Blizzard Rethinking Wild Pack Purchases
Ben Brode was out on reddit this evening and stated the Hearthstone team has been thinking about allowing pack purchases for Wild content due to their additional focus on the gamemode this year. Unfortunately, they aren't ready to say anything else right now.
The thread, "Why can't we buy Wild packs?" has been a question since Standard became a thing back in 2016. Unfortunately, nothing has been said about Adventure content but we can only hope that they too returns should packs for Goblins vs Gnomes and The Grand Tournament make a comeback to the shop.
Quote from Ben BrodeWe've been rethinking our stance on this with our additional focus on Wild this year. Will update you as we have more concrete information.
becouse the point is make more money not make players happy.
It is a cheaper way to get dust, true. But the dust mechanic is inherently very costly. You have to dust the equivalent of four legendaries to craft one legendary. So it's a lot harder than you might think to determine when it's really a better value to give up the chance of actually getting the cards you want from a certain expansion, for the 4x more expensive route of building it with dust from slightly cheaper packs that have no chance of ever drawing those cards and saving you the cost of crafting them.
So I think Blizzard has some leeway. The loss in offering Wild packs at a discount might be easily offset by that small incentive.
You guys are funny, really. Competitive wild format is mostly for people who spend more money that usual, even if it can also be played by casual players. This is absolutely impossible that the wild packs will be same or less expensive than standard. Blizzard want people to play standard and to buy standard packs, not wild. So, no matter how we will be able to buy wild packs, buying cheaper packs that way will not happen. Don't expect something else.
You can expect wild packs to come back with a much more expensive price than standard.
I never bought Naxx, and regret it soooooo much. Please blizzard let us buy adventures/packs for wild!
I bought it but dusted all of the legendaries LUL
IMO there is a fair chance that they're gonna do it
Blizzard loves our money so much
As long as you can use gold, not just cash dollah! (greedy blizzard)
I don't understand why people want to purchase wild packs in the first place. Surely it would be more efficient to just craft whatever wild cards you need?
I need all them.
Person that wants to purchase wild packs here. I was always a fan of wild. However, I don't want to waste precious dust on cards that i can't open from packs. I'm not the only one that doesn't want to waste dust. I rather waste my gold on packs than actually opening a bunch of packs until i can i craft the card i want.
money money money money mooooney
If they reduce the cost then YES everything in the game should be purchasable
You don't need to be part of their team to point out that they should keep selling old content from business standpoint. It's like car salesman realizing that he should sell those cars on discount that haven't been selling on years.
is this supposed to be good news or something?
more cash grabbing in a game that is more expensive than basically any physical or digital cardgame? have you guys seen how much time and resources it takes to get a good deck you actually want to play going? it's insane. . I've been playing from Naxx and I still am missing a ton of cards, still there's a ton of epics and legendaries I've never even seen drop from a pack. either lower the costs and/or increase the dust gain, you hacks, don't give me more overpriced items to skip over in the shop. rolling out the adventures out of the game was a dumb move anyway, that goes without saying.
While i got all previous adventures and also GvG and TGT more or less completed except for a few junk cards, i'd like new players and everyone in general to be able to buy past packs and adventures.
They are content, they are part of the game so why not? The more content there is, the better. Playing the pve mode of adventures is so much fun imo, and overall being able to purchase these old packs and adventures will encourage and allow ppl to play Wild. I dont play it much myself, but i never dust cards (except dupes) so i may play it in future, who knows.
I'd like, however, that those Wild packs and Adventures came discounted, as it's something it can only be played in Wild, which is half the game. Therefore a 50% discount would be appropriate imo.
Wild packs are okay except TGt. What I really want is the Naxx adventure!
Never will be discount to wild packs, because there is no wild dust.
if it's half price, maybe. it's only useful for half the game, so it'd be only fair, right?