Hearthpwn

Bruh it clears the board WDYM

But evolved Kobold actually saw play

Please don’t start this rumour mill shit, Ben gave the reason why he left and there is literally no reason for us to speculate beyond that.

Yeah now my beast paladin and elemental druid decks are ruined 

Because lifesteal lets the shadow boxer do potentially 39 dmg, and only with 2 cards

"Jesus Peter Whalen, brush your teeth", when you try to be edgy but just look like an ass

At least itll give you a chance to try the cards in the expansion

They don’t “target” anybody, it’s not blizzards fault people are stupid

You guys know Blizzard has to make money right?

Evasion

Tragically overrated 

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They’re gonna milk this game as much as possible until Artifact and Gwent 1.0 comes out aren’t they? It was bad enough that they were charging $50 to preorder loot boxes, but now there’s a second preorder option, the Mega Bundle.

For those who don’t know, the regular preorder bundle is $50, and comes with 50 cardpacks, the Mecha-Jaraxxus cardback, and a free golden legendary card.

Now the Mega Bundle on the other hand is $80! What do you get for 80? You still get the cardback and golden legendary, but instead of 50 cardpacks you get 80, as well as an alternate Warlock hero portrait: Mecha-Jaraxxus.

That’s it. That’s all you get. For $30 more dollars you get a few more glorified loot boxes and a skin. $80 for a hero portrait, and it’s one that the majority of people will want too. This is beyond ridiculous. For two years they have been offering hero portraits for free where we had to do something to get them, like play WoW, or go to a Fireside Gathering, or beat Frozen Throne. They were all great. But now, they’ve locked a skin of a very popular character behind a $80 preorder paywall, that once the expansion launches you can’t get it anymore. They also said there are no plans to rerelease Mecha-Jaraxxus, so anyone who wanted to get that skin are out of luck.

I cannot fathom how ludicrous this is. $80 and all they’re offering is a skin, a skin that is highly popular. I know why they did it too, because they know people love Jaraxxus so they made him an expensive preorder bonus.

I beg you, do not buy this Mega Bundle. Vote with your wallet. Show ActiBlizz this is too far and horribly anti-consumer.

EDIT

So there's been a lot of the same comments in this thread just boggle my mind. There are people actually defending this awful bundle. So I'm gonna address every frequent comment that I've been seeing.

• It's a good deal! 80 packs for $80!

First of all, it's asinine to even preorder loot boxes to begin with, but on face value, $80 for 80 packs does sound good when usually the preorders are 50 packs for $50. However, all that became null and void when the Witchwood came out. Witchwood's preorder wasn't the usual 50 packs for $50, it was 70 packs! The moment they did that bundle, a bundle a lot of people loved might I add, it makes the other preorder bundles look like shit in comparison.

Not only that, but $80 for what is ultimately a preorder for loot boxes is absurd. You know what could be done with $80? You could get a shitload of Steam games, games that are not on sale, right now, and still have money left over. You could get two $40 Nintendo Switch games. Ultimately, $80 for 80 packs is pretty crazy. 100 packs or more would've been better, or maybe include some more Golden Legendaries. Speaking of...

• But you get a Golden Legendary in the Mega Bundle, which becomes any Legendary you want!

You also get one in the normal $50 preorder as well, making that part of the bundle ultimately irrelevant.

• The hero portrait is ugly anyway!

Okay, what does that have to do with it? That's pretty subjective.

• You're not entitled to the hero portrait anyway!

Ah yes, the classic "entitled" argument. The ultimate strawman of any shill when they can't think of any else to say. 

• Who cares? It's just cosmetic

Then why do Casinowatch loot boxes sell like hotcakes? Why did people make a big deal about Nemsy? Guess it's not "just cosmetic" or else people wouldn't give a shit about them. Cosmetics are fun, they let people look differently, and that's why people like them. But besides, that, is for the past two years we were getting this shit for free. When the $10 hero portraits weren't selling, Actiblizz gave them out for free instead as rewards, and people really liked that. Now we have a hero portrait that is locked behind a limited time $80 preorder paywall, so once the preorder is gone that hero portrait cannot be earned anymore. They know people really want Mecha-Jaraxxus since Jaraxxus is one of the most popular Hearthstone characters, and people want Warlock portraits, so they made him a preorder incentive. GET HIM BEFORE HE'S GONE FOREVER!

The argument ultimately is more about the fact the hero portrait is locked to the $80 preorder. I could make the argument all day that it's a waste to preorder loot boxes and how the Mega Bundle is not so Mega, but the fact of the matter is a hero portrait is locked behind a steep preorder paywall. Why is that a big deal? Because we've been getting them for free for the past two years, and if people buy this (Which most likely they will judging from the comments I'm seeing here and on Reddit) then ActiBlizz will start doing more of these "Mega Bundles." Hero portraits will become locked to preorders and we won't get them for free anymore, for these bundles will make so much money, and because people didn't stop and say "no."

 Oh yeah all they did was spend time, money and effort into making it so obviously it should be free. “$80 and all they’re offering is a skin”, did they remove the 80packs and golden legendary for the bundle? “Witchwood's preorder wasn't the usual 50 packs for $50, it was 70 packs!“, because Witchwood was the first set in the new rotation and making the packs ‘cheaper’ is good way to get players invested into buying future bundles in the rotation, they did it because they had an actual incentive to do it. “Not only that, but $80 for what is ultimately a preorder for loot boxes is absurd“, so just because something is a loot box it means it’s worthless appearently? But the packs have a minimum garanteed value and Activision-Blizzard have never claimed that they would contain anything above that minimum value except in cases where the pity timer is triggered. “$80 for 80 packs is pretty crazy”, yeah it is that’s why it also includes the hero portrait and the golden legendary.” You also get one in the normal $50 preorder as well, making that part of the bundle ultimately irrelevant.”, True. “Okay, what does that have to do with it? That's pretty subjective.”, Also true. “Ah yes, the classic "entitled" argument. The ultimate strawman of any shill when they can't think of any else to say”, are you actually countering a strawman argument with your own strawman argument??? “Guess it's not "just cosmetic" or else people wouldn't give a shit about them.”, woah I didn’t realise that people’s feelings change facts now the hero portrait is in fact actually just cosmetic I don’t even see how this is an argument. “and if people buy this (Which most likely they will judging from the comments I'm seeing here and on Reddit)”, it’s because most of us live in a society where we actually compensate each for the work that we do.

Ultimately your argument boils down to “I should get the thing for free because I want it” and don’t even dare say it’s because you supported the game it’s not like you played hearthstone out of the kindness of your heart you played it cause you wanted to simple as that

Ben Brode talked about this in his Q and A, basically they said that they found that revealing a lot cards about 2-3 weaks before release creates more hype for the expansion than slowly releasing cards over the course of 1-2 months.

Nope people already cutting him

N'Zoth: "I require a powerful soldier to stand by the side of an OLD GOD as his first mate.......but who?  YES I KNOW THE 1/1 PIRATE WITH THE OLD HOOK!!".

Since all of the god cards are 10 mana this might have been made to counter them. Also now reno lock can run 2 total board clears.