If you stop playing Hearthstone (the game at the heart of this controversy), you stop paying for new expansions. Even if you're free to play, you deny them a pl

If you stop playing Hearthstone (the game at the heart of this controversy), you stop paying for new expansions. Even if you're free to play, you deny them a player for matchmaking (every game is a live match between two people). If enough people quit, the game will die.