oh well, might as well uninstall again,
cant believe this game continues to fall off a cliff…
what bad ideas.
yall should go to the better business bureau with this one.
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= something between 4450 and 4900 golds? it’s still farm from the 8-10k we used to get between each xpac or did i miss something?
For starters, they expect you to hustle your money in the Tavern Pass.
they’re too lazy to make it retroactive lol
same here 
7 wins a week isn’t that complicated ><
Inflation has nothing to do with material costs or stuff being real or digital. The dictionary definition as applied to economics is simply a general increase in prices and lowered purchase value of money.
i know the definition. It doesn’t change the fact that they are passively charging more for imported air.
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Perhaps events will give addtional xp in form of quests.
We don’t know yet if it will truly suck in the end.
I would recommend an economics class.
Took one. They aren’t raising the price because the cost of materials went up. Because there aren’t any. They aren’t raising the cost because they are paying their employees more. Because they fired or ran off all of the highest paid.
They are raising the price because they can and because shareholders demand it.
Practically every claim they made about the new system is a half truth at best.
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Congratulations btw, you are poster number 69 
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I suspect that the raise in cost is from the development cost of the additional contents, BG and Duel and maybe the new mode.
i find that hard to believe as i am in a position to know that the current designers make about a third of what the people they ran off did.
QA & Customer Service staff make approximately minimum wage at Blizzard. I’m not going to accept that as an excuse. There was literally just a scandal report about this in August.
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I think it is the headcount increase, and the associated operational cost. I think BG has a dedicated team now, unsure about the other modes.
Not the individual employee wage increment.
i know it’s not the individual employee pay, lol.
Blizzard is as cheap as they come.
I’m with Sage. i don’t accept that as an excuse. This game costs almost nothing in terms of materials.
The shareholders want more profit from a shrinking player base, period.
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They fired a bunch of people a couple years ago. Hired some of them back with fewer benefits and less pay. They need to hire more people this year. They shut down an HQ in… was it France? England? Europe somewhere.
Meanwhile, they’ve been reporting record profits year on year. Not buying it. The reason they want more money is because Activision demands they make more money for Activision. That’s why a bunch of the remaining senior members left the company in the last few years.
It’s not even about a shrinking playerbase. Companies are expected to make more money year on year, no matter how many years of record profits are recorded in a row. Microtransactions came about because a small percentage of a playerbase is willing to throw hundreds or thousands of dollars at a single game they are invested in. And these games are more cost-effective than single player narrative games, naturally.
Just look at Anthem or Avengers. The companies plan to make these huge games, release them half-finished, and if it’s not a smash hit they abandon the “roadmap” of content that was planned and move on to something else.
Edit: Oh, and let’s not forget that they blacklisted Savjz because his wife (she’s his wife right?) spoke out about her experiences working there. And then backpedaled once it became a scandal. They’re not an honest company anymore, they’re just another EA.
Double Edit: Oh yeah, and the whole reason this new system is an obfuscated mess is to make it harder for us all to know what we’re getting. They’re free to tweak all the numbers and you can rest assured someone did the math on all of it at the office. They can screw with the numbers at any point and most of us won’t even notice.
It should be assumed that this pass right here? This is the most generous it’ll ever be. They can add 1% experience level on level and most of us will never know. They can sneak in a few more older packs and a few less new packs and most of us won’t notice. And that’s without getting into the concept behind adding cards to these same packs partway through the expansion to keep the pack sales coming.
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I don’t know wgy but im diamond ten won 7 gsmes in play ranked and the quest is still saying i only won 1 . And yes i verified a couple of tomes and restarted the gsme and my computer. My name in game is RealSlav and my #2239 it would be awsome if you vould help me
I’ve played HS for a long time, before Grand tournament. Loved the game. Sure, things bothered me here and there: annoying metas, bad RNG, but I still purchased almost every bundle for each expat because it was a fun enough game.
I didn’t purchase bundles for the last two expat because I needed to scale back my spendings but I was still able to get by and accumulate enough gold for a new expat. Sometimes I have lots of time and I play many hours. Sometimes I am busy and I play enough to clear my quests. Basically the game was flexible enough for me to keep playing and be happy even when I need to cut back on time/spending.
I play HS after a hard day’s work and HS was the old friend that was there for me…come play a few mins, or stay for a few hours. Purchased the mega bundle plus regular bundle for the last expat, Times are tough? Ok to skip the bundle for this expat since you can save enough gold for 80 packs and get by. Need to finish some quests quickly, just play a few games in casual. HS was the old friend that was there for me…it gave me the freedom to play and pay however I wished
However, with this new system? Everything had changed for me. Like others have said, I need to grind to get the same amount of gold or most likely less gold. When I’m tight on time, I can’t finish of quest quickly in casual, I gotta Play ranked, or Other modes that I am not interested in. It’s getting much harder to keep up with the game.
The card designs don’t excite me the way it used to…feels like Taco Bell, it’s the same Ingredients, just presented differently.
I have accumulated like 10k plus wins but that total figure is just gone, it is not displayed on the new journal. I’ve happily spent a lot of my hard earned money on HS… however HS has changed with this new reward system. I no longer feel the same freedom, I just feel the pressure of grinding. I just deleted the game from my phone, time to spend my time and $ on other things.
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Did Bliz remove earning 10 gold for every three wins?
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It is no longer enough in Capitalism to make a healthy profit. You must squeeze the people for every penny that is mathematically possible.
Sickening behavior and a philosophy that will ultimately spell disaster, if not for Blizzard, then for Capitalism in it’s entirety.
You can only bleed people so long before they refuse.
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