You have to look at things in terms of dust.
24.99 for 3100 dust guaranteed and maybe more is about 31 packs
49.99 for 6200 dust is about 62 packs
40 packs are 49.99
15 packs are 19.99
7 packs are 9.99
2 packs are 2.99
31 packs would be 2x15 and1 x 2.99 so $42.99
you can buy a 60 pack bundle for $70 on pc buy on ios mobile or android you can only buy 40 pack bundles.
so you buy a 40 pack 49.99 and a 15 pack at 19.99 and a 7 pack for 9.99 for 6200 at $80
I'm just using the time-tested 100 dust per pack average but your mileage may vary.
From a dust perspective which is 100% guaranteed to never be less than 3100 and 6200 that is still a decent deal if you are buying dust to craft.
I use amazon coins to buy packs and never use anything else so I get a permanent discount of 20% and sometimes as much as 40% if I get coins through promotions but at 20% off both these bundles are $60 for me. which nets me 9300 dust. or 93 packs would cost me $96 after a 20% discount for roughly 9500 dust.
So dust-wise it's $60 or $96 dollars for roughly the same amount of dust.
You have to keep in mind that these bundles are not marketed toward people who want cards in which case you would clearly just buy regular packs. These bundles are marketed to people like me who have every card in the game and purely buy these for a guaranteed chance to get a golden legendary without having to use 3200 dust on it with the upside that even if it's a duplicate I still get 9300 dust for $60 bucks.
Everything in life is relative. People compare the cost of these bundles to a new video game. That's fine but you have to realize they are not the same thing.
Companies charge whatever they can to make a profit and stay in business. You don't have to buy the bundles but its nice to have an option if you want dust or simply want golden cards.
When was the last time you were at a grocery store and said to yourself wow $12.99a lb for a ribeye steak I could buy 13 McDonalds dollar chicken sandwiches for that...this grocery store is a complete ripoff, ill just eat at McDonald's!
I'm at a point in my life where $100 isn't that much money. For some people, $1000 isn't that much money. Stay within your budget and use money wisely and you will be miles ahead of the game.
Blasting people and berating companies adds nothing meaningful to a discussion about the cost of anything.
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I think they will reveal the expansion at thursday cuz they also did that with New Year announcement and the new format announcement. But we will see. SoonTM inc.
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You know, what could be even better? To announce the new expansion today. :)
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Actually what about "Dalaran museum of monsters"? And they will try to escape from the prison as a team or something?
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Whispers of the Old Gods - Tokio Drift
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As you can see that the "year" theme is representing the first set of the year. (Kraken-Tentacles-WotOG; Mammoth-Wildlife(Dinosaurs)-JtU; Raven-Graveyards-WW) So the first exp this year should be about dragons? And maybe the whole year set theme? The last one about Deahtwing? (Sorry for my photoshop skillz. :-D)
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- Cheaper game and better dust economics.
- Epics would have the same rule as legendary card do.
- Getting cosmetic details for like doing something that you actually need to spend a lot of time on. (Something similar as golden heroes with 500 wins)
- "Weekly" adventure challenges that would be from the older adventures and would garant you something like 2 golden cards. (Rare/Common cuz Epic and Legendary would ruin the dust economy.)
- Better collection and quest sorting as "Hearthstone Mathematics" showed us on their channel and more like changing position of your decks, button to copy your deck code to get quicker acess of your deck for your friends - also for mobile players, better searching bar cuz now you can´t find like "taunt + deathrattle". ( Click here + Click here)
- Achievements!!! -> Even a little ones that would be about clicking like 10 times on rastakhan´s board on the "pyramid" or something similar.
- Hidden not hidden "reward cards" the same as it was in the past with like Old Murk Eye but with a lot more rewards.
- Better reward system for ladder cuz you don´t even have a motivation to play.
- Older cardbacks and skins and also doing a little story animations they did for them in the past. ( Click here )
- Something like older adventures cuz I really enjoyed them the most of all PVE adventures now around.
- Buffing cards that didn´t ever see any play just a little bit like Bestial Wrath , Illidan Stormrage and more so if you open them you aren´t that sad as a new player cuz you opened something not "metabreaking" but decent.
- Nerfing cards in wild/standard that are popular and unfun to play against - Barnes, Kingsbane, Aluneth, Jade Idol. (It´s always sad to lose just because one topdeck like I mentioned.)
- Better and detailed informations about patches/expansions/updates. (There is every time something new that wasn´t on the list like "Jaina nerf" and more that we need to discover, that shouldn´t be even a thing!)
- Tournament mode and maybe even new mode.
- Both rewards for wild and standard ladder. (Maybe also something for tryharding arena)
- Autosquelch for tilting players.
- More events like we saw with Hakkar cardback.
- More statistics of your account.
- More rewards for achieving goals with your hero/account/collection.
- Being able to buy older expansions/adventures from wild via in-game shop.
- Being able to buy older adventures more times but you would need to complete them again and also complete heroic to get the cardback. (Or make events to complete your collection in wild - like "The Goblins Week" which you would have to complete something like "win 10 games in wild to get GVG pack")
- And as my last thing would be Underwater expansion with Atlantida theme but with wow/hs characters.
I´m really sorry If my intentions are bad or not the same as yours, have a good day/night everyone!
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From mine point of view it isn´t that bad. We´ll get a few new devs to show up and create maybe finally tournament mode, who knows. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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2GB update wtf?
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No changes to Barnes? No changes to Even Shaman (Mainly thing from below for 7 mana or 5 mana)? No changes to odd rogue and kingsbane rogue? Nice, that´s going to be a boring year. Don´t judge me, I´m not sceptical, but this isn´t really funny to me to play against these decks.