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Would you elaborate on what makes you feel the game is fresh ? Gem games constantly add new resources (=png+labels) to justify the subscription but the game mechanism and features remains the same. It’s like if to play the sims you have to buy every new single expansion pack every month.

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The engine and rules are the same, but the track is different. You change enough things you get a different game - you don’t change enough, and people get bored. I’d compare F1 to NASCAR. Building a new track isn’t cheap. The rules change every season making the cars require redesigns and try to use the available rules to eke out their own advantages. Part of the fun of hearthstone is its deck building, and if the available card pool never changes or updates in large ways, that aspect of the game dies.

Thanks for the explanation ! Not used to “deck” games so this was very informative.

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