Well, it’s hard to please everyone. But keep reading then. I know you love my rants.

And btw, sorry for the long post Stonekeep. I don’t really wanna post this long, but know that I had trust issues with them.
So I still stand with my point, that it was a ‘Nerf’ rather than ‘Rebalance’. Just like the guy said above.

And OMG, what’s the problem with players trying to farm with MS, the grind itself was already taking a toll on them, not to mention the rewards. Can’t you see that people are enjoying themselves? Are you blind to the fact that people spent more time playing the game?

But sure, decide to cut that off even faster than you fix other problems that people literally asked for months. They probably gonna ignore Mercenary even more. And probably too late too when the alternatives arrives months from now.

Nice move Blizz.

Either they don’t have enough people, or they are lazy (again).
Call me a whiner, but bots are very easy to detect, if we’re talking about bots in Ranked Hearthstone. Not in other modes. Bots are particularly the same in their behavior, utilizing hero power every turn. (especially odd warrior in wild).

You can always filter out players who used HP every single turn except turn 1, and add a counter every 30 turns. Because bots will always use HP in that 30 turns. add another filter for players who plays 40 seconds every turn. This filter will effectively destroy 95% bots and it won’t be that big of problems anymore.

Like I said, they either don’t have enough people, or lazy. I’m positive it’s the latter.
And please don’t get me started on other points, because I still think the majority of what he said is literal BS.

Probably just bad luck.
And btw, please don’t spend any money towards the game if you really think they screwed you or you just gonna sounds like a hypocrite (no offense), because you support them doing these in the first place.

Please don’t.

“Rebalanced” really not fit here. The better term was “nerfed”. And it sucks now. Lucky I didn’t spend any more effort into this game.

Ah yes. The failure binding of 4 hours streams where the majority of viewer mute them for the sole purpose of pack drops. The views itself is a little shy from 5K, probably lower since many of us witnessed it first hand how YT platform stream can’t even pushed beyond 15K at best.

No wonder it has failed to attract the “Golden Joystick Awards 2021”.
Not in Best Game Expansion, with it’s so called Mercenaries.
Not in Mobile Game of the Year, with it’s heavy load, crashes and game breaking bugs,
Not in Best Game Community, where it’s filled with rants and curses with how bad the game is,
Not in any category, not even for a simple task to be mentioned or as far getting nominated like MTG Arena.

Well, when people spoke out, it’s often speak the truth isn’t it? Or was I wrong all this time?

Okay. That counted as complaining. Oh well..

I’m not gonna complain, but compared this to Hallow’s End last year, they gave a whooping 9 packs.
3x Scholomance, 3 Dragon Pack, and 3 packs from each Year of Dragon Expansion.

Once again, I’m not gonna complain. Getting 4 packs and portraits (meh) for free is always good.
But why so stingy Blizz? You can still make every player happy by giving everyone a bit more.

SMH

10 points for Hufflepuff!! er…

I mean, sure, they can’t please everyone with the directions they’re going.
But hey, if it’s another reason for anyone to have fun, then why not.
For me, my love for them getting thin as the year goes.
The next big fiasco probably the last. probably….

That being said, I just realized my second and third opinion doesn’t match the article.
Oh well..

Firstly, this is still unproven, but for all we know, they could’ve adjust the economy design in the final part of development to avoid the outrage once more.
We all know that people were frustrated by their lack of explanation in the showcase, their weeks of silence. and the way they shoved expensive bundles in front of the shop. (Even PCGamer made an article about how poor their marketing was).
So, where does that lead other than the fact they were trying to mimic the success of BG but also trying to grab easier money than just forgettable cosmetics? But again, one can only assume.

Secondly, having a different mode other than ‘traditional’ means of playing is good, but it doesn’t really intrigue me that much. I (as many other players) came to Hearthstone to play cards, not some RPG roguelite, or autochess. If I wanted that, I could just go play some Dota Chess or something. But that is not the point I’m trying to make.
As far as Hearthstone went, I just want Hearthstone to pursue higher CCG, and I blame them for not pursuing CCG design much further. E.g making tournament mode for CCG, mirror mode, 2v2 mode. instead of making non-CCG mode.

Thirdly, this mode clearly doesn’t suit in Hearthstone at all, and deserves it’s own platform. Why? Simple.
The reason that Hearthstone has became a huge platform may require such bigger system to operate, more RAM and the likes. What if some people just want to play card game but don’t wanna be ‘burdened’ with extra weight that they don’t play at all?

This feature was supposed to be in the game already, not in the future. Geez.
Not only that, we should already have the option to ‘trade’ merc coins we don’t like to something else.

Alright. enough complaints. Time to have good weekend with Farcry 6 and forget all this Blizzard nonsense. I’m coming for you Anton!

Yes, but once you get to the point where you got all mercs in one rarity, packs not gonna be 100% in their values anymore. Like I said, save your economy for the real mode.
Grinding the rewards is one thing too, if it’s good for you. But not me. Between the slow actions and randomness on coins, I better spent my little free time elsewhere.

Well, the duplicates portraits aren’t gonna be any helpful if you can’t ‘dust’ it.
We can at least get something from the packs like Hearthstone even with duplicates. But not with this one.

I don’t know what’s in their mind, and I’m quoting PCGamer, “How can we replicate the runaway success of Battlegrounds, but, y’know, make real money rather than rely on easily ignored cosmetics?”

And I haven’t even started about the bugs too..

You know that feels when you’re right about how bad mercenary is?
The thing is, COINS. It’s COINS everywhere.
You want to level up the merc you want? COINS. Specific COINS only.
You want to get skills? COINS. upgrade skills? COINS.
You want equipments? that’s right. COINS again.
The only way to get COINS is from pack and tasks, and it’s random, and what’s more, you can get portraits from packs which is literally useless. Why the F* Blizz would you put useless items in packs?

The grind you need to make to get the needed coins for your merc is frustrating too.
Just avoid this game altogether, and keep your gold for your ‘traditional’ Hearthstone.

I’ve tried searching everywhere, but.
Is there no Legendary Quest for the Spooky event as usual?

“Performance bug where playing Mercenaries for longer periods (around 1.5-2 hours) will cause lag and performance slowdowns, especially in devices with less RAM. The workaround at this time is to restart the client if that begins.”

Launching it with bugs? Literally?
Honesty is one thing. But it’s not gonna be an excuse to release such a disaster of an unfinished game to the public! Are we as players so lenient now that we’ll just accept every unfinished game they threw at us?

And pretty sure, it’s just a tip of the iceberg compared to the unknown bugs later.
I mean, even some of the bugs is not really that hard to fix when I read it, like visuals or card values.
SMH. Totally awful.

Thats weird, because I’ve got the last 4 packs instantly after 4 hours mark. (I even timed it).
But sure, 48 hours waiting is nothing compared to the miniset delay.

And I really don’t think I need to waste support help for a 2 packs drop. It’s just 80 dust anyway.

And I still haven’t received my packs.
I got the previous 4 packs drops, so this is the only problematic YT drops ever.

And it seems there’s a lot of other facing the same problems.