So the game is pay to win - otherwise some 16 year old would be at the top of the ranks with no money invested.
I heard a rumor the match making service is wholesale copied from StarCraft 2 - on that game if you win about 10 times in a row you’re facing world champions - the match making really wants you to play against players better than you.
If the gear didn’t help the top of the ladder would be packed full of crazy talented kids.
Sounds like excellent match-making. If you're winning 50% of the games you play that's perfect match-making.
In Hearthstone that you'd trounce new people while you move up the ranks after the monthly rank reset. It had to be demoralizing for the F2P Hearthstone users that are losing 10 games in a row.
I heard a rumor the match making service is wholesale copied from StarCraft 2 - on that game if you win about 10 times in a row you’re facing world champions - the match making really wants you to play against players better than you.
If the gear didn’t help the top of the ladder would be packed full of crazy talented kids.