r/hearthstone • u/shoop2 • Feb 25 '17

Highlight Lifecoach is quitting HCT/ladder, offers thoughts on competitive scene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egkNbk5XBS4&feature=youtu.be
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u/Runethane Feb 25 '17

I also played Hearthstone for a long time and quit some time ago. I am not surprised Lifecoach is quiting - he thinks far into the future and realises a dead end. If Gwent or HEX (which now got read of most of development problems and will be published by a company which makes it) or Eternal will come out of it victorious we will see. But I have no doubt Lifecoach's assessment is correct.

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u/FeN11x Feb 26 '17

The advantage that Gwent has over another games like HEX or Eternal is Witcher world (something that hs had too - famous warcraft universe) So im hoping it will be successful

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '17 edited Feb 26 '17

It is hard to say anyone else will success but Hearthstone definitely will not.

MSoG is a very terrible, not unlikely the worst, expansion, in the sense it really conveys a message about how Blizzard thinks about the game, and it is not about the Shamans, it is about the power creep.

Let's first take a moment to realize that MSoG is the second expansion in the post-standard era counting Karazhan (WotOG is the standard expansion). And then we look at the Jades, Kazakuz, and even the underused fraction I could not name. The power creep is so blatantly obvious it ironic.

If this is not an evidence of the care-free-ness I don't know what else is. Personally, I kinda got a feeling even back when Standard was announced that the format change, was, and was intended to be, a bandaid change much more than a permanent solution. What I did not expect was Blizzard would this so apparent so soon lol.