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Since MS has a business of its own and want to grow a game platform may mindless card design to serve an even reprehensible target mass come to pass. Serving a mature crowd and taking their costumers seriously might just benefit the games especially hearthstone. Imagine no more Tickatus, no more mr. Smite and any other for which devs' humanity is questionable.
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try 10,12546 minutes. 11,59801 will also do. The Idea that Blizzard-Activision RNG = RNG is so sweet, isn't it?
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Being played by blizzard while you play and accept that as a fact is not much of a skill, does it?
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Your comment leads only to one conclusion: there's no such thing as 'RNG'. There's only an A.I. deciding who wins or loses. Explanation: serving a target audience for marketing purposes. It's that cynical. Thinking in terms of skill and strategy is make believe to keep you playing: the next game I'll be better and hopefully win... and if you do remember it's not your skill, it's the A.I grand you that.
Just experiment: after 3 losses in a row stop playing for 10 minutes. The A.I logs that and in other to keep you playing will grant you the next victory. Test it.
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Time and again...since its inception card design has always been to serve and to protect the base. Parochial to be precise. Tribal for the commoners. Markets corrupt good morals and sound reasoning. Just to maximize profit. Hayek and Milton Friedman would disagree. The lack of corporate ethics reflects the overall state of the meta culminating in profound lack of interclass balance and persistent meta dominance of the aggression classes. Fun that's what they call it and along side them the target audience.
Dear base, maybe you should educate yourself to see the worth of taking time to think and strategizing in prolonged matchups.
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For all the lawsuits Activision/Blizzard could face, sexual harassment charges is the lowest denominator for a masculine money driven company. Looking forward to the next one concerning MMR/RNG manipulation. It's all in the cards.
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Have you ever seen Priest being buffed/made stronger? - nope. Alle the nerfs so far is to weaken.
Not that priest is oppressive, its the holy Volk that complain. Their burn-buff-charger strategy is being hampered. And an unhappy target audience.....is not what you want, is it?
HS is a profound fascistoid game. Not the game itself, but as a card designer one must have a fascistoid inclination. For starters the game is cherished bij a holy target audience. In right wing populist environments the people are even so considered sacred. They must be protected at all cost. Worth fighting for. All perceived enemies of The Volk must be fended of, eliminated.
Priests are the enemy of The Volk. Capisce. So I offer left wing card design (fairness, balance, skill).
I guess right wing card design will prevail.
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Those 'interesting' discussions elsewhere are very interesting in the sense that Blizzard doesn't do anything with them and keep printing cards for which I really understand the 'complains' here. Besides complaining is everywhere on the net, if Apple, Microsoft and other big companies had so many complains about their products as Blizzards Hearthstone has, it would be a legendary problem with the CEO do the explaining fearing his position.
Not so with HS. The problem lies with the contempt for its customers, the divide and rule strategy and the fundamental partizan card design. I see a direct relationship between the current devs and the 'complains'. There is need for an audit on card design in terms of balance that triggers a sense of justice and fairness. You can't just go around printing cards that are blatantly unbalanced and wonder why the community is that bitter. People will complain less if the sense that they lost due to their own stupidity, rather that they are confronted with idiotic card design for which conceding is the best option.
I'm convinced Blizzard wants people to complain. Better bad talk than no talk at all. It stimulates antagonism. Yes its less on Reddit but that doesn't take away the fundamental problems.
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You are one of the plentiful mr smiths talking on this forum. When people don't realize that their 'free choice' of copying netdecks doesn't entail freedom, but that they're just prisoners of a system the gives them 'enjoyment', you can't blame people to be arrogant just by pointing that out.
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There are two types on this forum, probably both don't realize it. First the devs defenders and those who in one form or another are familiar with a profound contempt for devs. I myself am definitely part of the latter, most of the fanboys and pseudo-intellectuals part of the former.
The OP is such a latter-type. I congratulate him with his post. The explanation though is as important as the complaint: the target audience that needs to be served. It reminds me of mr. Smith' speech on existence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H3HjMLxKXs
In the scene copies of Mr Smith listen to his speech. Those copies are Blizzards fanboys in HS and Smith as the pseudo-intellectual basically tells the audience that card design makes any other consideration (home brew decks) irrelevant.
In the Matrix everything turns out right. In HS it never will. Only Smiths copies are served. HS is a Matrix in itself.
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That's not salt. Don't put yourself down. What you register is pure injustice. Tic is a sign of absent ethical consideration. It's poor human development.
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Ah, there you have the old aged argument. There is skill allright which is defined as playing skillfully better mindless than the opponent.
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You are completely right but there's a famous saying: everybody is equal but some are more equal than others.
Some who are more equal are the meatballs of those who have the most contempt for them. If the fanboys around here - who call you arrogant - would realize how Blizzard view them (as mindless retards not deserving a game that take skill).
People don't realize how arrogant devs are, looking down at the fanboys who are that stupid defending them. It is as much like the roman emperors who had deep contempt for the people ... and gave them blood sports to keep the vulgar occupied. It's really saddening to see how much contempt devs have for their constumers.
The relationship devs have with the masses is likewise the relationship a drugsdealer has with the addicted. No respect. Just sell them.....mindlessness.
As long there are fanboys card design, netdecking won't change. You're talking here to addicted deaf ears. The problem is, as there are so many of them, the game keeps mindless.
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Yes you copy/paste mindlessness and now you are 'practically a pro gamer' Yes you became part of Devs target audience and now - you already know how to count to ten - feel at the top of the world.
Isn't it what hearthstone is all about going with the flow - calling it 'get better' - as a businessmodel? So your TL;DR is quite funny. What you call get good I call the 'succes' of mindlessness. How different can we be. How can you even think you're good utilizing decks like mage or paladin?
I would be deeply ashamed if I reach legend with one of those decks....and call myself 'good' or 'practically pro.'
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I knew someone would come up with the playing around argument. But that doesn't answer my question: why hysteria and why 4 manna does the playing around 'balance', let alone then that this argument would count for every card available, so it isn't an argument specific for Hysteria.