Feeling guilty for enjoying the game

Hi all,

I was curious to know with all the hate directed at Blizzard right now if anyone else is feeling guilty for continuing to enjoy the game?

I'm in a constant state of 'oh god this game is too expensive' and 'I wish I could play x deck but can't due to not owning the right cards' while also really enjoying the decks I can craft.

Is it just me who constantly has this moral dilemma? Should I be this stressed about a game? 

Rog

uhh what? the outrage isn't because the game is unfun. It's also based on worry of the future of the game. The reward track hasn't lasted a month, so it didn't affect our ability to craft/and open a lot of packs yet. But it will next year with the mini sets and the new expansion.

If the people being angry didn't enjoy the game they wouldn't care enough to get outraged in the first place. 

The game os great! Achievements are fun! Decisions of Blizzard management on monetization and lack of communication is the bad thing here.

Keep  on  enjoying  it,  then.  So  many  things  cause  stress  nowadays,  there's  no  reason  to  add  a  game  to  them.

Hearthstone  is  expensive,  true,  but  since  you  enjoy  the  decks  you  craft,  thumbs  up!

Cause you are guilty of continuing to support them, vote with your time (not your wallet), they treat you like a money bag!

If you enjoy the game you need to condemn what they are doing which will make the game fail long term (cause old players will finally quit, and new players won't come)

Edit: fixed my grammar

The game is fun, probably the only consensus you can get out of the community currently. If the monetization is shit, that's hardly news, we've pretty much been living in it for a good time now.

No doubt the community is justified in its outrage, but at present we can only hope that blizz sorts itself out so we can get on to discussing about the game rather than the bs surrounding it.

Game supposedly made to be fun. If you're having fun, go ahead and enjoy. I can't say that to everyone else who doesn't enjoy it in this state.

nope not at all,

I can never feel guilty when I'm enjoying myself, because I know soon I'm going to run into a string of Face Hunters and Soul DHs, and all of that enjoyment is gonna go right out the window. All that over the top garbage, the harassment and insulting of developers, the spamming, the obnoxious assholery - I'd hate to be associated with anyone like that. 

You sounds like the streamers that have come out and said they don't care that the battlepass gives no rewards because they pay real money for everything anyway.

And no you shouldn't feel bad for having fun with the new expansion. I am as well, Maxima Blastenheimer is a very fun card to play, when i shoot a Deathwing out of a cannon at my opponent on turn 6 and they concede after it is very fun, but the problem is i am getting nothing back for the time i am putting into the game. Think of the battlepass as the gold per 3 wins system we had before. Before you would get compensated if you didn't do that by doing quests, not the quests feed into the battlepass and the battlepass gives you rewards after you reach thresholds that constantly get higher and higher. reaching lvl 15 is easy but after that you'll be lucky to get a level a day. And that's with daily quests. And since leveling up is the only way you'll get gold that means the system forces you to grind hours every day instead of just doing the quests and leaving that people used to do. And that's even if you get gold and not a 40 dust pack from ashes out outland or the classic set.

HS is my main game and even I don´t like the new system, I still really like to play it. It´s sad that people are angry and quitting the game, tho I can´t blame them. But I still see the hard work and love designers and the developing team are putting into the game and it´s not their fault that some greedy managers or whoever they are put so high price tag on it.

I wouldn't feel guilty if i were you. Enjoy the game as much as you want! (I do as well!) Just have as much fun as you can! (Between the games against FACE hunter and Soul DH.) Heck I've been having FUN playing a PRIEST deck of all things lately! (Sure it's spell Yogg priest, but still it's PRIEST.) This meta, despite occasional FACE Hunter and Soul DHs has been the most fun one in a LONG time for me! 

The negativity is because a lot of people are worried about Hearthstones future because of the VERY greedy management, the game getting more an more expansive, and the BAD communication from blizzard. Personally HS is the only card game i play, and i'm skeptical about the situation. The pass and achievements feel decent to me right now, but i hope they will fix the problems with the pass. (They should give more EXP for playing the game, reduce the exp scaling a bit, and Roping shouldn't be rewarded I.M.O. I Hate those ODD Warrior Bots in wild that rope every turn.) 

Thanks to everyone who followed up here! I really enjoyed the variety of opinions. I REALLY hope the monetisation model is changed to appease the player base. It is a business but perhaps reviewing what the community is asking for might bring about some positive change!

Even though I don't like the reward system (don't have hard feelings against it either), I'm enjoining the game a lot. I started questing for achievements and duels gave me the perfect game mode for getting a lot done.

Definitely no reason to feel guilty about having fun. I'm still enjoying the game, despite my disappointment with the new system.