Congratulations, your premise is completely original, and your actions not in any way immature, petulant and pathetic.
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Ace100ace200 posted a message on Should Coin finally be nerfed?Posted in: General DiscussionPlease log out.
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LionKing10 posted a message on Zephrys does not consider deathrattle effects?Posted in: Card Discussionhe has no way of knowing that you are playing a Highlander deck
Lol, how can he not know that if he’s highlander card. He doesn’t know what’s in your deck or hand but he clearly may know that you’re highlander
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Ilyanthiel posted a message on The whole demon hunter class need a reworkPosted in: Demon HunterThat definitely required another thread! Apart from that, anything new?
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DeWitt posted a message on Next round of nerfs going to be targeted at Galakrond rougePosted in: General Discussionstop asking for nerfs every single day geez
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Lisca posted a message on Next round of nerfs going to be targeted at Galakrond rougePosted in: General DiscussionKk thx bye
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Decadence99 posted a message on WTF is wrong with Zephyrs?Posted in: Card DiscussionWow, you linked the salt thread. That sure answers why Zephyrs isn't giving good choices.
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3nnu1 posted a message on Does Zephrys the Great prove rigged card draw/discover system?Posted in: Card DiscussionI find it very annoying that card draw is not completely RNG based. Obviously, cards needed for lethal are computed after each move and it's okay, but when it affects the top-deck or discover results I think that's not good. I think there's even a punish/reward algorithm that triggers this effect. You will start feeling it after a couple thousand games.
Opinion: If there's RNG, let it be pure RNG.
Before my kids were born i used to play physical MTG. I played competively, even made to 100 in the world at one point. Thousands of games over years. So I had a pretty good sense of what random felt like.
When I first found hearthstone, I was overjoyed. Sure the game was simpler, but it was fun, it was deep enough and I decided to take it up. First I was limited by my collection, so I would not get past rank 8-10 in a given season. But then I crafted Dr. Boom and soon was knocking on the door of legend.
But around that time I started really noticing funky things going on. The game giving me the worst possible hands and topdecks it could find time after time if I played too long. I would have a rush deck and get my 3 high casting cost cards in my opening hand, mulligan them away and then have them come back like boomerangs.
I actually came on here years ago and asked the same question you were asking and I was met with a storm of insults, tinfoil hat memes, recommendations to git gud etc. At that point I did a lot of research into game design, reading about frustration plateaus and how they increase spending (candy crush is famous for this). I was also playing a phone game called clash Royale that had a card collecting mechanic. I could see how gaining cards in that game was not random, which made me question whether it was random here.
What I came to realize is that hearthstone is engineered like all the other micro transaction games. Activision has patented methods that have proven successful to inspire spending. Blizzard gives symposiums on how to tinker the matchmaker to maximize 'player engagement'. What that really means is that they want to keep as many players playing and spending as possible. All parts of their game are built around this.
With the discover mechanic in general, and zephry's in particular. You can see they are perfectly capable of manipulating the results in a myriad of ways. And if you wanted to take a fair look at it, as a corporation with a responsibilty to their stockholders, they would be fired if they were not doing these things. So to me, it is simply common sense to assume that they do. And it is their right.
The only part of it that bothers me, are the people here and on reddit etc. who will just act insanely aggressive if you talk about this stuff. They will try to get mods to ban it, they will try to engage you in a flame war simply for asking a legitimate question.
Now i am sure you will see a bunch of answers in this thread about perception bias, you will see some answers saying that you cannot assume that hearthsone isn't random because you have not spent thousands of hours running tests, you will see all kinds of attempts to shut down the discussion. Which is really troubling because kids play this game, and they should know the reason that they are having such insanely bad luck is that the game is trying to make them buy cards.
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Marega posted a message on New rank system: ‘bad’ players will reach legend just as easy/hard as ‘good’ players.Posted in: General DiscussionIf a bad player can easily reach legend then you are golden mate
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Dergeon posted a message on Demon Hunter Prologue - Everything You Need To Know!Posted in: NewsSame here, seems Blizz servers were not prepared after all....
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I've been suspecting for a long time that Zephrys doesn't care about what's in your hand, only what's on board.
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How do you lose to DH as Warlock with all the AoE and heals they have in wild? Never had any problems to win a fatique game against DH as Reno Warlock or Mage.
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Or you can add some combo-breaking cards, hold them in your hand till mage (or warlock) has got their OTK combos and then slap them into face with brann+dirty rat+some kind of removal or mill them out if you can. The best experience in HS is when you ruin your opponent's combo and see their overconfidence disappearing.
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Boooo, my tier 1 deck is overpowered by albatross, boooo, blizzard nerf!
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Did you just find out how f2p games work?
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"None may challenge the living flame!"
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What is the problem with shaman anyway? It is not even 60% winrate.
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I clearly remember not being able to play the game on mobile for MORE THAN A MONTH, where is my compensation? Who even cares about your freaking brawliseum when you cannot make this joke of a game working at all?
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Did angry kids just found a new Barnes to blame?
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Best card is Yogg, he is the second best.