Get 2000 Arcane Dust? Blizzard Makes Up for Pity Timer Bug
Just over a week ago, Blizzard announced that there was an issue which led to some players getting one fewer Epic or Legendary card than they should have from packs. If you were hurt by this bug, you have been sent an email letting you know and 2000 dust has been credited to your account which will let you craft a Legendary card and an Epic card!
No idea what you should craft? You should save it for the upcoming Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion and either spend it on something that looks cool or use it a few days into it once we have a good idea what Legendaries are going to be solid.
No official post has yet been made on the resolution, and it's possible that dust hasn't been finished being distributed. We expect an official response shortly.
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Quote from BlizzardGreetings,
Patch 8.4 for Hearthstone introduced new infrastructure to prepare for the recently announced improvements to card drop rates. As a side effect of this change, a small number of players who opened packs after the patch received one fewer Legendary or Epic card than they would have otherwise. We have identified you as one of those players, and we've given you 2000 Arcane Dust to use however you want!
Thank you for your continued support, and we'll see you at the Inn!
Hearthstone Team
I'm really pissed that I didn't get the dust, I've opened many packs recently and got nothing good
They're crediting for the loss of legendary and epic which dusted if owned is only worth 500 dust... Now all these ppl get to chose whatever legendary they want while most of us sit here feeling cheated. In that case Blizzard should of gave 2000 dust to everyone to avoid this problem.
Such BS..
Okay your logic is the same as a 5 year old child..... because yeah lets give everyone dust even to those that did open legendaries right?? easy fix right?! BUT what about the people that were effected by the bug that got 0 legenadries but only got 2k dust so now your sitting with your legendary be it good or bad ones + 2k dust while others only have the dust thats fair right?! only bcoz your salty you didnt get dust my god people are dumb todays generation...... /facepalm logic
So you got nothing better than to come and bitch about ppls comment eh? You're like that old man that sits on his front porch bitching at kids walking by. Grow up.
I did not get a legendary or an epic in the at least 10 packs I've opened last week.
You're right that 2k dust is not fair if ppl already got a legendary. But maybe the ppl that didnt get anything could get the dust value of 500. Ppl that got the 2k now get their pick of the litter for a legendary or an epic. Ppl that got a legendary or epic never got to chose... I feel like the dust value of 500 would of been fair to hand out, 2k seems too much.
Makes me wish I got the bug... coulda got a real shit legendary instead of my pick of the litter.
Do yourself a favor and don't comment back.
Hahaha, you actually bitched about this 4 times so far. Jesus christ go get a job or something.
wheres my DUST Blizzard I know your scrolling?
hahahahahaha i got 6 legendarys and 16 epic . one golden legendary and 2 golden epic.
and you got only 2000 dust .
I got it on my fresh US account, on which i opened at max. 10 packs since i created it...
in those 10 packs you were suppose to have gotten a legendary/epic which you didnt due to bug and blizz saw that on there side so gave you 2k dust WHAT DO PEOPLE NOT UNDERSTAND?
I opened roughly 4-5 arena packs in the last two weeks and i got 2000 dust
since hearthstone itself is a huge rng bullshit clownfiesta it only makes sense to determine who gets dust and who doesnt by RNG^^
I Praise yogg saron for my 2k dust
If nothing else, what this reward has done is raise awareness that Blizzard have implemented a woefully inadequate system to try account for "bad" distribution of higher rarity cards for some people. You get a free Legendary if you don't open one for 40 packs, regardless of whether you opened 1 in each of 5 consecutive packs before the "bad run". This woefully inadequate system had a bug in it (in other words, it didn't actually work, so in fact it was the same as if there was no system). People who should have been rewarded by this phantom system were not. They have now been given 4 times the reward they were "entitled" to, even though many of them didn't even know the system existed and didn't feel any more "hard done by" than anyone else who didn't get a legendary in their few last packs.
The people who would have preferred that Blizzard implemented a better system than "no legendary for 39 consecutive packs" are naturally upset about this incredible reward because they are likely going into the 30s regularly per legendary but not quite being *that* unlucky that they hit 39 (a much bigger problem than a "bad run" in a game that relies so much on the power level of its rarest cards). The bizarre thing is that people who have not even opened 39 packs during the period of the bug seem to have been rewarded with 2000 dust, while others who have opened that many without the legendary have not received the dust. Perhaps the tracking of this bug was also bugged?
The result is that it doesn't look as though Blizzard really do know who failed to get the bonus card(s) and they just put the 2000 dust rewards into the RNG machine. And some people think no one would get upset about that (true or otherwise)? It no longer matters whether Blizzard did the right thing in the right way - there is now sufficient doubt so both the reward and the Pity Timer have become something of a PR disaster in my opinion. Which is ironic but that's what you get for bad design.
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meh... I didnt get it and yea its sad because I had many packs (not 40... but maybe 20)
well who cares yet still even if I had the dust I was gonna write this:
This action rewarding people who are bugged more than who are not! and in a huge way even if it was just 1600 dust it was okey but this is whole 2000 dust 1 legendary+1 epic you wish wich is huge (maybe if it was 1 random legendary from set you were supposed to find and 2 random epic it should be ok)
I am a person that like to going par with others as long as they dont pay money and this put me sadly behind a lot! :(
I got some dust now!
Lets keep the hope alive..
Same for me.... i bought and oppened packs during dat time frame and no Legendaries and no 2k Dust something is very wrong about this.
Claps
they have data
Why are these cunts even posting sjhit like this I mean kids will get butthurt over it. JUST DONT POST IT ASSHOLES>
I highly doubt that there is someone manualy sending dust to players. They certainly have tons of data of all players and process is most possibly automated so, NO, they didn't forget about you. If you should have open a legendary/epic card and you didn't, you get 2000 dust, simple as that. So stop whining.
BTW nice gesture of Blizz
Edit: Moreover Pity Timer is set related, so if you opened 39 classic packs then 39 WOG packs then 39 MSG packs and then 39 UNG packs so 156 packs in total you are still not guaranteed by Pity Timer to get Legendary, even tho this is very extreme example.
Are you saying that people like me who paid for packs and open them at ONCE during that period are LYING , or maybe you think i as 30 yo can`t count simple math!? Because 36 +4 +13 is over 40 for sure, so i don`t know what their math or system is, but it is simply wrong!