A list of all the times WOTC ruined Arena
The sky is falling again. We have a big change in how free packs are earned and now the game is basically garbage. I felt it would be a good time to revisit all the other changes to the game which 100% made Arena unplayable.
* WOTC lowered the CE prizes from ICR's to gold making it literally impossible to collect any cards for free * WOTC adjusted the CE prizes while also lowering the entrance price making grinding completely useless * WOTC took a couple months to implement the 5th card solution which meant all the free stuff they gave us at first was worthless * The 5th card solution took away all the usefulness of the vault for drafters showing that WOTC hates F2P drafters * Premium cards are so expensive that it is not possible to fully pimp a deck as a F2P player, showing that WOTC only cares about whales * The first war of the spark story event required everyone to play 5000 hours of momir, the worst possible format in magic, in order to get the free stuff we are entitled to * Sometimes sealed is not available which ruins the scientifically proved draft -> sealed -> profit F2P method * Mathematically it will take 100,000 games to reach Mythic assuming all the math shown on the sub is perfect. * Draft bots always grab rare lands, making it physically impossible to rare draft whole sets * Sometimes draft bots are not immediately perfect at drafting completely ruining the experience. * You can only get the benefits of one prerelease per set meaning that the other five preleases I went to were just wastes of my time. * The shuffler is statistically broken and does not always randomly shuffle the deck into perfect distributed spell, spell, land the way my physical decks do after mana-weaving * Draft pairs us based on rank so I cannot go infinite as a F2P player by grinding the noobs into the dust * Pick One [Carnage tyrant, teferi, thought erasure, kaya's wrath, goblin chainwhirler, wizards retort, experimental frenzy, Nexus of fate, wilderness reclamation, Nissa, other teferi, narset] is a completely broken card that completely breaks how magic is played * The free stuff WOTC gives does not come fast enough
These are most of the reasons that Arena is complete garbage and unplayable and I am definitely going to leave and play something else, the same way I left after each of these things happened. WOTC has literally ruined my life.