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Quote from Sherman1986 >>

Yeah, why not? Let's ban every single card you hate! That makes a lot of sense! -.-

Yep, that's another interesting topic...

I will try to be brief and concise.

In the first place it is not a personal opinion nor is it "my" truth: it was established by Blizzard itself that the wild mode was a mixed bag where we could play with ALL the cards that we had in our collection. That "golden rule" is the premise of the very existence of that game mode and now it is broken. That is an undeniable fact.

Banning cards in a game mode whose main reason for being is that all cards can be playable is a terrible precedent, especially when it comes as a response (the laziest and easiest one) to a problem that they have created themselves. This is also an undeniable fact.

In short, banning cards is incompatible with wild mode, that's my point.

And by the way, dissatisfied customers must be demanding and must criticize and even shout their complaints, otherwise they wouldn't be dissatisfied, but conformist customers. We, as customers, have the right, and I would even say the obligation, to demand that the products we consume meet our interests, because it is the only way for companies to know and adjust to the needs of their customers. It is for the good of the companies themselves.

Yep, and that format will replace the useless classic: each month only will be playable specific sets from previous years, changing each month

Quote from Dunscot >>

If you so badly want a reply:

You are throwing a temper tantrum over something relatively meaningless. It's a card game, and a recently released card gets banned/changed within two weeks, and probably not because of the winrate, but more because of the playstyle and how people respond to it, not unlike Darkest Hour. That's all, and that's fine.

If you think the card should not have been released or an immediate nerf would be better than a temporary ban, fair enough. I personally don't mind this approach. I prefer seeing new cards too strong and changed later than too weak and never played. And if they want some more time to think about what would be the best nerf (or mechanical change), that's fine by me. But ok, different people have different opinions.

But raging over this being an "atrocity" and "insult", and saying that Wild "no longer has a reason to be" because of a single temporarily banned card, and insisting on people getting fired, is just childish. I personally find your comment more embarassing than this incident.

 Yep It's true, perhaps I may have overstep being too "vehement".

I know that this is only a card game and that in the great scheme of things this is a meaningless thing as you say, but being relative and focusing on the game, it is a "temper tantrum" more than justified.

Obviating the thick words, it cannot be denied that I have only told the truth, it hurts whoever hurts: the approach they have chosen to solve a problem they themselves have created is the lest desirable of all, let's face it, it's the most cowardly and easiest solution for them.

The precedent that has just been created (banning cards in a collectibles card game) is very very harmful, and I am not exaggerating when I say that it destroys the concept of the wild mode completely (since it negates its basic essence: you can use whatever you have in your collection). This is not debatable, it's a fact.

And yes, I insist: team 5 should be fired, and I'm not being childish, I'm just a demanding customer. There are already many mistakes and lack of attention on their part, this is not new. They seem to be more focused on creating new ways to monetize the game than on the game itself.

I admit that I have spent several hundred bucks on the game throughout all these years, in fact I was very interested in buying the wild bundle that is currently in the in-game shop, but considering what happened, why am I going to spend money on a game mode that just broke its golden rule? And what is more, why am I going to reward these incompetent people with my money?

Not at all: banning cards from a format that was specifically designed to allow EVERYTHING is a mistake.

Let's not fool ourselves, banning cards in constructed modes, even temporarily, can set a very dangerous precedent indeed.

Quote from emkarab >>

 How exactly should they nerf it? There is no easy way to nerf this card. Cannot just up the cost, can't make it battlecry instead of static effect.

If I were a game developer, I wouldn't change the concept of immunity (which is quite obvious and self-explanatory) not even this specific card, because that would be a mere band-aid that would only serve to hide the real problem.

Make no mistake, the problem with this card is the same as always: the cost cheating problem. We must avoid trivializing the cost of cards, either in mana or health, as in this case.

The concept of PAYING in health instead of mana is interesting, especially in the thematic philosophy of warlocks. But paying means paying, if you don't give what is asked of you, you get nothing.

If you are immune and CANNOT lose health, then it should be impossible to make any health payments, therefore it is as when you have no mana to pay and therefore cannot play any more cards. Remember that the game already prevents you from playing cards for life if you don't have enough life to pay the cost! There is already a precedent.

Taking damage would be a different thing, since an immunity would prevent it, but if in the upper left corner of a card where its mana cost is usually shown inside a blue gem, there is now a drop of blood, that means that you have to give health as payment for playing it...

Practical example: imagine that a card is published whose text reads: "Battlecry: During the next turn, your opponent cannot spend mana". Then, even if your opponent has 10 mana crystals, or even if he has ways to recharge them, he could only play cards whose mana cost is zero on that turn, because he could not consume mana no matter how much he had.

I hope that it has been clear. Honestly, it would be the most elegant solution, and also, it would not only solve the problem of this card but it would have corrected the underlying problem at its roots, that is, it would have fixed the problem forever, even for future cards, as it would not be a simple patch or temporary solution.

Quote from Nefiret >>

Really? This is already embarrassing...

It is a real shame that a company (even a small indie one) resorts to such belated, sloppy and lazy solutions ... the easiest and most absurd solution that does not fix the problem, but only hides it ("temporarily" at best ). What a lack of balls, it's pathetic.

Wild mode was promised to be that, wild, where everything is allowed and where all cards should be de-nerfed... but now it turns out that there are banned cards? Wild mode no longer has a reason to be nor serves any purpose anymore. This is clearly an insult to those of us who are exclusively wild players.

But worst of all, the most outrageous thing is that a company that does not stop monetizing the game to earn more and more money continually commits atrocities such as publishing cards that were an obvious problem for anyone with some common sense and basic knowledge of the game. Don't they check the possible negative effects of every new card before publishing them? Obviously not, since it is not the first time. For God sake, these people don't deserve to charge a single cent, because they don't do their job at all, they just continually improvise. They should all be fired.

I love how this comment of mine has been voted negatively to death, but nevertheless no one has dared to answer me trying to refute me, although I understand that that would be impossible because I have only told the truth. 

Quote from Finalstan >>

it's a clever way to get people to 'waste' their coins on this instead of packs

Expansion pre-orders hero skins are not purchasable with gold, only with real money :(

And the final reminder, here is the schedule of events and rewards:

• Grandmasters Week 1 (April 9 – 11) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs
• Grandmasters Week 2 (April 16 – April 18) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs *
• Grandmasters Week 3 (April 23 – April 25) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs *
• Masters Tour Orgrimmar (April 30 – May 2) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs
• Grandmasters Week 4 (May 7 – May 9) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs *
• Battlegrounds Brawl: Battle of the Boars (May 12) : 2 Forged in the Barrens packs
• Grandmasters Week 5 (May 14 – May 16) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs *
• Grandmasters Week 6 (May 21 – May 23) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs *
• Grandmasters Week 7 (May 28 – May 30) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs *
• Grandmasters Week 8 (Play-offs) (June 4 – June 6) : 2 Forged in the Barrens packs

(Those marked with an * are shared rewards, i.e. you can only get 2 Year of the Phoenix packs at most from all those weeks altogether)

Nobody has published it (at least in the hearthstone webs I usually visit), but Mecha-Jaraxxus (and its card back) is in the in-game store for 15 bucks... however there is no option to buy it with gold, why?

That would be PERFECT!! Great idea, all my support to this

As a reminder, here is the schedule of events and rewards:

• Grandmasters Week 1 (April 9 – 11) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs
• Grandmasters Week 2 (April 16 – April 18) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs *
• Grandmasters Week 3 (April 23 – April 25) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs *
• Masters Tour Orgrimmar (April 30 – May 2) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs
• Grandmasters Week 4 (May 7 – May 9) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs *
• Battlegrounds Brawl: Battle of the Boars (May 12) : 2 Forged in the Barrens packs
• Grandmasters Week 5 (May 14 – May 16) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs *
• Grandmasters Week 6 (May 21 – May 23) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs *
• Grandmasters Week 7 (May 28 – May 30) : 2 Year of the Phoenix packs *
• Grandmasters Week 8 (Play-offs) (June 4 – June 6) : 2 Forged in the Barrens packs

(Those marked with an * are shared rewards, i.e. you can only get 2 Year of the Phoenix packs at most from all those weeks altogether)

Okey, that's right, but what do you call a company whose economic interests do not stop growing exponentially and is only limited to creating thousand ways to monetize their product? A product whose condition is, however, pitiful, while the company does nothing to fix or improve it...

Lazy and greedy are the words.