Having two heros slots in BGs for 15€ each season is insane. It is now effectively half as fun as it used to be, which makes it in my opinion not even worth playing anymore.
I have over 870 hours played in BGs and now I may not turn it on again until this issue is taken care of.
are you saying you want to talk to Blizzard about changing the BG so the original perks of 4 heroes to choose from can be made for ALL players?
Anyone that really gets turned off by that should do exactly that.
Blizzard probably did make some math on how much the public for BG would tank but people can always surprise with enough rage.
All they’ve done is effectively kill Free to play off. If you want to progress in the game then pay the $15 if not fine you get to screw at the bottom of the ranks and that’s it.
The questing is wildly unbalanced and makes the mode even more high roller. Whatever, Blizzard doesn’t want people playing their games for free anymore. Message received.
This. Logged in, saw a brand new currency that I need to purchase with real money (just charge me real money for the goods FFS, don’t make a currency the middle-man). Now gold is JUST for packs?
Call me cynical but Diablo Immortal is not ancient history quite yet. I only shell out cash for the regular hearthstone season pass, not doing it again for BGs.
But they needed to get around gambling laws by creating this in house currency and that gets around gambling laws for some reason. To me though it seems like you are exchanging money for casino chips that you use to pay to compete on an even level to get your spot on lobby legends and that’s somehow gets around gambling for some reason.
Don’t worry, is just the new blizzard, at this current pace of events in two years maximum they will just go bankrupt
Actually it doesn’t. Why?
That currency is premium. Not freemium.
If there get to be some engagement someone can easy say runestones are no different from money because you can’t earn any in game.
What it really allows is for blizzard to pay far less taxes in the mobile market.
That because everytime you buy something with money you have to pay something for Google/Apple depending on the app store if the player is buying stuff using their phones.
So by doing as less money transactions as possible they’re basically paying less service taxes to those other corporations.
Other thing i did get is that atleast in my country most products in the in game store got slighty cheaper(not much).
So atleast here the consumer is getting a very small part of the “profit” of that move as discount.
I was excited for all of 30 seconds seeing a much needed Battlegrounds update. Then after realizing I can’t play competitively without dropping money seasonally, I’m out. Too many games out there to let myself be ripped off by this one.
I thought it was already like that for months.
Did I misunderstand something?
But I didn’t think you could get the extra heroes with gold for a long time. I thought they changed it to only money a while back…
I even remember a whole bunch of people being all angry.
yes, this:
It was first available by opening packs (could be purchased with gold) and, after that, for 2K gold. Only NOW is it cash or bust for the extra slots.
The original perk was 3.
Just saying 
They could implement using of battle net balance rather than rubbish gems.
15 euro’s for the BG pass is insane. It’s really outrageous and I’m never ever gonna pay that amount.
Nope, it was always 4 hero’s to choose from with perks.
Nah, it was 3 to start with. 4 came in when they introduced a lot more hero choices, ~18-24 months ago.