REWARDS TRACK UPDATE - Official Blizzard Statement
Blizzard just posted a lengthy update detailing their plans with the Reward track, what they communicated about badly and what is going to change. Read all about it below!
Quote from BlizzardWe have been listening to your feedback regarding the Rewards Track and it’s clear we missed the mark both in how we communicated and implemented the full functionality of this first version of our rewards system.
We apologize for the confusion and disappointment we have caused.
During the natural progression of the rewards cycle, our intention was, and still is, to give out extra XP over time through a variety of ways. The aim is to help players get through the Rewards Track, or catch-up if they join later in an expansion phase, ultimately ensuring players earn more rewards.
We also didn’t provide any details for how events will link into and support the rewards system. We will be providing bonus XP for various activities at each seasonal event every expansion cycle, and any additional bonus events as needed, again with the aim of ensuring that our players obtain more rewards. Our failure to communicate these factors has led to incomplete projections, for which we apologize.
In addition, you’ve provided us with a wealth of feedback, and we agree that the pack rewards at the end of the track don’t feel appropriate for the effort it takes to get them. We’re going to adjust these rewards in the later stages of the track, swapping six packs for a total of 1350 gold that players can spend as they see fit. If any players reach this milestone before we implement these changes, they will be retroactively compensated.
Our goal for the Rewards Track continues to be that all Hearthstone players earn more gold and total rewards per expansion. We’ll continue to evaluate the impact of these changes, listen to your feedback, and iterate as needed until we get it right.
We will stay true to our word and ensure that the system lives up to what we all believe Hearthstone deserves.
Thank you,
Ben Lee
Game Director
Holy shit i never log in and comment but the phase at how the exp tracker levels up is outrageous!! I dont have enough time to play every day so this new system fucks up not-hardcore players. This is def the last exp since vanilla i pay for. (Plus i had terrible luck in opening packs) so added to how hard it is to open packs now i feel im left out of so many decks.
i think they also decreased how much xp you get per hour. I used to get 400/hr for wild. now, it looks like i am only getting 200......yet the amound between levels keeps increasing............like, really???
blizzard is disgusting.
They are not fixing system but spending 200K$ for the Darkmoon Duel Fest. I will not planing to watch or support until they fix this system.
So how can we act on this bullshit Blizzard pulls with this stupid new reward system??
only thing that will get them into action is if they see less user engagement. hopefully that happens. based on the outrage i suspect it's only a matter of time before people start saying "fuck it" and leaving.
They agree that the pack rewards at the end of the track doesn’t feel appropriate!
So how in touch is blizzard with its community???
They could fix the bug that happened with the pity timer, opened 103 packs and took 2 legendary shit and got 65 packs without taking legendary, countless players complaining about it and you don't give an answer, disgusting company!
I gotta say, it isn't working for me. I played for about six hours yesterday - day-long online meetings to slog through - and yielded very little. Playing aggro and totem shaman, at garbage legend, probably about 55% win rate. I made 100 gold at level 22 on the rewards track, between play time, daily, and a couple of random shaman quests. If I had done the same under the old system, I would have made 60g for the quest, and easily another 60g for 18 wins, probably more. And, today the mountain only gets taller, with the next level costing 100 more experience than the last. I see no way this system yields similar results to the last.
it IS ridiculous. I'm at lvl 34 and it has now increased to 5050 experience to get to 35. what is is going to be to get to lv 50???? TERRIBLE!!
UPDATE: I have made it to lvl 35, it is going to take me 5300xp to make it to 36. This is outrageous!!
I kinda like this new path of rewards, its cool, modern and stylish. But! It IS complete bullshit that they removed rewards for winning games. What is that? Before this patch we got "passive" part of income via quests like play 10 big minions or play 3 smaman games for example AND we also got "active" part - win 3 games get 10 gold. And that was petty satisfying and right. Now they cut active part and it is so frustrating and dumb actually. After u got desired rank in ladder it is no point in winning aymore. It is MUCH more exiting to get even small reward for winning and it is natural. Why not cut rewards for winning in Arena also? Just kidding. Please get rewards for winning back! I'm really upset now.
The XP system is there just to hide the fact that we are actualy get less gold than before. How stupid do they think we are?
Is should be something like this:
You win a game that lasted 5 mins, you gain 5 gold. You win a game lasted 1 hour, you gain 60 gold.
Thats all. Simple, and clear!
Thankfully I have a big wild collection. Being able to get 1-2 of the best legendaries each exp. is good enough for me now. They won't get another cent off me.
Same goes for me. I stopped spending money 2 or 3 years ago on Hs cause i don't have that much time to play now and i already had a big collection so each rotation i disenchant cards that move to wild since i dont play wild at all while farming gold between each expansion, but now i don't think i'll be able to farm that much gold as i used too. Thankfully i still have much dust leftover hope that i'll be able to keep up cause they won't get another cent from me either even if i had more time to play. The fact that they keep lying about things really annoys me.
SAME HERE BLIZZARD. I said, "No more real money from me" after the second last expansion. I saved all my gold for this expansion and got 90 packs. I doubt I can do that for the next xpac with this new system.
UGH!
I stoped paying like 3 years, instead i open 2 more accounts. Playing 3 class on each acc
This is exactly what i did :D
I can play at least one good deck from each class every expansion.
Nope! You don't get it! That's the way how you will "earn more gold and total rewards per expansion"! No one promised that you spend less time doing it, lol.
Am I the only one that hasn't been able to complete daily quests off of tavernbrawls anymore or is anybody else having this problem?
Being able to combine tavernbrawl + standardquests was super time efficient, if I now have to get 5 wins for one and then still having to grind normals for the rest.....that's kinda just going to ruin my playtime instead of letting me play more.
I think you cant complete quests anymore in tavern brawl making it useless .. another great idea of those brilliant devs