I'm Back Playing Hearthstone and EVERYTHING Changed 

The thing is, some of his complaints are intentionally designed. Like having to click rewards encourages players to go into shops, where they can spend money. The 900 shops is based on gacha design to encourage more purchases. It’s meant to be confusing so people can feel good when they find a “deal” with the different currencies/shops and give money to blizzard. It works.

No, it was ridiculous. A grown up man complaining and whining for too long about not finding his way through a kid's game.

@@Reign274 the good old inverse hanlon's razor

Us regular players tend to forget how absolutely *horrible* it is

That "team" is one intern working on five separate projects.

Typical obnoxious content creator

​@@gonzluisd Typical clueless commentator

@@gonzluisd yea someone being likable is obnoxious. sure

How does one stop being a veteran, besides paradoxical time travel?

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I think it's 8700 wins not games.

​@@kruteliktm1249it is

Its actually insane based on last played date - I booted the game up to unlock the new WoW Hearthsteed reskin (its free, im not gonna say no) and figured i may as well check out some new cards, but unfortunately last time I played for myself was way back around release, so Hearthstone threw me tutorials for every. single. screen. It was a barrage of ~10-15 mins of nonstop tutorial (not even reading, just skipping them all), so my brain just switched off and I went from ''lets play a couple rounds' to 'lets play something else' inside about 30 seconds. That 10-15 mins was not even me trying to figure out how to play the game - it was purely trying to figure out how to quit legitimately through all the forced tutorial popups. In hindsight I should have alt+f4'd The barrier to entry is incredibly high, to the point id be very surprised if anyone actually starts this for the first time any more, and i'm sure day9 was deeply regretting his choice for at least parts of this stream.

matches_played = 550 # Number of matches played by the player if matches_played > 500: print("Welcome back!") else: print("Showing tutorial screen...") Blizzard instead did: ...

Genuinely made me lol, it is so much more complicated than it used to be. I've gotten used to it but it was hilarious to see Day9 caught in a menu-based labyrinth.

Shitty UX really boils my piss, since I put so much thought into it in my work

I mean ... they were game designers not UI experts .. but yeah it was and still is horrible. Compare that for example to Legends of runeterra. While not easy as well it is MUCH simpler then that shit.

This is what happens when your UI folks have been staring at the same thing for 10 years. They lose that, "show the new person how" sense

It makes it seem in hindsight that the Hearthstone team of old had a point when they were extremely cautious about making any changes to the interface. (Anyone remember the "more then nine deck slots" discussion?)

I picked a BAD time to take a swig of water just before this moment. Almost choked, holy shit

Weewooweewoo ambulance

day9 has always been hilarious

It's also great as someone who quit Hearthstone around the same time he did. I'm just sharing in his confusion lmao

As someone who has been following Hearthstone, realizing just how messed up all of the menus are has been hilarious.

I had not watched d9 in a long time, this was really random suggest. I was trying to wind down to sleep so figured at least if it was boring I would be sleeping... Now I am wide awake laughin my ass off.

It really is just a wall of noise (both sound and visual) and arcane iconography that presumably means something to the theoretical person who never stopped playing, but may as well be hieroglyphics to me. (TBH, that's insulting to hieroglyphics, they occasionally make a kind of intuitive sense)

what was up with the order though, i dont even play this game and doing the aoe before trading everything was obviously better

rip the paladin aoe card :(

is he gonna continue playing?

@@mohammadhoseinabbasi9993throughout the month? Probably again yeah. In perpetuity? If he wants. He streams what he likes.

​@@mohammadhoseinabbasi9993 by description I assume its a week only

He died turn 5 in his 2nd game so unlikely, if I was just returning and that happened to me on decks the game told you was good I wouldn't come back 😂

@@mohammadhoseinabbasi9993 nah it s blizzard month only. He d going for all blizzard games

"What in the legitimate fuck did you just make me do?"

I almost pissed myself laughing! This video really made me realize how much grace Blizzard has been given for probably one of the worst UI/UX experiences in modern gaming 🤣

Reminds me of when Rarran tried Yugioh the first time lmao

Lol, that was me! 🤣🤣🤣. I didn't think I would actually be able to get him to click it, but he saw my message at the right time. Sorry... 😏

@@guitaraffa thank you for your service

they shot themselves in the foot by calling "standard" "standard", otherwise it would be the natural name there, with the same implication as them using "hearthstone" now

Tbf battlegrounds isn't hearthstone, it's trash. Otherwise I agree though.

you are just so real

Chat screaming "NOO STRIMMER NOOOOO" while Day9 cackles with glee is peak content.

Its alot but when you get into it its still fun in my opinion

I tried to play it again too (on Asian servers) and gave up after a few hours of not getting matched against a real human player a single time. I started playing magic the gathering arena for the first time instead and got matched with real opponents in seconds even during the tutorial. The polish and UX isn’t as good as hearthstone but I’m having more fun with it.

⁠​⁠@@ilikeshibayea that happens on every server if you come back after a long time for an entire season or until you hit legend. I suggest you play battlegrounds or arena until next season to face real opponents. Arena is insanely hard and overtuned now though, could take you 30 runs before you hit 12 wins

I had a similar experience. I then tried MTGA for the first time, because if Day[9] enjoys it I could at least give it a shot. And Honestly, the New Player experience is very nice. You get a lot of cards and it eases you into the game. I'm actually enjoying myself. Suffice it to say, give it shot.

just read the cards lol

They're still saying "too many keywords" lol

Huh. Maybe I'll see if battlegrounds still lights a spark

yeah, me too, and it only seems to be getting worse with time

Yeah, I tend to agree- the CA lawsuit showed that there are abusive scumbags at all levels of Blizzard's corporate hierarchy, and that toxic culture doesn't simply vanish just because ol' Bobby has been shown the door. That company is rotted to the core.

@@CF565spoilers, all companies are. There’s no ethical consumption.

@@bobbrossify I mean, while I tend to share your sentiments generally, devs like Supergiant and other indies have shown you can make great games while embodying positive company culture. But yeah, as far as corporate Triple-A goes, it seems they pretty much all are some flavor of bad.

@@CF565 Well yeah it's harder for those things to fester and happen when your "company" is just a handful of people. It's not even the games industry with this issue, literally EVERY company has similar issues lol. It's just what happens when there's more and more people and more levels of positions of power. Happens at AAA gaming companies, happens at schools, happens at hospitals, happens at lawyer firms, etc etc. People suck. I have a friend who works at a city hall and one of their coworkers was complaining about HR being a thing because they "have to try really hard to not flirt with his coworkers".

Well hey at least sean’s gettin’ paid.