I really wonder why Battlegrounds isn’t a separate full fledged game on its own ? I came here to play Hearthstone and I supported the original mode I fell in love with, by purchasing every extensions, AND recently the season passes, which I find a bit much over the line, but seemed still fair since its now pretty standard with any other games on the market. I can understand to some extend that the game needs to be sustainable and is supposed to make profits to the company, and I’m OK with that.
Now it seems to me Blizzard, that you’re getting way too greedy by introducing the runestones, I can see you guys coming from miles away that you are eventually going to play cheap tricks to milk the players from their money ( Yes, your players also play other games with this kind monetization model and know exactly where this is going, so you won’t be able to fool them). I didn’t really care about the battlegrounds mode since I didn’t play it, but now the monetization model you introduced clearly intended for Battlegrounds mode mechanics messes with the original game and the economics that I was happy with ! FIX THIS PLEASE. Copying any paying solution from every game you see in the wild and featuring all of them into your products ISN’T a good strategy, just pick ONE that is appropriate and stick to it. That is how you will seem fair to your player base, and this is how they won’t feel they are being taken advantage (not to say ripped) of.
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absolute scum at blizzard putting battlegrounds perks behind a paywall. What do you expect though. Thanks for ruining your only good mode. Scumbags
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To make the 4 hero option not free is a huge mistake.
I would say that blizzard need to find another way. Maybe give out a premium bg pass that gives an option to ban an minion type. Maybe 5 hero option to.
But DO NOT ruin the game by wanting us to pay for somthing that always been free.
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This, and the sheer fact that the “zomg even moar free rewards” track for BGs is extremely pathetic. If you get the Runestone BG battle pass you get an item every level (except oddly every 4th level). Freemium players get a “rewards” track of 40 levels that consist of all of 10 rewards, one every 4 levels.
It’s “more” than we’d gotten before, but only because of the fact that the free BG skin rewards they released were pretty sparse. It’s basically saying “Look! You’re getting drastically more than the lone apple we previously gave you!”
Yeah yeah, it’s no worth fighting justly for things we cared about, fanboy.
Spoiler: I won’t pay any cents and soon uninstall after playing the game from the beginning aka 8 years.
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Yep! Whole pot of them things are yours all for one low price!!!
The BG “reward” track is absolute garbage they slung together to try to give some semblance of cover to the fact that they went full pay to win in this game mode.
You are only paying for 2 extra choices. The rest is completely useless filler, lipstick for their prized pig.
I cant believe they went full scumbag and released it as p2w after the diablo debacle and the massive negative feedback from the announcement. I really wanted to believe they would fix this. The only way to fight is to not play the game, which is pretty sad considering I have been supporting Hearthstone and WoW since their respective betas. Goodnight sweet princes.
going by their logic i should be posting on shadowverse forums every single week for the last 2 years after stopped playing …
im pretty sure if we had an "hours played " next to their posts like they do with steam reviews we would see the number increase
Normally great game, my most played game in fact. BUT with today’s update- developers, for the LOVE OF GOD AND ALL THAT’S HOLY FIX THE BUGS! This is the worst update I’ve seen in 4 solid years of daily playing! Very buggy, lots of freezes. Like one in 3 games freezes in bobs tavern, indefinitely. Then if you exit the game and try to reload, it freezes at main screen and your screwed for about 30 minutes till the game will start normally. I’m playing on a loaded Galaxy Fold 3…i know its not my phone bugging out.
So disappointing, i have played since Beta, I love this game, I have loved the evolution to include battlegrounds… but runestones… kick us in the face and ripping our money out of our pockets would be a more honest move.
Lost me with Diablo Immortal and now Hearthstone… to say im disappointed is an understatement.
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I think this was a matter of discussion a few months ago, don’t know if it still is haven’t followed the forums for some time.
All the modes are somehow connected. You play(ed) BG, you earn(ed) gold faster, you (could) buy decks, you play(ed) traditional mode. I used to complete the reward tracks by playing only BG (very little duels / brawls and almost no traditional).
To make BG independent then they must create a new sustainable game. They must introduce rewards (useful / serious ones), keep it balanced and have a plan of how they will expand it so it can be a success. This is a priority so that later they may develop mechanics for earning profit.
BG now seems that it starts to become independent but their priority was profit thus a new season that could be a success but unfortunately the outcome was a great disappointment for most of the players. To be honest BG mechanic is limited, it has a specific way of playing and doesn’t need any additions as it becomes totally imbalanced. It’s mostly your choices and some luck.
I can understand the runestones introduction, however it was done in the most wrong way. We all have played and may still play mobile games and you can always earn in-house currency for free, definitely not in big amounts, but in such that could assist the free player.
I’ve been playing for years a specific mobile game (the company was recently acquired by EA so you can understand) which has two in-house currencies, fake cash and diamonds. The diamonds can be purchased or even exchanged for fake cash but you are always awarded with fake cash and diamonds after submitting each challenge.
All its perks are very expensive and that’s why they always give awards, so that they can keep a balance between the free players and those who pay to get diamonds. The most important part is that all the awards assist players to level up. If you pay, you will definitely level up faster and have access to specific perks faster than a free player (but the thing is that they are free to get and you choose the way).
Of course there has been backlash from the community on some of the changes they have made, but they haven’t changed the core of the game (for the time being).
So, I guess there was a way for Blizzard to introduce something solid but it was rushed. They might do some changes in the next updates, but you know when you start like this, it leaves a bitter taste.
Blizzard actually managed to make me unfavorite all my favorite games and uninstall the last game from them. So now I only have one thing left to do about… Uninstall launcher until diablo 4 comes. Everything else just annoys me.
Blizzard’s Chinese overlords have finally ruined BGs
ok les gars, j’ai beaucoup joué à ce jeu, je l’adore, mais là vous passez en paytowin pour avoir le choix entre les 4 heros (au lieu de pouvoir payer avec tout l’or que j’ai en stock et que je n’utilise pas, vu que je ne joue qu’aux champs de bataille)…
C’est bien, vous avancez pas masqué, on reconnait bien là la patte Microsoft… Money, money, money.
Alors on peut toujours jouer hein, mais on a un désavantage par rapport à ceux qui paient… 15€ !!! ahahah, vous êtes des fous… Je vais payer 15 balles pour quelques images a mettre sur mes héros et des emotes bidons ???
Dommage le système de quête est sympa, mais ça sera bientôt sans moi je peux pas cautionner le virage tout pour la thune que vous prenez.
Looks like a minor update has recently been released, any documentation on that?
Does anybody know when season 2 ends?
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Got the battlegrounds pass as a gift from a friend. It doesn’t do anything after redeeming it from your site…
I only get free rewards and still only 2-champ selection.
Don’t bother wasting your 15$ on a pass that doesn’t literally nothing guys. Gg. I’m done.
Bro this patch is trash. Aside from the shameless money grab which bars you to 2 hero’s dusting your chances in a lobby. Hero’s are even more wildly unbalanced, wide array of quest rng which boils down to you win or lose based on your choice. If you have a garbage hero you might as well concede and hop into another lobby. Limited hero choice, insane win-lose rng with quests, and a gutted minion pool with some laughable additions. Started playing BGs a few months back after watching Kripp for years and I hit 7k the day before the patch regularly placing top 4 without the addon because I play on mobile. Last 5 matches I’ve got 6th, 8th, 8th, 7th, 8th.
Wildly unenjoyable to play. If you’re thinking about trying it out, don’t even give yourself the opportunity to let yourself down. They really got me logging into my bnet account for the first time since WoW shadowlands after they ruined that game too just to dump on this patch because it’s THAT BAD
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