great points that I can identify with.
I played every expansion since closed beta up untill boomsday reaching rank 5 or higher pretty much everytime, but since then I have barely logged in or played. Last expansion was the first one that I didn't play a single match of or didn't check any of the cards before release, but I believe it was around the time that I had been playing MTG:Arena a lot anyway. Battlegrounds was the thing that got me patch the game and play it again and when the current expansion dropped I have played some constructed standard too (many of the archetypes i've typically enjoyed are viable) and have done all my quests, but to answer your question: Kinda. It's still fun in small doses and battlegrounds is a nice game to play while listening to a podcast etc., but the game has lost a lot of it's charm for me unfortunately.
I am. And when I'm not having fun. I stop. Unless this is your job (and for about 99.9% of people on these forums it isn't), you shouldn't feel obligated to play daily.
I do. I enjoy Standard because it's relatively new, when I'm bired with that i can play some Arena, the brawls are sometimes fun and most of all i love Battlegrounds.
Short answer: hell yes! Enjoying HS more and more. BG was a great introduction and I like both Wild and Standard metas right now. Plenty of variety.
I only get to play for about two or three hours a week so I never really get bored of the game. Ive said all along that I’ll stop playing as soon as it stops being enjoyable. That hasn’t changed.
I don’t understand why people who seem to hate this game and bitch about it constantly (like almost everyone on hearthpwn) don’t just find something else to do with their time. If OP mechanics, the meta, Team 5, lazy design, net decking etc is making your life so miserable - stop playing. Life is short. Don’t waste your time on shit that pisses you off, especially if what pisses you off is a game. A game is meant to be enjoyed. If you’re not enjoying It there’s a million other things you can do...
Somehow... I just hope there will still be a new mode thats not just wild or standard, where we can use our old card in combinations of expansions. Like a semi wild mode.
I keep searching for ways to enjoy the game. Much like the meta, I personally find I need to change things up to keep it from getting stale or frustrating. It's kind of part of the game, since it's a competitive game based on refining your deck to address others as efficiently as possible, so cancer decks spread pretty quickly because sometimes the only worse feeling than giving in to netdecking (which isn't a bad thing imo and impossible to avoid given we have the Internet) is losing to a cancer deck.
I'm really enjoying trying other classes outside of hunter (quest has been my main this season, never face hunter... ugh), and when standard gets tilting for me, I hit wild ladder with whatever cards I still have. I'm currently working on a wild highlander dragon paladin with a friend of mine and it's really fun trying to fine tune it on a ladder experience where I don't feel pressured to do well or risk losing rank. If I lose in wild - since it's not my main mode of play - I just lose and don't feel the tilt of a 4th failed attempt to break into the next rank because I matched into a hard opponent or bad mulligan or I just played poorly.
Even if you don't have a lot of wild cards, I can recommend giving it a shot, especially for classes you don't normally run on ladder and would like to scoop a couple extra wins for. Your fellow wild players will thank you for joining the queues, too.
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Rage quitting: the best way to ensure your opponent knows they beat a giant baby.
I am still enjoying it. But there will always be cards/decks that piss you off.
As noted by noobito123, the key to having fun is to NOT care about your rank. No one likes losing, but if you can handle some losses and just play to enjoy the game, you can have a good time.
Next season I am going to try Pure Paladin on the ladder. I expect to get destroyed, but I am curious to see how well I can do. If it ends up feeling hopeless I'll switch decks and move on. And if I don't get a good rank? Big deal.
Like most games sometimes you just need to step away from it for a little bit. I never thought i would stop playing hearthstone but the constant net decking and players exploiting (over using) the busted decks of each meta gets really frustrating very quickly. I've since started playing Gwent because I'm a huge fan of the Witcher games and it's made it so much more enjoyable to keep playing card games that actually have meaningful differences. I think i will start playing hearthstone again after the rotation because I'm tired of playing with and against some of the cards that have been around for almost 2 years.
Opportunity cost is a real thing. Look it up. You already paid enough with ur time and ur money. If u are not having fun then quit the game. Otherwise u are still paying with ur time for something u dont enjoy doing.
I like the game so i still play it. There are bad days sure. But overall i enjoy
Yeah. There are different ways you can enjoy it, but the most obvious one is winning. You can’t really have fun loosing. So why not build some metabreaker decks and win a bunch with them? I got to rank 1/legend for two seasons in a row so far and I really recommend doing the same thing if you get bored of just copying other people’s decks!
Still fun most of the time. When it’s not I just take a break and do quests until it’s fun again. Right now the only really problematic deck is the deathrattle rogue deck. There’s just something very unfun about being high rolled into oblivion.
Not nearly as much as when the game first came out, and it's been going downhill bit by bit every expansion since League of Explorers or so, I'd say. Playing every expansion since beta btw. The powercreep and focus on broken cards/mechanics and randomization over actual thought or skill has simply killed any enjoyment for me. I log on every few days to do my quests as quickly as possible, since I do still have some interest in the game (along with sunk cost fallacy), but yeah, HS is pretty much dead at this point.
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Hi guys, I have a serious question,
I have recently caught myself thinking that I am playing a lot of games just because I have spend a lot of time with them and I am too stubborn to quit all that grind I did or because I don't want to quit just because I may find it fun in the future and I would not be able to go back and play catch up with the past year or so. (League of Legends, Heroes of the storm, HS, Paladins, Overwatch ...) .
The question is then simple - are you guys still having fun with HS and all its netdecking and broken mechanics or are you playing because you are so used to it by this point?
Favourite HS quote?
"Did I miss it?" - Doomsayer
Simple answer ,No.
Simple solution: leave this stupid game... The only reason I'm still here is I'm still having fun. The day this ends I'm gone...
I enjoy it. I typically try to win with low tier decks most of the time though. My advise is to try another game that you might enjoy more if you aren't feeling it right now. Don't worry about whatever progress you might have, just do what you like.
I haven't seriously been invested in HS since maybe Boomsday, but have still played it maybe 3-4 times a week out of habit. However, recently that's been cut down to maybe 2-3 Battleground games a week, and if I can be bothered, just enough games to cover my quests.
I don't know exactly what killed my spirit, but I do know it does have to do with just how little you can do if you don't spend $$, and the less you play, the further behind you are and you are basically relegated to playing Tier 3/4 decks if you can scrap one together, or maybe one good Tier 1/2 deck if you spend all your dust on it.
Most of the problems are just inherent with most TCGs, which require you almost to be constantly involved and constantly spending $ to keep your collection up to date, and I just can't keep up anymore it seems. Net decks and broken mechanics are a symptom, but that's just a human issue in any game, if we can optimize the shit out of anything, we will.
The game is what you make of it, I dont play a single meta deck and i probably never will, I dont care about rank in the slightest and failing that i can fall back on arena or battlegrounds, I would be bored out of my mind if i had to play netdecks or the same deck day in day out and i only play a few games a day, God knows how people manage to do a single deck for hours on end i guess people find fun in different aspects of the game, Some like winning and climbing ranks, Some like myself would rather play decks they enjoy that decks that are just good.
Personally i'm a highlander addict, Not the usual highlander rogue, Mage and hunters although i do really like the rogue deck, My current favorite is a highlander beast druid.......Its complete trash and has a win rate probably under 30% at this point but i enjoy playing it, Highlander dragon decks and highlander mech decks are also favorites but they are complete trash, Why play highlander dragon mage and have a decent win rate when you can play highlander mech mage and lose.......But when you do win and you manage to win against meta decks with just meme decks its alot of fun, Oddly enough though i get more salty friend requests when i win with a meme deck than i ever did playing regular decks, You would think losing to the same decks over and over would annoy people more than losing to someone just playing for fun but it seems that is not the case, Its more a case of "My broken netdeck lost to a meme deck, Must add this person and insult them for not taking a game serious!".
I don't enjoy it as much as in the past but I still love it as a game and I keep playing it, even grinding to legend every season. I usually build what's fun to me in the meta, reach legend then go into quest mode to not fall behind. Most of my Hearthstone time is spent on qualifiers in weekends. The best way to farm packs IMO
Over the course of the last year ive gone from consistently reaching/ pushing for legend into pretty much a filthy casual, being content with my rank 5 chest at the end of the season. Generally that means a couple of games a day, but ive taken extended breaks during shaman stone when even logging in was more than I could endure. I decided to log back in today after a week or so away and ill be honest the game feels close to being enjoyable again. The shaman nerfs seem to have been effective- whether that's because galakrond has been actually significantly weakened or the community has been irrationally scared off is up for debate, but ive faced a variety of decks and had pretty enjoyable games.
If there are further adjustments to a few problematic cards (nec apoth, maybe dragons pack and a few others) there is a solid foundation here that could lead to a good expansion overall.
Just to add that Varron2 makes some great points that I can identify with.
I played every expansion since closed beta up untill boomsday reaching rank 5 or higher pretty much everytime, but since then I have barely logged in or played. Last expansion was the first one that I didn't play a single match of or didn't check any of the cards before release, but I believe it was around the time that I had been playing MTG:Arena a lot anyway. Battlegrounds was the thing that got me patch the game and play it again and when the current expansion dropped I have played some constructed standard too (many of the archetypes i've typically enjoyed are viable) and have done all my quests, but to answer your question: Kinda. It's still fun in small doses and battlegrounds is a nice game to play while listening to a podcast etc., but the game has lost a lot of it's charm for me unfortunately.
I am. And when I'm not having fun. I stop.
Unless this is your job (and for about 99.9% of people on these forums it isn't), you shouldn't feel obligated to play daily.
I do. I enjoy Standard because it's relatively new, when I'm bired with that i can play some Arena, the brawls are sometimes fun and most of all i love Battlegrounds.
Short answer: hell yes! Enjoying HS more and more. BG was a great introduction and I like both Wild and Standard metas right now. Plenty of variety.
I only get to play for about two or three hours a week so I never really get bored of the game. Ive said all along that I’ll stop playing as soon as it stops being enjoyable. That hasn’t changed.
I don’t understand why people who seem to hate this game and bitch about it constantly (like almost everyone on hearthpwn) don’t just find something else to do with their time. If OP mechanics, the meta, Team 5, lazy design, net decking etc is making your life so miserable - stop playing. Life is short. Don’t waste your time on shit that pisses you off, especially if what pisses you off is a game. A game is meant to be enjoyed. If you’re not enjoying It there’s a million other things you can do...
Missing lethal since June 2015.
Somehow... I just hope there will still be a new mode thats not just wild or standard, where we can use our old card in combinations of expansions. Like a semi wild mode.
I keep searching for ways to enjoy the game. Much like the meta, I personally find I need to change things up to keep it from getting stale or frustrating. It's kind of part of the game, since it's a competitive game based on refining your deck to address others as efficiently as possible, so cancer decks spread pretty quickly because sometimes the only worse feeling than giving in to netdecking (which isn't a bad thing imo and impossible to avoid given we have the Internet) is losing to a cancer deck.
I'm really enjoying trying other classes outside of hunter (quest has been my main this season, never face hunter... ugh), and when standard gets tilting for me, I hit wild ladder with whatever cards I still have. I'm currently working on a wild highlander dragon paladin with a friend of mine and it's really fun trying to fine tune it on a ladder experience where I don't feel pressured to do well or risk losing rank. If I lose in wild - since it's not my main mode of play - I just lose and don't feel the tilt of a 4th failed attempt to break into the next rank because I matched into a hard opponent or bad mulligan or I just played poorly.
Even if you don't have a lot of wild cards, I can recommend giving it a shot, especially for classes you don't normally run on ladder and would like to scoop a couple extra wins for. Your fellow wild players will thank you for joining the queues, too.
Rage quitting: the best way to ensure your opponent knows they beat a giant baby.
I am still enjoying it. But there will always be cards/decks that piss you off.
As noted by noobito123, the key to having fun is to NOT care about your rank. No one likes losing, but if you can handle some losses and just play to enjoy the game, you can have a good time.
Next season I am going to try Pure Paladin on the ladder. I expect to get destroyed, but I am curious to see how well I can do. If it ends up feeling hopeless I'll switch decks and move on. And if I don't get a good rank? Big deal.
Like most games sometimes you just need to step away from it for a little bit. I never thought i would stop playing hearthstone but the constant net decking and players exploiting (over using) the busted decks of each meta gets really frustrating very quickly. I've since started playing Gwent because I'm a huge fan of the Witcher games and it's made it so much more enjoyable to keep playing card games that actually have meaningful differences. I think i will start playing hearthstone again after the rotation because I'm tired of playing with and against some of the cards that have been around for almost 2 years.
Google search: Is Hearthstone free to play?
Opportunity cost is a real thing. Look it up. You already paid enough with ur time and ur money. If u are not having fun then quit the game. Otherwise u are still paying with ur time for something u dont enjoy doing.
I like the game so i still play it. There are bad days sure. But overall i enjoy
Yeah. There are different ways you can enjoy it, but the most obvious one is winning. You can’t really have fun loosing. So why not build some metabreaker decks and win a bunch with them? I got to rank 1/legend for two seasons in a row so far and I really recommend doing the same thing if you get bored of just copying other people’s decks!
Still fun most of the time. When it’s not I just take a break and do quests until it’s fun again. Right now the only really problematic deck is the deathrattle rogue deck. There’s just something very unfun about being high rolled into oblivion.
Not nearly as much as when the game first came out, and it's been going downhill bit by bit every expansion since League of Explorers or so, I'd say. Playing every expansion since beta btw. The powercreep and focus on broken cards/mechanics and randomization over actual thought or skill has simply killed any enjoyment for me. I log on every few days to do my quests as quickly as possible, since I do still have some interest in the game (along with sunk cost fallacy), but yeah, HS is pretty much dead at this point.