It shouldn't even matter how much people spend. You play this game by spending money or time, and usually both. And a F2P game should still respect the people who pay with their time, because they still acknowledge your game, are opponents for those that do pay, and are still part of the larger community that supports this game, with attention and word of mouth promotion and spreading their social media profile, if not the game itself.
And these quest changes basically said "we don't care how much time you spend in the game or how much money, we want you to spend more time in the game than you do now." And that's fine, if the rewards get increased likewise, and probably more, because YOU the company want something extra from us and are making demands.
Instead we got shafted in the process.
And that's where the trust issues come in. IF you are willing to unilateraly make changes like this and make the game worse for everyone, paying or non-paying, than what else are you willing to do?
And that's not even getting into how fucking CYNICAL they approached this by first making outrageous changes and then walking them back a little, in a clear attempt to end up with the changes they had planned in the first place, while pretending they were listening to community feedback.
The total of that situation and how it was handled is what made me (and I spend hundreds per year too) basically stop playing the last few weeks and not purchasing the mini set or even logging in for it, beyond as part of my basic duties to deliver news for this site.
And apparently what me and others did in reaction was heard loud and clear. And I appreciate that at least which is why I did end up buying the Mini Set and will play again.
But not without in the back of my mind the thought that something like this might happen again and the thought that maybe I need to stop spending on this game if it is treating me like this. We'll see how that feeling evolves over the next few weeks as the next expansion starts looming.
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Well if it only was much cheaper...
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This is an explanation we deserved from the very beginning. I think I probably won't buy a preorder as I don't know if I will enjoy this mode. With Battlegrounds we had Beta version which was free to see first before they started to sell cosmetics and those Passes. The same with Duels because it requires cards from main game mode, so you bought cards for it by the way. This time the situation if very different.
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But this is the reveal of the stormwind not the new cards. We saw it already
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For a moment I wondered why Donald Trump got a card for reveal...
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Well I finished the whole adventure in the single attempt. Lucky or it is not that hard.
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Have you noticed that the current roadmap inludes a new game mode separate from Duels? It was confirmed by Kaeyoh on Reddit!
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They will need dust to make them. And to have dust they will have... to pay!
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The same for me. I always disenchanted only multiple copies, never cards going into Wild.
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Very curious if new skins (especially Rexxar) have new voice lines.
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It could be too much confusing for old players...