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I play casually, I put maybe a max of £30 a year into the game so maybe you do not have the same problem if you're a hardcore player. However I find myself constantly frustrated as they always throw loads of cards out each year, then I have to spend a month or two building a single deck. Which means I constantly come up against parings I just cannot beat, like Obelisk Eye priests. Where as before they removed all my decks I spent so long grinding for, I had fun and utility for anything. Each time they do it I play the game less and less, and I spend less and less money.... what is the point if they can just take the cards away from you? I know it's meant to be the fun part of the game, but it's not fun when you're left with no decks to play with. 

Blizzard always seem to screw their games, WoW was ruined with TBC and my favourite Hero on Overwatch was Torb and they ruined him in a patch. Now this is the last Blizzard game I play... but I'm going to spend all this time making new decks for them to just take them away. I think the next time is the time I stop for good.

 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.

 I agree with almost all of this but I would say there is a middle ground, rather than grinding hours per day or spending £500 per year and I feel I'm sat in that middle ground really. 

I don't grind the game, I have weeks where I'll play a couple of hours per week, I have other weeks where I play an hour or two each day. There are rare times where I'll play for several hours in a day but that isn't consistent or often. 

I pre order with the smaller bundle in some expansions, it really depends how much I'm playing but on average it's one or two expansions in the year. I do tend to get the bundles, with the exception of a few I don't feel we're good value. 

I've been pretty careful with the ball of fame changes and Baku and Venn HoF I made a ton of dust out of and I've typically done well with making dust in the rotations. I rarely used to craft any cards at all, I'd generally take whatever I got from packs or whatever legebdaries my bundle and packs got me and lean towards those classes. There were some decks I simply never used because I am fairly stingy with my dust. I started with not dropping below certain amounts of dust, say 1600 just incase there was a legendary I was desperate to use. Over time this threshold became 5k dust, then 10 and it's currently at 20k. If I get to this amount I'll shut off crafting except for extreme reasons and allow it to build again. I do dust some cards that rotate to wild, especially golden cards but I'll keep cards that I really enjoy or love 'just in case'. When this expansion hit I had saved around 5.5k gold, 35k dust and along with the small bundle I've been able to craft everything I want to play and I'm sat on around 19k dust with 4500 ish in duplicates.

My long winded point is that you can be in the middle and I certainly don't sink £500 a year in, now where close but then I obviously do play more on average than you. Overall though, as a company, Blizzard can't cater to absolutely everyone, no company can. Some people's circumstances simply mean they don't have the time, resources or both to enjoy the product and that's OK. It isn't the company at fault or the individual. It does seem there are people (not you) however who expect that whatever they want to participate in, they should be enabled to do so and that's when you get the entitled, bratty behaviour of the player base.