So I guess they changed the event to grant basically no XP for playing games. I guess the idea was, people would have to play more games to get the same XP as before? Or something?
But the only effect the change has had (on me personally anyway) is that now I no longer play any Hearthstone games (whereas before I’d keep playing because the event XP was a decent/fair amount). I’m just curious and wondering, what was the intended result with this change/nerf? Because I’m not sure it’s going to have the intended effect, lol…
I’m pretty sure I see XP (at least from BGs). It’s probably related to that UI bug that things don’t register unless you relaunch the entire client. Pretty embarrassing they haven’t fixed it yet; some call it a minor bug; it’s major because it can confuse most people for hours until they figure out to restart.
This isn’t the first time so I’ll just remind you really need to learn how to quote properly…I said “basically no xp” not “no xp”, there is a huge difference.
You might want to express better yourself. “Basically no xp” is not what’s happening. E.g. let’s say it gives 20 xp; some players play 50 games a day; that’s more than the weekly quest.
I do believe that the event XP for hourly/games played is less(definitely feels that way), but maybe it just feels that way cause I was playing pirates and so was my opponent so games weren’t lasting very long
I expressed myself properly. But since you are struggling, I’ll try to help. The events used to grant a fair bit of event XP such that simply playing games, you could progress the event in a relatively meaningful way. This current event is only granting “basically no xp” aka like 5 XP even for lengthy games. In the past, a lengthy game would net something like 20 XP. The only reasoning I can imagine for this, is to artificially extend the event, and to get players playing more games. My point and question was, is it having that effect? Because as I said for me personally, the effect it has is that playing games is now no longer warranted. Aka, it is having the opposite of their intent (far as I can tell). Which seems like quite the blunder. If there’s any other help or clarification I can do for you, please let me know.
Yes. This is exactly what happened. They are trying to drive more player engagement by making the event longer and take more time. Too many people on these forums and elsewhere said “just play games. you don’t even have to do the quests. you’ll gain xp just by playing in no time” lol
This is exactly what they tried to do with the daily/weekly quests earlier this year, and it did backfire hard, because people were used to the old system. I was someone who quit playing when it seemed like dailies and weeklies were too hard.
They got me with this event, in part because I didn’t realize how much grindier it was going to be, and in part because I already like to play pirate decks in wild. But I think it might be better to sit the rest of this event out