Because the mode confirms everything we have dreaded blizzard becoming. I have been a blizzard fan for more than 20 years. I was a top 500 star craft player in a former lifetime and looked forward to every blizzard product.
The decline started with their purchase by Vivendi, but still Blizzard put out great products that were well worth the money. Even if MMORPG were not your thing, they certainly did it well with WOW. Blizzard was known for not releasing games until their ready and were not known as money grubbing scumbags like EA.
Even Overwatch was a good game on release. Well polished, solidly balanced and fun to play. Only the matchmaker was aids.
But in Hearthstone, you see every cynical trick. Every change is designed to extract more dollars from their player base. The rigging is so disgusting it is absurd, it is like you are not even playing a game, just something meant to feel like a game that attempts to get you to spend money. I was overjoyed when I found hearthstone, I was a former ranked magic player (the physical card game over 20 years ago) and had given it up when my kids were born (too much time, too much money) so hearthstone was a god send. A digital way for me to play an old gamestyle I thought I could never return to from a company that I then respected and trusted.
Then I saw the rigging....and then I came here to ask about it, what people thought and was met with such a ridiculous response of derision and gaslighting that I was taken aback and decided to re-evaluate my stance. i looked into blizzards game design philosophies, I watched videos, read articles and found that no, I am right, the game is rigged. But I could not understand why so many bright, articulate people on this site were so absolutely sure that hearthstone was not rigged. Then when you laid out the case for why you believe it is.....the response says everything.
The response was well, that is not proof and you are stupid tinfoil hat, confirmation bias dumbass if you think it is rigged without definative proof......and I thought...what a bizarre response......then I learned what a community manager was.
See I started on the internet in a different age, when people had open and honest conversation and looked to learn from each other. The various boards were not filled with shills and plants hammering their talking points and brigading anyone who dared stray from the corporate script. But now the internet is filled with people with agendas, be they corporate or political, and to think that some innocent kid comes to a site like this to find out more about a game they like and are met by a bunch of goons trying to make sure he spends the most he can is disgusting to me.
So I come by from time to time to tweak the shills and point out the obvious about the game. Things like team 5 sucks and the quests are all overpowered, things like merenaries and duels are cynical stupid products that people should avoid. I will give the occaisional positive shout when they do something good like fix the terrible reward track or release classic mode. But it general my stance toward blizzard has changed quite a bit in the last 5 years. Mercenaries is just one more step down the EA path.
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Be careful..
Saying your opinion in hearthpwn can result to you getting banned if it wasn't aligned with the goodness of hearthstone.
I once talked my opinion about the meta and they delete my post because of Trolling. I asked what is Trolling and then they ban me. What a noble move. Very brave and intelligent.
If this message and me disappear then I got banned again by this MurlocHolmes guy.
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Everything in life can turn into a hater if you don't managed it in a good way. That's why becoming an admin, moderator, or community manager is actually a high social skill job. If they failed to listen, people will sad. If this happen repetitively, for sure they sooner or later will turn into a hater and they will find a way to always attack you.
Like me, now I'm a hater of hearthpwn community.
Why? Because the admin and moderator here kind of d*ck. I once talked my opinion about the meta and they delete my post because of Trolling. I asked what is Trolling and then they ban me. What a noble move. Very brave and intelligent. You all lose my respect.
If this message and me disappear then I got banned again by this MurlocHolmes guy.
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In standard? Try tech the clockwork giant? It's not gonna beat them entirely, but sneaking 8 damage twice starting from turn 3 is something..
Ps. But I don't know for sure, I already stop playing since the first 2 days of this new expansion. My instinct said this meta is f up. It's not worth my time anymore.. turns out my instinct right. I will comeback playing when the meta changed again.
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This time, people not hating just a single card or single archetype. It's the meta that created by a lot of solitaire deck. Each with elaborated deck building to get the unbeatable combo faster just like how yu gi oh does. You draw faster, you win. I'm never complained about the early expansion before. In fact, I always experimenting and the first 3 days of expansion is always the most fun experience everytime. But this time, no it's not.
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Amazing.
All your change is really faithful to what blizzard usually do. This is a veryb lizzard-like to boost a useless card. Just change some number here and there, then voila! Here we go..
I will never say that redesign nor creativity time, though.. XD
In serious note. All these cards can get some interesting redesign.
Like, For hemet..
Destroy a beast and all copies in your opponent deck.
Like, for hobar
Give it rush, makes it slightly more impactful when played while also become easily to get tutored by 1 mana card.
Like, for ozruk, give the health to all elemental instead of only himself..
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Think of it as a 2 card combo with buckler. This is very similar with rank 3 Conditioning, but you don't have to wait until turn 10, and it needs 2 cards space.
Conditioning are considered to be weak when it revealed, but turned out become one of the key card in rush warrior. Even played a lot without reach rank 3.
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No. I play only control deck. But my control deck never need all entire cards in my deck to win the game. If your deck need all the cards in it just to win the deck, now that is a bad control deck. I can teach you how to make a good control deck, here come to me.
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Maybe because majority of the deck only need 2/3 cards of their deck to end the game and even less if the deck is aggro. So basically tickatus is doing nothing and not a threat at all. Only player with a deck that basically need his entire pieces of cards in his deck will feel hurt when tickatus played, and it was either very greedy deckbuilding or just plain bad deck. I mean, even a combo deck most of the times have draw their combo pieces in hand by turn 8 when tickatus can be played as fast as it can be.
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I know we will get a real value with 2000 gold.. but somehow, I don't really find any epic/legendary worth for thousand gold in this mini set..
Maybe I will just open 7-8 packs and go on..
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Some of this hype definitely comes from the name 😂