Did not expect this when I clicked on the title, haha.
Was just talking with someone about how hard it can be sometimes to attribute lack of success to poor personal performance. In lots of other competitive games (OW, SC2, CS) it's pretty easy to tell when you face an opponent who is performing outside your skill level. Also when I queue up Widowmaker and I miss every shot that is pretty clear feedback I could be playing better. In Hearthstone you approach every turn and make the decision you think is best for that situation. It's a lot more difficult to look back on a lost game and attribute that to a bunch of things you aren't sure if you could have done any better (if you were sure you would have just done them to begin with). Sometimes you play a deck like Freeze Mage, Miracle, or Patron where you might regularly press the end turn button and think maybe there was something you could have done better. That's an interesting moment that might inspire you to play that deck more, but if every deck was like that I think Hearthstone would be a little less fun and a lot more mentally taxing. Finding a balance there in terms of decks we are trying to push is a good goal.
Iksar
Did not expect this when I clicked on the title, haha.
Was just talking with someone about how hard it can be sometimes to attribute lack of success to poor personal performance. In lots of other competitive games (OW, SC2, CS) it's pretty easy to tell when you face an opponent who is performing outside your skill level. Also when I queue up Widowmaker and I miss every shot that is pretty clear feedback I could be playing better. In Hearthstone you approach every turn and make the decision you think is best for that situation. It's a lot more difficult to look back on a lost game and attribute that to a bunch of things you aren't sure if you could have done any better (if you were sure you would have just done them to begin with). Sometimes you play a deck like Freeze Mage, Miracle, or Patron where you might regularly press the end turn button and think maybe there was something you could have done better. That's an interesting moment that might inspire you to play that deck more, but if every deck was like that I think Hearthstone would be a little less fun and a lot more mentally taxing. Finding a balance there in terms of decks we are trying to push is a good goal.