Heh… 
Many developers from that team, judging by some posts I’ve seen, are apparently amazing 
: very ‘diverse’, ‘inclusive’, ‘politically correct’, waving the right flags, not at all ‘binary’, ‘ternary’, ‘quaternary’ or anything like it — in other words, there’s absolutely nothing bad to be said about such a transcendent crew. This awesomeness, however, has not always translated into effectiveness when it comes to fixing bugs, implementing features, especially in a timely manner, and so on, so I wonder what kind of addition they’d make as a workforce. On the other hand… With the state in which the rest of the game, such as Standard and so on, is, you’d think you can’t possibly spoil it any further 
, so maybe it serves them right.
It looks like this sale will not take place.
One more thing. Some people tend to take this point about ‘new content’ as befits this age of overconsumption, cultivated hyperactivity and short attention spans, planned obsolescence and so on, with ‘more content’ being a fetish of sorts, no matter how quickly consumed, discarded and forgotten. However, to my previous argument about quaility vs quantity, another example of an old game called chess (anyone heard of it? I bet so many here would dislike it: BO-O-ORING, requires thinking, which is RIDICULOUS, no ‘New_Content™’ released, ‘the meta doesn’t change’, as they put it 
, and so on) — and the advances in its theory are made not by making new pieces (and selling them frequently and regularly) and not even by failed attempts such as Chess 960, about which I wrote a little. In fact, the success and longevity of chess signify how refined it is.
Mercenaries could go in this direction, which, once again, would be the right move, however, as said, how the new mode and the rest turns out practically, remains to be seen.
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This is just the beginning, and there will be more depressing news to come.
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The Mercenaries mode will forever be known as a cautionary tale to other developers that you can’t release a half-baked game mode and expect people to stay for the long haul, especially if it takes ages to address and fix issues. It’s a shame, really, because the mode itself had a lot of potential.
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Just do like sc2 … Balance the dam game instead of throwing random merci our way.
You could add nonjew content and just focus on trying to balance as many merci possible and it would already make most of the Merc player happy.
Was very happy with new mercs added as ive still got like 80 unopened packs.
Was very sad to hear that the mercs mode is ending as i had much more fun with that than with the standard card game, mercenaries was the only thing that kept me coming back to hearthstone.
I was really on the fence of dropping the game entirely after the lich king set, but the new hero made me wanna play just a bit more.
Most likely wont be buying the mini-set as i cant remember the last time i actually had fun on casual as my meme decks would get facerolled by ranked decks.
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I hope They will focus on balancing the Standard mode better instead… there is much to do… the more randomness and hand manipulation they create, the more I become dissapointed really… Since they are creating these insane mechanics… I feel it harder and harder to reach my already earned rank by hard work of months… I just meet more and more randomness in this game which are making us failed instant… and I don’t like that diraction at all… This is killing the game slowly… 
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Speaking of which: yeah, now we can finally open those packs for portraits.
That conclusion is a bit… premature, isn’t it? See also above.
One more thing: they could still do those time-limited events, since they were really successful and fun, as far as I can tell. Sure, nowadays, with four visitors at the camprife each day, it’s almost like a small event occasionally [1-3]… almost.
[1] (Mercs) Ah, those random Visitor tasks
[2] Rend Normal with Eudora and Vanessa In Party
[3] Onyxia (Heroic) with Tyrande, Cairne and Varden
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I hope rhey finally fix the bug that some players cant enter the mode on mobile.
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Remember Blizzard, you killed this game mode by your insatiable greed and ignoring player notes for a long time. The same way you killed Heroes of the Storm and tanked Warcraft Reforged.
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Merc was always a dead gamemode, ppl need to understand it. Its fun for pve, thats it.
I’d also like to se they delete wild too or make it a “pick 3 exp to add cards in your deck” mode. I absolutely cannot believe how ppl even think that thousands of card can be balanced.
dont like it
dont play it
The whole point for me on D3 was the cosmetics- but I actually had to play to earn them. It bugs me that everything is all $$$.
fix the shop fix the shop
Hmm sad, I had hoped for more minion types like Blood elves or more Undead or Old God content and only old god content I got was man-made-horrors beyond comprehenssion. Truly sad I came back to Hearthstone only because of this new mod, recently. I hope Blizz and other game industries will finally come back one day to the real soul they were giving to their games instead looking for the big profits and getting constant pressure from their greedy money making people.
i just don’t know anymore what the actual hell devs are doing to this game…
I literally lost any motivation to even play any game mode, battlegrounds is the only thing that keeps me coming back to Hearthstone and even then i just feel empty playing it lately. I was so excited to see Death Knight included into the game but after that? Just the same… How the greed killed this beautiful ip.
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Yeah, I feel like I wasted money on those same prerelease bundles on a game mode that was never meant to be. At least they could give us some packs? Shrug. Passing on non-f2p content now on.
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unfortunately I was right 15 days ago
25.2.2 Patch Notes - Community Discussion - Hearthstone Forums (blizzard.com)
I enjoyed the game but to satisfy it would require a constant infusion of new content – namely an event with a new merc or new mercs in general. or a way to work toward portraits without spending money.
at least the mode/game got me away from WoW long enough to quit it for good this time. if anyone has f2p ideas I’m all ears. I’m currently playing DI but reached a wall and am only logging into it sporadically now too.
Company’s official post: tries to put a postive face on ALL HANDS, ABANDON SHIP! REPEAT ALL HANDS ABANDON SHIP!
pro company poster: ::gather the band to play on desperately while the ship sinks::
killing the mode is “great news”…I can see the spin is dialed to 11.
I t will also be the last major update to the Mercenaries mode…
Six new Mercenaries are coming in Patch 25.4. This is our final planned infusion of new collectible Mercs into the mode…
The final big system update to Mercenaries is the new and challenging Mythic Boss Rush end-game system.
Might as well call Patch 25.4 “tombstone for mercstone.”
SO. MUCH. THIS!
My only regret is that I only have one upvote to give.
corporate overlords being called out, pick a better, less sleazy, team.