Players Receiving Scholomance Academy Packs From The Season Chest Was Unintended
Blizzard reports that receiving Scholomance Academy packs from the season chest was unintended. Players may also encounter packs being displayed incorrectly.
Quote from BlizzardAfter this week’s 18.0 patch, players who began the August ranked season may have received rewards that included Scholomance Academy packs. As of this date of posting, the 18.0 patch has gone live but the Scholomance Academy content is not yet live. This was unintended, as we should have only begun offering these packs as rewards beginning in September. As a related note, because this is unintended behavior, players will likely be shown that they are receiving Ashes of Outland packs, when they will in fact receive Scholomance Academy packs.
For the entirely of August, we will continue offering Scholomance Academy packs instead of Ashes of Outland packs as August ranked rewards. We are currently in the process of making an update which will correctly display for players that their rewards are from Scholomance Academy, not Ashes of Outland. Please note, however, that until this fix is deployed, players will continue to see Ashes of Outland packs shown in the UI. We will begin work to correct the UI next week and will provide an update on its release as soon as possible.
The 2 cost? I think it's very efficient at slowing the opponent down and giving you early plays vs an aggressive deck. Very good for control if you draw it early. Only issue is that it could be highly problem matic late game for control. Conversely it's great for aggro priest late game for a hand reload an to burn up some oppopnent's cards.
Didn't get them....but I got 1 Legendary for opening 55 pack!!!!
What's with that Blizzard!!!
I was a bit surprised, but three Scholo packs are better than Ashes ones.
So I am cool with that.
"Oh no, we weren't planning on overdelivering and making you happier. We actually wanted inform you that we were going to give you something lesser."
Don't say anything, idiots.
way to kill unintended gesture.. should've keep it that way
everyone was happy to get some scholo packs
It’s a nice unintended perk. But still reflects the poor management of Blizzard.
honestly, a bug that went well ;) if you play for the packs it gives you something to wait and come back for, if you are f2p then it even better - O can easily imagine a lot of people don't know that you get legendary within first 10 pack which they will probably easily get (with this "bug") and make a lot of people happier
it should be like that in the future
When I first saw I got Scholomance packs, I was impressed, I thought it was a great change. It was odd it wasn't announced. I hope they keep this for the future as it makes season 4 of an expansion more bearable to grind. Each expansion is still a seasonal reward for 4 seasons going forward, but now it front-loads a seasons worth of packs for the player to open on day 1.
It's definitely worth having the new packs, but they are also giving the player seasonal rewards they can't open. They did this with Tavern Brawls. The natural urge is to be able to open the pack immediately, especially if the player has a low collection and wants cards to open up access to the game. If this is to continue the expansions should be released earlier in the month to reduce the wait time. We haven't had a late month release since WotOG, which would have meant 26! days before you can open your seasonal reward packs. The latest we have gotten in more recent HS times is the 2nd week of the month, which isn't too late. If this was truly a pure accident, we really lucked out with only having to wait 6 days to open packs with SA. Only 2 other expansions have released earlier than the 6th in their respective months.
Opened mine in fireside and got that weird priest legendary card.
as long as they dont replace my Scholomance packs, I'm fine. I dont care if this is a bug, in fact I actually find it good.
Honestly, they just shouldn't have said anything.
exactly, such poor pr team they have over there...
If I knew we would be getting Scholomance packs I would've ranked for the 5 pack reward. Still happy to get 3 instead
couldn't agree more!
WTF are you even whining about? They did you an unintended favor by giving you most recent expansion as opposed to a worthless stale one you already have most of the cards from, and then they did you another favor by letting you keep those packs after they realized their mistake.
^^^ Troll level: PRO
yeah it showed outland packs in the reward chest thing and then scholomance packs
well, not really complaing but odd
.. the day where we thank to bug lol.. this is how it should be..
I'll remember to say something about this, when asked what I'm thankful for, at Thanksgiving. If the world makes it to Thanksgiving that is...
They are giving free packs for it. Ironic that you call them greedy for trying to run a business but in the same breath throw your toys out the pram for not getting more free stuff. Nothing like a little hypocrisy to undermine yourself.