Someone datamine HS and found it so seem blizzard plan on sell the boards now. it was posted on Twitter now X.
https://x.com/imik_plays/status/1826010540432327083
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It was kinda obvious when there was no new board this expansion. People have to be dumb to not have foreseen that.
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i mean there’s plenty of paid hero skins, so this isn’t surprising.
I’m waiting for the paid subscription next like WOW because it would not surprise me anymore. All blizzard are about now making more money and board next thing it seem.
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I mean, it would be, no kappa, more consumer friendly monetisation system than what we have now if it was 20 bucks a month or less.
i hope they add some board cosmetics to the tavern pass
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Well, that’s sure to bring new customers in droves, lol.
This corporation knows nothing.
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well theyve been selling BG cosmetics with the BG tavern pass they probably figured out it sells so why not try it
and if that increase the game profits for them well thats good! because theyll be doing it with cosmetics !
and the premium tavern pass has many empty slots if they want to add some boards to it to try tos ell more nothing bad can come out of it !
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I’m all for them getting their profits from cosmetics. Their rollout of ideas is always where the mistake lies.
They should have made card backs for profit.
Boards too. But, instead they gave players these things for free for so long that taking them away now will only be met with anger.
They really need an actual public relations expert.
What they should do is release some type of give-away simultaneously, while explaining that changes like these will allow them to give f2p players more.
If they can be seen as generous instead of greedy, the player base will reward them.
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They have to make money somehow. Marvel SNAP sells $100+ dollar cosmetics and they make a fortune off of them.
Yes, have made money somehow but take stuff out of HS and not give back to the community in return. It ether you buy or don’t have it concept going forward. To many cosmetics can be bad thing for any game it just look like a money grab after a while.
It doesn’t “Look” like a money grab. It is a money grab and they honestly don’t care what people think. The whales and mobile players eat it up. If they didn’t they wouldn’t keep making them.
I just hope don’t come to the point where it starts pushing the F2P away from HS more. They could lose a lot of free players base path HS is going now and just leave the whales playing only.
I have to agree, If they can support the game and pay their staff by selling cosmetics then, by all means, keep rolling them out. I have seen a lot more “I want everything free and the world to entertain me” attitudes popping up more and more. My whole life there has been two simple rules to live by… 1) Nothing in the world is free. 2) If something is too good to be true then it’s usually dangerous. I’ve not been victimized by any scam to date and if Blizz didn’t have a method to make money I’d be very apprehensive.
And for those complaining about them making money, we can always have them put commercials and pop-ups in between rounds. now how would you feel about that? Be grateful.
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But SNAP rolled out from jump with that model.
To try this now without making consumers feel as though they are also getting something is a mistake.
Path of Exile is successful even though their play numbers haven’t changed in years.
Why? Because their model has never changed. Cosmetics cost money, but nothing game related does. I don’t believe HS can do that verbatim. It’s too late.
What they can do, I think, is give people a token amount with
the message that they are now going to charge for all cosmetics so that players can continue to get free play items like packs in the future.
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What that free few pack give you when cost of HS keep going up with deck cost. Deck now cost more to craft then before some of the good once are 20,000 almost. Each pack you open you maybe closet to 100 dust so add how many pack need open to try for that deck if you are missing stuff.
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Yeah. Well, with most people it is perceived intentions that matter.
POE established early on that they would always be F2P in terms of performance, and so won the loyalty of their base.
By contrast, HS always makes their players feel as though corporate is trying to pull a fast one on them.
Like I said: They really need a better public relations team.
The paying Player base of PoE is WAY smaller than you think. The developers have already said they have a small target audience they “whale” off of. It’s the same concept that ALL mobile games work off of. They go after a target audience and bleed them dry each rotation and they keep coming back for more. Their profits each season in total are basically nothing compared to other seasonal based games with paid content.
You want to know where Blizzard learn this lesson from? Look no further than Diablo Immortal. I know it gets bad press but the investor numbers don’t lie. Diablo Immortal has generated $525 million in profits since it’s launch in 2022. HS did pretty good with about 600 million in the first 4-5 years but after Brode left and they pulled out of China they fell off a cliff.
They see how fast SNAP grew and got players to pay what they asked for. HS barely even registers in the mobile gaming space these days so the only logical conclusion is to hard sell mobile players. Mobile players are where all the players are at anyway and they spend money without thinking. Entering back into the Chinese market soon means the recent shop revamp and huge additions are meant to target that HUGE mobile audience.
The point overall is to forget about PC player expectations or even their opinions. The only opinion that counts is the wallets of Mobile players and they are always a bigger audience than you will ever be. We haven’t even mentioned the 800LB gorilla sitting in the mobile market tree that MS just acquired from Blizzard.
Fun fact: Quite a lot of player (obviously newer ones) suggested that. Because the wanted all the cards for a fixed sum.
There is a great deal of truth to this, but I don’t think I’m wrong in saying that the existing F2P audience would spend more freely if they felt their voices were being heard, and that the company was giving them plenty in return.