Was sitting in the Blizzard launcher after exiting WoW just now and the little yellow package icon appeared saying I had a new gift, a 150 free card pack welcome back gift for HS. Sure enough, there's 75 Standard and 75 Castle Nathria packs. That was a bit of a surprise, but now I have that going for me which is nice. Of course, the game froze up irrevocably trying to open the first pack.
Edit: Restarted and got hunter Legendries in the 3rd and 4th Standard packs. This is kinda fun, maybe they will succeed in getting me to play again.
Searching around, it seems like this is a marketing experiment they've been playing with since July, initially in Europe, and they seem to be now delivering like 20, 80, or 150 packs to people who aren't super active players today, somewhat at random from what I have seen so far.
Seems like an experiment to see if the bigger reward results in more subsequent purchases or activity. For $170 worth of free packs I guess I can give them a MAU at least lol.
I looked through everything and there's no Returning Player Experience available to me (that I can find). I may have already done an older version of it a year or two ago.
Was sitting in the Blizzard launcher after exiting WoW just now and the little yellow package icon appeared saying I had a new gift, a 150 free card pack welcome back gift for HS. Sure enough, there's 75 Standard and 75 Castle Nathria packs. That was a bit of a surprise, but now I have that going for me which is nice. Of course, the game froze up irrevocably trying to open the first pack.
Edit: Restarted and got hunter Legendries in the 3rd and 4th Standard packs. This is kinda fun, maybe they will succeed in getting me to play again.
I'm sure the people who buy the preorders are loving this. Blizzard so desperate to bring bodies back to their dying game.
Was sitting in the Blizzard launcher after exiting WoW just now and the little yellow package icon appeared saying I had a new gift, a 150 free card pack welcome back gift for HS. Sure enough, there's 75 Standard and 75 Castle Nathria packs. That was a bit of a surprise, but now I have that going for me which is nice. Of course, the game froze up irrevocably trying to open the first pack.
Edit: Restarted and got hunter Legendries in the 3rd and 4th Standard packs. This is kinda fun, maybe they will succeed in getting me to play again.
I'm sure the people who buy the preorders are loving this. Blizzard so desperate to bring bodies back to their dying game.
Well, it doesn't give you anything that's in the current pre-order (unless you get this offer after the expansion releases). I'm sure they considered the potential negative effect on the happiness of their hard-core players, but then those people are so invested in the game that they're probably not going to quit over some casuals who don't actually play anymore getting some free stuff which has no impact on anything in a game with no economy. If anything, it will at least temporarily produce a fresh crop of people to crush easily :)
Well, it doesn't give you anything that's in the current pre-order (unless you get this offer after the expansion releases). I'm sure they considered the potential negative effect on the happiness of their hard-core players, but then those people are so invested in the game that they're probably not going to quit over some casuals who don't actually play anymore getting some free stuff which has no impact on anything in a game with no economy. If anything, it will at least temporarily produce a fresh crop of people to crush easily :)
Well, the Standard packs would contain cards after the release, but with a small collection, you would also get cards from all previous ones.
Not sure about the returning player decks as I was never away, but maybe you need to complete some of these as well:
Returning players who have been away for 90 or more days will be eligible for a free deck just for logging in. New players will be eligible for their free deck after completing the tutorial, the Starter Quest quest chain, graduating from the New Player Ranks (Ranks 40-1), and then returning to the main menu.
New with Patch 24.0, returning players will be able to claim these returning decks each time they are eligible, instead of just once per account! New with Patch 24.6, instead of immediately picking a deck from the below, players will get to borrow all these decks for one week following their eligibility, so they can try them all out before making their selection.
What if I wrote a really charming email? Saying I have one leg and this game is all I have. You'd have to be a terrible person to reject. Both me and the customer service member
Last week I got back to Hearthstone after four years, today I read on Reddit about a guy getting 150 pack and googling got me here. Do you think there’s a chance of me getting them too? I have no quest line or whatever for getting them and no gift in battle.net either, no idea how blizzard works these days
It is hard for me to get back on ladder since I have basically no cards from the expansions Rastakhan’s rumble onward. I also didn’t get to try new decks from each class, got to pick one straight away and now I think I could have picked better one
Last week I got back to Hearthstone after four years, today I read on Reddit about a guy getting 150 pack and googling got me here. Do you think there’s a chance of me getting them too? I have no quest line or whatever for getting them and no gift in battle.net either, no idea how blizzard works these days
It is hard for me to get back on ladder since I have basically no cards from the expansions Rastakhan’s rumble onward. I also didn’t get to try new decks from each class, got to pick one straight away and now I think I could have picked better one
Thanks for answers
I logged yesterday into my account I haven't been using for at least 5 years and received no packs. Zero. Null. Nada.
Giving packs to only a certain type of players is really disgusting. I refuse to play this game and even though I don't like Marvel Snap that much, I sincerely hope that thye're gonna steal 90% of Hearthstone players and Hearthstone devs get their lesson.
This is beyond pathetic. Blizzard going to forums to say hey old hearthstone players, please log in and maybe you will get free stuff. Then the clowns running this dumpster fire of a game can go to their next meeting and talk about how positive word of mouth on the new expansion is bringing back old players.
Blizzard is dead, Activision is shit...and if you still give money to this censorship supporting, woman harassing, greedy, cynical company. You must not be paying attention.
I stopped playing after Witchwood & just started again a few weeks ago. ALL of my cards were obsolete for standard, so something would definitely have been appreciated.
I ended up dusting nearly all my old collection. Now I hate that I did that, because I never expected I'd want to play wild. The current game is just infuriating for me as a mage. Despite having a very powerful fun deck, I'm constantly destroyed by all the big OTK cards like Purified Shard, Jailer, Denathrius, etc. The abysmal curses are going to be my breaking point.
Was sitting in the Blizzard launcher after exiting WoW just now and the little yellow package icon appeared saying I had a new gift, a 150 free card pack welcome back gift for HS. Sure enough, there's 75 Standard and 75 Castle Nathria packs. That was a bit of a surprise, but now I have that going for me which is nice. Of course, the game froze up irrevocably trying to open the first pack.
Edit: Restarted and got hunter Legendries in the 3rd and 4th Standard packs. This is kinda fun, maybe they will succeed in getting me to play again.
Well gratz, and welcome back!
I think, but I'm not sure, that if you go through the Returning Player experience that you also get this: https://www.hearthpwn.com/news/9550-updated-free-decks-for-new-and-returning-players
Which is basically a week to try out 6 decks and then get to choose the one you want to keep, which gives you the full deck.
If you see a bad post on the forum use the report function under it, so I or someone else of the moderation team can take care of it!
Oh cool, thanks!
Searching around, it seems like this is a marketing experiment they've been playing with since July, initially in Europe, and they seem to be now delivering like 20, 80, or 150 packs to people who aren't super active players today, somewhat at random from what I have seen so far.
Seems like an experiment to see if the bigger reward results in more subsequent purchases or activity. For $170 worth of free packs I guess I can give them a MAU at least lol.
I looked through everything and there's no Returning Player Experience available to me (that I can find). I may have already done an older version of it a year or two ago.
I'm sure the people who buy the preorders are loving this. Blizzard so desperate to bring bodies back to their dying game.
So salty, I love it
Well, it doesn't give you anything that's in the current pre-order (unless you get this offer after the expansion releases). I'm sure they considered the potential negative effect on the happiness of their hard-core players, but then those people are so invested in the game that they're probably not going to quit over some casuals who don't actually play anymore getting some free stuff which has no impact on anything in a game with no economy. If anything, it will at least temporarily produce a fresh crop of people to crush easily :)
Well, the Standard packs would contain cards after the release, but with a small collection, you would also get cards from all previous ones.
Not sure about the returning player decks as I was never away, but maybe you need to complete some of these as well:
wheres my 150 card packs? Do they not reward loyal players?
You got to play the game and the reward track. These packs are to get players back.
Knights of the hallows end reward track? which rewards track?
What if I wrote a really charming email? Saying I have one leg and this game is all I have. You'd have to be a terrible person to reject. Both me and the customer service member
Hello
Last week I got back to Hearthstone after four years, today I read on Reddit about a guy getting 150 pack and googling got me here. Do you think there’s a chance of me getting them too? I have no quest line or whatever for getting them and no gift in battle.net either, no idea how blizzard works these days
It is hard for me to get back on ladder since I have basically no cards from the expansions Rastakhan’s rumble onward. I also didn’t get to try new decks from each class, got to pick one straight away and now I think I could have picked better one
Thanks for answers
I logged yesterday into my account I haven't been using for at least 5 years and received no packs. Zero. Null. Nada.
I don't think you're getting them either.
when i saw this news i log into my account and i got big dick from bli$$ard
Giving packs to only a certain type of players is really disgusting. I refuse to play this game and even though I don't like Marvel Snap that much, I sincerely hope that thye're gonna steal 90% of Hearthstone players and Hearthstone devs get their lesson.
This is beyond pathetic. Blizzard going to forums to say hey old hearthstone players, please log in and maybe you will get free stuff. Then the clowns running this dumpster fire of a game can go to their next meeting and talk about how positive word of mouth on the new expansion is bringing back old players.
Blizzard is dead, Activision is shit...and if you still give money to this censorship supporting, woman harassing, greedy, cynical company. You must not be paying attention.
I only got 20 packs, better than nothing I guess. I'll probably just check out DK and quit after 3 days again.
I was not offered anything.
I stopped playing after Witchwood & just started again a few weeks ago. ALL of my cards were obsolete for standard, so something would definitely have been appreciated.
I ended up dusting nearly all my old collection. Now I hate that I did that, because I never expected I'd want to play wild. The current game is just infuriating for me as a mage. Despite having a very powerful fun deck, I'm constantly destroyed by all the big OTK cards like Purified Shard, Jailer, Denathrius, etc. The abysmal curses are going to be my breaking point.
That is wierd. I heard about it and went back to play after almost a year absent. I wasn't offered anything.