The pre-Release Tavern Brawl is literally pay-to-win.
Pay the big bucks, open everything, and you’ll have an edge over everyone.
What an ‘eventful’ way to make players spend more money.
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We’re exploring new frontiers in The Great Dark Beyond with a new Pre-Release Tavern Brawl! For one week, from October 29 to the launch of The Great Dark Beyond on November 5, you can open your Great Dark Beyond Packs, build decks, and play with the new cards in a mini-competition until you hit 6 wins or 3 losses and win prizes based on how well you do—including more The Great Dark Beyond cards and packs!
One entry will be free for all players. After that, entries will cost 2 Tavern Tickets, 300 Gold, or 400 Runestones. During this period, there will also be free The Great Dark Beyond community pack drops so that everyone will be able to play with the new cards! Look out for more details on the format, exact prizing, and design insights closer to when the Tavern Brawl goes live.
Note: Standard Packs will not contain cards from The Great Dark Beyond until the expansion officially launches on November 5.
This is an EXCELLENT use for pay to win, honestly.
I have zero issues with them giving players a week of early access in the stupid tavern brawl instead of standard ladder. Everyone gets one free admit, so no worries there.
What’s your problem? Fomo is what it seems like, honestly.
I won’t spend any money on the packs to open early, I likely won’t play past my free admit, and I truely don’t care if someone who paid money has fun early becuase I’m not that kind of person.
Correct me if I am wrong, but the free rewards appear to be just more packs?
We don’t know how many packs you earn depending on the number of wins. But dropping 300 gold per run easily equates to three packs that someone could just choose to purchase instead of opting to gamble for more.
I read it all, I don’t care if other people get to have fun and win prizes in a bonus format. It doesn’t affect rankings or tournament eligibility, so whatever extra fun people have is bonus.
I won’t be playing it, but I am not going to be petty about other people getting things.
Which, if people already paid for bundles, is pretty much just some dust rewards for people who prolly already have too much dust… giant nothing burger here.
That’s true. But we don’t know all the information quite yet either.
I just don’t see it as pay to win? Because everyone has the ability to access it. In a way standard would be considered “pay to win” by your definition because people can win more card packs/cards over others depending on what rank they finish on.
I agree with you, I have assumed to create conversation.
I am not being apocalyptic.
But it is, though?
People who paid more for packs will have more to open when the Event launches, which means they’ll have more cards to build decks with. They’ll have more resources than those who opened fewer packs. How is that not pay-to-win?
There is no other way to get those cards.
This just doesn’t make sense.
In Standard, you can invest time to catch up to other players. Even if someone pays to skip the early grind and gets a bunch of cards upfront, you can still catch up by putting in the effort.
In this case, it’s either pay or fall behind. That’s the definition of pay-to-win.
Bold of you to assume the new cards will be the only key to victory.
With Renathal back in the format it’s just as likely a bomboss warrior build will crap on everything and ruin the whole event.
If you don’t buy a preorder aren’t you already behind?
And again, this is not in a ladder or meaningful format.
Serious question: do you like being F2P in this game? Because if you truly like being F2P then you should rejoice when they give whales incentives that don’t impact you in standard or wild formats because if it increases profits it means you still get to play. Keep on this warpath and they will just ai opponents and not need you anymore - bye bye F2P… your entire existence as F2P is to support the Whales’ game, not the other way around.
At some point packs have diminishing returns, and the point where you’ve bought enough of a bundle to have an advantage in this brawl means most of the packs you’re opening are average dust pack rewards… so just about on par with the tavernbrawl most weeks.
For people that already spent their money, packs aren’t the rewards they’re looking for.
See, if this was cosmetics it would be more in line with whale wants, making it even dirtier, honestly.
I still don’t get why you’re sweating whales getting more rewards to keep the game alive.