Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft

Hearthstone may well be a case study in the most malicious exploitation of a player base yet designed. While having, possibly the best mechanics and game play of any card game, Hearthstone is being continuously distorted by design to force players to spend more money on their collection. There is a continuous process of forced obsolescence. Standing decks are steadily undermined and replaced by BETTER new cards. Players really ony rent their hyper-expensive card collection, as all they have will 'rotate into wild' after two years. Either you reinvest the $450 it takes to stay viable every year, or you can give up. Giving up, of course is the wise choice, but the investment fallacy binds players, and they keep wandering back to the cages to buy more casino chips. Blizzard employs a team of slaves on youtube to try and keep the hype alive. But even addicts have a limit. The accumulated distortions of rigging the balance for 5 years means that the addicted whales being bled to keep the game going have STRONG card collections. Any newcomer to the game in 2020 has ZERO chance of winning even one game EVER. Unless of course they pony up the $200 you need to get started. The strange thing, is how simply perfect this game would be if it wasn't being deliberately ruined to rip-people off. This game would be simply awesome if they didn't keep breaking it by design out of sheerest utter GREED.