Rant

[Drakkon]

I officially don't give a shit about rating in this game anymore. I love how when I win a game, I earn 0~1 rating per win. If I'm really lucky. I'll get 2. But when I lose... I lose like 3-4 per loss. Wtf. It's not even to people lower than me.

Oh and another thing. Fix the god damn shuffle/random algorithm you use. I'm so sick of opening 2-3 cards of different cards every time I load/alter a deck. I can't even QM to test properly because I alter the deck to try and improve it. Queue in QM again, and suddenly my hand is like ... IGG, IGG, IGG, Stop Thief!, Stop Thief, Aeon. This is so common and stupid. Such a turn off to the game.

I wanna be mad about more, but I'm just going to stop now.

Oh yeah! Wait, your rating decay system is so fast it's stupid. I didn't play for 5 days, and lost 20ish rating. Why is your rating decay system decay faster than game that use an ELO system? Seriously. Games where a win gives you 15+ pts doesn't even decay this fast. Some of my wins give me 0 freaking rating in this game.

[iClipse]

Calm down mate. Also, the shuffle bug is really a myth. You remember the times where you have bad draw, but you don't remember the games where you didn't have a strange random hand.

Also: 6 different cards =/= random. Random is REALLY random, meaning that if you DIDN'T get these shitty hands, it wouldn't be random.

[Raphael Majere]

i even had shuffle bug in physical card game: 3 IGG in opening hand.

[iClipse]

i even had shuffle bug in physical card game: 3 IGG in opening hand.

Shit just got real.

[Warr Byrd]

Assuming there was such a thing as the shuffle bug (which I don't believe there is), there would be no real reason to complain (assuming we had a proper rating system or you don't care). A theoretical shuffle bug would hit everyone with the same frequency, so for every time you lost because of it, you would win because your opponent got hit with it.

[Demnchi]

Personally, I feel a new rating system would help a lot as this one seems to not let people feel any progress in skill level at all. It seems like it works just fine for matching players together, but giving them a sense of progression it seems to fall short.

As for the "shuffle bug." There may not be a bug, but I do sometimes feel like I have to do an AI match once I save my decks because the first shuffle is usually really clumped together. Rather this is a bug or not, it does seem to happen more often than I believe it should. Of course, its only the first hand, so its not that big a deal. Like I said, a simpe AI match seems to solve the issue (you don't even have to finish it).

[Helio]

Wouldnt the shuffle bug be easy to prove? Load deck, screen shot of opening hand, do it for 10 heroes and let's see if all 10 had said "clumps".

[Drakkon]

It's not even a bug. I'm pretty sure it's just a bad algorithm.

[Pandevmonium]

It's 2 years that people ask for a different rating system, is it difficult to change a couple of formulas to implement a new one? Seriously, they're 2-3 lines of code... But we're stuck with this TrueSkill instead, that awards luck more than skill and brings boredom more than excitement.

[akratch]

Rating should just equal win %...