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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

 

I highly doubt it. The ways to make an important card cheap in an open economy are by increase supply or introduce price cap. I don't think those card seller will be happy with price cap. On the other hand, I doubt that Artifact Dev team will increase the opening rate on the "key" meta cards according to the meta. That is considering temper pack's drop rate. Since player can't craft any cards, increase drop rate of meta cards is the best way to ensure most players can acquire the key meta cards according to the meta.  

However, if the game is really cheap and most players can open up the meta cards easily, I think that the meta will get stale even faster than Hearthstone. Since most player can player meta deck without grinding and cheap. 

I highly doubt it. The ways to make an important card cheap in an open economy are by increase supply or introduce price cap. I don't think those card seller will be happy with price cap. On the other hand, I doubt that Artifact Dev team will increase the opening rate on the "key" meta cards according to the meta. That is considering temper pack's drop rate. Since player can't craft any cards, increase drop rate of meta cards is the best way to ensure most players can acquire the key meta cards according to the meta.  

However, if the game is really cheap and most players can open up the meta cards easily, I think that the meta will get stale even faster than Hearthstone. Since most player can player meta deck without grinding and cheap. 

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. 

I highly doubt that Artifact will impact Hearthstone economy at all. Even if Artifact becomes successful. Why? Because it doesn't aim at casual player as much. I am a casual players who are not very good at playing games. Artifact seems a lot more complicated. 3 boards? Besides that, I think that the game will be harder to balance then Hearthstone in it's future expansion. 

Hearthstone will slowly become cheaper, as Blizzard will throw in more perks for buying the pre-bundle. Hearthstone might lose sales when Artifact is released. However, it won't last long. All digital card games face the same problem. The pay-wall aren't high enough to reduce stale game in future, since almost everyone can access to the same cards with just some grinding or spend less than $100 each expansion. The rarity of cards are purely artificial, there are no limits of how many cards can be print compare to trading card games. The cheaper the game, the fastest the game get stale.

Hearthstone still has the most eye-catching graphic, although it is getting more and more childish. :(