Update 9:55am - The image also states that wing prices will decrease by 100 gold by completing objectives in a previous wing.
Update 1:33 pm - Added Blue Tweet and blue post
Possible Naxx Pricing Structure Leak
This information has not been officially announced by Blizzard. Also important to note that the information about the last wing also does not match previous information. The image is circulating Chinese sites. Please keep in mind none of this information is verified.
Update:
Quote from @ZeriyahWe haven't announced anything just yet regarding pricing for Naxx. Once we have details to share, we'll discuss them on official channels.
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We understand that a lot of people are excited for the release of Curse of Naxxramas — we are too! However, we haven't announced anything just yet regarding pricing for the upcoming Adventure. Once we have further details to share, including pricing, we'll let everyone know via our official channels.
A wild slide has appeared! A number of websites in China have picked up an image of a slide which contains the pricing information for the upcoming Hearthstone adventure, the Curse of Naxxramas.
According to the image, all of Naxxramas will cost 5,000 Gold, or $90 USD (¥558). The image also states that wing prices will decrease by 100 gold by completing objectives in a previous wing. See below for a wing price breakdown.
Wing | Bosses | New Cards | Gold Price | USD Price | Yuan Price |
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Arachnid Quarter | 3 | 4 | Free | Free | Free |
Plague Quarter | 3 | 4 | 500 | $9 | ¥55.8 |
Contruct Quarter | 4 | 6 | 1,000 | $18 | ¥111.6 |
Military Quarter | 3 | 5 | 1,500 | $27 | ¥167.4 |
Frostwyrm Lair | 2 | 6 | 2,000 | $36 | ¥223.2 |
Naxxramas pricing seems much higher than the community feels it should be. What's your take on it?
Who gives a fuck. Put in the time and farm your gold, noobs.
15 bosses and 6 Legendaries at 5k is a steal.
I've managed to accumulate 205g.... Prices in the thousands seems unrealistic for me to get..
....and $90 for A FREE GAME sounds wrong in every aspect of the word...
If you are good at the game it shouldn't be a problem at the moment i saved up gold for around a month, and currently i have 1200 gold the pricing is fine
how much do you play? if you do a daily each day in 5 days you would have at least 200, and 3 wins would get you 10 gold. the whole thing is released over 5 weeks, so you do have time to save.
If it costs even a quarter of that I will be uninstalling hearthstone.
Blizzard stated the first and last quarters are going to be free. So in reality the frostwyrm lair isn't free so this is inaccurate.
I can't believe the dollar prices will be multiplicatively increasing like this, it seems absurd. Plus what would the purpose of the bundles be if they are just added up to the exact amount. The other thing is they said frost wing would be unlocked for free, why change it now? Plus $90 dollars is beyond unreasonable, nothing about this seems right.
Agreed. Blizzard could not possibly rationalize a $90 price tag for Naxxramas. I'm going to wait for an official announcement before nerd raging, because very little about this seems legit.
I was guessing it might be 500-1000 gold per-wing but it's my understanding that the first and the last wing were free, so you only pay for 3 wings. Unless they changed their mind on that, which might be possible, or this info might just be totally fake.
Whatever the case may be, I'm going to continue to save up gold. At 2400 gold right now. Arena will be more interesting when there are new cards to mix things up, so I don't mind waiting to play it.
I'm sure someone said this before, but it is pretty clearly NOT $36 FOR THE LAST WING ALONE!!!
Each tier is cumulative - it is $9/tier, with getting ALL 4 costing a grand total of HKD$36. Listing things this way is not unusual in Asian countries, even though in the west we tend not to list things additively like that. My guess is that the US$ price is half that - either $2 (arena entry) a tier or $5 a teir - either $8 or $20 all up. The latter would be in line with existing pricing, and perfectly reasonable.
In the words of a wise man, DON'T PANIC!!!
This makes much sense. Thank you.
I agree that makes more sense, but then how do you explain the 90$ price tag? Honestly I don't think these prices are correct at all but the numbers just seem unsusal.
That sounds right to me - golden versions at $90 isn't so bad, given that the "raw dust cost" for a golden legendary is $50 if you were to just buy in sets of 40 (~80 dust a pack, $1.25 a pack at 40 a pop, 3200 dust cost). Actually seems like a pretty good deal when you put it that way...
Also, people, remember that this is by far the cheapest good CCG to exist. In MtG and YuGiOh, it is pretty common to have non-foil singles in the $100 range for competitive playable cards. The way Blizzard has set up Hearthstone, you will NEVER HAVE A JACE, THE MIND SCULPTOR OR TARMOGOYF. In other words, while the game will remain a little bit P2W for all time - they have to hang that carrot, in order to make a profit on it - it will NEVER be as expensive as a traditional "paper" card game. What is 3200 dust now will be 3200 dust 10 years from now - and that is a very, very, very good thing!
A lot of people must not remember a card in Marvel called Savage Beatdown.
The foil for that was a prize for winning one of the major tournaments. It was way up there in price for a long time, and is still high.
What does a super-rare card have to do with Hearthstone's pricing of adventures? The pricing of the Savage Beatdown card has nothing to do with Marvel. It's simply market forces due to the rarity of the card. That's like saying DC Comics is responsible for the current value of Action Comics #1 issues.
I actually agree - I think Jace or Goyf (or the Revised Duals, for that matter) are actually better examples. None are particularly constrained on supply, so it is not really a "supply and demand" situation. They were artificially inflated by speculators. Savage Beatdown was a fixture in pretty much every good Marvel deck, and it was excessively rare. Most very expensive cards in CCG's are comparatively rare (to, say, a basic land), but a great deal of the price inflation of recent years has to do with the dominance of secondary markets - supply and demand is a force at play, but so are the same sorts of economics that lead to the price of land in Los Angeles.
Speculators suck. Blizzard knows this. Therefore they did away with the whole "Trading" part of the game - for the better. You'll never see a $200 Leeroy, after all!
In the digital realm, nothing will be that rare (if Blizzard isn't stupider than I think they are) and actually be playable. The brilliance of their system is that there will never be purely artificial causes for inflation, like in the Goyf and Jace cases.
The reason it has something to do with Naxx's price is that Naxx essentially acts like the Savage Beatdown situation, at least with regards to constructed play. You'll have to pay to use the cards. The thing is, even $90 (which there is no chance whatsoever...) wouldn't be that bad of a price, if there was even ONE "staple" card in the bunch, when compared to the prices you have to pay to play MTG (or Marvel, or YuGiOh). I could "buy" a golden set of "cards" for "vanilla" Hearthstone for less than the cost of a Legacy Elves deck (give or take $2000)...
To add on more to the 'don't panic':
http://hearthstone.blizzpro.com/2014/04/13/interview-with-eric-dodds-and-jason-chayes-pax-east-2014/
Reveals that the final wing will be free, since it contains only two bosses and will function differently, or so.
My guess is that we can knock the price down to around $12 to $15 for the three wings, 30 cards and nine class challenges.
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Zeriyah on twitter, confirming nor denying anything:
https://twitter.com/CM_Zeriyah/status/465920216937922561
I am pretty sure, whatever the final prices will be - most people will start farming gold right now :-)
Mmm, was this really recent? Seems like one of those power point slides they show off at BlizzCon, or so, of WIP ideas.