Dean Ayala Asks: What Would Get You Back Into Hearthstone?
Hearthstone's Dean "Iksar" Ayala had a question for those that used to main Hearthstone as a game but no longer do.
What do they need to do to get you back?
We're actually quite interested in knowing too. With many old Hearthstone players still frequenting our site to see what the game is up to or to chat with old friends, there has to be something the Hearthstone team could do to reel you back in?
Quote from Dean AyalaIf Hearthstone used to be your main game but isn't anymore, what would get you back?
Change they could make .. get away from "Combostone", I'd love to be able to feel that different types of decks existed, but the point at which I got bored and stopped playing a few months back, every single deck seemed to consist of uber combo-wombos.
Change they couldn't really make .. re-introduce enormous gold faucets into WoW, so I could once again make enough gold playing that casually that I can buy WoW Tokens, convert them to b.net balance, and buy a stack of packs every Hearthstone expansion without spending any cash, lol. That dried up in the current WoW expansion.
Remove all the poorly designed cards or powers that allows OTK or other unescapable deaths. Games designs such as...
Mecathun, paladin horsemen, paladin immune, swap decks mechanics, priest resurrect cards, mage double turn, shudderwock etc
saying that tech cards is the answer for these kind of mechanics is just an poor excuse for bad game design and not thinking outside the box. Make the game more clever, dont make tech cards a requirement cose the current meta defines it.
Less bad mechanics and less meta dependant
Yea sure and let me guess what deck you play, hunter, hunter and more hunter i guess?
A Standard Constructed Arena mode!! Please!!!
1. Bring back Weasel Tunneler deck and print some cards to support it. By far the most fun deck I ever played - sadly it was a meme deck back then and wasn't really viable.
2. Please make it possible to complete old sets for players who are only missing few cards per sets. Make packs from old sets available with huge discount maybe?
3. For god's sake please get rid of all those OTK decks. They are killing the game and you will regret allowing them in the first place. Right now every class has 3+ different OTK decks.
4. Bring back midrange and make it the most popular archetype. Aggro vs combo vs control meta isn't fun at all
5. It costs $100+ per expansion to play hearthstone and be competitive ($300+ a year), making it the most expansive game ever made. You earn money, yes, but not the players' respect. Old Blizzard was better than this, why change? Do you want to compete with EA for the 'most hated' spot?
Lover of Weasel Priest but poo-poos on OTK decks. For shame brother, for shame. Plenty of OTK decks are fun meme decks as well and they bring a breath of fresh air instead of just allowing another copy pasta control or aggro deck that is unoriginal.
Endgame content. Give me something to do with my cards other than ladder.
Also dump Activision. They ruined Destiny, and as a fan it makes me unomfortable to see them associated with Blizzard.
The "Sorry!" Emote.
Moar emotes! (maybe customizable?...) :)
1. Rework baku's upgraded hero powers(pally warrior rogue)
2. I want adventures back!
1st and foremost, give us in game Statistics! Give us Achievements! New Modes like Tournament! DeMerge from Activision and go back to indie Blizzard. Listen to your players not your bosses! Engage your customers aka the players. Vote for cards or designs or something! It's about your players Dean no1 else!! Put us first.
What this guy said 👆
My 2 cents
But in reality it's unlikely without meaningful changes that you will be able to put the fun back into the game. It's stale, and will require a massive overhaul in order to stay relevant.
Still playing/enjoying the game & have never quit, but if I had I'd say to have a game mode that allows you to use the original post-beta cards in their unnerfed forms and never nerf things just to spice things up. Heck, even make such a mode not have a ranked element to it so that ladder wouldn't be easy mode. I just don't like the aspect that once a digital card is nerfed you absolutely cannot play that card or deck anymore (depending on the nerf serverity) even with your friends anymore.
At least with physical card games you can play banned/restricted cards with friends or unofficial tournaments. With digital card games the cards are not preserved and you lose the ability to play them even in super casual settings.
First and foremost, thank you for finally asking the question.
I have been playing since Closed Beta, and Have all the single cards in game except for the last 3 expansions which are incomplete.
I miss adventures where you would have great cards, great fun, for a low cost. you could play for a while, had the heroic challenge too.
the dailies were fun, now the game feel stales, just releasing cards simply for the sake of releasing cards. I do not feel driven by any stories now. I do not even have pleasure in opening packs no more. so many changes to cards, sometimes feeling like you simply kill a card that will look fine in our collection but won't be used. I play the minimum each month simply because I never missed a cardback. I now feel "Obligated" to buy the pre-orders, as a completist of some kind, to get the goodies and not because I love the game. I had so much fun playing everyday and now it seems so stale... with no heart into it.
Like I said, releasing stuff just for the sake of releasing stuff and not without love like it used too... our how it felt.
It seems we are more out of touched with one another, developers and players.
Just like a relation, the flame needs to stay ignited or else it falls flat.
I want my loveable game back... if that is possible.
If I pay $80 per expansion, I should be able to get all the cards. It is not OK, when I spend real money on this game and only get couple of useless gimmicky legendaries.
90% of legendaries useless gimmicky cards, almost %90 of the cards are fillers. I suspect they recently reduced the legendary drop rate too. It was utterly disgusting.
If you don’t play certain decks you will be punished severely.
there are way too many polarised match ups, most of the time games are decided based on your opponent class.
When you nerf a deck you should give full dust refund for all the cards in the deck. It is not OK to nerf a basic or classic card to ruin the whole deck without compensating players.
I agree. It’s aggravating.
Even $80 is too much, that's more than the price of a AAA game every 4 months that you have to pay. Absolutely ridiculous.
Just make it a flat $30 for every single card every 4 months and that's more than reasonable, stop being greedy fucks and you'll earn more sales.
That will kill the game because, we free to play guys will leave.
That's just how card game economies work. Hearthstone isn't doing anything other card games don't do with their card packs.
If you paid $80 toward an expansion from Magic the Gathering, I'm certain you will not get all the cards. Certainly not all the good ones.