So, I had been playing Hearthstone since Naxxramas and stopped shortly after the Rastakhan expansion because it had gotten kind of boring and I couldn't keep up without paying.
Switched to MTGA but am taking a breather from that too during this Kaldheim thingy (because vikings are dumb) and decided to check out what was going on in Blizzard land.
My impression is that the devs didn't learn a thing. I thought MTG had a rough year with Ikoria and Eldraine but the power creep seems insane. There's still combo decks that waste half of the play time with stupidly slow animations. They are still using random card generation whenever they run out of ideas. Did they really spent more than a year basically on autopilot or am I missing something?
TL,DR: Did Blizzard fix any of the frequent complaints about HS?
nothing changed, it's still kinda expensive to get into, card generation and mana cheats haven't gone away. there's a new class and new game mode (battlegrounds) but it wasn't enough for me to stick around
legends of runeterra though, now that's a sexy, well polished game with good balance, but less fun whackiness than hearthstone. since you mentioned mtg it might be something you're interested in
Yeah I was a fan of Runeterra's mechanics and the gauntlet mode from what I played on release. Was just waiting for more cards to come out since I like to brew janky stuff and the card pool was kind of small for that. Might get back into it.
there's been a few expansions since, in fact one just dropped a week ago or so. also they just added a 2v2 mode which is neat, and a lot more single player content that's kinda similar to the dungeon runs from hs