All the posts about how Obfuscated the battle pass, but we are ALSO getting a mini-expansion 3x a year!!
More cards + mini-expansion = more packs needed to get what you want.
Whenever new cards come out, people need to buy packs to stay competitive in ranked. Blizzard can quite conveniently cloak all of this as "we're just giving you more updates and more cards!" This is also breaking a promise, the promise made by Ben Brode when he was still working at Hearthstone.
In reality, it just costs more. The mini-expansion is a shameless cash grab for anyone with half a brain.
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we still dont know the rarities of the new set and how many packs we need for that miniset... dont open more packs until new set is release after u get all comons and rares
So it’ll be slightly more expensive in exchange for a much less stale meta? Sign me up. Obviously, best case scenario would be for the mini expansion to be free, but Blizz exists as a business to make money, so I expect to be charged and don’t mind it at all.
the mini expansion is nothing but good IMO.
(though Psy is right, the devaluation of daily quests makes the mini expansion more expensive, and that is unfortunate.)
there is a huge difference, the game becomes 35% more expensive, but you prob will need an example to understand. example: buying 3 expansions 3x $50,- per expansion now becomes 3 expansions 3x $50 and 3x $35 per mini-expansion from 150 now to 255 ! that is a huge cash grab! If you don't see the difference between the one or the other you are probably one of the ignorent hearthstone wales that blizzard shareholders enjoy so much. Keep it up for the next 5 years, your wallet will love you for it.
I like it, the meta quickly turns stale in between expansions.
The OP isn't saying he doesn't like new cards added, or a change of the meta halfway during the expansion, he is saying it makes the game more expensive! and it's ripping people off. And he is correct! Blizzard is already earning a lot of money with Hearthstone, this greed will make them a lot more! They will have really happy stakeholders If stupid people, like some whales, who already invested so much, will just keep paying for it. Activision fired more than 400 employers and with tricks like these, they will earn 30-50% more revenue!
And if you can't afford to spend MORE money it means you won't be able to keep up and minimize your games with fewer decks. Blizzard just said a big fuck you to you too! because you won't be able to keep up unless you play 12hours a day and farm as much gold as you can. Good luck with that!
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I'm surprised it took this long for people to realize how greedy blizzard has been! People who think they doing this just to counter your stale meta gameplay on the ladder you really gotta wake up to the real world! Or stop paying for the game with your dad's credit card, because you have no sense of value for money.
For $80 you can pay one time for a great AAA game and play them in any way you want with access to all the content, while for HS you pay $80 and you still get a 2nd job and grind every day because you don't want to miss out, do it 6 times a year including mini-expansions now.
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All the posts about how Obfuscated the battle pass, but we are ALSO getting a mini-expansion 3x a year!!
More cards + mini-expansion = more packs needed to get what you want.
Whenever new cards come out, people need to buy packs to stay competitive in ranked.
Blizzard can quite conveniently cloak all of this as "we're just giving you more updates and more cards!"
This is also breaking a promise, the promise made by Ben Brode when he was still working at Hearthstone.
In reality, it just costs more. The mini-expansion is a shameless cash grab for anyone with half a brain.
" In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded."
by this logic isn't any new card a cash grab?
I like it, the meta quickly turns stale in between expansions.
no
This all would have been fine, as already said, the meta gets stasle between expansions - more content was/should be a good thing.
But everyone's 60g quests just became 35-40g quests...
we still dont know the rarities of the new set and how many packs we need for that miniset... dont open more packs until new set is release after u get all comons and rares
So it’ll be slightly more expensive in exchange for a much less stale meta? Sign me up. Obviously, best case scenario would be for the mini expansion to be free, but Blizz exists as a business to make money, so I expect to be charged and don’t mind it at all.
the mini expansion is nothing but good IMO.
(though Psy is right, the devaluation of daily quests makes the mini expansion more expensive, and that is unfortunate.)
there is a huge difference, the game becomes 35% more expensive, but you prob will need an example to understand.
example:
buying 3 expansions 3x $50,- per expansion now becomes
3 expansions 3x $50 and 3x $35 per mini-expansion
from 150 now to 255 ! that is a huge cash grab! If you don't see the difference between the one or the other you are probably one of the ignorent hearthstone wales that blizzard shareholders enjoy so much. Keep it up for the next 5 years, your wallet will love you for it.
The OP isn't saying he doesn't like new cards added, or a change of the meta halfway during the expansion, he is saying it makes the game more expensive! and it's ripping people off. And he is correct! Blizzard is already earning a lot of money with Hearthstone, this greed will make them a lot more! They will have really happy stakeholders If stupid people, like some whales, who already invested so much, will just keep paying for it. Activision fired more than 400 employers and with tricks like these, they will earn 30-50% more revenue!
And if you can't afford to spend MORE money it means you won't be able to keep up and minimize your games with fewer decks.
Blizzard just said a big fuck you to you too! because you won't be able to keep up unless you play 12hours a day and farm as much gold as you can. Good luck with that!
- Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create -
I'm surprised it took this long for people to realize how greedy blizzard has been!
People who think they doing this just to counter your stale meta gameplay on the ladder you really gotta wake up to the real world!
Or stop paying for the game with your dad's credit card, because you have no sense of value for money.
For $80 you can pay one time for a great AAA game and play them in any way you want with access to all the content,
while for HS you pay $80 and you still get a 2nd job and grind every day because you don't want to miss out, do it 6 times a year including mini-expansions now.
" In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded."