Hearthpwn

You sound like a broken record. You are clueless and you've convinced yourself that you know everything. You don't even have a basic idea of what randomness and rigging mean. I'm done.

Definition of rigged (by Merriam-Webster)

1: manipulated or controlled by deceptive or dishonest means

What is deceptive or dishonest about having a matchmaking system that looks for the player with the closest rating to you? Or having RNG elements in the game? Or even allowing double the hero options for a price?

Nothing. Nothing is deceptive, nothing is dishonest, nothing is rigged, at least not by the common definition of the word.

Quote from MightyMaus >>

 

 The game is 100% rigged in one way or another, all these people who are spouting statistics really don't understand statistics. The whole game is programmed to keep you playing, climbing and falling in rating. If you just kept climbing that'd be too easy. If you kept fluctuating you'd be more inclined to buy the advanced stats and extra 2 heroes to choose from. 

You can't tell me you never experienced the rounds where let's say you're the +1/+1 to mech hero, and the only mechs you EVER see are the first 3 rounds. You're completely full of shit if you haven't. The game literally has a Luck system in where it determines how much "Luck" it's going to give you any given game. If that's not considered rigging, I'm not sure what it is.  Not saying it's a bad thing, or a shady thing. But : 

1. Giving paying players the option to have 2 more characters to pick from gives them a 50% advantage to get a higher tier hero. - Rigging it in the favor of the people who paid 
2. The games luck system definitely changes the outcome of the game based on if you have won more games recently than lost, vice versa. Rigging the game for you, or for other players. 
3. Paying gives you at average a % higher of luck than people who hadn't.

The game is 90% skill, but if you deny the 5% pay, and 5% luck stat, you're blind and lying to yourself.  Not to mention Blizzard has already stated that they try to keep players at approx 50% winrate, So it means they definitely manipulate things, and definitely rig the games.

 

And to the guy who said It's illegal for Casinos to be rigged, you need to do some more research on RTP and House Edge. Now you'd have to define rigged as you have a 0% chance to win if you want to consider casinos as "not being rigged" but at average house averages on slot machines are 4% i.e. at average, you're only going to get 96% of what you put in back. EVERY Casino game is made to give the Casino a mathematical advantage to take your money.

 I've experienced rounds of finding everything i wanted and I've experienced rounds of finding nothing, that's natural if the RNG is NOT tampered. If you've played any real life card game then you must have definitely experienced the same.

The game's developers have indeed stated that they strive to keep people as close to 50% winrate as possible. They did so while discussing matchmaking and this is exactly what good matchmaking is supposed to do. It should be trying to find evenly matched opponents, and it is.

Luck does not mean "rigging the game",  having unlockable perks does not mean "rigging the game", having proper matchmaking does not mean "rigging the game". Rigging the game means having hidden algorithms that choose to favour one player over the other for whatever reason and i have absolutely no reason to believe this to be true. I've spent exactly 0$ on this game and I've never felt there is an invisible wall preventing me from progressing.

Quote from Drencarnate >>

Anyone who has played above 10k consistently understands your claim and agrees with it.   Anyone can watch a few streamers and spot it.   We rationalize with phrases like "bad luck" or " seriously?", but we see it.   When it goes in our favor, we get a shot of dopamine and smile.  When it's not in our favor, we either blindly deny what is happening or get tilted.

 I've played up to 12k for months and i call bullshit.

Whenever you think the game is rigged to stop you from getting higher it almost certainly means that you have just plateaued. You've reached the rating you deserve and the game does exactly what it should: it assigns you in games against opponents just as skilled as you. At this point, since skill is very similar, luck becomes a bigger factor and it's easy to convince yourself that it's not just good/bad luck but a rigged system.