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    posted a message on Perks gone?
    Quote from 1xbenx1 >>
    Quote from Jerry2240 >>

    Haha, poor backyard developer studio. otherwise they can not pay their employees i guess.

     Officially the most stupid thing I've read on this forum today!

     Day ain't over yet!!!

    Posted in: Battlegrounds
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    posted a message on Perks gone?
    Quote from Natsu0Nii >>

    well ye? u need to earn money to give it to your employees. Whats ur point? Money dont grow on trees

     Shhhhh. Don't tell the snowflake generation that.They've been taught for years that "profit" is a dirty word.

    And, whatever you do, don't try to explain the whole "supply and demand" stuff! Their heads might explode.

    Posted in: Battlegrounds
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    posted a message on Mindrender Illucia
    Quote from Getridofpriest >>

    Imagine not thinking this card is beyond broken. Say goodbye to every good card you want to play when you need it. Priest just gets the most busted cards every expansion. Priest is just an auto win against every deck now. Now they add this card? Against a control deck, you just play a win condition and out tempo them. Against aggro it doesn’t matter because priest has an answer to everything aggro decks does and heals the damage away in one turn. Finally against a combo deck, they just auto concede once they see they’re against a priest player. Great job Blizzard. Great job Team 5. 

     Imagine thinking we're going to get a balanced assessment of the card from someone with your name. If you want to hate on priest, go for it. But if you honestly think this is an autowin card, there's no much hope for you. And the idea that this means "goodbye to every good card you want to play when you need it" is absurd.

    Posted in: Mindrender Illucia
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    posted a message on Mindrender Illucia

     Imagine playing more than one per game. Have one in your deck and get another from the Galak HP. The rage quits will be epic.

    Posted in: Mindrender Illucia
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    posted a message on The power level of this set is actually insane
    Quote from Tuscarora87 >>
    Quote from TouchedSage >>

    As somone who has played almost exclusively Priest for the last year I can tell you it has nothing to do with ‘screwing other players’. It is that as Hearthstone has morphed into Swingstone with tons of swingy OP cards, Priest is the only class that has a chance against a wide variety of decks. The win rate is not so great but at least there is a chance of pulling out a victory instead of auto conceding against 50% of classes. It is clear that Scholomance is going to turn the swingy up to 11 which some people are going to love but I think it is going to be a total s*itshow.

    I'm not saying all Priest players are toxic (I played it a lot...), but current rework of the class is an ugly garbage. it feels low to play it. Res Priest is always toxic (many people play it even after Barnes nerf and t4 status). Mind Blast Priest, for example, is not...

     All due respect, but current Galak Priest is a whole lot less RNG-based than, say, every freakin Mage deck out there. "Oh, good. Another no minion mage deck. Gee, I wonder what secret he just played." Zzzzzzzzzz.

    But I'm with you: Res Priest is an abomination. Most obnoxious deck in HS (with the possible exception of every moronic mill deck).

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    posted a message on Serious question on randomness
    Quote from 3nnu1 >>
    Quote from TallStranger >>
    Quote from 3nnu1 >>

    The thing is, people who have played games that employed actual randomness and have played many of today's games which are overengineered to be more 'fun' know that Hearthstone is not random. No amount of calling people tinfoil hat, or making silly arguments about proving you did not murder someone or being willfully obtuse can change that. The fact that the same debate tactics are deployed again and again to try to shut down conversation  on the topic only highlights how on the money the accusations are. 

     No, people with tinfoil hats think they "know" this because it helps them deal with the fact that they're not as good at HS as they think they are. No matter how many times you repeat your nonsense, it doesn't change the fact that you have yet to offer an ounce of actual evidence.

     What if the person making the accusation gets legend every month? Would that make a difference?

     Actually, no. But you must be the greatest player in history if you're able to make legend DESPITE the evil soulless corporation deliberately stacking the deck against you by reading your cards and matching you with opponents who are highly likely to beat you. You ought to go pro.

    Posted in: General Discussion
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    posted a message on Serious question on randomness
    Quote from 3nnu1 >>

    The thing is, people who have played games that employed actual randomness and have played many of today's games which are overengineered to be more 'fun' know that Hearthstone is not random. No amount of calling people tinfoil hat, or making silly arguments about proving you did not murder someone or being willfully obtuse can change that. The fact that the same debate tactics are deployed again and again to try to shut down conversation  on the topic only highlights how on the money the accusations are. 

     No, people with tinfoil hats think they "know" this because it helps them deal with the fact that they're not as good at HS as they think they are. No matter how many times you repeat your nonsense, it doesn't change the fact that you have yet to offer an ounce of actual evidence.

    Posted in: General Discussion
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    posted a message on Serious question on randomness
    Quote from Hooghout >>
    Quote from TheFubar >>
    Quote from Hooghout >>
    Quote from TallStranger >>
    Quote from Hooghout >>

     Funny respons. Indeed no Department of Game Investigation.....yet. Look at Google, MS en Apple. Big tech are scrutinized on different levels by state actors and international regulations. The game industry is very big. In the EU pricing loot boxes is forbidden. Need to get accustomed to the idea to scrutinize on the level of MMR and RNG. 

    You seen to be a firm believer that Blizzard is not rigging. Funny. you don't need any proof to believe in holy Blizzard. It's called religious.Maybe Blizzard is a god for the multitudes.

     You want me to prove Blizzard is NOT rigging the system? You know that it's not possible to prove a negative, right? I don't consider Blizzard "holy." I consider it a sensible, risk-adverse corporation that understands there's no meaningful upside to manipulating the MMR or RNG, and a huge downside.

    As for investigations, those are typically launched based on, wait for it, EVIDENCE. You know, the stuff you can't be bothered to collect? "Everybody knows" is not evidence. Hideous streaks of bad luck are not evidence. Deranged ideas of evil corporations trying to scam $20 off you is not evidence. Actual hard numbers are. Do you draw card X more often against one deck than another? Does your opponent draw his card more often than percentages say he should? That's real evidence. And you've got none.

    So you consider them 'a sensible, risk adeverse corporation.'  Reason why you not thinking they are rigging the game.I like your gullibility and lack of critical thinking - quod non.  Remember Enron 2001?  A showcase of financial frauds:https://www.cbsnews.com/media/top-14-financial-frauds-of-all-time/  

    Frauds only possible because nobody ask serious questions....till it was too late. 

     It sounds like the lack of evidence is the reason he believes Blizzard isn't rigging.  Asking questions is perfectly fine btw, but when the only 'evidence' being presented comes from people complaining they lost to bad rng...why on earth should we suddenly jump to the conclusion that Blizzard is rigging the system?

    I say BAD rng, but honestly what most people here present doesn't even qualify.  Drawing the 'perfect' card from their deck?  Discovering the card they needed to win?  Playing a bad matchup multiple times in a row?  Really?  These are apparently the kind of things that only a rigged system could deliver.

     I'm not talking about bad faith here. And you assume people reaching legend or play high level won't complain about RNG. Maybe they do, you don't know that. It is cynical to assume only bad players complain about RNG. 

    It's more conceptual here. Zephrys e.g is officially rigging the board state. A.I can do that so why not covert. For what reasons? Tell me, to keep the game fast paced, serving a target audience, ensuring a preconceived meta, increase pack selling, stimulating f2p to buy packs...... 

      Yeesh. News flash: Zephrys is, put bluntly, stupid. As has been shown time and again, it fails to read the board very well, which is why you have to trick it to give you what you want by limiting the amount of mana you have left to play. And its universe of cards consist of only basic and classic cards. Include expansion packs, and the problems of coding its AI increase exponentially. The AI Blizzard uses for solo adventures is equally stupid. Many of them can be crushed by a simple mill rogue deck, because the AI doesn't understand why you keep playing "weak" cards. The only reason solo adventures are challenging is because the hero powers and cards are so insanely powerful.

    All the other outcomes you suggest are much, much easier to do via card design, adjusting mana costs, or changing prices for packs. You get the same outcome, but without risking breaking the law.

    Congrats, you're zero for 22,425. Still waiting for that evidence. Better get cracking, or people might start thinking you're nothing but a troll.

    Posted in: General Discussion
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    posted a message on Serious question on randomness
    Quote from Whodatninja >>
    Quote from 3nnu1 >>

    It is very funny watching stranger regurgitate all the standard arguments, tinfoil hat, prove it, etc. Being a community manager and have to spend your days lying on a forum must be a sad existence. 

     If they're a community manager, they're doing a piss poor job. Imagine posting a total of 9 times in 4 years!!!

    TallStranger, you're about to get fired. ;-)  

     Looks like I keep changing jobs: first I was secretly a Blizzard employee, sent here to make the deranged seem, well, deranged. Now I'm a community manager. Maybe tomorrow I can be an astronaut. Or a baseball player. Oh, or a treasure hunter!! ;-)

    I should really just start rumors that these conspiracy theorists work for other gaming companies who are desperate to badmouth HS and cut into Blizzard's market share. Then I could demand that they "prove that they're not." That's the only "logic" that seems to work for the whack-jobs around here.

    Posted in: General Discussion
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    posted a message on Serious question on randomness
    Quote from M0res >>

    OMG so surprised about how naive people are... the same “I say whatever, without thinking” question again and again.......

    here it goes as I had wrongly assumed that people had some brain, I was wrong (%ages are for example as you will probably stick on this point)

    - let’s say there are 9 popular archetypes 

    - 3 have a  75% of winning against 3 other ones, three are 50%, three are 75% loss

    - you play a game 

    - it matches you against one of the 75% chance win one, you win ( the other guy loses to clarify)

    - the other guy then plays the next game, he wins  ( Horray)  as it matches him against the three his deck is good against 

    - your next 5 games are matches against decks that you have a 75% chance of losing, you lose the 4 

    - same happens to the other guy 

    - as a result, the percentage of winning COLLECTIVELY drops as matching follows a matrix approach 

    I cannot make it clearer so stop the naive “ so someone always wins the “ statement  

     Maybe I should be arguing with a toaster. Let's use your example. And, to simplify, let's assume that no one logs in or logs off HS over the course of the time you play the six games you mention here. You and your first opponent each go 2-4 over your first six games. (It's not clear by the way you wrote this, so I'm assuming the other guy's first win, game 2, is one of the five games you mention when you say "same happens to the other guy." If your first opponent in your example has played 7 games, he's 2-5.) Purely by mathematics, at least 1 person MUST have a winning record over those 6 games. You two are, collectively, 2 games below .500. Someone (and as many as 2 people) must be above .500. Period. And you have no explanation for how this is possible. Because your argument is absurd.

    The only other way to read your argument is that you are claiming that, once you win a game, HS matches you with decks that are heavily favored against you. But, even then, for every game you drop below .500, someone must move a game above .500 (again, assuming no change in the population of players).  And, again, your conspiracy theory can't account for that.

    Posted in: General Discussion
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