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Remove the Streak Achievement From Randoms

The random battles were a fun challenge where I could play with decks that didn't fit any of the challenges of the Step-Up Battles. Now they've decided to start implementing "Win 5 times in a row" and "Win 10 times in a row". These are essentially impossible. I understand making the game blatantly cheat with the computer being able to flip heads 9 out of 10 times, or even change their deck mid-battle to suddenly include exactly the perfect card to save themselves when that card was completely absent from previous battles. I understand this. But you could eventually beat the most unfair Step-Up Battle by slugging away until the computer finally choked. There is no potential win through tenacity when win streaks are required. Winning 5 battles in a row when the computer doesn't rig everything to play a game of "I win" would require potentially more hours of gameplay than there are in a month (at which point the next time period happens). Getting 10 wins in a row is straight-up impossible. Please don't make win streaks required for later challenges. I know the idea is to make people play more by running them on the Sisyphus treadmill, but you'll get people playing less that way as everyone that realizes what's going on will simply not try. If you feel that "Get 50 points" won't keep people coming back long enough, make it 100 points or 200. People will grind out that, but win streak requirements will just generate burnout.

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  • DoubleCure
    DoubleCure Member Posts: 2,203 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Completely agree... the 10 streak achievement was a horrible idea (the 5 streak it's annoying but acceptable to me, not the 10 streak tho).

    Like you said... isn't fun, especially because they clearly put you against the best counter deck (obviously helping the computer) and give you the worst starting hand possible at some point... it's rigged for sure... it's so annoying and a waste of time, all of that to get a garbadge reward... so I just gave up on the 10 streak.