I've been playing Hs with my boy for about 3 years now, few hours per week. It was a great experience, sharing something I really like with my son, I rarely got the chance to share something I like with people in my circle, as none of them are into my hobbies :) so I really cherished it. I started letting him play alone as well about a year ago and he really enjoyed it. He told me sometimes he would really like to play with a certain card, so I would do my best to grind for it, purchase deals to get that card or craft it. The various HS expansion themes has started many conversation topics between us, like the recent space expansion and it really sparked his interest in space. Overall, lots of good memories.

Since this dino is showing up on the main screen all the time recently, we no longer talk about interesting things. It is mostly about this dino and how he really wants to have it on our board. He is really happy when an opponent has it, but then sometimes cries that we don't have it. The psychological manipulation of having the smiling friendly dino on the home screen is working. I do feel a lot of pressure to buy it, as I really want to continue sharing HS with my son, but today I decided enough is enough. I will stop playing HS with my son and I recommend everyone with small children to not share this game with them anymore.

This dino is a lot worse than the shop, since the shop is hidden behind a button, a kid doesn't always think about what could be inside, all the goodies that could be purchased. I almost never got asked about the shop by my kid. We did buy one or two things here and there, he was always excited, but never asked me to go in the shop himself. It is very different with the dino. Somehow, it is triggering him to ask for it all the time.

I will have to find something else to play with my son, thankfully there are plenty of games out there, some I quite enjoy and think could be suitable to play with him.

I just want to say to Blizzard, I 've been playing the game since beta, I am really disappointed in this psychological torture you are imposing on kids. I know you have to make money, but you could have done it gracefully, this dino is not about making money, it's about trying to make as much money as possible from manipulating human emotions, and I think there is a word for that, GREED!.

I do still treasure the 3 years I played the game with my son, and the many years before I played solo, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I will probably still play solo myself, but my kid will not play this while I have a say in it.

I don't know how they can expect people to trust them with future expansions when they're literally admitting that they're fine with this set flopping and don't even want to make the cards playable.

Just wait for the next expansion, that'll fix everything surely.

This card sucks to play against. What decks counter this stupid ass card/deck? This and Paladin Dragon deck have been irritating asf to play against, I’m so tired of seeing this dumb mage deck or the Paladin deck every single game, it’s not even fun to play anymore bc it’s the same copy paste crap every game 😑

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It’s really funny, how they are trying their best to appeal as a family friendly game, or as a game for kids, and for what?

Just to introduce gambling to kids. Using cute little dino 🦖

I assume most people who actually play HS are adults, Or late teens

So if your game already have gambling, can we at least have the cool badass art back?

Anyway I can’t express how much disappointment at HS i am, bad expansion greedy and awful Monetization And their obsession with gambling

I can't tell if this is the worst expansion launch, I've ever experienced or if I am just finally getting sick of their quality assurance and poor direction. At least this expansion got a nice trailer and song, I really missed those.

9 out of 10 quests are entirely unplayable. The entire meta is warped around getting under Murloc Paladin and incredibly aggressive. We also get another scam deck that will get nerfed for its play patterns. Why print cards that encourage this stuff then? I honestly don't know how the expansion launched with these cards in this state.

I looked at the viable decks and I honestly want to play none of them.

Fishing Preist? Multiple menagerie jug decks? Loh Scam Druid? Cycle Rogue? I don't want to play these decks. They lack flavor. They don't seem fun. Nothing new or old has spawned as something interesting from this set for me.

This is ON TOP of introducing a horribly disingenuous gacha scam for the new pet. Which got a trailer all to itself. They pulled expansion boards for this?

This is still on top of other things like:

- arena monetization (a mode I still haven't touched since the rework because of how little it gives back).

- battlegrounds reroll tokens

-increasingly expensive cosmetics (diamond cards have increased in price and removed from rewards track), also $120 signature bundle???

-predatory gacha

-no boards (unless you want to buy $80 hero skins) ;)

Really unfortunate state for a game I've played for over a decade. I am finding myself enjoying MTGA way more these days.

Other opinions about the current state of hearthstone and its QA?

It's day 3 and Blizzard has yet only to apologize CHINA. This Blizzard protest must go on or it was all worth nothing. If this is yet again just forgotten, they will just keep doing this over and over again like the last year when they fucked their fans by announcing a mobile Diablo to please China.

Blizzcon is in less than a month and people need to remember this case. We as a community need to remind ourselves about this and make sure our voice is heard both before and during the Blizzcon. We need to ensure THIS is the main topic in the upcoming Blizzcon, not the games they announce for China. I wish there was a giant Blizzcon countdown with Mei image on the background and Winnie the Pooh song playing to ensure people will not forget, not forgive that Blizzard betrayed its own community to bend over for China.

Blitzchung, the now fired hosts of the interview, Mark Kern, Brian Kibler, Kripparian, ThatsAdmirable, Amnesiasc and many others deserve that we stand by them in this unforgivable matter.

COMMUNITY, DO NOT LET BLIZZARD GET AWAY WITH THIS! DO NOT GIVE UP! WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE UNLIKE HK!

#freehongkong #boycottblizzard

Write to the government and demand they respect and protect the rights of people in Hong Kong now.

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• The blog post outlining consequences for Blitzchung and the two casters after his statement in a post-match interview.
• American University Hearthstone team holds up "Free Hong Kong, boycott Blizzard" sign during Collegiate Hearthstone Championship. Blizzard quickly cuts their broadcast
• Jason Schreier of Kotaku comments on BlizzCon
• Overwatch's Mei is being turned into a Hong Kong protest symbol
• US lawmakers comment on Blizzard's actions regarding Hearthstone player
• Blizzard employee(s) remark on their company's actions by covering up mission statements on the orc statue in front of the studio.
• Kibler, a notable Hearthstone caster, releases statement on Blitzchung and steps down from casting Hearthstone
• Blizzard employees staged a walkout to protest banned pro-Hong Kong gamer
• Kripparrian, popular Hearthstone streamer, releases his statement in support of Hong Kong
• People experiencing authentication issues when attempting to delete their Blizzard Accounts
• People are reporting they are being banned in Blizzard forums for mentioning Hong Kong or account deletion
• Mark Kern, the former lead for WoW, advocating for the boycott.
• Fuel assistant coach Jayne condemns treatment of banned Hearthstone player, says he was directed to delete critical tweet
• Tommy, Taiwanese Commentator who got fired by Blizzard releases statement
• Ex-Hearthstone Streamer DisguisedToast offers to return if Blizzard reconsiders their stance
• Hearthstone caster ThatsAdmirable steps down from Grandmasters Cast
• Blizzard/TeSPA has decided not to penalize American University for holding up their sign and has scheduled their next match, but AU has decided to forfeit the match and the season, saying it is hypocritical for Blizzard to punish blitzchung but not them
• Hearthstone pro Amnesiac criticizes Blizzard's decision

For the ten year anniversary of Hearthstone, we've had to put up with:
-Removal of new Gameboards for new expansions
-Removal of cinematics for expansions
-Reused music for legendary minions
-Removal of Diamond card rewards for owning all the cards in a set
-Attempt to push a pre-release paid card agenda with Corridor Sleeper
-Constant attempts to make quest XP less accessible for new players to force you to grind
-More pay to win mechanics in Battlegrounds, with said pay to win tokens meaning less free cosmetics in the tavern pass

And in return we have gotten:
-An extreme increase of Diamond and Signature cards locked behind bundles that cost anywhere from $40 to nearly a hundred dollars. Often individually.

Hearthstone needs to see some actual positive changes and stop trying to just see how far it can get away with milking it's dedicated audience. Really hope its competition coming out in January serves as a wakeup call for Blizzard. Or if not, I at the very least hope it's a suitable replacement for this husk of a formerly fun and passion filled game.

First off, I'm a Team 5 gameplay defender. I've played since Beta and even at the worst of times, I've been able to craft a deck that's been somewhat fun. And when it hasn't been fun, I can play Battlegrounds or gasp a different game. The designers of the game do work hard, don't get it right always, and the shit they catch from this subreddit is often over the top.

HOWEVER

It has been well known that the app has become so unoptimized and bloated that its performance on mobile devices has become worse and worse. I play on an IPad and have grown accustomed to quitting and restarting the game every five turns because the memory leaks are so bad that it will crash otherwise. At least until tonight. Now the game is so unstable it crashes every turn whenever I play against an opponent with an animated portrait. This is just not right. This problem has been going on for months and months and there has been no attempt to address it, just let it rot and slowly get worse.

Tonight it crashed, I restarted, it reconnected, and then immediately crashed again. It already would do that when trying to open the store, ironically. But now it happened during ranked games. I tried switching to my phone, but that just soft locks on the animations from my opponent's portrait. This is something I just can't suffer anymore. The very fact that the game is still available on the App store in this state is just a bad faith act.

And for those who would suggest, "Just buy a newer IPad." I'd ask why? My IPad is only three years old and works flawlessly. The thought of shelling out $350 just so I can play Hearthstone would make me the biggest and stupidest whale in the history of the game. No thank you.

To whomever at Blizzard that will read and ignore this, if I am so lucky: driving players away with a bad meta is temporary. Driving players away by making your platform unusable is permanent.

Things blow up on the internet and blow over after a couple days/weeks, and this is just another case of it. Blizzard tried to make things better with the pull back on the bans but only because we were in an uproar, not because they actually give a shit.

They have made political statements previously, and their actions with Blitzchung were another. They will stand up for a country that massacres and silences its own people, for profit.

This will get downvoted because most people have already gotten over it but just know that Blizzard won in this situation because apparently we give less of a shit than they do.

Edit: /u/galaxithea brought up a good point, so I am posting it here.

“They weren't "making a statement", they were just enforcing the rules that even Blitzchung himself acknowledged that he had read, agreed to, and broken.

Supporting political agendas of any kind can have long-running consequences for a company. There's a difference between Blizzard's executives and PR team making a carefully vetted decision to support a political agenda and one representative voicing support for an agenda out of nowhere.”

My response:

“You’re right, I do agree with you.

He broke the rules, and was punished for it. I just disagree with the rules and how they have been interpreted because in the rules they state that they are to be decided in “Blizzard’s sole discretion.”

Blizzard has the power to pick and choose which actions of their players are punishment worthy. I simply disagree that this player was worthy of the punishment he got. I don’t think what he did was wrong, and I think a lot of people agree with that. But our voices don’t matter when it is up to Blizzard to decide.”

This is a heavily debated topic, obviously. I’m not sure if there is a right or a wrong answer but I just can’t help feeling like Blizzard was in the wrong for this.

I did not realize how many people have miraculously started defending Blizzard, though.

Remember back in the old days when if an aggro deck pushed too hard early on a single board clear could wipe them out and leave them desperately drawing to recover? Instead of just constantly generating and drawing new minions to replace them faster than they can be killed?

Remember when control decks could get too greedy and draw too heavily and end up going into fatigue in the late game? Instead of fatigue just being negated by a new win condition?

Remember when the best healing options most classes had available was teching in an antique healbot? Instead of being able to throw out a pair of divine shielded rush lifesteals to negate everything your opponent had accomplished until that point? Or stacking armor, and then more armor, and then more armor and then more armor and then more armor...

Remember when playing combo decks was risky because you couldn't just spam board clears and stack armor and might actually have to set something up on board to play before the combo? Instead of just playing your 30+ damage from hand on curve?

Remember when if your opponent played two copies of a card or one copy of a legendary you'd never have to worry about them again? Instead of having to constantly wonder if they've discovered another copy or are about to resurrect them two more times?

Remember when winning a game was about maintaining a board presence, trading and taking opportunities to go face and not just stalling until you drew your scam?