OP, I get how you feel. HS Is an incredibly expensive game. Some people have managed to stay F2P but they probably spend several hours a day playing to complete quests, save up gold and carefully craft the cards they want. That has no appeal for me. I have spent more money than I'd care to admit on this game because I really enjoy it. I don't have a lot of time to play, maybe two hours a week if I'm lucky so grinding isn't possible. When I play I like to have all the cards I need to make any deck I want. But that has a huge cost to it. Just to keep current and get all the good stuff I probably spend close to €150 per expansion plus I buy the adventures and some bundles if I think they're a good deal. I know a lot of people aren't in a position to spend as much money on the game.
The way I see it, HS either requires a lot of time invested or money spent in order to keep up. I don't think there's any other way.
I've said it before but the game is almost too expensive for me to justify anymore. Some €500 a year is no small amount of money and I'm not sure how much longer I'll happily part with my money just to enjoy a few hours of HS every now and then. I used to play much more than I do now. I suppose I'm dealing with the sunk cost falicy where I feel I've spent so much on the game it would be a shame to stop. It's great having a collection where you can make pretty much any deck you want to in both Standard and Wild and I would like to be able to keep up with the game but, "How long can this go on?", well I'm not sure.
Card card games are expensive if you want to keep a big collection, there’s no 2 ways about it. That being said, even with your very high amount of money put in and low amount of time played, you are paying less than 5£ per hour of entertainment, which is reasonable compared to many other activities: movies, mini golf, bowling, laser tag etc.
That being said, with regular play, it’s a reasonable hobby. Sinking in 150 £ every 3 months for preorders, adventures and random packs will get you easily all meta decks if you play 5 hours a week. That’s still not a high time investment, but set for arguments sake. Now hourly cost is less than 2.5, and that goes down rapidly as you play more.
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Card card games are expensive if you want to keep a big collection, there’s no 2 ways about it. That being said, even with your very high amount of money put in and low amount of time played, you are paying less than 5£ per hour of entertainment, which is reasonable compared to many other activities: movies, mini golf, bowling, laser tag etc.
That being said, with regular play, it’s a reasonable hobby. Sinking in 150 £ every 3 months for preorders, adventures and random packs will get you easily all meta decks if you play 5 hours a week. That’s still not a high time investment, but set for arguments sake. Now hourly cost is less than 2.5, and that goes down rapidly as you play more.