Hearthstone

I newer played this game. Hopefully you find some members that’s playing it too.

Cheers,
SDK1987

I do! I don't really have any premium decks, because I don't have the cards or the time to grind them, but add me to friends here and we can PM each other's handles and play some casuel Hearthstone by the fire.

This game becomes more and more popular. Blizzard did great job

I prefer magic duels, more complex and interesting for me, plus it has a better free2play model imo!

tried it, best game i have ever played very well written

When you log in to the game after more than a year (not doing so), you will get to play with pre-made decks of which you get to keep one permanently after a week.
(I did this last year, and might do it again this year)

Only problem is that I might not enjoy the game anymore and come to that same conclusion over and over.
It's mostly nostagia that this keeps me returning to this game.

Thing is, I like strategy games, and Heartstone used to be that for the most part. But it became less of a strategy game and more of the having big cards that spew random spells and summons and than you win the game type of game, where skill became less and less of a factor. Which is A LOT less enjoyable to play for me personally.

Anyways, I'll let you know, I will probably wait till March to install it again though.

So, I installed Hearthstone again a few days back.

After 90 days not logging in you get six "loaner decks" and after 7 days you can choose which one you want to keep, or even choose immediatly.

So I chose a deck and got all the cards of this loaner deck permantently, which is nice.

Played some ranked games and managed to get into the Silver Tier (which is actually not that hard when you consider that you can't lose rank when losing games in the Bronze Tier, where you start off)

But man, this game is quite broken I can tell you. I really liked the early years of this game, because it was really strategy heavy. But nowadays there are such insane combo's and overpowered cards, that is has nothing to do with strategy anymore. Like a card named "The Scourge" which says : Fill the board with random undead, for 9 mana. Once you play this the board gets filled with random undead creatures and the chance is hight that more than 50% of those cards are really overpowered.

This card symbolizes for me what Hearthstone is as a gaming experience now: Finish your opponent within 9 turns, because after that time the bit of strategy that still played a role in the first turns is over and there are cards in the game that quickly put an end to it without any effort being made for the rest.

Oh well, this fits in with the picture of today's society: a lot of fuss, everything has to be fast and everything is gambling...

Not for me anymore, but then again I can be called an old fart with my 40+ age...