If I was a company owner I would milk my customers as much as I could do without losing them. In fact every reasonable person would do this and does it.
For a company the main goal is always maximizing the profits. Granted, there is always a threshold above which trying to milk the customers doesn't actually work, because you overdid it and lost too many customers. But believe me, it was thoroughly calculated and they know how much they can push the community.
I personally of course don't like it. Not at all. But I understand this is how the business works. It's not charity. I wouldn't give anything away for free as a company owner, you wouldn't do it and neither does Blizzard. It's easy to bash them for being greedy and I myself would love the reality to be different, but it just isn't.
If you want to find the culprit, don't look at Blizzard - look at the community. At the people wishing to spend ridiculous amounts of money, while being blatantly milked. Blizzard and every other company does only as much as their customers allow them to get away with. Blame Blizzard for using the opportunity to earn more money? It's just hypocritical, every one of us would use an opportunity to earn more money. Blame the playerbase!
I think you are right, that is why I seek to educate the community to blizzards practices and to poke holes in the lies of the people defending such practices. Because that might encourage blizzard to stop fucking over the playerbase.
Well no, that's just being condescending if you're talking to adults who are fully aware they are spending money, what they are getting and why.
I don't need an Internet nobody to try and advise me not to buy a pre order, just like I don't stand outside Starbucks and try to convince people about to go in that it's a waste of their money, Starbucks are a terrible company, you can get coffee cheaper elsewhere etc.
Everyone needs to stop trying to impose what their subjective views are onto other people. I don't give two shits if you like spending money on hearthstone or whether you think it's good value. You do you. If its a lot of money to you, fine, it isn't to me so your opinion is irrelevant.
You aren't 'educating' anybody, it's absolutely none of your business.
You lot think Hearthstone is expensive? Go and look at what some people dump into gambling or even Fifa Ultimate Team. Now I mention it, you lot would lost your minds over Ultimate Team. People regularly and comfortably spend thousands on that and that's a title that renews every year, so assuming you get the latest one each year, ever single penny you spent the year before? Completely gone. At least with Hearthstone you have wild and keep your cards etc.
Hearthstone is peanuts compared to Ultimate Team and yes, if you go on their forum you can pretty much just copy and paste all of the complaints from this thread. You aren't special, Blizzard isn't unique, you just need to grow up and accept that if other people want to spend money on something they enjoy then they are going to do it.
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all us EU players are spamming Americas server until EU is up
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please form an orderly queue (behind me)
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Ok so far Blizzard have deleted Hunter, Priest, Warrior, Rogue, Druid, Mage, Warlock and Paladin.
So I guess we are all playing face shaman then or maybe the whole meta will change and its impossible to predict which classes will be standing on top after the patch?
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Well Blizz say that rank 10 is top 9%, so if you make each option 10%, then anyone who gets above rank 10 should pick the top answer.
Its all about perception and relativity, also the more mistakes you are aware you make then the better player you are. Bad players think they don't make any mistakes.
Check out the Dunning Kruger effect for more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
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Made a deck for you to play without upsetting anyone
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Any deck that matches all of the below criteria is fine:
- No charge
- No combos
- No excessive card draw
- No cheating AOE
- No more than 1 legendary - as long as its not Dr Boom
- No sticky minions
- No weapons
- No secrets
- No big spells
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The skill is in being still alive by turn 10.
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all the answers are here -> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=confirmation bias&l=1