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Let's compare side-by-side

Hearthstone - Free to play
Artifact - $20.00

Hearthstone - 50g - 180g per day (if you complete all your wins, plus your quest - not counting arena runs). Also offer's reduced prices for bulk purchasing of packs not exceeding $1.50/pack
Artifact - $2/pack

Hearthstone - no card trading
Artifact - card trading

Hearthstone - deck sharing
Artifact - deck sharing

Hearthstone - 9 playable decks to start, plus additional quests to unlock more, tavern brawl for a free pack every week.
Artifact - 2 playable decks to start.

Hearthstone - large e-sports participation
Artifact - no e-sports participation at this point.

Sorry, but artifact doesn't even come close to where Hearthstone is at. Even the purchasing of packs is considerably better than Artifact. In fact, the only people I've heard considering going to Artifact are the ones who complain about Hearthstone being "unfair" the most. Otherwise its a general positive attitude towards the game. This expansion has seen more criticism than most, but overall Hearthstone is still a powerhouse compared to other online tcg's.

 LMAO. Artifact will have a much larger eSport scene on day one. They already said the prize pools will start at 1 million dollars, and you think that won't bring a ton of people over to Artifact? 

 

 A big prize pool is nice, but HS has a 5-year head start. The game hasn't even been released, don't get ahead of yourself.

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I can't wait for the time when people complain about the price of a tier 1 deck in Artifact. It will definitely be more expensive then Hearthstone for sure since it is a open economy. I suppose Valve main objective is earning money by charging commission in the market rather than by selling card packs. 

 

 The Artifact Dev team said there's no way cards will cost hundreds of dollars, but we have no details on how they'll do that, what the cap will be, etc. I think the decks will end up being mad expensive

It'll definitely siphon off a bit of HS's player base, but you're high if you think the marketing team will directly change proces as a result