When you’re gambling, you do win sometimes and the stakes are much higher as you’re risking your own money. Without going too much into it, the psychological dynamic isn’t the same. Also, gambling often doesn’t pit you against another player in a duel, that’s another key difference for the reasons discussed below.
In this user’s opinion, everything is rigged. Honestly I’ve read so many of those conspiracies that it’s hard to keep track of it all as they range from “players who pay win automatically” to “matching someone on the same skill level is rigging the game”. It’s hard to get a definite answer as to how the game is rigged exactly as when you provide a counter argument, they suddenly stop responding (until they bring it back up a while later in a different thread).
If everything is rigged, none of your decisions matter, you are “rigged” to win or lose. You could always play your left side card on each turn and you’d win because it rigged and you’re playing against a f2p player. Of course, this whole theory crumbles under a modicum of scrutiny but faith is something which you can’t reason with.
Q. How do you explain that there’s a winner when two f2p players face each other? A. Oh that never happens, based on my nonexistent data, the loser is always whoever doesn’t pay as much as the winner.
Another recurring argument is that the winner was rigged to draw “perfectly”, as if the player agency had *nothing* to do with the victory. Anyway, the list goes on but there’s just no way for putting those absurdities to rest, they just keep popping up. There’s always someone to blame (or something) one key character is always innocent: the proponent of the conspiracy. They never misplay, a defeat on their part is always caused by some unseen algorithm they have no control over. If this isn’t some kind of mental disorder, I don’t know what is.
Well said, especially the final para. Too many of these guys fail to realize how often their own mistakes (rather than a rigged game) lead to their defeat. A while back one of the guys on my friend list was spectating one of my games. I was playing a deck that was somewhat new to me (can't recall anymore what it was) but which I thought I knew pretty well. After I lost the first game he watched, he proceeded (very politely) to point out 3-4 major mistakes I made, ones I didn't even realize I was making. And I'm a pretty good player (I think).
If these guys spent half as much time reviewing their previous games as they do complaining about secret algorithms and Blizzard patents, they'd start seeing that they're more responsible for their losses than they realize.
Well said, especially the final para. Too many of these guys fail to realize how often their own mistakes (rather than a rigged game) lead to their defeat. A while back one of the guys on my friend list was spectating one of my games. I was playing a deck that was somewhat new to me (can't recall anymore what it was) but which I thought I knew pretty well. After I lost the first game he watched, he proceeded (very politely) to point out 3-4 major mistakes I made, ones I didn't even realize I was making. And I'm a pretty good player (I think).
If these guys spent half as much time reviewing their previous games as they do complaining about secret algorithms and Blizzard patents, they'd start seeing that they're more responsible for their losses than they realize.
Don't be silly: that would be way too rational. Sadly, it appears that ship sailed a long time ago.