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Hearthstone recently introduced planned obsolescence to its system (i.e. certain cards become "obsolete" and you can no longer use them in ranked matches). I c
by ythl 11y ago
Hearthstone recently introduced planned obsolescence to its system (i.e. certain cards become "obsolete" and you can no longer use them in ranked matches).
I can see why they would want to do it, but it just makes me sad that good complete game experiences are going away in favor of infinitely evolving cash trains that will be forgotten as soon as their last server goes out of commission.
- acbabis 11y agoMost trading card games "cycle-out" content to drive sales. The business model works because the players want new content. I wouldn't liken Hearthstone — where people generally know how much they need to spend to get a competitive deck — with games that are socially engineered to reward sinking arbitrary amounts of time and money into them.
- lgieron 11y agoThat's what WotC did with Magic: the Gathering very early (just a couple years after it was introduced) - it allows the company to make so much more money that it's really a no-brainer business-wise.