Even if you’re right, but what is the problem with that? I mean it’s just a cosmetic and not really needed to enjoy the game. I have no problem with a guy, who spent x amount of bucks to get it. I don’t need it, but I respect that there are players who want this to feel exclusive and I am fine with that. This feeling is as old as humanity itself, that’s why this marketing works.
The exploitative nature of it is the problem.
It encourages people to drain their resources for something not even close to guaranteed (frankly is highly unlikely) just before the mini set, which encourages them to spend more.
It’s wrong in the same way casinos cause massive damages to people with gambling problems.
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If they can’t resist, yeah, but that’s their own choice, isn’t it?
Would also be better if wasnt time limited.
Like still 12 wins in single run, but ANY heroic brawl
But hey wouldnt be fomo and have people waste all their golds chasing it right before miniset
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It’s their own choice, but it’s being knowingly manipulated and is most effective against vulnerable populations.
It’s not that difficult to not be this exploitative. They could have easily made it 12 wins total and at least that would place a realistic cap on how expensive the portrait could become.
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I posted about this in another thread and someone put me on ignore over it.
This brawl is completely designed to sink gold before the mini set and cosmetics are nothing more than the fake worm on the end of the line.
In fact, the change to play three games instead of win three brawls was an accident!!
I wouldn’t have minded if it was just win 12 total but it’s win 12 in one run! Screw that!
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It gets even better when they sell it in store later.
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Heroic brawl is to drain gold so people bust out the wallets for miniset. They do this every single time a miniset release draws near. Its a scam.
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Remember when scammers used to have to hide that what they were selling was a scam? Somehow blizzard gets away with blatantly advertising “this is a massive scam” and people still buy it.
Excuse me, maybe my English is not that good, but in what way is this event a scam? I´ve found this definition:
scam
noun
UK /skæm/ US /skæm/
an illegalplan for making money, especially one that involves tricking people
So what is illegal with this event? Or how they try to trick people? Everything about the event is crystal clear to me. You know the price, you know the conditions and you know the rewards. You know the price of mini-set. And I suppose you know amount of your in-game gold. Is there something else what prevents you to make correct decision?
There is no MMR in this brawl, so you will find yourself playing against players significantly more skilled than the average player. Many people don’t know this. They think because they get to diamond or legend every month they will be fine and they are not fine.
While there will be people who win 12 games, this brawl really exists only to suck gold out of the economy before they release the mini set.
It’s not illegal, but it is deceptive and crummy.
Lack of information, mostly. It’s a rude awakening for many players. It’s less of an issue now that people have been very vocal about the real facts about this event, but previous versions generated a great deal of outrage.
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The point of making it 12 wins in a single run is to make it exclusive. People are just mad about things that they couldn’t achieve because they aren’t good enough. Don’t say it’s just luck because it’s not. Just look at the pro players and streamers they pretty much always get it within 3-4 runs.
Blizzard isn’t stupid they surely knows that they would likely get more money if they make it cumulatively 12 wins, but their intention has to be making it hard to get and rewarding for top end players.
Lack of what information? Like they didn´t explicitely said “BEWARE, the pool is full of sharks, you may be eaten”? Is it akin to “Beware, hot content” on McDonalds cups, because some snowflake burned themself and suited sh*t out of the company?
I play poker from time to time and I can tell you - higher the stakes, more sharks present. And yea, there are a lot of people who needs that kind of “rude awakening” that they may not be as good as they thought. It is still better in some meaningless virtual game with virtual curency than in real life.
Look, I don´t defend the company, actually I don´t give a f… about them. But what I really don´t like is that attitude “We need protect everybody from everything for any cost”. I think you do bear service with that…
Yep, Just because the beer is cheap is no reason to actually play all those glowy.shiny.noisy one armed bandits.
Yes, that’s the entire reason that it’s exploitative.
It takes some of the best players in the world 3-4 runs to achieve. Drop that skill level just a little bit and the required number of runs quickly becomes absurd. Those are also typically streamers, with viewers funding the runs for them.
It isn’t a big ask for Blizzard to be a tiny bit less evil than tempting players with rewards that are essentially not possible to obtain for them, at the low cost of $10 to try.
Carnival games are also a scam. They don’t stop being a scam because of the rare person that does win the grand prize.
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The case you’re talking about wasn’t just “hot coffee.” The coffee was hotter than was safe and injuries occurred.
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Yeah, coffee that can give 3rd degree burns is also coffee that is suuuuper unsafe to drink.
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So now the people who that type of content is meant to can’t have any event dedicated for then because someone can be delusional about how good they are?
There is many advices.
Not 1
Not 2
Not 3.
In fact most media that has anything to do with hearthstone talk about it and give advice on this brawl.
People deserve in game events were they can compete against each other the same amount.
Those players not come whining every time the “event” is literally a boring grindfest that drive people looking for competition away.
They could easily have events like this without a $10 entry fee to prove how good you are for a portrait.
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