A plea to Blizzard and some of it's community

Hello everyone. 

For today I've decided to prepare a boring old "speech" aimed to address a few of my "fears". I have created the exact same topic on the official US HS forums, HERE. However from the looks of it and to my own dismay (even though it is pretty much something to be expected, most people don't really "care" so to speak; they only voice their own problems when and if it starts to squeeze them by the balls), it is not attracting too much interest nor is it generating discussions.

As some of you may have noticed by now (since I've been seeing some people from Germany, the US, Serbia and other coming back to read/view my ramblings on a daily basis ), I am a casual HS player, I often watch streams and vids from "popular" streamers, I've been a Blizzard costumers for years now (started with Warcraft 2) and I currently write on this noob blog called The Darkshire (a small town in Duskwood back in the good ol' days :p) Hearthstone Club.

What I am about to address is not meant to offend (even tho experience tells me that is never entirely possible). It is simply something I dread and something that should be brought up and discussed since it focuses something we do as a hobby, something we invest time in and as such, it should be of interest to us all.

Reading through some of the topics and posts, after today's patch and after viewing Kripp's new vid, I simply felt the need to lay out my thoughts in regard to where I feel the game might be headed (as well as through the lens of past experiences and examples). I believe there is a very important issue that needs to be voiced and discussed. Personally I find it to be a crucial part of any game that is looking for fun and variety. Even more so, a game that uses a class system.

That "thing" basically revolves around the idea of changing stuff around enough to make every class basically feel the same. Stripping a class of it's specific mechanics, what made it be unique, what made it different and fun to play. This is not about the recent nerfs really, it's just something I believe has happened to other games I loved and I'd hate to see it happen here too.

In this respect, I would ask you all to be moderate and thoughtful with what you wish for. At the same time, I sincerely hope Blizzard won't take the easy way out, and will in fact try to tone classes down around themselves, taking the time to think it through in order to avoid ending up with the same mechanics on every class, only with different names (just like...some other game I know and used to play :p).

In any case, this is something I believe concerns us all and lastly this is what I personally think.

P.S. For the sake of clarity, I will underline (there we go :D) the fact that this has nothing to do with a particular nerf (I hate nerfs no matter what since I believe they create a never ending circle of hate and further nerfs)! It is merely directed at game balance in the detriment of making a certain tactic, mechanic, setup, deck, class and so on, feel just the same as others (e.g. damage, heal, taunt, full stop).

And here's Force on the same issue:

Blizzard! Y U no more listen to children! Y U learn PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE! Check my 1st post on this blog for an extended story about this. I've been saying this for years, in WoW, in D3 and now here. Please wake up!

Link to forum thread: http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/forum/topic/10973847345#1

Thank you for reading. Have a beautiful time!