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    posted a message on Could Hearthstone Players on iOS Soon be Buying Dust Instead of Card Packs?

    Thought I'd add my opinion to the discussion.
    imo HS is too expensive. even if you only play 2 classes it takes the entire expansion to get all the cards for their good/fun decks due to the amount of legendaries that are required. Other games (I play Duelyst and have taken a quick look at Gwent) that are based on "being cheaper than HS" are a lot more lenient when it comes to the card crafting system.
    However; changing the card pack format WILL NOT solve this issue. On average, even if it doesn't feel like it, you will still get the same amount of dust as long as you play the game long enough that you'll have bought a fair amount of packs. If anything, this will make it more tedious because, if a fully dusted pack is worth X dust and instead of packs they give you said amount of dust, you'll no longer gain the cards from the packs you'd usually keep and thus this will only make everything more expensive.
    The only thing I can quickly think of that would address this issue is

    • letting us choose the legendary we get from the set. This way there will be one less card to craft instead of getting a DK that you didn't want and having to dust it for 1/4 of its worth
    • loosening up on the dust system's cost. Give us 10 dust for dusting commons and make legendaries cost 1200 dust. This would go a long way in making this game way more affordable while still making it feel tedious enough to have players buy large amounts of packs.
    • Make the daily quests "play a game as X class" instead of having to win. I'm sick of having to grind out multiple games a day on the casual ladder with a shit deck in the hopes of meeting up with someone with a shitty enough deck for me to stand a chance against them (mind you that bonemare and creeper are cards and those make this a tedious as all hell exercise)

    I'm tired of looking at streams and seeing all these cool decks that I'll never be able to craft because I'm a free to play player that doesn't wanna invest his entire life into this game. Pls blizzard, think of this part of your playerbase too

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