It isn't, though. There's been plenty of examples at this point where people use their "free" account to reach legendary without using any money. Skill is pretty much the biggest factor in matches, even if some people have superior cards on average, it doesn't win the game for them. Of course you'll need more cards as you get up higher, but it isn't a requirement.Vrach said:I'm starting to get bored as the normal Play area is pretty much pay-to-win and even if you're good, you're gonna lose a lot of games when people start throwing legendaries at you and Arena cost being so high (and me not being an amazing player with every single deck to be able to routinely get enough wins to win back the money for it), the whole game turns into a bit of a boring grind.
This is both true and false. I agree with you that skill is more of a factor than many people believe, since so many players simply play every card in their hands as soon as it is available. However there are cards in the game that can dramatically shift the direction of play, or squeeze out a sudden victory thanks to top-decking. And having those available to your deck is an advantage.Ferisar said:It isn't, though. There's been plenty of examples at this point where people use their "free" account to reach legendary without using any money. Skill is pretty much the biggest factor in matches, even if some people have superior cards on average, it doesn't win the game for them. Of course you'll need more cards as you get up higher, but it isn't a requirement.
I won't refute that, for sure, but it's part of the game. Not much they can do for a card collecting game, especially when the amount of cards is so finite. Of course having a better variety gives one party the advantage, but that also assumes they'll actually use it properly. Just saying it's not automatically p2w just because you can buy cards x)AldUK said:This is both true and false. I agree with you that skill is more of a factor than many people believe, since so many players simply play every card in their hands as soon as it is available. However there are cards in the game that can dramatically shift the direction of play, or squeeze out a sudden victory thanks to top-decking. And having those available to your deck is an advantage.Ferisar said:It isn't, though. There's been plenty of examples at this point where people use their "free" account to reach legendary without using any money. Skill is pretty much the biggest factor in matches, even if some people have superior cards on average, it doesn't win the game for them. Of course you'll need more cards as you get up higher, but it isn't a requirement.
I did what most of my friends who play HS have done; I bought 40 boosters as a one-time purchase, effectively 'buying' the game. That gave me enough of a base to build upon using only in-game currency. I've been playing almost every day to complete the quests, do a little arena etc. Pretty casually. My best rank was 6 last season and I'm still missing a lot of legendaries and epics. But I enjoy the game and slowly but surely I am unlocking more cards.
I know, but it's hard going into it blind. With the random choice of hero and the random choice of cards, you pretty much have to know every single class and still get pretty lucky with the draft. If I started over with a new account today, I might actually be luckier with the Arena... you can get a lot of gold (though it's a one time thing) through the achievements and using that money better this time would probably let me play Arena for far longer than I did, thus getting more actual practice. But I blew a lot of it just wanting to get in and have some fun and now with the 1 arena run/day thing, it's hard to get noticeably better.Ferisar said:It isn't, though. There's been plenty of examples at this point where people use their "free" account to reach legendary without using any money. Skill is pretty much the biggest factor in matches, even if some people have superior cards on average, it doesn't win the game for them. Of course you'll need more cards as you get up higher, but it isn't a requirement.Vrach said:I'm starting to get bored as the normal Play area is pretty much pay-to-win and even if you're good, you're gonna lose a lot of games when people start throwing legendaries at you and Arena cost being so high (and me not being an amazing player with every single deck to be able to routinely get enough wins to win back the money for it), the whole game turns into a bit of a boring grind.