Hello people,
I am writing this after finally finding a way to leave the game for good and I thought to share it for a variety of reasons, the main one being that of offering an option to whomever has been suffering from playing the game for the same reasons I did.
In order to be able to leave for good you have to understand well: (1) what is bothering you (2) why haven’t been able to leave for good after uninstalling a zillion times (and obviously reinstalling it later).
In my case what was bothering me was the RNG amount of the game (which I would have reduced to near zero, if I was the game designer). And what didn’t allow me to leave it was not much my addiction to it but rather that I need something to procrastinate here and then and hearthstone was fitting that requirement in its own way.
To leave the game for good I had to understand those two facts better than I had previously.
Regarding RNG, it doesn’t really matter if the game is doctored or not. I just do not like strategic decisions being obliterated by sheer bad luck either induced or genuinely created by the randomizer. I got upset many many times playing the game and that is unusual - considering other aspects of my life (if it was usual, I would have looked for some anger management counsellor!). I do not like a reminder that life is all about luck… that is not the game for me.
Once I realised that I do need something to get distracted or simply rest my mind I looked for other games and I experienced one of those shooter/mission kind. I am not mentioning the game because I am doing marketing. It is important though, to understand what type of game it is. I cannot actually find any RNG aspect into it, albeit there might be some minimal. I am pleased when I performed well in a “mission” and I am deluded when I fail but never ever upset. You can take failure as an important step in building your skill when you know that it depended on your own mistakes but what can you possibly do if failure depends on luck? And that is the key concept I had to understand to finally leave the game for good. If you feel like me about the game, just try to understand better the causes of your bad feelings and then go looking for something which doesn’t have that and it is still capable of capturing your attention in the way a game does.
I will be checking the forums to reply to this, if you want me to. In fact, the players are the only remaining interesting thing this game left to me.
Cheers
I don’t feel like you at all, but I also rarely, if ever, take the competitive aspect of the game seriously anymore. I’m happy enough to throw a deck together and see if my janky snowflake can pull out a few wins. With removal of win quests and the no duplicate change I get all teh cards I want and have fun for a little bit each day/other day at an extreme casual effort level.
Still I’m glad you’ve found something you seem to enjoy spending your time on. It’s definitely best to move on when you stop enjoying things you chose to do in your free time.
After playing demon hunter infested arena and loosing 1:3 I decided that it is time to end everything I have with HS!
It is same as a slot machines,no skills only luck no matter how good your deck is and how skillful as a player you are…it simply doesn’t matter in this game like in majority of others!
This game is NOT WORTH my time,my nerves and my money in the end (I didn’t spend too much money,but still,even one cent is too much for this “game”).
GOODBYE.
Dude, I absolutely understand your point. And your reasons are probably the same as mine. I am actually still holding on to see where the game moves after a few weeks of the new expansion. But Devs of this game has been doing everything in their power to push me away from this game…
Yeah i see it completely different. RNG is enjoyable, if you dont take the game to seriously. As a casual gamer, i dont mind getting unlucky at times, and oh man have i been beaten badly by RNG.
But sometimes I get extremely lucky aswell, and pull a win out of a pure random effect, or a RNG generated card at a later stage. It all adds to the experience.
What i dont want is a stale game, where you know every card your oppoent is going to play, and its a game of chicken, who throw out stuff first, and who gets hard countered first. Thats boring to me.
I do semi understand your post Op. Although I dont find hearthstone tilting me at all, even losing to bad RnG 5-10 games in a row. But the reason it doesnt bother me is because the games are fast, its easy to come and go.
But how you feel about this, I have felt before with League of Legends which ive quit, and rejoined multiple times over 10 years since release. The problem with league is you can perform really well, but if you’re stuck with dumpster team mates, AFKers, trollers, or against smurfs from super high ranks, the game is ruined. But the MOSt tilting thing about that, is its not like HS where that game lasted between 5 and 15 mins (usually) its between 20 mins and an hour and just GETING into a ranked game involves a 5 min queue, picking and banning characters. Its not like HS where you click play and find someone and go. Then When you lose 3 games in a row to pure trash team mates, but you’re MVP in all 3 games, thats 3 hours lost, at least 3 hours and 3 consistant wins just to get back where you was. Ive legit had 6 perma banned accounts on that game for flaming.
And i really am a very chill and mature person (33, good job, nice car, own house (2 technically as i live with my girlfriend who owns her own also)) But that game is DESIGNED to create hate i swear. Never has a game been more toxic to play, every game involves flaming and abuse. And I cant even blame when people do it, because it makes me feel the same.
But good on you for leaving an environment if its having negative affects on your life overall
Yeah, people tend to forget the times when RNG was in their favor.
That being said, I hate losing, so please, RNGsus, be on my side more often 