by Shuriken on Tue Dec 17, 2013 5:43 pm
If only I had dust! Getting a little tired of the random arena rewards, 0 dust for 4 wins is shit. I've had a big grumble with this game for a little while and I've not really been able to put my finger on it until now.
Let's compare it to magic, since every other card game is cited when people complain this is pay2win.
The primary argument is that all cards games are quintessentially pay to win which means it isn't pay to win. Aside from the contradiction these people do have a point. You have to get the cards to play, end of story. Now what I have an issue with the types of games we've got at our disposal.
Play mode is the identical to Standard Constructed MTG. In MTG the more money you throw at standard cards (higher prices because new stuff!) generally the better you do, the same applies in HS. However this is where the similarities end and the idiotic pay gate rolls around in lolcakes and fu. This is primarily because Wizard of the Coast aren't the solo retail outlet for cards. Specifically there are a plethora of single cards available at a reasonable performance:price ratio from a multitude of outlets. Not to mention trading. So not only do you have to get the cards all from the same store, you're never guaranteed to get anything you want and even if it's something someone else wants fuck you, you can't trade so disenchant it for a 8:1 crafting ratio.....
Yes, eventually you can get the cards that are hot right now, if you have the patience to grind out literal months of your life just for one epic, don't even think about legendaries in an acceptable time frame.
That's assuming you can win any games since a tonne of high ranking players purposefully lose matches so they can duel people with vastly inferior decks just so they can farm their 100 gold quicker. There's literally no downside to this for them as they have the deck to be able to rank back up when it matters.
I've got no problem fighting people with better decks though, just wish we'd all be given the same opportunity instead of letting the dickheads ruin play mode
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