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Game mode not even out 36 hours and already balance changes. Good start!

 why do you think they gave everyone early access? Companies are not going to waste time with beta testing when they have thousands of players who just want to play the game anyway. This is why duels were released so everyone who was going to buy the preorder would get what essentially is "beta access" to the new mode and 6 free packs of cards for playing it. I bought both pre-orders and had my 6 free packs in less than 20 minutes with the hunter toon.  I actually enjoyed the overpowered rng mode and only being able to use 1 copy in a 16 slot starting deck. I used cards I haven't played with in years and cards I never would have ever used in standard or wild for that matter. I have a complete collection and have played since closed beta on pc and switched to playing exclusively on mobile when they released that in April of 2014  if I remember right. This game is approaching being a decade old and will be before you know it. The fact that it's still here is a testament to how good the game is and how many people actually play it. I have done the daily quest every single day for the entire run of the game, being on mobile makes this extremely easy. I am an old school, almost 50-year-old, pc-gamer. I used to pirate games on my commodore 64 when I was a kid and even had the original Pong that I played on a color console tv that had a remote the size of a shoebox for its 8 buttons. I don't like being chained to a pc anymore and being able to escape the day while I'm at work to complete daily quests in hearthstone while I'm getting paid a hefty salary to boot is pretty cool to me. The hate on these forums for Blizzard and Activision is very off-putting and makes no sense to me. Why players would hate a company that makes a game they clearly like and continue to play is beyond all sensibility. Companies have to adapt to stay competitive or else suffer dissolution.  Hearthstone is a funny game with great artwork and voice acting. The people that make this stuff put their lives into it in hopes that they can realize whatever goal they are trying to achieve and in the process be compensated for their work. The player base here seems to hate capitalism with the passion of a hardened Marxist on steroids. Everything should be free and perfect all the time.  Complaining about an early access game mode that you don't have to participate in for anything is childish, to say the least.  I played 11 games during my 3 quests for the 6 packs of Scholomance cards and won 9 of them. I never ran into a problem with the game mode. The only two losses I had were against the paladin toon and I never saw the robes passive once in those 11 games.  Why is losing a card game so devastating to people here? Losing at all things in life is part of life. Learning from these losses is what makes you smarter. Even if you lose to something that is out of your control is a fact of life. Getting cancer is out of your control but unfortunately, it happens. You have to learn to deal with life. Hating cancer is not going to help you win against it. Hating Blizzard is not going to help you enjoy the games it produces. I am not directly comparing Blizzard to cancer so don't misinterpret what I am trying to say. Hearthstone is a game you can play by not spending a dime or by spending hundreds of dollars. Blizzard does not force you to participate in hearthstone at all. Hearthstone is designed to get you to invest some of your time playing in hopes that you will continue to play and eventually spend money on. Just because Blizzard makes x amount of money on the game does not warrant the hate it gets for trying to make more money on the game. You do not have to participate at all. You can spend as little time and money on hearthstone as you want, it's your choice. I have opted to support the company, its employees, and investors by buying its products. I will be opening my standard 320-350 packs of cards next month when the expansion releases just like I have done with every expansion since there have been expansions. I will also buy the new premium pass so I can enjoy collecting those digital goodies that make the game fun for me. Once you learn to stop hating the system and learn to live within it the more you will appreciate it for what it is and what it offers.  Criticism is fine but when it is leveled at things that do not warrant it the people issuing it are only displaying their own foolishness.  I never complain about overpowered cards in this game I just come up with ways to beat them. When 80% of the opponents you face rush to the latest OP deck the legend players like me just play the deck that counters the OP deck 60% of the time, this is why we are legend players while the rest just whine and hate.  Stop hating and join the legend club, believe me, it's much more fun!