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
also, can't complete achievements in Casual. so stupid.
You all people are bitching so bad. The new progression system is great and quests are funny.
what is funny about not getting your daily and weekly quests, bugged achievements and expensive bundles which dont cover even half of the collection of expansion but you gotta pay 80 bucks for? Oh, and lets not forget that you cant do your quests in tavern brawl which makes the game mode technically useless.
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It is hilarious how blatantly orchestrated the whole thing is and how predictable their reaction.
The real issue is not that you get less gold, but that they have added one more monetary system on top of the purchase of loot boxes aka card packs. The Tavern Pass is what they want to promote, which is essentially a time saver straight from the mobile f2p games.
That is why they dont provide the easiest solution, which is to increase the average XP/hour. It nullifies their new monetary system, since the players, especially those who used to grind gold for the new card packs, wont be forced to buy their time saver.
HS right now must be one of the most expensive F2P games in the world. Both current and new players have to pay every year a fortune to participate and keep up with the game's released content. If not, they will simply dont be able to play the game. And what is sad, this more aggressive monetization wont affect Blizzard's future profits at all, because a lot of those players are addicted to the game and have already invested a lot of time and money on this game.
Hearthstone is dead, at least for us who refuse to become the harlots of those greedy corporations.
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Guys, please watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbnBolNJhYA
Nooo, they lied to us. They are evil. Money go brr. And so on...
What the heck, they took away the initial quests that would usually net you like, five packs? Just AFTER an expansion release? Just AFTER the release of the new system?
Somehow I'm not surprised, but it's absolutely disgusting.
I've saved enough gold this expansion to not have to buy packs but I doubt I will the next exp. now too.
Screw that I'm not spending thousands of euros for half a collection.
Yup noone should spend anything at this game anymore.. Being so greedy its disgusting especially in times of a pandemic with so many countries in lockdown.
This... I tought they delayed the legendary quest.. Well everytime a new expansion came off they release that quest that give a bunch off packs..
New expansion... New system.. Blizzard be like "hell no, those 3-5 free packs at the start off tavern pass it's your legendary quest"
at this point i wouldn't be surprise if they make a maximun of exp per day to "help" with the wild ropers problem, with a statement thats says "your welcome".....
Haven't been able to log in on HS all day now, but how is the launch event? How big are the actual event bonuses so far?
lol what bonuses?
This year we've got no bonuses: no packs, no legendary quests.
<sarcasm> They try their best to make us earn the same amount of gold as before. </sarcasm>
The most frustrating part of this whole new "reward/progression system" is that they said that we should get if not the same, even more gold and on top of that extra bonuses. But they lied once again. So now they wrote their usual apology saying that they will fix it but they way Blizz usually fixes things is by making a small patch making just a little bit better the problem and then flood the community with events till the problem is forgotten.
Most of my friends said that they will quit the game if the reward system doesnt get better so i will probably too, at least i stopped wasting money on this game about 2 or 3 years ago so their lies dont hurt that much .. I feel sorry for all of you who wasted money again and even more sorry for those guys that will waste more money in the future. This game is going to hell.
Imagine needing to be rewarded to play a game. Are these those kids that threw temper tantrums as children if their losing baseball team didn't get trophies?
I dont need to be rewarded to play the game but i need to feel that im not wasting my time and get nothing in return.. It feels like they dont respect the time we put into the game if we cant progress or actually have fun with more than 2 or 3 decks without spending so much money every 4 months.
Thats the difference.
Well when the reward is getting more equipment to play with, yes we will complain
They stripped all the numbers so that us nerds don't calculate them LOL.