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This thread is one long juctification based on MTG. But MTG was never a DIGITAL game, its cop out. Blizzard could have easily fixed this game forward without formats, but they're too lazy - what they do best is copy others ideas and polish them up - thats what HS was, thats what WoW was, thats what Warcarft was. They're too stuck in their own methods for success. They really didn't need to copy MTG here.

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So you havent read any thread about this in the last 2 days and come here to ask weird things. Theres reason behind the shittstorm.

 Came home from my vacation today so I just read about it and I'm completely overwhelmed with all the negative threads, so a slight explanation could be in order.

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So you havent read any thread about this in the last 2 days and come here to ask weird things. Theres reason behind the shittstorm.

 Came home from my vacation today so I just read about it and I'm completely overwhelmed with all the negative threads, so a slight explanation could be in order.

Currently sat on 3.5k gold and 5k dust. Essentially an infinite arena player with limited time to play.

I have a question... A someone who intends to play both Wild and Standard and is also looking to collect all GvG cards (missing a few epics and many of the legendaries), should I be hitting arena hard now before GvG is gone? Should I be buying GvG packs? Or should I just wait and craft what is left in the long run?

At an average of 5 wins a run in arena I think you can pretty confidently keep playing. Just set a baseline you don't want to push past, say 2000, 3000, 4000 gold....whatver you think suits best.

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If ur a collector, buy as many gvg packs as u can now, for everyone else, don't buy them at all.

They need to move him over to classic, Loatheb is too good a concept to throw in the trash. He can help every kind of deck, is a card you can hold in your hand and plan to play many turns in advance and is the only real counter spells for many classes.

I vote BGH, Alex and Savage Roar.

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To make this clear for everyone:
"Wild" will become the new casual mode and will evolve to full-retard-trololol-mode over time:

- Let's be honest: A lot of ppl play HS also for Epeen (me included). If standard is being propagated in official tournament and your profile shows only your standard rank, it is THE (ONLY) way to play the game.

- Cards are going to be developed, balanced and revisioned with STANDARD mode in mind. They might (and at a certain point in time: WILL) be completely broken, if used with cards from older/banned expansions. While Wild might be also fun right after standard format starts, it will become utter BS after 2 additional expansions, in which no designer kept cards like Boom and Shredder in mind anymore.

So instead of treating HS as the digital game it is and keep it fresh with constant balance patches and revisions, they decided to go for full cash grab and going to treat it like a PHYSICAL CARD GAME, which it is OBVIOUSLY NOT.
When we asked in the past for constant balance patches, they said: "NOOO! We can't do that! Players would be very sad, if their beloved cards in which they invested so much time and money, became worse!"
And now THEY REMOVE THEM FROM THE FREAKIN GAME.
And yeah, for me and a lot of other players, those cards will cease to exist. I haven't played a single match in casual mode for more than a year. So I will not play "Wild" in the future, esp. because it will be broken as sh1t.

This is even more infuriating, if you keep in mind that they released only 2 Adventures and 2 Expansions and already remove HALF of their additional content from the game,...

And guess what they will do? They'll sell us new Antique Healbots, new Sludge Belchers and at a certain point a new Dr. Boom. Esp. cards like Healbot are irreplaceable and HAVE to exist. So they'll just rerelease 'em with a new picture and a new name. And you have to buy new packs and more packs and more packs,...

Oh boy,...

 This post sums up the situation perfectly. 

The proper solution would be to treat Hearthstone like a digital game, make regular tuning passes where you both nerf and buff cards. Then bring out new sets that have clever new mechanics and card types. 

Blizzard's solution is a disaster for casuals. 1/3 to 1/2 of our cards go away pretty soon. Then our choice is to go play in the unsupported and unbalanced dumping-grounds of Wild or spend constantly to keep up with the current rotation in Standard. 

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Actually the blues just stated publicly that Wild won't be abandoned by devs.  Let's hold them to it.

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Or play wild...there's no downside whatsoever to playing wild.  Wild is not broken if you feel the current meta is not broken.  This is so insanely easy to understand and it frustrates me to no end when I continue to hear people complain about how such and such is now useless.  Unless you are a tournament player, there is no incentive whatsoever to play standard. 

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All we needed, literally ALL we need was for Brode to come out say something like "Ok guys, when we inevitably create a new card that unlocks some truly broken combo in wild, we'll do something about it".

Thats it, that one thing. Instead what they've infered is that they don't give a shit abiout what happens to wild mode, it will inevitably be full of broken decks pretty quickly and we don't care cause we want you to play standard, streamers will play standard, tournaments will be standrad based, we will be pushing standard. This means the collections we've built are now worth precisely dick.

 They said exactly one of those things.

And the collections we've built up has always been worth dickall, it's just that now the idiots are realizing it.

All we needed, literally ALL we need was for Brode to come out say something like "Ok guys, when we inevitably create a new card that unlocks some truly broken combo in wild, we'll do something about it".

Thats it, that one thing. Instead what they've infered is that they don't give a shit abiout what happens to wild mode, it will inevitably be full of broken decks pretty quickly and we don't care cause we want you to play standard, streamers will play standard, tournaments will be standrad based, we will be pushing standard. This means the collections we've built are now worth precisely dick.

We long time arena/f2p-players wont be prodded into paying and if you turn the collections we worked hard for to junk we just quit.

Wild won't seem so wild when EVERY game is ending turn 5 or sooner thanks to broken card being used in broken combos in broken decks.

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It has a lot more cards then "standard". It seems steady for now, but wait a few years :p

This is a VIRTUAL CCG, they could balance the game easy as *&$%, they just won't cause they're worried it will cost them future packs sales. The truth is a better balanced game retains and attracts more players and is healthier for their bank balance in the long run.