I found Hearthstone quite fun for the first month or two, but I quickly figured out that itâs an expensive pay-to-win game and then quit. The expansion packs typically cost âŹ40, which is way too much.
I also donât really enjoy the meta game of deck-building. The arena mode where you get a random deck is more appealing to me (because it doesnât favor players who spend âŹâŹâŹâŹ buying all cards), but at least back when I still played, that arena mode cost gold.
I was full-on with PĂłkemon cards when I was young. But the interest came alongside the Gameboy games and the Anime show. But after Season 2 it didnât really keep my attention.
And I never really saw Yu-Gi-Oh! gain any traction where I lived. The Anime show was on TV, but it didnât really seem to manifest into a kids craze like PĂłkemon.
And I think with both PĂłkemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! (and the old WoW TCG), theyâre all very strong physical card games. And they rely heavily on the fact that youâre willing to travel to play with others, or that you live in a place where people play it.
I think what sets Hearthstone apart is that itâs entirely digital, and in that sense itâs quite different. Itâs much easier for me to question why people havenât just installed Hearthstone and given it a quick spin â because you totally can do that!
With PĂłkemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! you kind of need an upfront investment and a bunch of people to play with before you can even think about getting started. But Iâm sure theyâre great CCGs â they definitely have an audience. 
Yeah, I heard of a guy at work who spent a few hundred Euros on the game before even the 1st expansion pack came out. I guess one can say âitâs his money, who cares?â, but this gameâs very close to gambling, and thatâs an extremely scummy business.
I tried playing.
Found out very quickly itâs a grindy game or I need to pay for cards.
Uninstalled.
I donât like when game baits me to play it more than I want. Hard pass.
I usually find that if I keep up with my daily quests (clear them every 3 days) I end up with ~6000 gold before a new expansion is released. Thatâs enough to buy 60 packs of cards, which is more than the 45 packs you get for your âŹ40. And thatâs typically enough to get all the cards I want for a particular class, so I can toy around with some different builds.
So from a somewhat casual free-to-play perspective I think itâs fine. Though at the same time, Blizzard are definitely tempting with the store and the prices are arguably high if youâre not no-life committing to the game.
I find that if I win ~3 games, then the rewards are good enough to cover the entry fee, so it basically pays for itself. But of course, if you only win a single game every run, then it quickly becomes a gold costly affair. 
i play wow , diablo , starcraft , HOS , OW but herthstone is a booring card game i have no clue how to play even âŚ
I still play Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokemon trading card games today. It exist a digital Pokemon game online there you can even write codes from real packs to add to your digital deck as well.
As for Yugi, i play it on Nintendo Switch. latest game of course its awesome, including all cards from beginning to even new card pack that was released recently.
You can play both those games online. However i am only one in family that actually buy new Pokemon TCG boosters. 
My brother and his wife play it a lot with real cards at their home. 
Auto-chess?
I donât know what that is, but Battle-chess is fun; Iâm sure someoneâs made an emulation or port of that. Do you mean itâs like Runescape, where you can auto-battle your character whilst on the loo? Heh.
Iâm glad youâre enjoying HS: thanks for sharing the videos - you are right, it looks funny and fun. Itâs 100% a me problem (card games bad, REEEEE!)
Because its p2w
I would if I could play it from ingame.
Like a duel function.
But nooooo
Plays way too slow compared to some other card games.
Never cared for card games, never will.
Battle Chess on a floppy disc was how I learned chess. There was some simple childish joy in seeing the King literally shoot another piece. 
Auto Chess, or Auto Battler as itâs also called, is just a new sub-genre of strategy games. And one which Hearthstone has adopted. Best analogy is probably Heroes of Might & Magic, if you set your army up manually but afterward let the AI play the fight out. Thatâs sort of how it is. Building an army and setting it up.
Oh that would be sweet! 
WoW did have that period in the past where Peggle and Bejeweled could be played in-game. 
@Jito
Battlechess animations and sounds. Happy boomer noises.
Hmm, combining the games would make sense; as long as it was like the store and barely viewable in the game, I would think it was a cool option for people. I would like to swap wow and DiabloIII characters too one day, but isometric:(
. Maybe they should make a Blizzard Gmod.
Because Hearthstone is not WoW ? Simple as that.
I know. 
I was more alluding to the fact that both WoW and Hearthstone are Warcraft, and if the shared universe didnât perhaps appeal in the slightest â despite the games being different?
I used to play it. Stuck around for a few Expansions and Adventures here and there.
I then dived out of it after it came abundandly clear that the only way I would have any hopes of competing against what could be called as âUnrelenting Decksâ, is if I spend all my life savings in order to try and get all the good cards that will help me create an equally unrelenting deck.
It was fun when the game had a smaller pool of cards and didnât have so many cards. But now in order to get anywhere youâll eother have to suffer a lot, or spend money to get the cards that will provide some modicum of fun.
Not to mention there are bosses in the Adventure that are actively designed in such a way that youâll NEED a cheese deck at some point here or other. Where is the fun in that?
i tried thrice. but in fact i suck in game cardsâŚ
Other than their genre, they are totally the same, so yeah, why arenât players into Heartstone?
Why do I like vanilla ice cream more than I do chocolate ice cream?
Because, to me, vanilla ice cream taste better.
With these types of questions I donât think youâre going to get a more in-depth answer.
People like/play what they like, I donât know what else to tell ya.
Surface answers are fine. It was mostly just Sunday afternoon curiosity. Iâm not looking to write a PhD thesis on the basis of it.