By the time I quit HS at the beginning of this year, the “cheap” aggro decks generally cost about as much as old miracle rogue and nearly all the non-aggro top meta lists were at least in the same ballpark as a deck formerly considered so expensive it was nicknamed wallet warrior.
The game has definitely gotten dramatically more expensive for anyone looking to branch outside the aggro archetype. What turned me off enough to finally quit were the yearly tweaks to monetization that kept being sold as a good thing but were obviously just further efforts at obfuscating the cost of playing.
- played since beta, sunk a couple grand into ranked standard, maintained legend or dad legend (rank 5) every month for years. Idk if I’m a whale, but the predatory practices finally reached a head