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[TruthTeller]

I must agree the term is in itself somewhat misleading.

"Pay to win" is used to describe a situation in a game, where players can gain (non-cosmetical) advantage over other players by paying real life money.

League of Legends is pay-to-win for most of its playerbase.

You are probably one of those guys, who say, that Hearthstone is pay to win. By that logic Dota2 is also pay to win, since you can buy cosmetic sets and as everyone knows "cool decals make the car go faster".


OnTopic: That changelog was definitely longer, than expected. I hope we get to see the new store soon

Paying in hearthstone most certainly affects the win ratio for a large amount of the population in ranked and casual modes. If you can pay to increase your win ratio, then it very much sounds like you can pay to win. Of course, in the highest competitive setting (a minority of the playerbase), they got access to all options so paying even more won't help them win.

That said, League of Legends is my favourite game currently and I am very much okay with that for a large part of the playerbase, you can increase your win-ratio by paying.

[Dallane]

Once you're up that high a half-dozen 50 stat guys probably can't bring you down unless you stand there and take hits for no reason. That's why they put in the timers and the gluttony foods lessening-over-use and if they take them out, it'll happen again.

Again you show your ignorance.

Doubt it. 500+ with no clothes is probably 2 hitting them with a sword if he avoids the stomps and even then he's killing all 6 probably.

When i get a character 500+ i'll let you have him (I know how hard it is for you to get above 20) and show you how to get worked with someone half the humor.

[DarkNacht]

Boulders with 100 Lime are ***** Awesome, legacy lime boulders FTW. I wish I had a whole pile of them.

[Darwoth]

This game has never seen a 500 stat character get killed

[Inotdead]

Paying in hearthstone most certainly affects the win ratio for a large amount of the population in ranked and casual modes. If you can pay to increase your win ratio, then it very much sounds like you can pay to win. Of course, in the highest competitive setting (a minority of the playerbase), they got access to all options so paying even more won't help them win.

That said, League of Legends is my favourite game currently and I am very much okay with that for a large part of the playerbase, you can increase your win-ratio by paying.

Aright, I see your point, but I still don't think I agree. Imagine if LoL had better champions or runes / HS had better cards, both only available for real world currency - that would be pay to win to me.
Also this difference between "free" players and "customer" players you describe gets negligible as you progress and is only significant for completely new players.

[Rifmaster]

Seriously devs? I mean great update and all, but wasn't it time to introduce some use for the meatsmoker, like i don't know... SMOKING MEAT?!
And im especially happy on the crickets being weaker now, since i can finally resupply my claim with some cricket money!

[DarkNacht]

Seriously devs? I mean great update and all, but wasn't it time to introduce some use for the meatsmoker, like i don't know... SMOKING MEAT?!
And im especially happy on the crickets being weaker now, since i can finally resupply my claim with some cricket money!

Really, thats the half implemented idea that you think they need to focus on?

[Procne]

And im especially happy on the crickets being weaker now, since i can finally resupply my claim with some cricket money!

Did you miss the part of the update about crickets giving less silver?

[Rifmaster]

Well i doubt they need to "focus" on it, just make it a thing in the next update maybe.

[Kaios]

So what? This just shows that Chief was roleplaying all along before; he can actually separate his working persona from an ingame persona.

Or is he roleplaying now?

It's a nice update but I kind of expected more witchy stuff.