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10/10
DOnt buy packs on mass
frankiemerc27 August 2021
The game is funner when you have to put in the time to build your collection. I wouldnt recomend buying the big expansion packs. Maybe just buy a bundle to get yourself started.

If you like strategy card games youll like this one too as I do.
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1/10
R&G Sh@t
callumabran2 September 2020
All rng based games are bad because it's all about luck and no skill but hearthstone is quite possibly the worst rng based game I've ever played. It is so boring and luck based that even when I do well I just find the game boring and stupid. Bye bye now.
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1/10
Imbalanced game with no care for user experience
madcat-7624114 November 2021
This game was fun and interactive when it came out, however, expansions totally killed its magic. Developers decided to add imbalanced cards and use them to force players into playing expansion-specific deck archetypes. Any element of fun just got lost. The game is no more decided by skillful play and careful consideration of opponents deck, but merely by draw luck, as cards and their specific combinations are so strong that one card drawn card can basically kill an opponent on its own. The game of course not only doesn't offer any counter-action for the most powerful cards, but the developers even went out of their way to ban them (the cards which had the potential to counter some of the most powerful cards) from the game.

It doesn't pay off to create a unique deck and surprise opponents with non-standard cards, because the difference in cards' power-level dictates what cards can you play to be successful.

In other words: I really enjoyed the game up to the expansion Journey to Un'Goro, but afterward, it became an unfocused mess. In my opinion, it's not worth getting into at this point.

"Battlegrounds" is a fun mode, but super luck dependent and the Arena suffers from the same issues as competitive: snowball effect can kill you without having a chance to react.

Update: problems of luck and hyper-powerful cards are increasing every expansion. Your skill and experience don't matter in the slightest. Encountering 12/12 on the third turn against the druid, losing to single cards, opponents generating basically an infinite amount of cards from thin air, and insanely powerful cards which cost 0 mana (meaning there is no limit how many of them you can play during your turn) absolutely soured my experience with Hearthstone. Trash. Not worth the time investment.
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1/10
This game is unplayable
greenwhich26 October 2016
Warning: Spoilers
This game is the most heinous piece crap to ever hit the internet. It has the most vile and incompetent idiots managing it.

Basically it is a game with no user control at all. Everything is rigged by a computer forcing a lack programming to rig the outcomes for whom might we inquire, its world championships there is big money at stake. That same money that has been ripped off everybody attempting to play it.

The user selects a deck and that is all the user does. However there is no formulation on the math of the selection that has been chosen, because the computer draws cards away from any mathematical probability and that selected deck's structure. There are 30 cards selected in a deck, so if upon placing 10 of a said type, like for instant 10 x2 turn drop cost. Why hasn't a 2 turn drop card been selected yet, with only 12 cards left remaining in that deck in a match? This is because any formulation was based on algorithm which has already pre-selected exactly how that formulation would take place in advance of each game attempted, basically guaranteeing a winner to rig any ratio and any results. This happens frequently. That same computer draw will choose a selection and approach where you literally cannot play a turn until you are dead. Like in the 30 cards chosen in your deck, you have ample cards to play on each of your turn's moves, yet the computer on start will not select anything for you to play until your opponent has already won the match. A match that can be won in as few turns as 3, so if you had a 10 turn drop card chosen for you to play by the computer at turn 1, how are you ever going to play it, if you are dead by turn 3?

If that isn't bad, this game is loaded with bots also guaranteeing an outcome, because they have been programmed with the perfect formulation of approach to succeed winning and rigging the outcome, importantly your ratio. The abilities also come with the same malicious programming where that computer away from mathematical odds, selects something quite improbable to insure that outcome. Like as an example, you have a random based shot that is suppose to kill a creature and there is 3 of the same type of creature on the battlefield, except that one of these creatures is already damaged and if it attacks you have an ability in place to kill it, so on a 66.6% chance to kill 1 of the other two it kills the damaged one forcing your lost. This happens frequently in everything that the computer adds or selects, because that algorithm wasn't based on probability or math just the fact that it has already formulated any approach well in advance of you even playing an opponent. This happens frequently away from the mathematical odds, because there is simply no math at all in this game's programming.

This game also has the most hack hits out of any game available on this planet, literally millions upon millions. This game also has the most disconnection errors out of any game ever made on this planet, and this is also exploited by malicious hardware and software that interrupts its users from playing, rigging any results. By disconnecting them in-game with no protection offered on their investment so they lose their matches. Mysteriously they can reconnect instantly back into game except that they have lost any match attempted.

The game also matches unfairly to rig outcomes, like for example if you have just started this game and go into a match, you will be immediately grouped against far superior players as well as bots guaranteeing your purchase, because this game is littered with addons, abilities, and cards that must be purchased, because the in-game gold equivalent is not productive to compete. A match takes about 10 minutes to play, and if you are only get a ratio of a loss to a win, yet it take 3 matches to generate 10 gold, and a dungeon cost 3500, so saving that, would mean playing for how long, you do that math? A single packet of cards cost 100 gold and they give 5 cards the same that you already have, or who knows what you get, requiring you to play for hours before acquiring a single packet of cards.

The quests that give in-game gold are rigged. They are different for every individual, so its World class players, can get the max of a 100 gold quest offered to them daily, instantly buying brand new cards each day. While everybody else is stuck on the minimum of 40 gold per quest for days on end rigging that they won't ever achieve status.

The game is completely imbalanced, some of the 9 different classes are far superior to its others, having abilities that easily make the other classes redundant, and some cards have had little thought except to fill up the massive inventory of hundreds of different cards, preventing anybody else from ever fully collecting them all, while making it impossible to get any of the ones that are needed.

This game is so stupid it has separate packets of cards, and the different game modes of play give you different card packets. One card packet type doesn't grant all the in-game cards, and this affects your chance of getting the best type of cards which are only available after opening let's average about 20 packets of a particular card packet type to gain that legendary card, reset on opening a different packet, meaning never.

This game's classification is undefinable, it cannot be played as a board/card game which it seeks to replicate, so what is it in reality, when it doesn't even play on the cards it seeks to promote?

Answer; A complete and utter con. Avoid
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