So it took me 400 packs to get all the legendaries from the set, opened a total of 433 packs and am still missing 5 epics (to have everything in double)
Of course, I made around 21k dust extra from all those packs but it's still crazy to think that even 433 packs doesn't give you everything..
Obviously we're talking about the extreme side in which you want a full set but that gives you an idea on how expensive HS truly is.
I actually go for the opposite extreme, you only need 30 cards to make one deck :D, it doesn't matter if you have a full set you cant play all your 400+ cards in a single match, so you use those 30 cards you intend to rank with and that's it.
HS might be expensive, but it is still your decision to actually buy all these packs. You don't have to, there is no force. With that mentioned, I understand your thought, it is very expensive if you want to be able to reach full collections!
HS Is very expensive. $50 Per expansion is nowhere near enough to get anywhere close to a decent number of legendaries when a new set drops. That's all I spent this time around but I was lucky (or dumb) enough to have spent a fortune on this game over the last few years so I had a ton of stuff like crappy golden legendaries and epics to DE so I could craft what I needed. Not sure what I'll do when the next set releases. I have the money but spending a minimum of $100 per expansion doesn't give me those warm fuzzy feelings these days .
So you think because you want all cards of a set, that is the "true" price of the card game?
The "true" price of hearthstone is the amount of money you have to spend to have a fun game experience. Usually that was 50-100 bucks per expansion for me (pre-order+1 time 40 cards). And that got me every Tier 1 and 2 deck (I also played always the dailies). This time it is 0 bucks since I just bought packs with gold and do not have much fun with hearthstone at present. Other people did not spend a single dime on Hearhtsone in their whole Hearhtstone career and fully enjoy it.
So no, 400 bucks is surely not the "true" price for hearthstone. The 400 bucks give you the idea how much money you have to spend to get a full card set of an expansion. Which is quite different from the "true" price of hearthstone.
Sure it's expensive if you want to collect or craft every single legend or epic, but that has been true since the beginning of card collecting. Even going back to old-school baseball card collecting. The expectation was you either buy a bunch of packs in the hopes of getting the 3 or 4 ultra rare cards, or you used your money to buy your cards outright from another collector or a shop. This is nothing new.
It all comes down to HOW you want to collect and play. When I was a kid/preteen, I realized how expensive it would be to collect all of the Topps baseball cards, and I decided to focus on collecting subsets of the entire collection... ie. collect my favorite TEAM and trade the cards that don't fit that subset.
As a budget HS player (I'm closer to f2p than I am to being a whale) I choose to take my freebies and try to build a positive gaming and collecting experience around what I have already collected.
If you are concerned about the cost of obtaining every legend and epic, then try focusing on collecting a SUBSET of the next expansion. Go for collecting every Paladin or Warlock card. Collect every secret since hearthstone was released. Collect all of the new keyword. Collect every card in a tribe. Then build yourself a deck with that collection and try to climb the ladder or meme casual just so, so, so, hard.
So it took me 400 packs to get all the legendaries from the set, opened a total of 433 packs and am still missing 5 epics (to have everything in double)
Of course, I made around 21k dust extra from all those packs but it's still crazy to think that even 433 packs doesn't give you everything..
Obviously we're talking about the extreme side in which you want a full set but that gives you an idea on how expensive HS truly is.
You literally opened 400 packs just to get all of the legendaries/epics and didn't bother to use your dust to actually craft them, when the entire POINT to the dust is so that you don't have to buy hundreds of packs just to get the last batch of cards you don't have?
That's just like declaring how hard it is to play the game after gouging out your monitor. "Of course it's harder when you can't see the board, but it gives you an idea of how difficult the game is".
It takes about 80 packs to get most of the commons and rares. You're SUPPOSED to use your dust to craft the remaining legendaries. The game even makes sure you don't get duplicate legendaries so that you can be free to craft them without risk of getting copies.
This is NOT how you're supposed to be buying packs to complete your collection. You're making it much MUCH harder for yourself. This doesn't even get to the fact that over HALF of your pack purchases will be for a few legendaries and epics that you aren't even going to be USING! You're sitting on 21000 dust and complaining about epics. YOU CAN CRAFT EVERY SINGLE EPIC IN THE ENTIRE SET FROM SCRATCH! And I bet you're JUST looking at the duplicates and didn't even look at your golden cards.
So NO, this is NOT an accurate representation of how expensive hearthstone is,
I’m free to play, haven’t spent a single dollar. I play arena instead of buying packs, I craft the cards I’m interested immediately then when a new expansion is almost out I’ll craft every standard card I’m missing. I still have over30,000 dust. I also have 92% of wild cards. HS is free to those that are decent at arena!
Well... No1 is forcing you to play every god damn card.
Ttitle should be "Price for having every card in new set"
It's worse than that. He had the dust to complete the set well before 400 packs. He just kept opening packs JUST to find the remaining cards then fussing about how much money he had to spend to do it.
So you think because you want all cards of a set, that is the "true" price of the card game?
The "true" price of hearthstone is the amount of money you have to spend to have a fun game experience. Usually that was 50-100 bucks per expansion for me (pre-order+1 time 40 cards). And that got me every Tier 1 and 2 deck (I also played always the dailies). This time it is 0 bucks since I just bought packs with gold and do not have much fun with hearthstone at present. Other people did not spend a single dime on Hearhtsone in their whole Hearhtstone career and fully enjoy it.
So no, 400 bucks is surely not the "true" price for hearthstone. The 400 bucks give you the idea how much money you have to spend to get a full card set of an expansion. Which is quite different from the "true" price of hearthstone.
sorry but a fun game experience is not relevant at all when we are talking about the price of a product and when you compre it to other cards games hearthstone is one of the most expansive cards games around
for exsample "Other people did not spend a single dime on Hearhtsone in their whole Hearhtstone career and fully enjoy it." can be easliy dismiss by just stating the fact that other pepole did have to pay money to even enjoy the game considaring how long it took them to get cards.
I'd only recommend this way if you've never spent money before, and you've immediately sworn to never spend money again.
This is more than enough to last you for the rest of your time playing. Be conservative, don't dust and grind hard. Don't spend one gold until next expac.
Sorta trying I raised 3k gold, I've heard of people doing 5k+.
What? You have an account on Hearthpwn since 22/11/2016 and did you realized just yesterday (12/6/2018) this game is expensive as f..k for those who want a full set? You are joking, right?
sorry but a fun game experience is not relevant at all when we are talking about the price of a product and when you compre it to other cards games hearthstone is one of the most expansive cards games around
well i guess ignorance is a bliss. you clearly don't know what you're talking about, as someone that experienced the competitive scene of Yugioh first hand i can tell you that a single competitive deck in that game including a 40 cards main deck, a 15 cards extra deck and a 15 cards side deck can cost anywhere from 120 to 500 dollars and yes that's 500 USD just for 70 cards opposedly to you getting 400+cards when buying 400 packs in hearthstone, plus getting spare dust to craft whatever you want, and i have witnessed friends spending similar amounts in competitive mtg, in fact he managed to pay a couple of college semesters when he quitted mtg and sold his decks, the most expensive around? , so please don't talk out of your ass about things you don't know anything about.
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So it took me 400 packs to get all the legendaries from the set, opened a total of 433 packs and am still missing 5 epics (to have everything in double)
Of course, I made around 21k dust extra from all those packs but it's still crazy to think that even 433 packs doesn't give you everything..
Obviously we're talking about the extreme side in which you want a full set but that gives you an idea on how expensive HS truly is.
I actually go for the opposite extreme, you only need 30 cards to make one deck :D, it doesn't matter if you have a full set you cant play all your 400+ cards in a single match, so you use those 30 cards you intend to rank with and that's it.
HS might be expensive, but it is still your decision to actually buy all these packs. You don't have to, there is no force.
With that mentioned, I understand your thought, it is very expensive if you want to be able to reach full collections!
Det är bättre med en fågel i hand, än tiger i träd!
HS Is very expensive. $50 Per expansion is nowhere near enough to get anywhere close to a decent number of legendaries when a new set drops. That's all I spent this time around but I was lucky (or dumb) enough to have spent a fortune on this game over the last few years so I had a ton of stuff like crappy golden legendaries and epics to DE so I could craft what I needed. Not sure what I'll do when the next set releases. I have the money but spending a minimum of $100 per expansion doesn't give me those warm fuzzy feelings these days .
Missing lethal since June 2015.
So you think because you want all cards of a set, that is the "true" price of the card game?
The "true" price of hearthstone is the amount of money you have to spend to have a fun game experience. Usually that was 50-100 bucks per expansion for me (pre-order+1 time 40 cards). And that got me every Tier 1 and 2 deck (I also played always the dailies). This time it is 0 bucks since I just bought packs with gold and do not have much fun with hearthstone at present. Other people did not spend a single dime on Hearhtsone in their whole Hearhtstone career and fully enjoy it.
So no, 400 bucks is surely not the "true" price for hearthstone. The 400 bucks give you the idea how much money you have to spend to get a full card set of an expansion. Which is quite different from the "true" price of hearthstone.
300 packs I missed some good legendaries still need more only missing priest minion stealing legend and some epic that never showed up lol
Sure it's expensive if you want to collect or craft every single legend or epic, but that has been true since the beginning of card collecting. Even going back to old-school baseball card collecting. The expectation was you either buy a bunch of packs in the hopes of getting the 3 or 4 ultra rare cards, or you used your money to buy your cards outright from another collector or a shop. This is nothing new.
It all comes down to HOW you want to collect and play. When I was a kid/preteen, I realized how expensive it would be to collect all of the Topps baseball cards, and I decided to focus on collecting subsets of the entire collection... ie. collect my favorite TEAM and trade the cards that don't fit that subset.
As a budget HS player (I'm closer to f2p than I am to being a whale) I choose to take my freebies and try to build a positive gaming and collecting experience around what I have already collected.
If you are concerned about the cost of obtaining every legend and epic, then try focusing on collecting a SUBSET of the next expansion. Go for collecting every Paladin or Warlock card. Collect every secret since hearthstone was released. Collect all of the new keyword. Collect every card in a tribe. Then build yourself a deck with that collection and try to climb the ladder or meme casual just so, so, so, hard.
It isn't.
You don't need all the legendaries when all but maybe 3 of them are trash.
Most of the epics and rares are trash.
Almost every neutral common is trash.
The amount of good cards per expansion is pretty low making the cost quite low.
You literally opened 400 packs just to get all of the legendaries/epics and didn't bother to use your dust to actually craft them, when the entire POINT to the dust is so that you don't have to buy hundreds of packs just to get the last batch of cards you don't have?
That's just like declaring how hard it is to play the game after gouging out your monitor. "Of course it's harder when you can't see the board, but it gives you an idea of how difficult the game is".
It takes about 80 packs to get most of the commons and rares. You're SUPPOSED to use your dust to craft the remaining legendaries. The game even makes sure you don't get duplicate legendaries so that you can be free to craft them without risk of getting copies.
This is NOT how you're supposed to be buying packs to complete your collection. You're making it much MUCH harder for yourself. This doesn't even get to the fact that over HALF of your pack purchases will be for a few legendaries and epics that you aren't even going to be USING! You're sitting on 21000 dust and complaining about epics. YOU CAN CRAFT EVERY SINGLE EPIC IN THE ENTIRE SET FROM SCRATCH! And I bet you're JUST looking at the duplicates and didn't even look at your golden cards.
So NO, this is NOT an accurate representation of how expensive hearthstone is,
CARD COLLECTING DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY!
One does not simply walk into Mordor,
unless they want to be the best they can be.
Opened 120 packs this expansion, didn't spend a dime. And I don't even play HS that much, I just don't miss any quest.
I got 8 legendaries, many useful epics and enough dust to craft the few cards I'm really missing. Not every single legendary is needed to have fun.
Hello.
This is why whizbang exists
Well... No1 is forcing you to play every god damn card.
Ttitle should be "Price for having every card in new set"
you only need 1 card, fizbang
Creer es poder
I’m free to play, haven’t spent a single dollar. I play arena instead of buying packs, I craft the cards I’m interested immediately then when a new expansion is almost out I’ll craft every standard card I’m missing. I still have over30,000 dust. I also have 92% of wild cards. HS is free to those that are decent at arena!
It's worse than that. He had the dust to complete the set well before 400 packs. He just kept opening packs JUST to find the remaining cards then fussing about how much money he had to spend to do it.
One does not simply walk into Mordor,
unless they want to be the best they can be.
sorry but a fun game experience is not relevant at all when we are talking about the price of a product and when you compre it to other cards games hearthstone is one of the most expansive cards games around
for exsample "Other people did not spend a single dime on Hearhtsone in their whole Hearhtstone career and fully enjoy it." can be easliy dismiss by just stating the fact that other pepole did have to pay money to even enjoy the game considaring how long it took them to get cards.
I'd only recommend this way if you've never spent money before, and you've immediately sworn to never spend money again.
This is more than enough to last you for the rest of your time playing. Be conservative, don't dust and grind hard. Don't spend one gold until next expac.
Sorta trying I raised 3k gold, I've heard of people doing 5k+.
Funny thing is I and others will still beat you when we play, even though I bought 0 packs, and only opened ~20 packs via gold. Just funny
What? You have an account on Hearthpwn since 22/11/2016 and did you realized just yesterday (12/6/2018) this game is expensive as f..k for those who want a full set? You are joking, right?
well i guess ignorance is a bliss. you clearly don't know what you're talking about, as someone that experienced the competitive scene of Yugioh first hand i can tell you that a single competitive deck in that game including a 40 cards main deck, a 15 cards extra deck and a 15 cards side deck can cost anywhere from 120 to 500 dollars and yes that's 500 USD just for 70 cards opposedly to you getting 400+cards when buying 400 packs in hearthstone, plus getting spare dust to craft whatever you want, and i have witnessed friends spending similar amounts in competitive mtg, in fact he managed to pay a couple of college semesters when he quitted mtg and sold his decks, the most expensive around? , so please don't talk out of your ass about things you don't know anything about.