Paid*

/spit on blizzard

Fuck Bliztard. Riot is actually a legit company

Has he said why he doesn't play Legends of Runeterra? I see he made a few videos when the game was new, but not since then. There's been a ton of new cards since then, so it seems like the perfect game for him to come up with crazy combos to play around with. That's why I play it, along with it being extremely FTP friendly.

@@Dustin_McNab he got hooked on TFT instead.

I found twitch because of his HS content, my first 20 channels who i followed were all HS players, Savj, Thijs, Toast, Dog, mira, Amaz, Firebat, etc. Damn i miss that era :(

\thats super wholesome tbh, after I left HS I did not watch him at all anymore

@@Tokent555 same!

@@Tokent555 Bro I am gonna cry :/ HS was such a big part of my life.

I watched him since his card interactions era, stopped watching him when he jumped to TFT, got back into him when he went to Among Us, and I still watch his variety content to this day. Proud of his success and pivoting his channel towards his personality instead of just sticking to 1 game

Blizzard's action was a blessing in disguise(😎) though. I'm pretty sure it was around that time Toast began to branch out, playing/doing other stuff than HS, which laid the groundwork for him becoming this big. As for _collective stupidity,_ doubt it. The way I see it, it was more his fans, not anything Toast did. Toast was/is brilliant. No, not talking about his HS skill, but his general approach to stuffs. This made his fans act obnoxious, putting Toast on a pedestal (ex: decks he didn't made were called Toast's deck because he played it a lot). Not the first nor the last these kind of thing will happen so (Kpop, Justin Bieber, etc. comes to mind).

@@andrewyp6724 I agree with you, but Blizzard's treatment of Toast 100% had a huge impact on him playing HS. I forget where it is but I remember him talking to Scarra about how shitty events were for HS players and how he was constantly left out of events by Blizzard for an extended period of time, while Riot would do the opposite.

@@143Oshawott yeah, I remember how they invited streamers to do promotion for their games for free (testing HS new expansion) in another part of the country lol. While other company will at least pay for travels and accomodation. Blizzard still have this conception that people will pay to promote their game, not the opposite.

@@blushingralseiuwu2222 Yeah not only that they would want feedback about balancing without pay which is super absurd. It makes me so sad honestly because I loved Hearthstone and Overwatch so much but it was just backed by a shitty company.

I liked how he really understood a lot of the mechanics in the game. he even put them to the test. his showcasing was a double edged sword. he showed other players cheap win combos some with no counter. this plagued the game with some cancerous decks as well as upsetting players who used and went up against them. I remember a few he played that looked really fun, but rarely ever worked. I can imagine some people may end up not liking him for promoting a losing deck. the bugs also contributed to the cancer, but showed the devs they need better balancing and/or coding. devs respond differently to people abusing their games. some think it is interesting and take it as a learning opportunity and others take it as an insult and instead of fixing the bug they just regulate the use. I think this is common in the speed running community, but it's often on games that are unable to be updated.

@@savingprivateroelgames2524 Dude. If you have a hard time seeing other people as human, just go away. It's more a statement about you than anything else.

@@savingprivateroelgames2524 people like you are why i miss the dislike button. You're a sad sad person

@@tienming6174 There is a dislike button. I disliked it for you :)

@@savingprivateroelgames2524 Wtf? Are you a child or something? That was one of the saddest, most pathetic things I've read in a while...

Yeah one of the biggest reason why theres a lotta players, him and amaz

no one save him when he drown in Hearthstone so he left that's it

Hearthstone History Buff*

Firebat was the only reason I still watched hearthstone tbh

Firebat got a real education/job. He gonna be fine.

There is one somebody else done about firebat that's super extensive and explains after he was relegated he coasted on streaming for a while but was burnt out and wanted to try a normal job and education

He got a girlfriend, the end

imagine not calling it the Hearthchives.

yeah. the good old days where Savjz, Strifecro, Kolento, Ostkaka, Toast and many other were there. Ekop.. i cant remember all but the first tournament... kripp and artosis... and then the tournament in the studio where a team of 3v3 would battle each other... frodan was the host..

@@nateg.6187 yeah absolutely true, im so sorry forsen :(

@@Kameo-jq3qo I need kolento back... He was my fav guy on the internet. Why did he left is there a confirmed announcement or stuff?

@@nateg.6187 Reyand was my OG Hearthstone streamer

New player here! Really loved hearthstone but mostly just the battlegrounds for now bcs the classic and mercenaries mode are hella P2W (also classic game cards list got shifted into wild every year?! All those whaling can't be used for standard?! How y'all could stay)

Toast got me into the game back when KOTFT came out with his Icecrown Citadel interactions and I feel like I had almost the same outlook on the game as him overtime. I left around the midlife of Witchwood and came back recently and man everything is so different (and not in a good way). The creators are all gone due to being mistreated in one way or another. The players are WAY more toxic then they were back then and the game overall feels extremely soulless. Not to mention the sexual harassment scandals that plague Blizzard and their refusal to do anything about it alongside with silencing Hong Kong protest on any of their forums was disgusting to watch.

For introducing you to a shity greedy game?

@@lilpp4791 Why are you even here?

@@GeniusLad32 why not?

@@lilpp4791 here a new for you to learn. -Opinion: a judgement about something that doesn’t really based on facts. Thanks me later, now you won’t get beat up in public.

@@dis222 that is not an opinion tho it is a fact that hearthstone is a greedy p2w game

what about hysteria?

Guess that big ego got him more success

@@YNguyenTran If people like that, good for him.

I was thinking the same!

it's funny because Blizzard does the same to Asmongold, their biggest wow streamer. why do they actively decide fuck with their biggest streamers for their games

@@KumoGoesFast Probably funny because someone is not looking at the full story and is judging just by appaerances? 🤔

@@Willowisp927 i have no idea what this means

Wasn't rope coach a poker player after leaving hs?

I would say that he would do better as documentary channel than hs content creator, not saying he's bad but the game is not enjoyable to watch for me

Same

He literally never thanks people who sub to him

People know trolls are things, they're not stupid, dude. But if so many people just don't respect what you're doing and if that's not counteracted with enough positivity, then it gets exhausting and kills motivation to create. Why bother when you know thousands of people will just try to tear you down?

@@bevvvy1374 It's complicated. I am lumping all internet community conflict into "troll". So I apologize for my loose use of the term. I come from a very old school internet roots (1991 usenet groups). And from that I kinda look at anyone pushing normal communication into drama as a troll. We had the internet poster drama thing back then, before we even had a specific label for it. So please replace my use of the word "troll" with "people pushing internet drama". People pushing drama on the internet are just "a thing". Haters. Sometimes it's a major part of entire cultures on the internet. The hate is about the haters themselves, and really has nothing to do with the people or groups they target. And the haters are only targeting people and things because hate always targets. It always hunts for a target. And when it's done with a target, it will move on to someone or something else. Just as it targeted someone else before the current target. But none of the hate is really ever genuine, it's just a bloodlust ego feeding frenzy or a political tool. The sport of the weekend warrior jackals, power mongers, and foot soldier. During whatever era version of the reign of terror they can flock to and call their own. Helping people understand what that is, what it means, and when and why it happens. That would really help a lot of people. A lot of social interaction is a show. Manufactured to present something. And often the things driving that show are based in cultural baggage, borrowed ideas, chemicals pumping in bodies, etc. And the show is facade. Layers of fake. Like commerce in art, it's hard to separate the show from genuine in communities.

Kripp actually made a comment on reddit about this. Basically, it came down to aggro tools getting progressively stronger and crowding out wacky decks, leading to a less fun experience overall. Here's the link to reddit post - www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/p7vqxl/to_be_honest_now_i_understand_kripp/

i can sum it up in 5 words. "boring meta and stream snipers".

@@cadlyn Except that always existed and will in all competitives games.

Posted one on firebat, amaz is tomorrow