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Small indie company, boys =)))) Give them a break, they surely put those "80$ x few million customers buying shitty (most probably) golden legendary and fancy skin" money to a good use. At the very least - these money will probably allow them to finally fix all the nasty bugs. PRAISE RNGESUS! AMEN.

I dont see the problem. Other hereos have been behind pay wall before? 

And some are yet. 

It's very expensive. If you're a new player, it must be so daunting to consider buying something like this AND considering the need to get older cards too.

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Just because Blizzard gave us 70 packs for $50 one time that somehow becomes the bare minimum and anything less is a shameless cash grab?

This is exactly what happens ;-). It´s normal that your best offer will become the reverence for all afterwards.

Now you get same as before AND +1 Golden Legendary, fits for me. i Bought.

And yes it is expensive, i agree. But i like the game and did support it. Can't blame those who don't want to do. Anyway it is as it is.

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The biggest issue nowadays is that casual players cannot keep up anymore without paying a shitload of money. 

Is this actually an issue? Why should casual player be able to easily keep up with dedicated players? This is a game and not communism. Everyone should not be equal. Dedicated long time players should have some advantage.

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In a few months the warlock skin will be free for Asian players while we must pay 80€$

 See if THIS happened, then I'm ready to pick up my pitchfork and burn down Blizzards offices.

 Given Blizzard’s track record it’s probably gonna happen lol

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I dont see the problem. Other hereos have been behind pay wall before? 

And some are yet. 

 Only Magni, Alleria, and Medivh are behind paywalls, and they’re $10 and not limited time offers. Khadgar was exclusive to iOS users and had a $5 paywall, however that portrait was for charity. The other eight portraits were all free, including Tyrande if you used a Twitch Prime free trial.

the problem of this generation is that they feel too entitled. Your daddy and mommy gave u everything for free and u didnt had to work for anything? Want a lambo or a bmw to be cheap also? Somethings in life arent for everyone. And you dont even need the skin to have fun in the game. See it as an expensive car - looks cool but you dont need it.

Honestly I agree that the pricing is getting out of hand. Just to pre-purchase now and support the devs it's 50*3+80=230 US dollars/year (or 289 for us Canadians) for a children's card game. We have surpassed WOW sub costs, it's insanity and greed AF by Blizzard.

That's said it's a cosmetic, it doesn't effect game play and if your upset about it being behind a paywall you're just greedy as a person and acting entitled, in no way does it change the actually playing experience.

I'm pretty fed up with the pricing model myself, but I have a great job and disposable income so if I chose to purchase the Mega bundle it qill be based on the quality of the expansion overall, not based on the cost of it.

plus. They are giving adventures for free now. Do you even talk about that in your post? Maybe you would prefer adventures to be behind the 80$ bundle so it would "feel" more worth it.

I could be wrong, but I have yet to see any wording suggesting that the Mecha-Jaraxxus warlock Hero is exclusive to the bundle.

Off topic observation: Why isn't Omega Defender a mech?

50 for 50 (or 80 for 80... $1 per pack) has been the normal rate for preorder bundles from TGT to KAC.  Witchwood was 20 extra packs (2000 dust), Boomsday is a golden legendary (1600 dust), which is pretty close.

Would I prefer if things were cheaper?  Sure.  Who doesn't wish everything was a bit cheaper.

But let's not pretend that the prices for Boomsday Project are significantly different from the prices of Hearthstone have always been.

give me another golden legend instead of the skin and i am happy ^^. But things are rarley perfect. Just deal with it ;-).

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plus. They are giving adventures for free now. Do you even talk about that in your post? Maybe you would prefer adventures to be behind the 80$ bundle so it would "feel" more worth it.

 Those aren’t adventures. Real Adventures were things like Blackrock and League of Explorers, where we didn’t have to open any cardpacks and got all the cards of the set playing fun boss battles. These are just cheaper single player PvE experiences as an excuse to keep doing three expansions a year.

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Just because Blizzard gave us 70 packs for $50 one time that somehow becomes the bare minimum and anything less is a shameless cash grab?

 

This is exactly what happens ;-). It´s normal that your best offer will become the reverence for all afterwards.

That was a special deal to entice players back into the game at the start of a new standard season. For those players, it was a good way to add a lot of cards from the "start of season" set, which is expected to have a major impact on play for the next several months. While I completely understand the inclination to compare to whatever the "best ever deal" was, it's not a fair comparison point. (You would be right to point out that Witchwood didn't really have that desired effect of flipping the meta on its head when it was released, but I think that's moot relative to the question of what the appropriate way is to think about "start of season" set bundles broadly.)

I think someone needs there bah bah and a nappie poo!

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Honestly I agree that the pricing is getting out of hand. Just to pre-purchase now and support the devs it's 50*3+80=230 US dollars/year (or 289 for us Canadians) for a children's card game. We have surpassed WOW sub costs, it's insanity and greed AF by Blizzard.

That's said it's a cosmetic, it doesn't effect game play and if your upset about it being behind a paywall you're just greedy as a person and acting entitled, in no way does it change the actually playing experience.

I'm pretty fed up with the pricing model myself, but I have a great job and disposable income so if I chose to purchase the Mega bundle it qill be based on the quality of the expansion overall, not based on the cost of it.

Let's go ahead and stop with the "children's card game" meme. It was good about 15 years ago when YGO was huge and before E-Sports were a real thing. That isn't the world we live in anymore.

I agree that the $80 is pushing it up to the line. But, you still have the option of the normally priced bundle.