magma rager and booty bay is not played enough so blizz decided to make better versions of them and they become playable (or not).they can also remove or remake those cards
Its simple power creep is a design device to keep the game from getting stale and to keep people wanting new cards. There is no point in making new cards the same as the old because the majority of people wouldnt buy them.
When the game gets bigger and formats and rotations happen in a tournament setting then power creep will become less of a thing.
magma rager and booty bay is not played enough so blizz decided to make better versions of them and they become playable (or not).they can also remove or remake those cards
Why not just patch it and alter those original cards instead of releasing power creeping cards and effectively making this game a p2w?
Oh we are sorry your soulbound cards are not good enough, but by pre-ordering with real money, u might get an alternative that is strictly better in every way! GIVE US YO MONEEEEYYY!!!
magma rager and booty bay is not played enough so blizz decided to make better versions of them and they become playable (or not).they can also remove or remake those cards
Why not just patch it and alter those original cards instead of releasing power creeping cards and effectively making this game a p2w?
Oh we are sorry your soulbound cards are not good enough, but by pre-ordering with real money, u might get an alternative that is strictly better in every way! GIVE US YO MONEEEEYYY!!!
thats a p2w game already if you dont make it rain for blizzard blizzard wont make the cards rain for you.and im sleeepy icant type fast sorry
I really fear the power creep a lot. Hearthstone is one of my favourite games and I want it to stay fun and fair enough to new players.
I'm having issues with getting some friends to play the game because they just have bad cards. Power creep is something that ruins the new player experience. Dr. Boom vs. War Golem still feels like a stab in the back for me and those new cards... ugh... Even though they are commons, you have to spend your resources to aquire them.
One of the stated reasons of why super bad cards like Magma Rager don't get rebalanced is that balancing those cards would take a lot of time. Now, the devs took that time to make a new Magma Rager 2.0 aka. Ice Rager? Why? I heard Ben Brode talking about "funny" moments with getting cards like Magma Rager out of a Recombobulator effect or trying to build a deck with Magma Rager but I'm not convinced that those "funny" moments are worth ruining the new player experience. The guys at Blizzard are smarter than that.
I think we, as a community, should riot against this power creep so that it won't be able to ruin our beloved card game!
magma rager and booty bay is not played enough so blizz decided to make better versions of them and they become playable (or not).they can also remove or remake those cards
Why not just patch it and alter those original cards instead of releasing power creeping cards and effectively making this game a p2w?
Oh we are sorry your soulbound cards are not good enough, but by pre-ordering with real money, u might get an alternative that is strictly better in every way! GIVE US YO MONEEEEYYY!!!
thats a p2w game already if you dont make it rain for blizzard blizzard wont make the cards rain for you.and im sleeepy icant type fast sorry
At least they didn't have cards that are strictly better than another. Even Dr Boom wasn't strictly better than Target Dummy. But now it is different, Blizzard had run out of ideas for cards as they are with Brawls. Soon all soulbound neutral cards would be 2nd rate (there will be a 4 mana 4/6 vanilla), followed by soulbound class cards getting obsolete (Swipe that does 5 damage plus 1 damage to others), then it will phase out basic cards by having a minion that has the same ability and stats as Defender of Argus, but costing 3 mana instead of 4.
Powercreep, once you started it you will never end. Before you know it, 7 mana 9/9 with two 3/3 boom bots is the new "balanced" card.
magma rager and booty bay is not played enough so blizz decided to make better versions of them and they become playable (or not).they can also remove or remake those cards
Why not just patch it and alter those original cards instead of releasing power creeping cards and effectively making this game a p2w?
Oh we are sorry your soulbound cards are not good enough, but by pre-ordering with real money, u might get an alternative that is strictly better in every way! GIVE US YO MONEEEEYYY!!!
thats a p2w game already if you dont make it rain for blizzard blizzard wont make the cards rain for you.and im sleeepy icant type fast sorry
At least they didn't have cards that are strictly better than another. Even Dr Boom wasn't strictly better than Target Dummy. But now it is different, Blizzard had run out of ideas for cards as they are with Brawls. Soon all soulbound neutral cards would be 2nd rate (there will be a 4 mana 4/6 vanilla), followed by soulbound class cards getting obsolete (Swipe that does 5 damage plus 1 damage to others), then it will phase out basic cards by having a minion that has the same ability and stats as Defender of Argus, but costing 3 mana instead of 4.
Powercreep, once you started it you will never end. Before you know it, 7 mana 9/9 with two 3/3 boom bots is the new "balanced" card.
yea yu are right but Dr.Boom is way more better then War Golem isnt it powercreep is the salary of the blizzard
It's fucking hilarious people like you that go all bonkers because they power creep the 2 worst cards in the game. Give me a freaking break buddy. Those 2 power creeps have zero effect on anything because even the 2 power creep minions are still trash category.
It's fucking hilarious people like you that go all bonkers because they power creep the 2 worst cards in the game. Give me a freaking break buddy. Those 2 power creeps have zero effect on anything because even the 2 power creep minions are still trash category.
Well but shouldn't we reject power creep as a principle? Why let a game be unbalanced when it could be balanced from a technical perspective? Why keep the weaker minions and replace them instead of turning them into slightly stronger ones?
It's fucking hilarious people like you that go all bonkers because they power creep the 2 worst cards in the game. Give me a freaking break buddy. Those 2 power creeps have zero effect on anything because even the 2 power creep minions are still trash category.
Well but shouldn't we reject power creep as a principle? Why let a game be unbalanced when it could be balanced from a technical perspective? Why keep the weaker minions and replace them instead of turning them into slightly stronger ones?
Exactly either way you spin it, it is inexcusable and terrible. I love hearthstone too, but crap is crap. Blizzard is making 20 million a month on this game, don't worry you can freely voice your dissatisfaction about something, the game won't shut down.
They are strictly better than the worst cards, so they're pretty much average. Power creep is only meaningful at the upper end of the power curve, like Dr.Boom.
maybe its a joke because blizzard just making cards better than others so you are thinking powercreep is not important they wil keep doing that.See you in 1 drop 3/3 no drawback meta
maybe its a joke because blizzard just making cards better than others so you are thinking powercreep is not important they wil keep doing that.See you in 1 drop 3/3 no drawback meta
Ofc it is, thats why I made this "vid", but some people can't see it xD Powercreep would be sth to worry about if new decks would have only new cards that are literally stronger or they would be based on some sick combos, getting one "slighty-better-crap" is not a powercreep xD
Evil heckler does have taunt on top of that though x), but doesn't it feel better for new players to get a better card they can substitute their trash with?
When I started playing the game Chillwind Yeti was one of the best cards in it. Every card, even when they were crap, had at least a role in which they are kind of the best. Magma Rager was the only neutral 3 Mana card with 5 attack up until now.
The fact that people can pay money to get objectively better neutral cards than they have from the start is kind of disgusting. They could have buffed the old cards and that would have been newb-friendly.
The power creep hasn't gotten out of hand yet, but it has a very real possibility of ruining the game in the future and I don't want that. I'd prefer the community to stand up against it and preemptively fix a problem that could arise.
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Blizz why u do this, ok we got money for you, we will have better cards, and win every arena run...
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magma rager and booty bay is not played enough so blizz decided to make better versions of them and they become playable (or not).they can also remove or remake those cards
Fixed the link for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfaXH2k-xzk
Magma Rager do care xD
Zerg zerg...
Its simple power creep is a design device to keep the game from getting stale and to keep people wanting new cards. There is no point in making new cards the same as the old because the majority of people wouldnt buy them.
When the game gets bigger and formats and rotations happen in a tournament setting then power creep will become less of a thing.
WELL MET!
Why not just patch it and alter those original cards instead of releasing power creeping cards and effectively making this game a p2w?
Oh we are sorry your soulbound cards are not good enough, but by pre-ordering with real money, u might get an alternative that is strictly better in every way! GIVE US YO MONEEEEYYY!!!
"Put your face in the light!" - Tirion Fordring
thats a p2w game already if you dont make it rain for blizzard blizzard wont make the cards rain for you.and im sleeepy icant type fast sorry
I really fear the power creep a lot. Hearthstone is one of my favourite games and I want it to stay fun and fair enough to new players.
I'm having issues with getting some friends to play the game because they just have bad cards. Power creep is something that ruins the new player experience. Dr. Boom vs. War Golem still feels like a stab in the back for me and those new cards... ugh... Even though they are commons, you have to spend your resources to aquire them.
One of the stated reasons of why super bad cards like Magma Rager don't get rebalanced is that balancing those cards would take a lot of time. Now, the devs took that time to make a new Magma Rager 2.0 aka. Ice Rager? Why? I heard Ben Brode talking about "funny" moments with getting cards like Magma Rager out of a Recombobulator effect or trying to build a deck with Magma Rager but I'm not convinced that those "funny" moments are worth ruining the new player experience. The guys at Blizzard are smarter than that.
I think we, as a community, should riot against this power creep so that it won't be able to ruin our beloved card game!
At least they didn't have cards that are strictly better than another. Even Dr Boom wasn't strictly better than Target Dummy. But now it is different, Blizzard had run out of ideas for cards as they are with Brawls. Soon all soulbound neutral cards would be 2nd rate (there will be a 4 mana 4/6 vanilla), followed by soulbound class cards getting obsolete (Swipe that does 5 damage plus 1 damage to others), then it will phase out basic cards by having a minion that has the same ability and stats as Defender of Argus, but costing 3 mana instead of 4.
Powercreep, once you started it you will never end. Before you know it, 7 mana 9/9 with two 3/3 boom bots is the new "balanced" card.
"Put your face in the light!" - Tirion Fordring
yea yu are right but Dr.Boom is way more better then War Golem isnt it powercreep is the salary of the blizzard
It's fucking hilarious people like you that go all bonkers because they power creep the 2 worst cards in the game. Give me a freaking break buddy. Those 2 power creeps have zero effect on anything because even the 2 power creep minions are still trash category.
Well but shouldn't we reject power creep as a principle? Why let a game be unbalanced when it could be balanced from a technical perspective? Why keep the weaker minions and replace them instead of turning them into slightly stronger ones?
Lol guys xD
Zerg zerg...
Exactly either way you spin it, it is inexcusable and terrible. I love hearthstone too, but crap is crap. Blizzard is making 20 million a month on this game, don't worry you can freely voice your dissatisfaction about something, the game won't shut down.
They are strictly better than the worst cards, so they're pretty much average. Power creep is only meaningful at the upper end of the power curve, like Dr.Boom.
maybe its a joke because blizzard just making cards better than others so you are thinking powercreep is not important they wil keep doing that.See you in 1 drop 3/3 no drawback meta
Ofc it is, thats why I made this "vid", but some people can't see it xD Powercreep would be sth to worry about if new decks would have only new cards that are literally stronger or they would be based on some sick combos, getting one "slighty-better-crap" is not a powercreep xD
Zerg zerg...
Well everyone wanted Magma Rager too be buffed and Blizzard listened with Ice Rager.
RIP yogg-saron good things don't last forever :(
I think Ice Rager and Evil Heckler are meant as upgrades for newest players (in case they want it) who only have access to basic free cards.
Perhaps no power creep was intended.
"Infinite" doen't mean "big" - it can be small and have no end.
When I started playing the game Chillwind Yeti was one of the best cards in it. Every card, even when they were crap, had at least a role in which they are kind of the best. Magma Rager was the only neutral 3 Mana card with 5 attack up until now.
The fact that people can pay money to get objectively better neutral cards than they have from the start is kind of disgusting. They could have buffed the old cards and that would have been newb-friendly.
The power creep hasn't gotten out of hand yet, but it has a very real possibility of ruining the game in the future and I don't want that. I'd prefer the community to stand up against it and preemptively fix a problem that could arise.