Itsss way to much. They are suffering by their own succes. Nobody wants to play ranked and arena so they have to monetize BG. It saddens me alot, they will force us to spend 20$ every expansion!!!!
Guys can't be everything always free just because it's digital. BG is totally free. This is a plus if you want to help a company to develop and invest more in a game mode. If you don't, just don't buy it.
model could be better but it makes sense to subscribe to get extras. it's not like you can't play it if you don't. firebat had a good idea though.. make skins for Bob or extra voice line packets. like a heckling Bob packet that you could turn on and off. or different boards. they certainly could do a lot to monotize it
Itsss way to much. They are suffering by their own succes. Nobody wants to play ranked and arena so they have to monetize BG. It saddens me alot, they will force us to spend 20$ every expansion!!!!
Speak for yourself, dude. I'm pretty sure there are a lot of players out there who enjoy playing ladder and/or arena much more than Battlegrounds. I, for instance, played BG only once since Open Beta release. Yeah, just one time, bro, that's all. ;)
No one complained about having to buy 20 Packs to get 3 Hero choices when the mode launched. I really don't think that having more than 2 choices is a balance breaking upside. you probably won't even notice that your playing against someone who buyed the pass.
I don't enjoy battlegrounds at the current price, so I definitely won't pay extra. But the bigger point you might have missed is Blizzard isn't a not-for-profit organization.
I personally don't care about the arena tickets. Basically paying 20 bucks to pick 2 more hero and emotes. If this was a one time fee to unlock all current and future features maybe. Way too of a price point for the little that you get. People please don't support and pay for this. If you want to support the game buy packs.
You can't just go in a storage locker and start assigning random prices to junk that you find.
Sure you can, it happens in storage locker shows all the time!
Not only are they doing this, they are mocking people who can't spend 200 on their video game. Enough value changes that I was thinking I might drop $50 on this one or the next one (thanks to pandemic), but now there is just not enough value in it. Like buying a storage locker full of used mattresses, just a bunch of hassle.
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"You can't just assign random prices to junk you find in a storage locker."
I think for all the work and fast updates that are being put into this. $5 a month isn’t unreasonable at all if you enjoy the format. You can also play it for free if you are super casual and can still choose 2 hero’s.
If you're enjoying it and playing a lot, and assuming they continue the frequency of updates they have, I don't think an optional 16 cents a day for some small bonuses is asking too awfully much. They gotta make money somehow
of course it's too much, battlepasses on either fortnite or apex cost 2x less and give so many skins, the bg pass on hs gives nothing except a p2w advantage and you still need 1h30 to get 10 golds with 100%winrate, they could at least increase the rewards/gold gains
I never spend a cent in the game and as long I can craft any card with resources from the game itself I don't care what they sell in cosmetics or give as extra bonus to paid players.
When something really important, like a powerful legendary, being behind a paywall HS will die for me, anything else I root for them make a lot of money.
20 USD would be fine... if it was a one-time purchase, or even a yearly purchase. But 20 dollars every expansion? That is a lot of money for one mode, and I say this as someone who usually don't complain about prices in Hearthstone. I bought the big pre-order bundle where this was included, so I won't personally be affected, but I still feel like it's way to much money. At least include it with both pre-order bundles! And the 4 arena tickets seem so random.
Also, to those saying the two extra picks isn't that much of a deal: it really is. The risk of being offered only low-tier heroes is much higher if you only have two to choose from. It really becomes way more of a p2w mode. Again, I'm not usually one to accuse Hearthstone of being p2w, but it really is quite the disadvantage to only have two heroes to choose from.
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Itsss way to much. They are suffering by their own succes. Nobody wants to play ranked and arena so they have to monetize BG. It saddens me alot, they will force us to spend 20$ every expansion!!!!
Guys can't be everything always free just because it's digital. BG is totally free. This is a plus if you want to help a company to develop and invest more in a game mode. If you don't, just don't buy it.
model could be better but it makes sense to subscribe to get extras. it's not like you can't play it if you don't. firebat had a good idea though.. make skins for Bob or extra voice line packets. like a heckling Bob packet that you could turn on and off. or different boards. they certainly could do a lot to monotize it
I'm confused. I don't really play BG. What are they charging $20 for?
Speak for yourself, dude. I'm pretty sure there are a lot of players out there who enjoy playing ladder and/or arena much more than Battlegrounds. I, for instance, played BG only once since Open Beta release. Yeah, just one time, bro, that's all. ;)
No one complained about having to buy 20 Packs to get 3 Hero choices when the mode launched. I really don't think that having more than 2 choices is a balance breaking upside. you probably won't even notice that your playing against someone who buyed the pass.
I don't enjoy battlegrounds at the current price, so I definitely won't pay extra. But the bigger point you might have missed is Blizzard isn't a not-for-profit organization.
I personally don't care about the arena tickets. Basically paying 20 bucks to pick 2 more hero and emotes. If this was a one time fee to unlock all current and future features maybe. Way too of a price point for the little that you get. People please don't support and pay for this. If you want to support the game buy packs.
the price as it is now is more then fine... you can do your quest and you can easy make that kind of gold each 4th morth...
The only money I put into HS are preorders.
BG is too little fun for me, so I am deadly sure I will not pay for BG EVER.
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Its like the joke in the trailer for the xpac:
You can't just go in a storage locker and start assigning random prices to junk that you find.
Sure you can, it happens in storage locker shows all the time!
Not only are they doing this, they are mocking people who can't spend 200 on their video game. Enough value changes that I was thinking I might drop $50 on this one or the next one (thanks to pandemic), but now there is just not enough value in it. Like buying a storage locker full of used mattresses, just a bunch of hassle.
"You can't just assign random prices to junk you find in a storage locker."
I think for all the work and fast updates that are being put into this. $5 a month isn’t unreasonable at all if you enjoy the format. You can also play it for free if you are super casual and can still choose 2 hero’s.
If you're enjoying it and playing a lot, and assuming they continue the frequency of updates they have, I don't think an optional 16 cents a day for some small bonuses is asking too awfully much. They gotta make money somehow
I only play arena & standard so doesn't affect me. I don't see a prob with it though.
The worst thing about this change is that I got those "perks" in my preorder bundle. That could have been packs...
It’s still free.
if you’re a fan of BG you can pay for extra perks. Pay to support BGs developers and development.
I don’t like BG, but even I don’t think this is all that bad.
of course it's too much, battlepasses on either fortnite or apex cost 2x less and give so many skins, the bg pass on hs gives nothing except a p2w advantage and you still need 1h30 to get 10 golds with 100%winrate, they could at least increase the rewards/gold gains
I never spend a cent in the game and as long I can craft any card with resources from the game itself I don't care what they sell in cosmetics or give as extra bonus to paid players.
When something really important, like a powerful legendary, being behind a paywall HS will die for me, anything else I root for them make a lot of money.
20 USD would be fine... if it was a one-time purchase, or even a yearly purchase. But 20 dollars every expansion? That is a lot of money for one mode, and I say this as someone who usually don't complain about prices in Hearthstone. I bought the big pre-order bundle where this was included, so I won't personally be affected, but I still feel like it's way to much money. At least include it with both pre-order bundles! And the 4 arena tickets seem so random.
Also, to those saying the two extra picks isn't that much of a deal: it really is. The risk of being offered only low-tier heroes is much higher if you only have two to choose from. It really becomes way more of a p2w mode. Again, I'm not usually one to accuse Hearthstone of being p2w, but it really is quite the disadvantage to only have two heroes to choose from.