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An open letter to Ben Brode

Hi Ben!

First off, you're the man. I appreciate your passion for hearthstone and your positive jovial…ness. You’ve helped create a game that I love.

But the OP’ness of Druid has begun to ruin my Hearthstone experience. Both in the game and in this subreddit.

A little over two weeks ago you said this:

"I come to reddit every day. I love reading about and discussing Hearthstone, the development process, and how we can make things better together. I don't want our communities to have a "players vs developers" vibe. I want to work with players to make the game we all love to play even better. Feedback is critical, but when it's delivered in a way that pits us against each other as factions, it is damaging. Let's work together!”

It’s my hope that you’re reading this, then, and have seen what a cluster hearthstone reddit has become. A quick perusal of the hearthstone reddit frontpage will quickly show the growing bitterness toward Druid.

I do appreciate Dean Ayala commenting about the status of Druid. We know you’re watching that state of the game. We know you care.

But it’s been a week. For us hearthstone plebs that is a longtime. We play hearthstone every day. We get demolished by Druid every day. We lose to a ramped UI several times a day. We have several 1/5’s with taunt for 5 mana summoned against us… you guessed it, several times a day.

Will you please break radio silence to tell us something like: “We would still like 2 more weeks to gather data.” Or “We’re getting closer, thanks for hanging in there.”

Will people still complain? Probably. Will it make a handful of us feel better? Absolutely.

Let’s work together!

Sincerely, me

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