Thursday, September 24, 2015

Hearthstone: Gaara's rant on balance and world championship Subreddit thread

https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/3m35cw/gaaras_rant_on_balance_and_world_championship/

Interesting read over at the Hearthstone subreddit about game balance and tournament formats. I think the most important take away is about the balancing of the game. I think for a most card games like Magic: The Gathering or Yu-Gi-Oh, if a particular deck was dominating for a while, there will usually be some bans or card limit given to key cards of the deck. (Edit: For Hearthstone, cards will get nerfed) In the case of Hearthstone, it probably takes too long to happen and in the case of dominating Patron Warrior, no action has been taken so far...