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There's never been a relationship between blizzard and the community. They sell games and we play games. You might think that makes us parters but in reality we are rivals with pretty much opposite goals, they want as much of our money as they can and we want to enjoy games with as little money as possible.

Why people care that blizzard is talking to them and pretenting to be on their side is beyond me, all they should care about is monetization, and this has only gotten worse over the years, wether blizzard communicates or not.

 Lol my dude what are you talking about

 

People want to enjoy the game. Blizzard wants people to enjoy the game, because increased enjoyment = increased engagement = more spend. 

 

Since the most popular mode is BG right now, they need to convert those players into actual players of the card game. That means more events and a lower barrier of entry.

To assume that they have opposite goals is silly. Companies make money by giving players what they want. I've been buying the mega bundle for the last few sets because I've been enjoying the game and the changes they make. I buy skins once in a while if it's something I really like. 

 

I sell RL trading cards as a side job, so when I open $400 of packs and pull $180 in value, then go back to Hearthstone and get an entire set with $80 worth of spend, I really don't see a problem with it. 

People only want to enjoy games that they can afford. And they make you feel like you can afford this game with monthly expansions instead of telling you "5 years from now, you'll have spent $80 on 15 expansions and not even get half of the epic and legendary cards in you collection".

You do not get an entire set with $80 in Hearthstone, not even close, not even in 2014 when monetization was still decent. Either way, you would be happier and enjoy the game more if you got your "entire" set at a lower price. And it's totally irrelevant to this discussion what you do with your money outside of hearthstone and what is the value of your RL trading cards. 

You pull $0 in value, in Hearthstone or in real life, cards are worth nothing. Whatever story you tell yourself when you open or sell packs is fine but don't pretend you or blizzard sell cards to make us enjoy your game. It's just a simple business and people don't do business for other people they do it for themself. People's enjoyement is just a means to an end. And they achieve this with an entire department of people who get paid to analyse data, behaviors, psychology to come up with predatory and addictive tactics, that you call "engagement" and "relationship" and "communication".

But fair enough let me rephrase what I said, I won't speak for the community : Blizzard and I have opposite goals, they want me to spend thousands of dollars for their game over the years and I want to play and enjoy their game without spending anymore because I have already spent more than a thousand and I should be able to enjoy the game forever at that point, I couldn't care less about the communication and relationship between Blizzard and the community as long as monetization gets worse and they get more simps like me to spend thousands on a video game, and you are a simp with a different point of view. Don't be offended, we are all Blizzard simps. 

 And yes, I know this game is FTP and if you play enough you can get everything for free. I know someone is going to make this point like it matters to the people who already spent / who can't play a lot.

There's never been a relationship between blizzard and the community. They sell games and we play games. You might think that makes us parters but in reality we are rivals with pretty much opposite goals, they want as much of our money as they can and we want to enjoy games with as little money as possible.

Why people care that blizzard is talking to them and pretenting to be on their side is beyond me, all they should care about is monetization, and this has only gotten worse over the years, wether blizzard communicates or not.