I wouldn’t mind making the game cost something every month. I think the fact that it’s free is very appealing to leech from in the form of bots.
This way you will destroy a huge part of the player base just for fixing a minor inconvenience. It would not even solve that, someone would need to take F2P players place and this would lead to more official Blizzard's bots. F2P players are basically more skillful official bots in that sense, we are paying by giving our time to make servers populated. Ideally for Blizzard, F2P players would spend some money at some point, but most of us will never do it and they know it. If they wanted only paying players, they would not make a free to play game. Idk if the game would be better or worse, but definitely much less popular.
Quote from InfinityRocketPlastics >>Having fun is more important than getting a high rank.
Can't argue with that, fun is the main reason why any game exists. Or should exist, there is a sad trend of more and more games become total crap because the developers started to pursue other goals like push their agenda or make player emotional, I don't know or care, there are enough cozy and fun games for me.
Anyway, I think getting a high rank is fun for most of the people, so they don't have to choose. I don't even care too muсh about my rank, I just want to win some games and get my dose of dopamine. Bot, noob, experienced player, doesn't matter (well, playing against top pros is more exciting, not gonna lie, but high rank is basically required for that so I take that aside). My task is try to win (without too much effort, hopefully) and I don't care about what my opponent is doing. Even if I cared about the challenge, it's impossible to not face it naturally at some point.
The imaginary situation when the player is playing only against bots is also a fair point, but let's be real, if player's MMR is that low, maybe the player needs some training and beat those bots instead of complaining about the game being not challenging enough? I mean, if someone will claim that he is facing bots 100 times in a row, that would probably mean he is extremely bad and can't beat them, lies or delusional and calls real people bots.
The only situation where bots are problematic for me is that weird Chinese thing when they are made to went through arena drafts until they find a nuts deck (so their owner/buyer can destroy everybody) or if they will become better than humans at some point (huge problem in chess). As long as bots are losing, I think it's not a big deal.
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Nice to finally see Sorcerer's Apprentice addressed in some fashion (though I think the idea of changing her to "Your spells cost (1) less, but not less than (1)." was more elegant.)
I also love seeing new content for Duels, however I'm sad to see Diablo go
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These have been so great to get some insight on the game. Thanks Iksar!
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Doggo was the best part of the AMA
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The biggest thing I took away from this is that we're losing Faceless Taverngoer
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I absolutely agree some types of Mana Cheat are absurd, but in Aviana's case, it was left untouched for 3 YEARS before it finally became a problem.
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Lava Shock cries in a corner...
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Druid has had Mana CHEAT as far back as Aviana back in 2015! So I'd say it's been a part of their Class Identity for a while.
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I feel like their stance is maybe because of the power of Mor'shan Watch Post, Spell Mage came into dominance as an obvious counter. So they decided to curb both sides of the coin.
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This card seems really promising for control-style Warlock decks!
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Got my 100th first place with Ragnaros today. Thanks Blizzard for updating Battlegrounds enough to keep me interested all this time :).