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Card Pack Changes Coming - No More Duplicate Legendaries
There are a few changes coming in the future, that are not yet live, to how we obtain cards in packs.
These changes will go live with the next expansion.
- No more duplicate Legendary cards. Once you've crafted or obtained a certain card (gold or normal), it isn't possible to obtain again until you've earned all the legendaries from a set.
- You will get a guaranteed Legendary within the first 10 card packs of a new set.
- It will not longer be possible to open more than 2 of a Common, Rare, or Epic card out of a single card pack. You can still obtain dupes in other packs of course.
Ben Brode states in the video that the team is "super excited" about the changes in "the context of our next expansion". It sounds like we may be getting some pretty awesome Legendaries and we won't have a repeat of what happened with Un'Goro.
- If we get another 50 card pack pre-order, that means you'll be certain to get 2 Legendary cards.
- You can buy bundles during the sale, and if you delay opening the packs until the new expansion arrives, they'll benefit from the new system. (Source)
Additionally, a special promotion is going to be run starting soon which will increase the number of packs you will receive when purchasing Un'Goro Packs.
Original Pack Bundles | Special Pack Bundles |
---|---|
7 packs | +2 packs = 9 packs total |
15 packs | +5 packs = 20 packs total |
40 packs | +12 packs = 52 packs total |
60 packs* | +18 packs = 78 packs total |
Announcement Video
Announcement Blog
Quote from BlizzardWAAAH, Legendary!
Starting with the release of Hearthstone’s next expansion (but applying to ALL Hearthstone card packs), every time you open a Legendary in a card pack, it will be a Legendary card from the same set that you don’t already own. Once you own either the golden or non-golden version of a Legendary card, you won’t get a duplicate of it until you own all the Legendary cards from that set. Soon, you’ll be able to craft a Legendary without the worry of opening it in your next few packs!
In addition, you will never open more copies of any card in a pack than you can use in a single deck—no more opening three or more of the same common, rare, or epic card in one pack!
Even More Legendary!
Beginning with the release of the next expansion, you’re also guaranteed to get a Legendary within your first 10 packs of a new set. The release of a new Hearthstone expansion is a super exciting time, and with this change we hope your pack openings start off on a celebratory note!
Combined, these changes should make the pack opening experience more exciting than ever—especially when you see that flash of gold heralding a Legendary card!
The Greater Crater Promotion
Elise Starseeker and her junior explorers have stumbled upon a fascinating discovery: a crater full of card packs! Starting in the next few days, we’re having a special limited time promotion for Journey to Un’Goro card pack bundles: the price stays the same, but the number of packs gets dino-sized!
Original Pack Bundles
Special Pack Bundles
7 packs +2 packs = 9 packs total 15 packs +5 packs = 20 packs total 40 packs +12 packs = 52 packs total 60 packs* +18 packs = 78 packs total We can’t wait to see your Legendary pack openings starting with Hearthstone’s next expansion!
*60 card pack bundle size available only on PC.
You do know that most of those 70 million are like 10-30 million who actually play right? Most of the players have 2 or even 3 acc+those who register but quit after a week or so.... none you say? Clearly you havent heard of LufeCoach JJPasak SuperJJ ShtanUdachi and etc... Those are famous streamers im not even counting the casual players of hs.... Why after 4 years of hs this is a thing now huh? A month ago Gwent became an open beta and now Brode suddenly started thinking about players.... cmon man stop being so naive
EternalHS, please consider this. If you're not interested in these facts that's kind of naive but hey, I wish you a nice day and a merry way.
Since it's a free game it's very likely that a lot of those 70 million just checked the game out once and then left. The fact that Blizzard doesn't tell us the amount of monthly or daily active players kind of proves that. If those numbers were impressive, they definitely would.
Like all 'freemium' games, it's likely that just a very, very small part of those 70 million people make up for most of the payments. Like, 1% of players making 90% of all payments.
If that 1% notices that there are better card games which also charge a lot less money (which is already happening), then Blizzard will have to change their game or they're left with 69.5 million people who never paid and never will pay a single dollar.
If you want any more proof of this, just look at this topic. They're not doing this out kindness or goodwill. They're doing this to keep paying customers paying.
First of all HS didnt have so many players when it was open beta too! Second of all 70 MILLION REGISTERED not the 70 MILLION THAT PLAY THE GAME those are two different things you know right? Third of all Gwent has more than 80k in ranked because my second account which is new and only lvl 10 is on #79k in ranked and i those are the lvl 10+ players -_- Hearthstone reached 30 million REGISTERED players as i remember in 2014-15 and that was games 2nd year lets see how many players are going to play gwent in 2019... and most of players are free to play? are you fucking kidding me? most of the players have wasted at least 10$ on this game (i personally wasted $3000+ and most of my friends list in hs (180-190 dont remember) have waisted a close amount of money.... some wasted even MORE! dont start the bs that most of the HS player base is F2P.... I wasn't talking about developers either.. Ofcourse they aint gonna leave HS BECAUSE THEY WORK IN BLIZZARD AND GET PAID..... I was talking about players...
You don't have any prove that there is 70 million players in ranked also can you? :)
Does this "1 Legendary in the first 10 packs" works like a little extra pity-timer?
So if you get lucky in between the first 10 packs, you didnt really get that lucky? :D
a special promotion? LUL Blizzard don't deserve a dime with meta like this.
There is nothing wrong with this meta.
This meta may not be perfect (i am looking at you quest rogue), but i think we never had a more diverse meta. Its normal that the meta settles now, since Un'Goro is out for quite some time.
If you complain now, you'll complain always.
yes we have the choice between so many cancer die t4 decks lolol so fun super meta i dont complain and buy packs because the game is a little bit less fucked up and is actually only "super expensive and maybe you get almost nothing in packs" instead of "super expensive and maybe you get nothing at all "
No double legendarys, propably the best game change they ever did to this game. I was calling for this since beta and its nice to see this....better late than never. Also this makes pack purchases late into the expansion more reasonable....only thing sucks is that its after next set release so basically it stops any pack openeing until next set release....what a stupid shit....plaz release this right now WTF!?
so people can cry because they clearly got fucked buying early, smart
Don't sweat mate... I bought 50 packs 2 days ago :/ Got 1 legend - Lyra - which I already had.... 5000 gold well spent :|
so should I stop opening packs from brawl/arena now and wait?
You should unless you're feeling lucky.
So Im supposed to keep my tavern brawl packs until release of next expansion right?
I did not buy anything since Un'Goro with real money to this bullshit price increase and this MASS new cards 3 Expansion Release this year.
I posted it several times here and in Blizzard forums to change the legendary card distribution right in the way they changed it now.
Seems my 'Consumer Disobidience' payed off with severall others guys here doing victims.
Maybe some of my Clan allies will start again play HS - as they stopped with the EU PAck Prize increase and the ~ 400 new cards realease per year (with NO PRICE Change) ... .
Finally something Blizzard - Maby finally fixing the ladder system now and almost all wil be fine ...
^^ :-P
"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future" :D
Galadriel - Lord of the Rings
I really think, that they made less money per person than before, otherwise they did not need to bring such low offers/changes.
So yes, you can learn somethings from H.D. Thoreau, his book is already in stores :D
when its the new expantion? in july or august?