I’ve been a BG fanatic ever since the mode came out. I hated to see Bliz changing toward a battle pass that could only be bought with real money, instead of in-game gold. But - Bliz needs to make money, and the battle pass is still at a fair price.
The tokens, however…
Paying 75 cents per game to maximize your odds is P2W at a ridiculous price. I play dozens of games a week. There’s no way I am paying THAT.
So, that means I’ll have to accept the fact that other players may pay to have better odds at beating me.
I’m out, fellow BG players. It’s been a hell of a ride, but I’m leaving BG - and likely, HS alltogether - behind for games and game companies that treat me better.
I hope you’re trolling or something, this game isn’t about being good, RNG has the final word on if you win or not, not your skill. Paying real $ each game to have more options than your opponents that don’t pay is literally the definition of pay to win
Waste of time for f2p players, best move is to just leave and go play a game that value your time and money better, very simple
I won in my last 3 matches and I dont have the pass nor have i used any tokens to reroll. I also have no issue just leaving a lobby if my choices of heroes to pick from arent what I consider worth playing. (Mr Bigglesworth/ Reno/ and a bunch others I never learned their names). Im at 6k+and some change right now. So while RNG can make or break a game sure, it isnt all that makes your win or loss.
Edit: season reset lol. now im not at 6k+ and some change anymore.
The patch notes say some stuff, but all I read was “We understand that players were upset that we locked two of the 4 hero options behind a paywall, and then hid them from you. To solve this issue, you can now see what you missed out on, and we also added a new pay wall for each hero you CAN choose, just in case you want to spend more cash. Do you feel more like buying a season pass yet? How about tokens? We could buff the top 6 heroes and nerf the rest if that makes you more likely to spend $$$. Your feedback is always appreciated.”
p2w This is definitely a bad idea. People love the game, and then they buy a pass. It’s more convenient for them, it’s not expensive, and hero pictures. It would be possible to make the pass more attractive. But! If you look at my statistics, how much time I spent in the game, it was during the demo version (that’s 2000 games on the battlefield). With four heroes, purchased for gold. Those games were available, extremely exciting. And when they stopped being demos, I can’t say that the seasons were any good later. The same can be said, that more people played HS when Naxx was purchased for gold, it was very fair. The current season makes a terrible impression, as if it were an unfinished meta of the past. Accessories even seemed more interesting and dynamic to me, although they are not entirely fair, and difficult for beginners.
Pair p2w with the fact that the season is bland and has nothing interesting and it’s just a beta test for the new p2w feature and you have this battlegrounds season…
Buddies were a meh feature, with some of them broken some of them useless.
Trinkets were at least something that you could tailor your game play around.
And now we have the triple meta were if you triple into something useful or have a hero that is useful then you go places…If not, hit that re roll button and make Blizzard happy.
Well some players wanna have fun and not get bullied by whales that roll the best hero for that specific lobby. It was already p2w having 4 heroes to chose from now you have 4 to rerol :/… So it used to be 2 heroes and 4 for the people paying, now it’s 4 if you buy tokens, and 8 if you buy tokens … While if you play free you get 2 :)))…
Despite nothing to win you lose your time trying to have time thinking it’s still free to play…Nuf said.