Hearthpwn

Is this a good step in the right direction?

 It's the biggest mask-off moment I've seen from them regarding this game since the last mask-off moment.

Blizzard wants to take another piece of my game that I've played for 10 years away, or make it otherwise less than it used to be. They try to crap it up, then offer to crap it up less when I get upset because the initial crappening was a low-ball offer, as if I were in a some kind of negotiation or tug-of-war.

I'm gone. Time to nuke ten years worth of cards and to uninstall. That's the only message they'll understand, but by the time they get it, I won't be around and won't be able to return. The sky used to be limit when it came to the potential for this game. It was a delight in the early years and it felt like there was no reason for it to not keep expanding and getting better, in perpetuity. Comparing those years with what HS is at the moment makes it disturbingly clear just how much fun Blizzard restricts in order to squeeze us into the shape and play-style that makes them the most money.

I rarely interacted with the folks here but it was a pleasure to have done so when I did. I won't be back because I have to 100% erase HS from all habit and memory lest I tempted to come back (or rather, visit the smoldering remains of my collection). It's unfortunate I won't even be able to reminisce, but a decade of great, to good, to OK entertainment must have SOME value. I hope things get better for the people who choose to stay.

Take care, good luck, have fun, everyone!

A part of me was praying they would retire Hearthstone and roll out Hearthstone 2 (ridiculous, I know) so I would no longer be in the thrall of FOMO, and that my collection would be 'complete' and be something I could revisit from time to time (super ridiculous, I know). Hearthstone gives me some occasional dopamine but it gradually got less and less fun. That doesn't mean it doesn't have high points or isn't fun at all at times, and that I didn't have hope that it would become generally more fun at some point in the future, but I think I was just clinging to that, and got taken advantage of with that specifically. Sometimes when I look at an old minion or hear their voice acting it takes me back years to the time when the game was simply a joy to play, and this makes the game stickier, too.

Just before the 10th anniversary I was considering quitting (played since beta). I was also considering writing an 'I'm leaving' post somewhere on the Internet so that my little adventure with the game could leave a tiny trace, and to express my dissatisfaction with what the game has become. Then the 10th comes, a new event comes, expansion, whatever. Maybe I'll stick around since it looks sort of fun (the usual expac trap).

Then this happens. Well, these geniuses have actually done it. They've figured out a way for me to quit a game I've played regularly for almost TEN YEARS. I'm going to wait to see what the response to all this is, and if it's not a major restructuring of the game and team vision, or something similarly satisfactory, I'm probably going to dust every single card I've accumulated over the past decade to make sure there's nothing left to return to should the itch arise. Maybe their analytics will pick up that disturbance in the tavern as a blip on the radar, as thousands of cards cry out in terror and are suddenly silenced.

Ben Brode was so right.

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This was smart, thank you for letting me pontificate.

This is absolutely me. This game had captured me because of the collection I've amassed since beta. Every single monthly cardback, and FOMO to get the next one. I'm probably gone, too.

Once again, big numbers, intended to impress, that mean nothing without context. How many players are there? Are there bots detected that cannot be banned yet? What's the average ratio of players to bots? How long does it usually take for the bot numbers to go back up to those levels? Until I know this I can't help but feel insulted by these announcements.

we’ll continue fighting on your behalf, too.

Thank you so much. Thank you for telling me how maintaining a reasonable game environment, expected to be part of a service I'm invited to pay for, is now a valiant effort on your part that deserves special mention.

"This week, we actioned nearly 85,000 accounts for botting"

Wow, what a gigantic number. I'm so impressed. Now can I get a number of players to compare it to for some context?

Nobody buy anything until they nerf this card. Spread the word.

Quote from AcidHydralisk >>

https://twitter.com/GallonHS/status/1724863072505073841

Exp has been out just abit more than a day and its already on the chopping block. Good

 Good, but not good. Not good as in they allowed this to be printed in the first place without play-testing! My 2cents.

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Haha, I just came to the forum to vent about this card :D

 I played this expansion for 3 standard games and then saw this card not only bypass my armor but also delete my health. And get bounced back. What an f*in joke. I might copy meta decks to fulfill my quests, but I won't take this game seriously until this card is nerfed.

I am... pleasantly surprised by these nerfs. I never thought I'd say it, but this might be good balancing on the dev's part.

Good day, and I still watch your vids on my phone before sleep.

Hey. I've watched and loved your content for months. But you're wrong when you say that HS has no luck involved. The most obvious example is your own misplays and your losses due to them. You might as well say that Poker has no skill because there is RNG in it. I still like you. But stop being so dumb.

It's Twist!! The fun, fresh, new, exciting new mode for Hearthstone! It's Hearthstone, with a Twist!

More than anything, I dislike the name. I'm so jaded and spent that I don't care about what they do. Unless they call their new game mode TWIST!

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrUfo653AtU

Won it the first time with a mage newfriend. Good brawl.

This deck took me to D5 quick.