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Ben Brode, I tried Fibonacci's deck [moan]
I must preface this post with the following statement: I'm not a great player. I play for fun. My highest rank is rank 4 that I achieved once on WotOG.
Ben, I tried the "ANTI META" Fibonacci's amazing deck that you named on the community address you did a couple of days ago. I just wanted to say how disappointed I am at you as head of this game to be so disconnected with the community and how your actual game is being played.
I just can't believe that your solution to the meta problem is to point a finger to a difficult and expensive deck that is heavily made to fight just aggro and that loses to everything else. Yes, I won a fair amount of my aggro match ups (when I got the correct cards and the opponent didn't) but it definitely wasn't fun. There was no strategy or fun to it. Just play my cards and pray. Literally your team not doing anything about this situation is killing my investment and my fun.
Oh and I should also mention that I lost every single one of my non aggro match ups. Reno? Out valued, Jade? too much flood to control, Dragon Priest? "secret agent coming through!" (Really who thought it was a good idea to print this piece of shit OP card? Great stats on top of amazing effect? Like are you guys even trying?)
I'm just very disappointing at the state of this game as it is. And you and your team's lack of effective resolution to problems.
Also think about your player base not about the people who are not even playing your game yet.
Iksar
In terms of reddit, it's just personal discretion. A small amount of it is after I pick up latest code and my servers are building at work, but 95% of it is just on personal time at home.
Unsolved meta? It's sort of a hard question to answer, it depends on what you consider unsolved. Players are still exchanging 1-2 cards in the most popular MSG decks, so by some definition the meta is not solved. If your definition is after 3 months there are still decks or a bunch of decks 10-15 cards different than anything anyone had seen, then it's quite a bit less likely that will happen.
Iksar
In regards to your question, the design of STB and Patches is a good thing if Pirate decks are fun for a reasonable amount of the playerbase but don't feel so powerful that you feel like you have to play them to be successful. We've stated a number of times we're not happy with the population of pirate decks currently, and Brode started a thread on this forum stating when a change would be made if the population of those decks holds up. As for participating in meaningful conversations, I think there is a lot of content out there but sometimes it disappears into the depths of reddit/ourforums. If you're interested I would encourage you to check out our post histories and maybe you'll find a bunch of topics that are relevant to your interests.
Iksar
For context on this, Matt works a couple desks away from me and is awesome. He's here 40 hours a week and was lead for Mean Streets initial design :).