Sometimes there are little spikes, if you have an upswing, but if you take upswings out, the edge probably halves, which is tremendous in terms of any kind of measurement.Īre there particular cards or mechanics which you think have exacerbated the problem recently? Nowadays you have at max maybe 62 or 63%. In terms of game-winning percentage, a world class player had a 70% chance to win against a legend-quality player a year or so ago. So there are not many places to make mistakes, and the edge vanishes.ĭid this feeling creep up on you? Why choose to quit playing competitively now? You have no resources on the board whatsoever, you have only a few Mana to interact with, and also not a big combination of cards to pick from. Games are very short, so there are very few opportunities to even display skill, because the first few turns are the most simple.
The world's best player can probably have a 5% edge over a good player per game, at the moment, which is ridiculously low. And while I'm not saying that Hearthstone is at 1% at the moment, is way too low. So I think there's no disagreement in that if you have a game, and the best players of the world can only play at 1% better than an average player, then it's a pure gamble and it really has nothing to do with competitiveness at all. It's not necessarily a problem itself, but it seems to me that the development goes absolutely against the pro scene.Īnd at the moment, talking about competitive Hearthstone, the question is always when can you call a game competitive? If you can achieve a 1% edge, then it's kind of coin-flipping. I've talked about it before, with the nerfs to things like Molten Giant, Blade Flurry, and Warsong Commander-they tend to nerf very skill-heavy decks that reward high skill caps, and on the other hand try to make the game easier to understand and more accessible for the broad masses. Blizzard has been made aware of those problems in various different posts, but it just seems that the company is not interested in changing things in favor for the competitive scene. Over that time, things were not exactly perfect in the game from a competitive view. Not an exact moment, but continuously over the last one and a half years. Was there an exact moment when that decision crystallized? I would love to play competitive Hearthstone, that's not the issue. It's not that I'm finished with competitive Hearthstone, it's that I think there is no more real competitive Hearthstone, and that's why I'm finished. Adrian "Lifecoach" Koy: Yeah, more or less.
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