Arena is horrible (and unethical)

Hello everyone - and especially Blizzard. I know this is maybe a common topic, I don’t usually follow the forums, but I just came here to express my unhappiness and my disgust to a degree (pretty high at this point), about the current state of Arenas.
I’ve been playing Arenas since 2014, it’s true, not very actively in the past years, but I came back to HS to have some little fun, and I’ve been surprised about the new format. I said that I should give it a shot. And oh boy, the more I play it, the more I realize how unplayable it is for a normal player.

  1. The price has doubled. I know the rewards are greater but…
  2. You can’t even get your money back most of the time, because…
  3. The arena cards and comps are so overpowered, that it’s chaos all of the time. There’s no predictability to other player’s moves, there’s always randomness and overpowered decks, so that you can’t really go on a streak, because every one or two opponents you encounter, they will have such broken cards that it’s an almost a guaranteed loss
    All I’m trying to say is that it’s almost OBVIOUS, that Blizz made such an arena system to milk more money from the players. And It’s true. Double the arena price, make all decks broken (higher chance to lose before you can get your money back), and in long term, the loyal arena players will have to buy the pass with real money because the gold loss in almost guaranteed. It’s a brilliant money making plan
    I know there’s Underground Arena - but the rewards are small
    I know you can make money from other sources but it’s damn slow

I don’t play anything but Arenas and BG’s, so I don’t really know if this is the state of Hearthstone now - random, overpowered and leaving players with a huge dissatisfaction.

I want this to be my little complain and I hope there’s other people that are feeling the same.
Have a lovely day everyone!

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Yep friend. i feel the same. im arena player too i feel you. actually everyone feel the same way but i guess blizzard seems doesnt care like before. my advice you can grind gold with quests yep its so boring i know. but i dont think there is a other way. idk. or you can buy runestones but obviously its so expensive and not worth at all. :confused:

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i feel the same…blizzard scam arena system …true

At this point, this whole game is designed to extract money from players and do little to no maintenaince… Even the RNG is not random.

This game behaves like slots. Every game is pre-set.
If a player does not makes stupid mistakes the outcome is set.

New players don’t stand a chance and are never able to catch up.
This is pay to play and pay to win.

Sad.

I remember times when Arena was 100 gold, and 3 losts to out. Old good times :slight_smile:

300 gold sounds a lot especially when You casual player who play time to time for fun not hard trying.

They could at least leave 3 losts and 12 wins,
on normal Arena, with smaller wins and 2 lives
You will get strong players straight away from game 1 since threshold is smaller.

Before Arena changes I hit 4-5 wins and I was okay with that, now I cant even hit 1 or 2 wins lol ^^