Consider a future Hearthstone where card packs were no longer available.
Instead of Gold, you were awarded twice the amount in dust. “Play 10 secrets” would grant you 100 dust instead of 50 gold, and the weekly Tavern Brawl would grant you 200 dust instead of a pack.
Instead of buying packs, you could buy
Pre-purchase deal with new expansion card back and 30 000 dust for EUR 49,95
400 dust container for EUR 2,99
1600 dust container for EUR 11,39
3200 dust container for EUR 21,29
8000 dust container for EUR 49,99
12000 dust container for EUR 69,99
Interesting or not?
For someone like myself, buying the pre-purchase package and the occasional 15 packs 3-4 times a year, it would not make much of a difference economically, but I would have a far better chance of building a collection of cards I actually want. That said, Runespear and Lynessa is nice to look at ;)
Consider a future Hearthstone where card packs were no longer available.
Instead of Gold, you were awarded twice the amount in dust. “Play 10 secrets” would grant you 100 dust instead of 50 gold, and the weekly Tavern Brawl would grant you 200 dust instead of a pack.
Instead of buying packs, you could buy
Pre-purchase deal with new expansion card back and 30 000 dust for EUR 49,95
400 dust container for EUR 2,99
1600 dust container for EUR 11,39
3200 dust container for EUR 21,29
8000 dust container for EUR 49,99
12000 dust container for EUR 69,99
Interesting or not?
For someone like myself, buying the pre-purchase package and the occasional 15 packs 3-4 times a year, it would not make much of a difference economically, but I would have a far better chance of building a collection of cards I actually want. That said, Runespear and Lynessa is nice to look at ;)
This would probably be better for the more... Discriminating players, who know what to craft and are pretty active using their dust to make powerful cards and decks. But I don't think it's something that will happen because, and it's always worth keeping this in mind in conversations like this, the majority of hearthstone players are very casual. They play casually, don't really know what they are doing competitively, and just play around very loosely. They'd probably struggle if just given a big pile of dust to figure out what to actually craft. If you don't know what to play, opening some cool looking cards can you give you ideas and you can throw them into a deck and see if they work. A big pile of dust, although something I'd prefer personally, is something I think would lead to some anxiety on people who wouldn't know what to craft, heck, I think a lot of casual players (and this is something I've heard personally so I know it's true for at least some people) only save up their dust to craft legendary cards, because those are the only cards cool enough to actually catch their attention. Sure, this way would help them get more legendaries, but it'd also make them much worse at the game because they wouldn't be forced to make actually somewhat balanced and reasonable decks with things like bonemare and scalebane in them :P. Which I think would probably be a net loss for their enjoyment to the game.
Consider a future Hearthstone where card packs were no longer available.
Instead of Gold, you were awarded twice the amount in dust. “Play 10 secrets” would grant you 100 dust instead of 50 gold, and the weekly Tavern Brawl would grant you 200 dust instead of a pack.
Instead of buying packs, you could buy
Interesting or not?
For someone like myself, buying the pre-purchase package and the occasional 15 packs 3-4 times a year, it would not make much of a difference economically, but I would have a far better chance of building a collection of cards I actually want. That said, Runespear and Lynessa is nice to look at ;)
Novice engineer & Hearthstone dilettante
People will cry even more than the game is p2w when you can buy the dust necessary to craft the specific cards that you need/want
This would probably be better for the more... Discriminating players, who know what to craft and are pretty active using their dust to make powerful cards and decks. But I don't think it's something that will happen because, and it's always worth keeping this in mind in conversations like this, the majority of hearthstone players are very casual. They play casually, don't really know what they are doing competitively, and just play around very loosely. They'd probably struggle if just given a big pile of dust to figure out what to actually craft. If you don't know what to play, opening some cool looking cards can you give you ideas and you can throw them into a deck and see if they work. A big pile of dust, although something I'd prefer personally, is something I think would lead to some anxiety on people who wouldn't know what to craft, heck, I think a lot of casual players (and this is something I've heard personally so I know it's true for at least some people) only save up their dust to craft legendary cards, because those are the only cards cool enough to actually catch their attention. Sure, this way would help them get more legendaries, but it'd also make them much worse at the game because they wouldn't be forced to make actually somewhat balanced and reasonable decks with things like bonemare and scalebane in them :P. Which I think would probably be a net loss for their enjoyment to the game.