Patch 25.4 Price Adjustments - Increasing Prices for Shop Items Across Regions
Blizzard posted on their forums about Price increases across several countries and regions. Check the post (translated from Spanish) below.
Quote from BlizzardDuring the next week, in conjunction with the 25.4 update, the price of various Hearthstone in-game items will increase for some countries and regions, such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Georgia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan. These adjustments will take place across all platforms and stores. Any initial price disparities across platforms will be resolved shortly after the 25.4 patch is released.
Original Message
Quote from BlizzardDurante la próxima semana, junto con la actualización 25.4, aumentará el precio de varios artículos del juego de Hearthstone para algunos países y regiones, como Argentina, Brasil, Chile, México, Australia, Nueva Zelanda, Reino Unido, Georgia, Turquía, Kazajistán, Ucrania, Corea del Sur, Taiwán y Japón. Estos ajustes tendrán lugar en todas las plataformas y tiendas. Cualquier disparidad inicial en los precios de distintas plataformas se resolverá poco después del lanzamiento del parche 25.4.
If you complete all your daily quests everyday, you will gain a lot of coins.
Use these to buy packs at new expensions and dust all your golden and rotated cards.
This way I haven't spend a dime in years for this game and the price increases don't make a difference then.
So, the price increase looks like an overall trend right now, as a lot of companies have already risen the prices for their games on Steam, for example. As far as I understand, the biggest increases are for Turkey and Argentina. Sometimes these countries are getting their prices risen 5–6 times higher than the original price.
The only conclusion here is that if you live in the low price region, you should consider buying all the cheap games that you wanted to buy asap, because they might become much more expensive in a pretty short time.
So right after they release 2 minisets in an expansion and do not increase gold rewards to compensate, they raise prices.
This company cares not a scrap for the players.
Stop spreading the misinformation that the DK set was a miniset.
Miniset or not, it cost the same as one. When demon hunter initiate was free. Not to mention the increase in cards you have to collect to play with an extra class.
You're mad because it's an inconvenient truth? It walks like a miniset, and quacks like a miniset, and costs the gold of a miniset. It's almost like...it's a miniset!
LMAO, Just declare your bankcrupy already. Be a man like michael scott
We're looking for price changes in Turkey, Chille, Australia, New Zealand, Georgia, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and potentially to fill in the rest for UK/Ukraine. If you have any info to share (or if I have something incorrect on this list), please let me know.
So they're just trying to make the game economy in every nation the equivalent to USD, while completely disregarding local economies. (Good luck to those afflicted.)
[Notably: Mexico and Georgia are completely out of the market. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Turkey, Ukraine, Kazahkstan recieved a substantial increase. Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Korea, Taiwan, Japan are fairly stable.]
Below I detailed how much work is required to obtain packs and runes for each nation — a different perspective than listing all the prices.
If you have a VPN, tunnel to one of the countries and check https://eu.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/hearthstone-runestones-bundles
Remaining: Chille, Australia, New Zealand, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan
UK: https://i.imgur.com/QYHmw9T.png
Ukraine: https://i.imgur.com/IV0ZDzl.png
Turkey: https://i.imgur.com/fEdKgl8.png
Georgia: https://i.imgur.com/0cVioes.png
Nice work. Some people think that is just to raise the prices to get more profit... ir some product is cheap (to who?) without compare the local wages.
What is correct link for Turkish show? tr-tr in URL doesnt work.
Good question. I don't know if they have an own page but the currency is converted to Lira if your location is Turkey.
VPN is enough to do that? Or android emulator?
Still unbuyable for most of the affected countries.
I used a VPN and it changed the prices for some regions but not all but other options might work as well.
it's slightly flawed because it doesn't factor in tiered pay, for example in the UK there's different rates of pay for people under 18, the listed work-to-pay ratio is for the minimum legal wage for people over 18, i would assume there's similar systems in place in other European countries, i can't speak for anywhere else as i'm not familiar with them enough to comment, but there's definitely a lot of other variables to factor in.
I’m from Ukraine. And this is absolutely disgusting thing bLIZZARD ever done.
what is a URL for your shop in Ukraine? https://eu.shop.battle.net/en-us/product/hearthstone-runestones-bundles
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Buddy from Poland :)
Even above the sexual harassment and discrimination?