You can pay thousands in this game, take a year off and be so far behind players who have never payed a dime since the beginning. It is a unique P2W game, but P2W it most definitely is - it's just not as insanely greedy as many other games on the mobile market (Good god, the mobile gaming market sucks) . People get too hung upon the idea of "Pay to win" being literal. It's not, it's a loose phrase used to define the majority of free to play game models.
"Ahah, well you can win a few games because of RNG/reach legend with an aggro hunter deck/build any deck you want, it just takes time/it's pay to compete as high up the ladder all decks are top-tier, you gain no advantage/it's pay to have fun, if you don't want to play meme decks you can get buy on in game gold/it's alot cheaper than real world CCGs...therefore it's not P2win" - No no no... No! Hearthstone is the very definition of pay to win and you clearly have no idea where the phrase actually came from.
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No of course not.
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Lol at people saying the skin is a free gift. This post is a free gift, here you go.
My pleasure.
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I think the point of this thread has flown over most people's head, most answers were even addressed by edits to the orginal post and still it's like reading an echo chamber of people posting the same crap lol.
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Nah, too grindy.
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Can't teach 2 cool 4 skool kids who wanna stay in all day playing free-to-play games.
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That's not what P2W means.
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I open the UI and I'm already burnt out.
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Bit of a long post but I thought fuck it I'll read it.
In my observations of playing Hearthstone since GvG it seems to put you into a pool of players against whom it will match for that session. Then periodically, maybe the next time you log in or it could be the next day it will move you to a different pool of players. This explains why sometimes you get good streaks and sometimes bad streaks with all the roping and BM lumped in.
How these pools of players are made I'm not sure but there seems to be a difference in general style, it could be by MMR or how new the players are I dunno. Some days you can have the most pleasant run of games ever, you see a variety of decks, no BM, opponents will politely return your "Well Played" and no one ropes. Then on another day everyone is playing Secret Mage, Cube Lock, Recruit Paladin and you suffer all the BM that goes with it all day long.
The only thing we know about all this is that we don't know exactly how it works because the program is closed source and Blizzard are very reluctant to reveal their methods.
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Fuck no.