Yall gave out free dust with zero communication. Rushed it through so it was bugged with people getting sudden enormous amounts of dust. Took it back and then some from people. Then tried to pretend like everything was fixed and nothing was wrong…
So now there are players who didn’t use any of the dust have dusten taken from their own saved up collectiongs. And players who instantly crafted so they got stuff for free. You managed to piss off EVERYONE in two days. I hope Bill Gates sees this and backs out of the deal lmao.
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Im sure its on Bill Gates top priorities to keep up with what happens on Hearthstone even more when he has no say on Microsoft since he left the board back on 2020.
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What’s really amazing is that it’s not important, at all.
“Worst”?
That’s the worst adjective you could of possibly chosen.
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Yeah… the dust fiasco was pretty depressing (watching it come in and then go out)… but as depressing things go it still pales in comparison to reading this forum.
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They took more dust than they gave and writing support was useless. I got a templated respose that everyting is fixed. Apparently Blizzard has decided stealing from the player base is ok and they don’t have to actually respond to tickets. This is BS.
I am posting this everywhere. I am pissed.
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and players who didn’t get any dust
Come on with the hyperbole here lol.
“Worst PR disaster ever” you know who the developer of hearthstone is right…right? I think they’ve had some bigger pr issues over the past few months…
Heck if you want a real PR disaster, check out
Bud Light’s “up for whatever” campaign a few years back…now that is a PR disaster.
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Did you craft anything during the free dust?
Now I look back , i believe it was just too costly for them to program the negative dust, let alone dedust crafted cards. Hence the decision.
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If anything Microsoft will see that hearthstone hasn’t been making much money lately…and drops the game. They don’t know how to keep players. It’s an expensive game to keep up with.
And when they release poor products like mercenaries (no one streams that repetitive dull game) and treat their costumers like garbage for years, they wonder what went wrong.
People enjoy the main hearthstone game (battlegrounds/arena/duels are cool too) and want to see it succeed. The rewards track is one of the best things to come out of hearthstone in years…but even that needed to be adjusted once players knew they were getting less gold.
They operate under greed.
I think we need to start to expect nothing more from them. They have shown themselves plenty of times. No I don’t want a free mercenaries pack.
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I like to think they tested the negative dust and you could buy whatever card you want and the dust keeps getting more negative 
Imagine copy-paste the same code they used for gold and apply it to the dust system 
has science gone too far?
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That’s not how programming works, bro. If you ever get the chance to learn how to code, you’ll understand that you can’t just copy paste stuff like that.
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Why not?
Gold is a resource and can be used only if positive; but it can also be negative.
Dust isn’t any different: it’s just a variable that tells you how much of a resource you have.
If it’s not possible to make negative dust, you just create a new variable “dust” from scratch and you give to it all the properties of gold: literally copy-paste and change the name of the variable.
If there are functions (like “check if gold is positive”), then you copy them as well and change the name.
Or in this case I think it’s even more easy: if dust isn’t an integer, you just change its type.
But we don’t know how their code is, so this discussion may be very useless
Beside that, copy-paste is still something completely doable, expecially in case like this
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Exactly. Due to the size of the game I would imagine their code is a lot more complex than simply object-oriented programming.
You can do it in some cases, yes. But the good habits of programming don’t like copy paste. That’s what I learned in my experience.
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Maybe he will start playing HS like Kasparov…
I hope Kasparov tells these thieves to kick rocks too.
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Doesn’t look too good, Iksir tweeted they are mostly like just gonna keep the way it is and hope time will heal all wounds
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Worst PR disaster?
Warcraft Reforged would like a word 
what was bad with that? took forever to come out but I played it very happily, the graphic upgrades were decently faithful
They over-promised and under-delivered.
https://www.pcgamer.com/au/warcraft-3-reforged-controversy/