Quote from formulas666 >>Quote from Mister_Guy >>Heard of wild?
Mate this thread is not about Standard/Wild comparison. It is more like an advice to the newbies.
Yes, and your "advice to the newbies" is "don't spend money on this game because I don't like Standard".
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I had maybe 60-70% of collection and bought it, no regrets.
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Core points are right on, specifically the one about most players playing only a narrow slice of the game. True and very sad. But he's wrapped it in such a selfish viewpoint. Boo hoo, you have to wait for other players to consider their discovers. He's guilty of the same thing, expecting the game to be all about what he wants.
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Like Priest because it's bright (and Mage and Paladin) and dislike Shaman (and Warlock and Warrior) because they seem dark, dirty, or otherwise yucky. And I'm not really kidding. It was my gut reaction to the theme and even card borders, dumb as it sounds, and subconsciously I'm still sort of bound to it.
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A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
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Piling on ... speak for yourself. Ladder grinders just might be insane, pouring hours upon hours into what? So you can tell people in your lives you made legend in Hearthstone? Brawl is the only place in HS where I genuinely have fun.
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They are long.
I learned a long time ago that when the game made me feel this way, I had to change my objective. Your feeling that you need that card-back is just going to torture you. I don't want to belittle the "completist" instinct, but consider how your need for yet another set of pixels to look at has made you waste 5 hours, have no fun, make no progress, with no hope in sight.
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I complain about emotes a lot. One of my primary complaints is they use it as a way to inject flavor in the game, with the different voices and phrases. But we don't use emotes for flavor, we're trying to communicate player to player (not character to character). So all the phrases just distort what we want to say and it all gets (even more) salty.
So, what if they kept the emotes as they are, but just let the hero characters randomly say stuff to each other? It could be amusing as hell and we'd start to appreciate the flavor -- i.e. all the work Blizzard put in on doing voice work, etc. We wouldn't take it so seriously and personally anymore because it's random and it's the characters talking, not us. And squelch is always there if you don't like it.
To me it's either that, or just take the flavor out and give us half a chance to communicate with some civility.
Just an idle thought as we wait for Kobolds ...
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Yeah, it's plenty, but you might decide you're tired of Arena long before it's gone. Either way you win by waiting on packs until you know what you want to do.
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Yeah, I know this is controversial, but Thank You is a polite thing to say. I'd rather get Thank You'd in return than Well Played if it was a one-sided smashing. I'd rather feel my politeness was accepted rather than getting patronized in return. See how open this is to interpretation?