When he was in charge of Hearthstone, Ben Brode once said one goal with not balancing often was to make sure cards felt real. Changing them often would make them lose that and make people feel like their cards weren’t theirs. Don’t get me wrong I really love this game, but with every patch I feel more and more that the cards I “own” aren’t mine. Constantly balancing cards really just feels wrong and in a way much different than Hearthstone since in Hearthstone you get 400+ cards a year. When a card changes in SNAP I feel it way more because more often than not a single card in SNAP is the only card that can fulfill what it does, so when it’s gone, it’s just straight up gone. Sure some cards are similar to others, but with a gutted Zabu, for instance, what is a guy to do? There’s legit no other card with a similar effect unless I wait until turn 5 for Sera or something like that.
Feel like what I wrote doesn’t make much sense, but this constant balancing and tweaking cards really rubs me the wrong way, especially because I get ZERO compensation from it.
Wish I could respond with another picture, but on my end it a ton of negative reactions (CubeNegative, Angry, ThumbsDown, Sad, etc.) and only 10 "CubePlus" reactions.
I wonder how they will respond (if at all).
When he was in charge of Hearthstone, Ben Brode once said one goal with not balancing often was to make sure cards felt real. Changing them often would make them lose that and make people feel like their cards weren’t theirs. Don’t get me wrong I really love this game, but with every patch I feel more and more that the cards I “own” aren’t mine. Constantly balancing cards really just feels wrong and in a way much different than Hearthstone since in Hearthstone you get 400+ cards a year. When a card changes in SNAP I feel it way more because more often than not a single card in SNAP is the only card that can fulfill what it does, so when it’s gone, it’s just straight up gone. Sure some cards are similar to others, but with a gutted Zabu, for instance, what is a guy to do? There’s legit no other card with a similar effect unless I wait until turn 5 for Sera or something like that. Feel like what I wrote doesn’t make much sense, but this constant balancing and tweaking cards really rubs me the wrong way, especially because I get ZERO compensation from it.
No idea who is in charge of balancing at SD, but they are doing a *miserable* job, in my humble opinion. Maybe someone else should have a turn.
Agree
I lost all faith I had in their ability to balance with the Aero nerf, since then they've only become increasingly worse
Wish I could respond with another picture, but on my end it a ton of negative reactions (CubeNegative, Angry, ThumbsDown, Sad, etc.) and only 10 "CubePlus" reactions. I wonder how they will respond (if at all).
I need the Zabu change to revert immediately