Originally Posted by
Bovinity Divinity
I dunno, the lack of trading does make it feel like there's a huge barrier to entry in Hearthstone. Either in terms of time or finance.
When I first started playing MtG, people who had been playing longer shared their collections with me, threw piles of commons/uncommons/cheap rares my way that I could use or trade, or they let me borrow more expensive cards and just generally made the whole "starting off" process feel a lot smoother. Likewise, I did the same for other new players.
With Hearthstone you start off and...well, you get just the basic class sets and a little trash to go with them. And instead of playing other people who also have trash sets like you would when playing live in MtG, you're usually thrown in with people who already have copied the latest Trump deck or something.
And to make matters worse, even if you do buy packs there's a very small chance of getting a truly "rare" card. (Yeah, they call blues "rare" in Hearthstone but they're more analogous to "uncommons" in MtG)
It just "feels" crappy starting off. I'm not saying it's "Pay-to-win" or anything, but everytime I go to log in and look at my shitty collection, limited deck choices, and painfully slow or expensive options for progression, I just log back off. :O