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
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Posted Nov 21, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)"We re not mad they are greedy, we are mad they are ruining the game."
The game isn't ruined, though, and it's going to get better. You're mad because you're emotional creatures.
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Posted Nov 22, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)Yes, we are emotional creatures, do you mean irrational as well?
The game is not ruined, it s in the process of being ruined.
Not going to get better if we keep quiet.
I ran the math for my case, i am going to receive less gold.
The game is still fun, i like the content.
The feeling thou is disappointment, lack of progression. I feel that, all my list feels that, i am a loyal player, never complained about anything in the game, i have been playing from day one, am i not representative? should my feelings be disregarded?
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Posted Nov 17, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)So what was the confusion?
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Posted Nov 17, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)Your account has been around for 3 and a half fucking years. Either you have been living under a rock or you have the same exact braincells OF a rock to not know who Ben Brode is let alone insulting him
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Posted Nov 17, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)Yeah I was just thinking the same thing. Even when he fucked up he had the guts and dignity to say “im sorry for fucking up” and even if he ever scammed us or not, he never looked at us in the eye and told a blatant lie.
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Posted Nov 17, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)Ben Brode never asked for this (system)
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Posted Nov 17, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)also consider the dweebs who grind levels in a "free" system and bootlick activision. such a time sink and what a waste. can only imagine these troglodytes hunched over with their spine coming through their necks, unshorn, weak, feeble and disheveled. what a special community yall have KEKW
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Posted Nov 17, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)Oh ffs always this "sorry for confusing your small brain" bullshit...
Nobody is confused. We just did the math and figured out that you lied to us.
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Posted Nov 17, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)wow there even removed 1 of the golden legendary from the low cost packs reward
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Posted Nov 17, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)Hahahaha, what an absolute joke.
Those special events always existed. The calculations that people were making were taking about the base gold you get from quests only. So this is just a blatant lie to ignore the problem that the exp quests will never give as much gold as the old system.
Actually insane. Welp, I guess I will have to survive based on my current collection and I'm starting to like to BG more anyway, so I will just play it until they get greedy with that mode as well.
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Posted Nov 17, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)I’m waiting for the inevitable “You need to possess the exclusive Mega Pass to be able to level up to tier 6” quote from Bob. Then the actual fuckening will occur
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Posted Nov 17, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)Seems fair to me. Looks like the noise you guys made was heard and now we'll get more gold and xp.
Time to stop the tears and time to enjoy the new expansion. May the gods of rng be with you all!
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Posted Nov 17, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)Blizzard making bot accounts to stop the boycott.
C’thun: That... was a mistake
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Posted Nov 17, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)cry me a river community
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Posted Nov 17, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)I think they've just bungled the communication and rollout of all of this. What he appears to be saying is their statements about how the new system will result in more gold and more rewards in general they were referring to the new system as a whole and what they've revealed so far apparently isn't the entire system.
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Posted Nov 17, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)I think they served us some corporate bull shit and we refused it.
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Posted Nov 17, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)So youre expected to pay 40-100 dollars for a single expansion, with multiple expacs a year--not even getting all cards from that set! Community that deluded/cucked or are these devs and corporate fatcats that greedy that theyll bleed whales dry at the expense of the casual playerbase?? This game gonna die, arguably already dead, if something isnt done to change pricing and accessibility for everyone, otherwise people will just leave and wont look back. These changes are a step in the right direction, but can be described as utterly inadequate nonetheless. YOU DONT EVEN GET A FULL PRODUCT AND LIKELY NEVER WILL!
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Posted Nov 17, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)I can almost promise you that you can count the number of "whales" who have quit this game within the past week on one hand.
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Posted Nov 17, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)hey, would you look at that the usual
"We have been listening to your feedback regarding . . . "
who would've guessed
fuckin blizzard being dumb as fuck as always
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Posted Nov 17, 2020 (Darkmoon Faire)Neat PR text. Beautiful façade without foundation.