If history is any indication, it will still overload you. (Thats how the previous Hagatha that gave you a 5-5 with a spell attached worked)

How is it a red card if it’s only for 2 turns?

I had been playing hs since goblins vs gnomes expansion with reasonable consistency and I had always been a F2P player, this consistency paired with my playtime gave me a collection that is basically indistinguishable from a paying player (except for the cosmetics like portraits and diamond cards and so on).

In, all my years of playing, I have never seen an update that is this scary for the F2P experience, for all the reasons you described in the article. What’s scarier for me is that I haven’t seen much on any platform besides this one talking about it.

It is quite apperent they are testing the waters with this paywall, but seeing the state of current outrage against it (or lack thereof) will no doubt make them push to put more and/or stronger cards behind a paywall. I guess for a player that is paying for the cards every expansion there is no difference at all but for F2P players like me the only logical choice is to quit the game, a 1 month period where you cannot compete against meta decks just because you didn’t pay is simply unacceptable for a game that I play almost daily. They may experiment with shortening that early access period but I personally don’t think that’s a good solution either (will explain why in a second).

Some may be inclined to think that from a business perspective what players like me feel about this news doesn’t matter. If I quit the game 0$ is lost because I had been paying 0$ for years anyway, right? But the fact of the matter is I play a variety of decks and I am a consistent legend player, which means I contribute to the gameplay experience and the competition/ladder experience. If you climbed all the way from bronze to legend, only playing against bots, would you be satisfied with your climb? What if you played against real players instead, but they were playing objectively lower tier decks because they couldn’t buy the tier 0 deck defined by paywalled cards, would you be satisfied then? These are the simple examples but it doesn’t stop there.

If you had been playing for a long enough time you have seen the case where a single outlier deck was significantly better compared to every other deck, forcing the every player to play the same 1 deck, which creates a miserable gameplay experience (dr boom and elysiana control warrior for example). A similar situation is bound to happen if there are multiple tier 1 decks (which suggests a healthy meta on the surface), but imagine if only one of them has all the cards unrestricted by a paywall. In that case the F2P playerbase will not quit but flock to that one deck, resulting in the same situation.

And I have to make one last remark which more personal to me. When the meta is balanced, I simply have fun playing hs. Luckily the meta had been reasonably balanced for many expansions in a row now (and I realise some may not agree with that), but that’s ultimately the reason I keep playing. However I remember the days when noone had early access to anything, and on the first day of an expansion’s launch day everyone experimented with every card, as noone knew what the power levels of the cards were really like, and to me that was when the hs was the most fun. I feel like a drastic portion of that fun had been taken away ever since they enabled the content creators early access, now everyone has a good ballpark idea about what is better and what is worse way before the expansion launches. I feel like putting certain cards behind a paywall and enabling them later will also contribute to fun being lost for this same reason. And even if I was a paying player, I simply don’t see the point in playing the game if it’s not fun anymore.

It’s literally the third day of the expansion, decks are not optimized yet, meta is not settled. They should have just waited until it did. I bet the excavation warlocks wr would go down as aggro decks win rates go up if only they just waited a little bit. Now the druid will be the new tyrant until meta settles, might as well nerf that while they are at it.

You pay 1 mana to put your opponents good card to the bottom, opponent draws another good card anyway. Will happen more often than you think.

This is definitely the easiest way to do it. Honestly you can do it with any control type of deck just take one card out and put steamcleaner instead. I think there is only two copies of each card in his deck after he turns into diablo (but he still draws some automatically after he turns) so not every card is burnt, just pay attention to what is being burnt and watch out for apocalypse.

For the reason you mentioned, it’s prolly good in dh but not in warrior since dh has no problem with draw while warrior often does.

is there any news regarding tavern regular achievement and end of tavern pass skins for dk?

Honestly playing death knight felt so underwhelming on day 1 that I would rather prefer if it was like demon hunter launch day 1. At least we got to actually play with (and against) the new cards and new class and explore all that new stuff with demon hunter. This time I’m pretty sure that everyone just played a few games with dk, understood that it’s not op by any means and moved on to explore new cards for other classes.

Wow i feel like this is pretty huge news. You mention that “Chinese market makes up for only 3% of the total Activision-Blizzard revenue” but i wonder how much of that 3% exactly comes from Blizzard franchises (wow, starcraft, diablo, hs). Also 3% is still a big deal when you are talking in millions and even billions, so it’s interesting how the future of blizzard and hs will look like after this heavy blow. And there is also the fact that one the biggest playerbase region suddenly dissappearing, will impact the deckbuilding element, which dictates the meta, which in turn impacts the overall enjoyability of the game.

oh i misread that as “paladin card”

i wonder how much damage you take if you play cariel with this, 4 or 8?

Would nerubian egg see play if it costed 1 mana and +1/+1 less? I think yes, at least in wild i can imagine some decks can making use of it.

interesting and fun card but i dont think it will see play. maybe druid can make it work as a pseudo denathrius in case one gets theo’d

does this mean the old lich king card and arfus will give this card instead of the old 4 mana one with +2/+2

This puzzle was actually quite fun as opposed to some of the previous ones. I hope they make the future ones short and not super-convoluted like this one.

Comparable to the likes of the stealth your hero card for rogue and ice block. Only downside is arcane missiles and mask of cthun-like split damage but there’s not much of that around. This card alone might bring back the reign of quest mage once again or might result in creation of some sort of a new burn mage. 5 star if more burn mage support is released, 4 otherwise. At the very least it will be used in wild as a second ice block-like for combo decks.

Millhouse-like effect with millhouse-like stats might as well called it commander millhouse

what

Had no expectations yet somehow I’m disappointed.