My comment... :(

Why is the thumbnail on this one worse?

Askterisk I think it’s 750 games, not 75.

I'm going to be cycling through thumbnails as the day goes on. It's a fairly common strategy on KZfaq. The idea is that if a subscriber sees this video with one thumbnail that doesn't interest them they may not click it, but another thumbnail may be better at catching their attention.

Jay I hate to point this out but there's still a mistake in the video. I looked it up and there are actually more than three people that play Hearthstone. I couldn't find any exact figures but I estimate it's at least a dozen.

Game Informer said it best in their April issue a few years back, on a "column" on a fake Square Enix mobile game called "Chocobowling". IIRC, it "was" a game that was free to download, and you got the first ball free, but each subsequent ball was $99.99 USD Blizzard has officially become that.

macrotransaction

For those who don’t understand that’s almost $90 us

Shred Gordon and $121 can

@@pigl4t1 $136 Australian

Not gonna let you get past 815 likes with no comments.

I’m a Yeti. I’m not gonna let you get one like without a reply

@Luan Leonardo how come u lied?! I'm truly saddened by having to see this ;_(

@@vixshire3672 im not gonna let you get 5 likes with out you getting a reply

I love refrigerators....

no one has 90$

That's like 2 months of work in my country

Bruh yeah people are so broke I'll earn that in like 10 weeks

That name is perfect for THIS comment

"You think you don't but you do." -Jay Allen Brack in a parallel universe where he runs Hearthstone

"mirco"

Rofl, you poor people suck

@@georgepanayotov5288 please be ironic sarcastic, please be sarcastic, please be sarcastic, please be sarcastic.

@@Naokarma actually no, I'm sick of people making excuses in general. In this case "oh, I dont suck at the game, its p2w, that's why they beat me, I'm entitled to free stuff". Compared to other mobile games HS is one of the cheapest. SWGOH for instance requires approx. 600 euros/m to stay relevant to the meta, and the content is behind actual paywall, not currency that you can grind out. So let's keep it civil and constructive here, ok. My viewpoint is based on IRL interactions with peers and employees. The - search for excuse and rant, not fir solution attitude is attributed to those who are lazy, docile... underachievers. That attitude translate to income and tends to drag them down. So yeah - poor people suck. See, if you dont have the money - dont buy it, you are not entitled to it. Simple as that. I want a Lambo for a weekend or two in a Q to drive around. I cant afford the extra sportscar. Do I make a video how greedy Lamborgini are and how I'm entitled to their product? Same here. If you cant trow 10 euro for a game you sink Lyons of hours in to enjoy - find a way to make the money. The guy who made the video found it - making hate videos for suckers like you to enjoy, same as Kripp. And you tools eat it, ask for more , spend at their streams. See - poor people suck

@@georgepanayotov5288 while making excuses does get old, pay to win is absolute bullshit and if you genuinely think pay to win is a good system then I can't imagine how. I'm perfectly fine with microtransactions but not with ones that are effectively necessary to win in a game (or at the very least, very powerful).

King Edward "Longshanks" I, Hammer of the Scots, Lord of Wales and King of England what the hell is your name

Blizzard used to have the kind of reputation CDPR has now. An upstanding company whose games are of guaranteed quality, loved by gamers. Things have _changed_ .

Why do I see you everywhere I go?????

@@GusBried jis seka tave kaip prakeiksmas.

@@onatkalkan4907 I'm dying.

Yeah! Why didn't he just comment that he made a mistake?

@@altaccount3124 This reaches more people. And frankly hearing *that* makes an impact

Knavenformed honestly yeah I mean there were few changes from what I noticed but that one was definitely the most shocking personally

@@altaccount3124 He did, so he corrected it into a video.

@@CyrusLagom oh. Okay...

no didn't you see Alex Klontzas's post? It's not Blizzard, it's the playerbase. You are a part of the problem, do better.

@@torturapesnorrarape Ah blizz manager here 😆😆

Don't give em any ideas. "Unlock Roadhog's hook for $5" 😂

@@MrTsar-ui8eh $80 to unlock the forward button

Overwatch is still unbalanced, it just isn't a disguised gambling game

tbf, Overwatch is total dogshit. But at least you dont get locked out of half of the champion pool if you dont buy some arbitrary overwatch pass

This aged well lol

_The DOTA Card Game_

I honestly don't give a crap about any new Valve release from here on out, unless it's Portal 3

@nigge r well it takes place in the same universe as half life so maybe there can be some time travel shenanigans

It's Autochess but with Hearthstone cards instead of DotA heroes.

Reforged?

Sounds like World of Warcr...oh wait.

@@wdf70 I think he's specifically referring to the dumpster fire that was Warcraft 3 reforged.

Sounds a lot like EA and Activi....Oh wait.

Cant wait to unlock new heroes in Overwatch 2 with lootboxes.

like a Destiny "expansion"

Wdym please explain

@@In1tiateWasTaken You can no longer get the 4 hero option for gold at all now. It's micro transaction only.

Imagine thinking Hearthstone is dead

@Dottoman Imagine being a business needing to profit

@@defectivesickle5643 Imagine being a multimillion dollar company thinking that copying Mr. Krab's one step= one dollar move is a good idea.

@@defectivesickle5643 Imagine supporting a company that censors it's own player base because their sugar daddy Winnie the Pooh told them to.

@@defectivesickle5643 imagine liking your own comment.

I love that line

Know what and since what?

that wasnt malicious though that was a man trying to please a crowd when given no means to do so look into his eyes

@@TheMasterMakarov Exactly this. I never understood the hate that statement has garnered. There are _so_ many things to hate about the things Blizzard does business-wise, but making what will supposedly be a AAA title accessible to as many people as possible (because, yes, we *do* all have phones) isn't one of them, especially since it was stated to neither replace or affect the development of D4.

@@Rocksteady72a I think the anger came from the way he said it, the way that line is phrased and a belief that this replaces Diablo 4 development

I'm old enough to have played Blizzards very first games and I can tell you...they were _never_ the "gold standard" in _anything._

Adam M I would honestly give it a go anyways, I still really love the mode and think it's great. It really is a bummer that they couldn't just keep it the way it was pre-expansion. I think the game is enough pay to win without the battlegrounds being that too.

Spooky Potato I don’t want to play a game where I’m treated like a heroine addict

Hero yeah that's fair, i guess I should have added that of course, don't play the game if it or the company behind it doesn't align with your own morals. we as consumers have a choice and that's really important.

I mean... It doesn't really change much. You just pick from 2 instead of 4 and can't emote, it's annoying but the game-play hasn't really changed

@@andrewsnyder9301 You and Spooky are why games are shit now-days.

Play their old stuff only.

MadOrange644 Oh right. Let‘s play Warcraft 3 Custom Games! Oh wait-

@@dakorius Play the OG, pirate it if you have to.

Of course they hate me I bought Overwatch in G2A

Overwatch too. Game has been so consistently unbalanced that I think the mongols think what they do is unnecessary

pale rider have you seen echo? Holy Christ she’s so broken and literally the whole community agrees

WoW store is ridulous. It costs like 40 bucks to change your race or change factions on top of the 15 monthly. What's sucks about blizzard is they have a very talented and dedicated team. They update or fix bugs moments after people tell them. The stores however, ridiculous

@@berkschnoz478 that's fair

Havent seen it in Starcraft yet, so i hope it doesnt spread there.

They went from the best game developers to THE worst. Yes, EA has pay to win shit and bad games but then Blizzard scams players and gives them bans for no reason. And then this video happened.

And then a Year Later happened

@@Murr248 and then the allegations + Overwatch 2 happened

the video was still new enough for a good 10% being "First" comments

a million silent shitpost disappearing in an instant

The original upload is still there

It was a massacre

They killed them, and not just the comments, but the memes and the shitposts too!

people buying games because they're good seems to be a foreign concept nowadays. Like even trying to make a game actually good seems almost taboo, it's just "standard" to push out a broken game that leaches as much from the players. But then again, who can justify the cost of even rudimentary testing when players will gladly buy and even pre-order stuff anyway,even if they had been burned by the last installments and know they're not going to actually like this one either

@Michal Blaszczak That's up for debate actually. I like it too but I've heard some people take issue with the fact that they have nearly £200 of separate content in some of their games in story packs and expansions. Now people always phrase it "Paradox makes me pay £200 for a complete game" to which I would reply (admittedly anecdotal, do with it what you will) "I had the base game of Stellaris on console in 1.7 for quite a while and the game never felt incomplete to me, whenever I read up on the content of the expansions it always felt like an Expansion, not just pieces of a game" and even after playing them I still stand by that. The updates provide the framework for the DLCs and Expansions but the Expansions provide new ways to play the game.

@Michal Blaszczak I'll just start off by saying that it's not very constructive to say "This is fine because others do it worse", game devs should be trying to do the best they can, not be just be slightly better than the bottom of the barrel. Again, I'm with you on this, I like the Paradox model, but that doesn't mean that there's absolutely no merit to the other side of the argument. And just because the content takes 5 years to come out just hammers in the point some people are making, games are released "incomplete" (Like I said, I personally wouldn't use that word for Stellaris but the concept definitely applies to other games and developers) and are slowly fixed and completed through paid content rather than everything being free updates (again, Stellaris does both, the updates are completely free and add a boat load of new stuff as well as making room for Expansions which I would say do in fact expand on the game.)

thank you

When stuff like this gets added way after launch, they're actually preying on people with spending addictions. Because they know that with the social nature of these games, it's easier to just add another 80 bucks to your already 4-digit credit card debt, than to find a new game that doesn't have this kind of predatory monetization (yet) and convince all your friends to migrate to it, leaving all the time and money you've invested in your Hearthstone deck behind and starting over from scratch.

yes they are for rich people, yes yes...then tell me...How much money I need?Rich enough to wipe my ass with money?Or I need to have more money?

It's not so much that they make the game for rich people. They also make the games to target people with poor impulse control or addictive personalities too. Games developers don't really care whether you can afford to spend the money, so long as you do in fact spend it. If that's your rent money you're spending, that's fine.

You get how that doesn't make it okay though, right?

No, no. They need lots of normal people for the rich people to win against with their super-boosted money decks. Without regular scrubs they'd have to play against each other and then they might lose and stop shoveling money into the Blizzard maw.

Then WoW came out.

i think activision knows that blizzard is dying slowly. they are just trying to ge the most money out of it until they shut down the servers...

If he had watched Lord of Rings he would understand this.

He was paying in weight, that's how expensive the game is

@@TOONYBOY *american weight

Well Just Harry, I'm pretty sure we're both known for being overweight

@@TOONYBOY Neither Britain nor the United States are even in the top 10 fattest countries, according to the WHO.

I'm surprised you survived all the old expansions and over powered cards

@@BlindBison yeah. They really really really dont want you to use the old cards. To be honest I was playing bug druid and someone dropped a chillwind yeti on me turn 4 and I think I lost cuz my deck was all ramp cards and I lost to 1 yeti

@@BlindBison agreed. I enjoy every expansion but I classic Hearthstone was the best

@@BlindBison I haven't been following HearthStone since witchwood and honestly just the sheer raw power of the Hero cards were so stupid compared with other gimmick hero power cards we had. Frost Lich Jaina could literally win games on her own since you basically only needed removal because you can create freezing healing elementals. Bloodreaver Gul'Dan laughs at puny Jaraxxus that only have 15 health. You had to play powerful cards to stand a chance, I remember my old priest dragon deck that actually played dragons being much more weak when compared to Drakonid Operative and other discover cards that are better to have in your deck than the 6~8+ mana dragons from blackrock mountain and classic. Add this type of powercreep with the nerfs to old classic cards or just throwing them into Hall of Fame because of broken combinations that new cards allowed and I had enough of the game, everytime I tried to make a Warrior deck and saw the Fiery War Axe I couldn't handle it and didn't make the deck anymore. I seriously don't think I'll ever get to play the game again, I saw a bit of battlegrounds in videos and streams and thought of it kinda fun but knowing that you have to pay in order to have all options and it only lasts 4 months... Yeah I'm not getting near it. It's really sad really since HS was such a fun and joy before for me

You only have to pay if you suck

*sits in the Starcraft 2 corner wishing they actually give a shit about multi-player*

tfw you play ow for the lore

@@everyrest4723 tbf I dont think I can blame anyone for being interested in the lore with those cinematics they put out. Seemed like a missed opportunity to not lean into that more since thats what drew a lot of people to the game.

it is kind of disappointing that years after the release, the game still feels like beta version for some actual game with some semblance of story.

EbonMaster people falling for bait like that aint people, OW lore was always just a displayed stuff you cant even call content outside the game. Drags in stupid folk with some money. Blizz is uber-crap nowadays, as nuch as its fanbase :/

I guarantee once we find out how to extract souls we will

You already do every time you give money to a company that sucks up to the PRC to the point of censoring their own players.

You can buy a pack for 100 coins, which you can 120-150 every 3 days with quests. It's honestly kinda cheap

@@andrewsnyder9301 Except that, you know, paying real money for the packs requires no effort and no time? You can defend Blizzard all you want by saying "You can still get it with coins!", but look at the Tavern Pass. You can either spent 25 days focusing exclusively on Hearthstone and winning every single match, even more days if you can't play enough hearthstone, or you can pay 20€. Which one of these seems easier?

@@Ze_eT ofc it's easier to pay money... Are you dense?

On the other hand, when it came to physical cards the cards retain value. You could still sell your cards if you no longer wanted them and still get back most of your investment. Digital cards, on the other hand, are no where near as easy to market.

@@zoramarslink5788 the value you get back from cards in mtg are negligible. Having physical cards means almost nothing in comparison in terms of value, what does mean something is that you can trade cards with other players which you currently cannot do in online tcgs

​@@tinyninja4 The physical cards do actually have value. If I wanted I could find a buyer and get at least 50% of my money back, which is by no means negligible.

@@zoramarslink5788 Considering the vast majority of cards are worth next to nothing, the money back is negligible. You could not get even close to 50% of your money back for the same value that you bought the packs at.

@@tinyninja4 Cheap 5 cent cards aren't a big deal if I don't get money back for them. It's also pretty inexpensive to get your hands on those cards even. I am talking more about buying individual cards and not buying the packs. That being said you can actually get cards that pay for your packs if you are lucky enough.

Nah, that absolves Blizzard of any wrongdoing. It's not just big bad Activision and little innocent Blizzard. Blizzard knows what they're doing, they knew it since when they first merged with Vivendi.

To be fair there is no "Old Blizzard" now. Every key figure from the past left the company, it's now under complete control of Activision and their shareholders.

@@loganreed9340 Chris Metzen and J Allen Brack are both still there, though I'm less convinced it still has good people and more convinced that they were a bit rotten to begin with...

@@TheReaverOfDarkness chris metzen left years ago, I think before or at the start of Legion

@@Angkarpadevat Oh I didn't know. Yeah, I just checked Wikipedia, he left in 2016. Way too late if you ask me, and the reasons don't sound like he had anything against his company.

Well they got away with it, because they were actually the good guys until sold to Activision, then they resisted corruption for quite some time aaand now they are gone.

They get away with it because there was a time where they were a good company. In a few years they will share EA’s reputation when all of that is forgotten.

Blizz was another victim of third party "publishers", of whom "partner" with developers in order to engage in hostile takeovers so they can own the acclaim and prestige that studio earned for their own profit. Blizz already had a greedy CEO, so it is that it got bad quick.

Id say they arent as bad as EA or Game Freak yet, but theyre getting there. They dont constantly buy out and shut down companies like EA, and they dont literally release the exact same game 8 times at full price like game freak.

@@putridmoldyman306 With GameFreak you mean stuff like red/blue or remakes, like red/fire red/let's go? Because with former I agree it's a shitty marketing tactic, but for latter people actually ask for (well, maybe not for let's go games). And don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to defend GameFreak, they are going downhill for years and the road they're on is steeper each year. Also, I'm a little surprised you didn't mentioned Bethesda with their "let's realase buggy as hell games so players will have to fix it themselves" policy. Not to mention the ammount of negative PR that Fallout 76 action has granted them. I'm wondering if all that could lead to breath of fresh air in gaming industry once the giants will fall (if they will indeed fall). Especially that I've heard the world is kinda going into financial problems for few years, which means less people will be able to buy AAA titles from those companies (or feed Blizzard and other games that are pay to win/to play), which in turn could lead to indie and free to play (with cosmetics) games take the lead in the industry (especially because it's not like they are upopular right now). Who knows, maybe we're nearing the golden age of gaming?

Rockstar is scummy yes but at least those games have phenomenal stories and you don’t need to pay £60 for a year of the pass to not get bumbaclapped off a bridge. You can have fun just mucking around in GTA and RDR2. And in GTA there is lots of free content you can play.

Granted, you've got to critique the guys behind the game, Blizzard in general or devs to be specific, as they're basically calling the shots on what the players are suffering or not.

The Blitzchung thing was awful and Blizzard does deserve the hate for it, but it's also necessary to point out how the games themselves are shit

I get what you're saying, but it's interesting that Blizzard sacrificed their dev team from quite a few of their other IPs for this game. Instead of trying to fix/bolster their less popular titles (SC2, HotS, D3) they go all hands on deck w/ the mobile titles. And then they cannibalize their own fanbase with these crap promotions.

A game that have donation since beta test?

This video focused on a lot of shit that happened recently, the current plans for Year of The Phoenix actually look really good.

Mmhm I'm sure they look just great. But blizzard burned all their goodwill years ago, and some fucking tablescraps won't make anyone that isn't a blind fanboy or shill look at them twice.

No? Artifact charges you for every tournament and for entry and for cards. That is a very cold take. It is not a very good game hopefully the reboot makes it better.

Play MTG Arena instead, better game, less pay to win

Most games still are, if not even more good than games from the past.

Oh you mean right now? Stop fucking over-exaturating problems. Sure, some games have a lot of micro-transactions, but name 3 modern games that aren't playable. And by the way, what is considered "fun" and "good" is completely subjective, and I don't trust you when determining the quality of a game, since you're so obviously blinded by nostalgia.

@Ajani-Lamar I agree that there are as many good games today as were back in the day. However for giving you three games that are not playable (at least not in a fun sense) I just ask you to look at the steam store page, sort by release date, and take a look at whatever 30 or so games you find first. There is a lot of garbage in there. If we are talking about AA or AAA titles then I would need a concrete date from which I could start considering them "modern" to name 3.

I see what you’re going for, and I kinda agree with your sentiment, but no, there are plenty of playable, fun, and good games being released nowadays. Not necessarily by Activision Blizzard, but there are plenty out there.

@@SangerZonvolt I didn't want you to actually name 3 games, I know there's plenty of garbage. I just mean that people often get sucked into the "things were better back then" and disregard the good things about modern time.

Damn right comrade! Also recognize the Tiananmen Square Massacre

holy shit ur a walking western propaganda machine

@@katrinamiller1125 It isn't propoganda if it really happened

Katrina Miller oof and a walking Chinese bot mixes in the group

Yea yea yea all that zzz

I started in S1 and have played on and off like you, but i definitely noticed more and more as time passed that in order to climb you definitely needed a meta deck, not just random cards thrown together. Even people at the lowest ranks had 'proper' decks. I cannot imagine the time requirement for a F2P player getting to that stage, not to mention forgoing cards behind a paywall.

hopefully riot games won't fall like this with legends of runeterra. that would suck

Oh don’t worry, Magic’s gettin’ there. They do want that sweet sweet hearthstone money, after all. 👌

When I go to a yugioh store on the day a expansion releases, most players get like the 70 bucks boxes that have 50 packs on them to only keep maybe 10 percent of the cards and litteraly throw the 90 percent away cuz they're worth pennies. So yeah they would totally buy pre orders

@@magicmanscott40k I've never understood the people that do that. I only ever buy singles to build decks in paper.

@@JM-rc9xm me either. When I buy singles for a deck, I spend around 20 bucks. I wouldn't even know what to do with 50 packs

I mean.. We all seen the Artifact disaster, Valve isnt the best either.

@@strider8662 Yeah but that was years ago

if only another Blizzard existed

@@nzd_tv Not anymore :(

What happened?

@@expendableindigo9639 He calculated the amount of wins based on 250 gold, not 2500 gold, which is why he screams the parts when he talks about how many wins you need. Also he added the fact that you can only get 100 coins per day.

blizzard hates you even more

@@nocturnaliism they also hate their own staff

@@TheLankieMidget ikr

And imagine looking at a 10 minute, over exaggerated for comedic purpose video instead of spenting 10 minutes on the wiki.

@@dicemm5544 ah yes, the wiki. That's we're i learned about CBT

@@dicemm5544 Imagine defending Blizzard without facts and logic. The facts aren't overexaggerated. You do need way too many wins for a normal human to get to get the taverns pass. The Tavern Pass does give you a disadvantage. How about you stop looking at something with bias?