Hearthpwn

Quote from Fire0Fart >>

Well if they push selling cosmetics then maybe f2p will became more accessible(more free packs etc.) but this is still blizzard we are talking about. 

 There has got to be wealth of hidden statistics we will never know about regarding the amount of people who drop dead from a brain aneurysm as a result of reading comments like this.

Good changes; wild players will still find things to complain about

Quote from Chelmsford >>

Weak ass passive aggressive sarcastic remark so common of internet cowboys these days.  

 don't get salty because he didn't like your terrible attempt at humor

Quote from Jazzfan1971 >>

I was loving it before the new quests.  Playing against them sucks a lot of the fun out for me as I started playing duels because I could play control in that mode.

 Couldn't agree with you more on this one.  Duels was by no means my #1 mode but rather a casual way to step away from ladder from time to time....then I discovered the recent quests were allowed for deck building so now the mode contains the same amount of Mages you would see in Standard but with a lot more tools at their disposal to ensure quicker and more efficient quest completion.

Remember when Apotheosis was nerfed with the reason being they [the devs] wanted to reduce the amount of "burst healing" ?

Quote from FortyDust >>

Quote from 3nnu1 >>

 Here is why we care. Gacha games are cynical money extractors that prey on human weakness. This game is heavily marketed towards children who will not understand how they are being manipulated. So Blizzard is behaving just the same way they did when they supported chinese tyranny, when the allowed and covered up the abuse of women and when they intentionally manipulate RNG to break their games in the hope of tricking money out of their player base. 

 Mercenaries monetization is no more nor less gacha than Hearthstone has always been. The rarities are the same. The drops rates are the same. The pity timer is the same. Even the price point is exactly the same.

Acting like this is some mind-blowing new level of evil for Blizzard is a bit much, don't you think?

 I'm with you in your assessment and all it does is add to my confusion as to why people are so up in arms about this game. 

Traditional hearthstone is a CCG which practices monetization through expansion pack pre-release sales, character skins, tavern passes, etc.  Did anyone in their right mind actually think Mercenaries - a game produced by the exact same publicly traded company - was going to be a standalone AAA experience sold in its entirety for $50-60?  There was never a shot in hell this game was going to be anything but a "F2P" micro-transaction fiesta...it just wasn't. 

Quote from 3nnu1 >>

 

It is especially frustrating because hearthstone is rigged. From your matchups, to your draw, after a while you come to see it no matter how many shills try to deny it. 

 I really don't understand how someone denying or simply not believing in any sort of carnival style rigging is considered a "shill".  Most people don't believe in game rigging because every time an angry child brings the subject up - and I mean EVERY time - they present absolutely no supporting evidence....none.

It's just a tired statement made by bitter, sad people who have grown up in an "everyone wins a trophy" society and who have never had someone in their life point out when they're wrong.

Maybe just don't play that mode?  I dunno, just spit ballin' ideas.

Quote from Tallaris >>

No matter what, at some point, all I'm starting to see is that I lost/won due to rng impact.

 

 There is (and always will be) plenty of RNG involved in any card game but I promise you have won and lost a lot more due to skill and/or execution than you realize.

Quote from xskarma >>

 

And let's be honest, you'll be disappointed by them anyway. =P

 My man called that shot from a mile away.

Quote from sanchogrande >>

Pre-nerf, they were auto-include cards in nearly every deck. I don't think that should be the case. The fact that they are still viable is an indicator they were too strong before.

 They were only auto-included into every deck the first 7-10 days after Barrens released.  Nobody knew what they were doing or how to play around a scenario where somebody dropped the thing on turn-1 + coin.  Public outcry got the cards nerfed with a quickness but by the time that happened, the meta was leveling out and people had largely figured out how to deal with them. 

Considering the insane power level in some of the cards in this last expansion, I think the watch posts would be more than appropriate in their pre-nerf state.

If someone has checkmate against me I will often times dump my hand before conceding to either show them what I was holding or to progress a daily quest like playing 'x' spells or something. 

Love the watch posts and thought they were judged/nerfed WAY too soon after being introduced. 

Quote from FortyDust >>

The fact that these "beyond the rope" animations still eat into the other player's turn in 2021 is a travesty.

I would love to see this cause someone to lose a game in an official tournament. The uproar would be deafening.

 They wouldn't because they are all on PC

Not lying when I say I have yet to lose to that deck.  Standard aggro hunter absolutely dwarfs it performance-wise.

Post has to be trolling