For context why this makes me so mad: I played HS for years back in the day (2014-2018). I came back to the game about 2 months ago.
Back when I played the Pre-Purchase never was anything special so I didnt bother often.
But 2 months ago I saw what they included in the last Pre-Purchase Bundle.
I sadly missed that Pre-Purchase Bundle but figured those packs they announced with excitment at blizzcon will be purchasable or atleast included in some bundles.
So I figured I’d give HS a try again and purchase a Bundle with the next expansion in the new year to fill up the smaller pool of standard cards. Since the new rotation hits with the expansion.
In Badlands:
80 Packs, 10 golden Packs, and 20 Catch up Packs. so a total of 90 Packs of the expansion and 20 Catch-Up Packs. That means we get atleast 450 cards of the new expansion (obviously duplicate ones aswell) and atleast (for people with a full collection 100 extra cards from catch up packs, but for returning players it is 50x20 = 1000 cards.
This time, with the new expansion for the exact same price they go back to their original 90 packs. Not even 6 months after they announced their great new pack at Blizzcon.
Which is a shame, it sounds ridiculous but I would have gladly paid 79,99€ for the 90 Packs + 20 Catch-Up Packs. But will most likely not buy it without catch up packs.
This would have been a real deal for people getting back into the game.
I get “shrink-flation” with groceries and so on, groceries or books are physical product that costs more to make. But we talk about digitally created cards, that is not the place to put shrink-flation into.
But greed is always the thing Blizzard stood for sadly 