Hearthpwn

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Once all cards are spoiled, just before launch I am going to start a thread, daring all these people to rate the cards on their overall use in decks. Then a month after launch will bring it back up to see how many were just plain wrong. As a way of showing people, you can rate a card 'mathematically' all you want, but with the millions of possible card combinations, then add in 25 million people, and there is no way of truly predicting what the 'meta' will be like.

I am all for speculating about how cards will be good/bad, its the general surge of HearthStone Doomsayers that come out just before every release saying the game is going to be bad and its the end for HS, and that it's not worth their money/time, yet keep playing it anyways, lol. No way in hell this game is going away anytime soon, it's a majority casual game, and that is what's captivating a whole new audience that always wanted to play a TCG/CCG but never had the time/money to learn, yet also drags in quite a bit of long time TCG players too. The HearthPwn community is a very small sliver of the actual HearthStone Community.

Of course its expected that some cards may turn out to be good or bad.  It happened in GVG and Naxx.  We all know that we are not going to be 100% right when we evaluate cards.  People have the right to their opinions.  No sense in getting all worked up about people you don't know talking about a game. 

Even still, I think it would be fun to try this out, perhaps in a less vitriol manner.  Kind of like office pools and sports lol.  

Quote from VeiledSyn »

Once all cards are spoiled, just before launch I am going to start a thread, daring all these people to rate the cards on their overall use in decks. Then a month after launch will bring it back up to see how many were just plain wrong. As a way of showing people, you can rate a card 'mathematically' all you want, but with the millions of possible card combinations, then add in 25 million people, and there is no way of truly predicting what the 'meta' will be like.

I am all for speculating about how cards will be good/bad, its the general surge of HearthStone Doomsayers that come out just before every release saying the game is going to be bad and its the end for HS, and that it's not worth their money/time, yet keep playing it anyways, lol. No way in hell this game is going away anytime soon, it's a majority casual game, and that is what's captivating a whole new audience that always wanted to play a TCG/CCG but never had the time/money to learn, yet also drags in quite a bit of long time TCG players too. The HearthPwn community is a very small sliver of the actual HearthStone Community.

Pretty much this.  

Feel free to speculate, feel free to guess, but for the love of god, don't be convinced that you are right.  There are only a few cards I was right about when it came to GvG.  I was dead on about Goblin Blast mage (basically a combo card, I see a lot of folks saying card A. will be bad cause it needs to be combo'ed), and was dead on about Sludge Belcher, and I thought Dr. Boom was good but good god I had no idea how good he actually was.  On almost every card after wards I was very wrong.  

I think instead of deciding whether a card is good or bad, just decide whether or not you would use it or not and leave it at that.