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.
Greedzard at its best, cant even hype us up a bit more giving out a couple free packs for the new expansion.
Totally wouldn't be surprised if they manage to patch that and I end up opening AoO packs on Launch day. xD
"It's not a feature, it's a bug."
Aside from the UI elements, I think Blizzard could have just rolled with the "Surprise!"-version, and (almost) nobody would have said anything. I actually thought the Scholomance packs were a cool, last minute idea of some dev to hand out some promo packs before the expansion launches.
Even if you were planning on getting AoO packs, you can spend the gold on AoO that you just saved with free SA packs, and to those people who are done with AoO (by their own definition), this is the nicer reward.
As far as I'm concerned, they might as well keep it that way moving forward. Raises motivation for the last season before a new expansion.
Agree! I would have played a bit more ranked if I knew rewards were going to be new packs
Actually in my case UI was correct and I was nicely surprised to receive new packs and not the old ones :D
i don't think it means what you think it means.
evidently, there's a congress.
Well this was a error in our favor if you ask me. Why would we want packs from old expansions that we already have most of the cards we want, when instead we got NEW expansion packs that feature cards we don't have. This is a win.
well I'm happy i got new expac packs! Soo... cool!
Still opened them on fireside gathering regardless.