March 3, 2023, that is, yesterday, Blizzard game Hearthstone updated to version 25.4.3, this patch did not open any new content, but a series of balance adjustments to the game, everyone is familiar with NetEase executive, the former Blizzard Game National Service main leader Zhang Dong released Weibo for the first time after the version update, which attracted the attention of many Blizzard gamers.
Zhang Dong said on Weibo: "At least you can still be a high-class person when playing Korean games..." seems to imply that national server players are not valued by Blizzard. The national server has been out of service for a month, why a balance adjustment would let Zhang Dong say such words, this starts with the balance adjustment content of this patch.
Players who have played Hearthstone know that Hearthstone battle mode is divided into two modes: standard and wild, the standard mode will disable the old expansion cards from 2 years ago with the opening of new expansions, and the big matches are mainly based on the standard mode, while the wild mode is an unlimited smash bros., both new and old cards can be used at will. Hearthstone launches a large number of new cards every year, and it is inevitable that there will be a "chemical reaction" between individual new cards and old cards from many years ago, and then "one trick is eaten all over the sky" to fight the invincible hand of Wild Mode, so Wild Mode has been Hearthstone's "trash can" for many years, and the designer has also said that "there will be no too many balance adjustments to Wild Mode" such self-defeating words.
However, as Zhang Dong forwarded Hearthstone on Weibo, the patch balance adjustment is completely aimed at the wild mode, which completely goes against Blizzard's previous consistent style, and the reason behind it is that a large number of Chinese players poured into the foreign server to disrupt the wild mode game environment of the foreign server. Wild mode has always been a niche gameplay in the outer server, and the card sets are mostly entertainment card sets that are not divided into the above; Wild mode in the national server standard mode can be half separated from the popularity of the standard mode, and some small versions of the popularity can even surpass the standard mode, and the number of players will naturally appear a large number of strength card sets divided into objectives.
These strength decks are filled with a large number of self-contained decks called "Gate X" and "Ghost X", which have little interactivity and a very high win rate, so losing to the self-contained group can be very frustrating for players. Of course, players who use these autistic decks are not wrong, playing the game to win is righteous, and the wrong thing is to turn a deaf ear to Blizzard with poor game balance!
Over the years, there have been a large number of calls in the domestic Hearthstone player community to weaken these wild autism decks, but Blizzard has never paid attention to them, but the national server has just stopped serving Blizzard for a month to weaken these decks at the speed of light, and the reason behind it is self-evident - Chinese players went to the foreign server wild mode on the strength, the foreign server players were beaten and ran to the forum to post complaints, Blizzard saw that it naturally changed. It is worth mentioning that Blizzard did not change it this time, and the editor saw last night that a national server anchor swept the wild top 100 with a new construction opening method, it seems that Blizzard still needs to learn from national server players...