Is it possible to buy a tavern pass for a previous rewards track? I really want Tamsin Triumphant, and would happily pay for it, but I can’t find a way to do so.
Nope, gotta wait until they maybe come back in shop or when you can buy them for 1000 gold.
Dang. Seems weird to deny old cosmetics to players and limit their own income stream.
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magni, medivh and some other older portraits can be bought in the card collection. Just gotta wait it out, yeah.
No, once an expansion is no longer current, its rewards track (and tavern pass) are gone forever.
That said, hero skins have a tendency to become directly purchasable for gold from time to time. When old hero skins go on sale, this isn’t generally announced, so you’ll need to keep tabs in the heroes section of your collection manager.
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I feel your pain op. I was one of the people who was on here (on the old forums, before the great purge) for years on team 5 to keep their promise to bring back Tyrande, back when they said that would happen during year of the mammoth. Now that was a grind that made legend look like cake.
I don’t get their weird thing with limited time cosmetics they have full control over, then making them overpriced for cash later in the shop, or making them come back forever later. They should just make a standard rotation, reasonably priced (for gold) and be done with it. Forced scarcity for digital goods is utter nonsense.
it is pretty logical to do so: if all the skins are buyable whenever you want, then you may buy just 1 for a class, the one you like the most.
If instead they are time limited, you may consider buying them because you like them, just to find out the next ones will be better, so you buy this one too because otherwise you won’t be able to buy it in the future.
It makes sense from a marketing point of view
I’d prefer them monetizing on cosmetics and other “secondary” stuff, rather than making “mandatory stuff” more expensive.
In the end, they have to earn cash too; you can argue that making all old portraits available for 1$ will make a lot of money, since people may consider buying cheap stuff; but this would make new offers less appealing.
Would you buy a new skin for 10$, if after X months (you called it rotation) you could buy it for a very cheap price, even with gold?
Probably not, so in the long run your model would make less money
Up to the point the customer realizes they are playing this game, then stop playing. Then they get nothing. Again, forced scarcity for digital items makes no sense. These aren’t real items, and only the easily conned are falling for the whole nft racket.
Let’s play the world’s smallest violin for the multibillion dollar company that’s just been exposed for the latest in a long line of sleazy things its done over the years. If it were some disabled guy in a garage, I would feel more guilty about asking for freebies…oh wait, guess who actiblizz crushed once in the not too distant past? That same disabled guy in his garage who made a game for free. I’d post what I really think, but it’s against TOS.
They have done exactly this, and no one there has gone hungry. The people who enjoy throwing money at them still do, and the people who don’t can still get theirs. Plus, if the company is all about equity and inclusiveness, they won’t just cater to the whales, rich people, and 1%ers. Unless all that social justice talk is just…talk.
they did it indedd, but after 2 years and without telling us in advance.
You may like it or dislike it, I am not the one who makes the rules, but this is how it works
the fact that a company is rich, doesn’t mean it should give away everything for free; the world works in a very different way what you think
Uh, what? They announce everything except the stealth nerfs.
See previous comment about cash for release then a reasonably priced gold later for a set rotation. They used to be reasonable once, they can be reasonable again. Look no further than the failed mercstone model for your “how the world works” to see how far that line of thinking goes.