Again, what you’re saying isn’t wrong, people did buy the bundles for more than just the heroes. But the reason the good preorder bundles end before the expansion launches is so if the expansion ends up not being worth buying too many packs of it, people wouldn’t be inclined to spend as much on the bundles.
On paper, what you’re suggesting sounds good for everyone. Players get the stuff they want whenever they feel to buy it, and Blizzard makes more money. But statistically, most packs are bought at the very start of an expansion, not all throughout its lifespan. People aren’t going to buy from an expansion that’s been out for a few months, they’re going to save for the next one, unless they’re new to the game, or just not smart.
In short, what you’re suggesting is good for the consumer, but bad for Blizzard, which is why they make their offers limited time.
Personally, the reason I want Tyrande back the most, is because I screwed up. Back in 2016, right before Tyrande was made available with Twitch Prime, I made a second account, the one I’m using to post here, to get Morgl.
A few weeks later, I saw Tyrande was available and I quickly linked my Blizzard account and Twitch Prime together to get her. But, I didn’t realize I was still logged into to my “get Morgl” account, and obtained her on that one instead of my main account which I’ve put money into. And I didn’t realize what I had done until the promotion had ended. and since then, I’ve been left with a hole in my heart, as this one screw-up cost me my favorite skin in Hearthstone. And now it’s 2019, promises from two years ago have yet to be fulfilled, and we’re left here, waiting for a response.
I was about to comment too, they said in post they’d answer highly liked comments like yours, and yet they’ve skipped to the bottom and are only answering those questions, in a addition to meming about what E.V.I.L means.
Now we have “the rise of shadows” promise, claiming we’ll have what’s missing brought back before the end of the year.
Whether that’s 2019, or the year of the dragon remains to be seen…
Not trying to sound pessimistic, it’s just we’ve been here…in this EXACT FREAKING SPOT, with a clear cut “coming back window” only to have it slip by without so much as a word.
Best Hearthstone news this year! Thanks, I am super happy now. Smiling and jumping for joy. Thanks, for listening and giving us a possible time-frame. Older card backs coming back would be cool (I missed the Jade one), but Tyrande coming back is brilliant something that is healthy for the community.
I’ll remain skeptical…we’ve been given this type of answer before. We were supposed to get Tyrande by Year of the Mammoth and was promised that…and then we were given a long silence. I believe Yong Woo was fired/ left or was moved…we could,very well be going on the Merry-Go-Round again.
I also hate the reasoning of wanting Heroes to not saturate the game…LMAO…ummm…what? I see like ONE Tyrande player a year…ZERO Khadgar, ZERO Nemsy and to this date ONE of each of the pre-order Heroes…there is literally a low to zero chance we’ll ever get close to a theorerical “over saturation” of Alt Heroes filling up the game…and so what if they did? Just like Mounts in WoW people might “ooh” at them,at first and then literally all hype and care about someone else using said cosmetic is gone…
I think that’s a terrible way to go about, esp since it hurts the fanbase/players more than amounts to any signifigance about elitists coveting “rare” digital cosmetics that others can no longer get…
I actually see more or equal Malfurions still than Lunara…I personally will never switch back. >:O
As for Maiev, shrugs she’s a pretty cool and more well-known character for veteran Warcraft fans and was the first free Hero that people could earn without jumping thru too many hoops for. I see about equal representation for Rogue Heroes personally
But I digress, it does NOT devalue or diminish the value (personal or otherwise) collection of digital goodies that I have, if others suddenly could get em again. If anything, those of us who’ve had use of said exclusives, have had a good long run of that.
I just hope we FINALLY get Tyrande. She’s been a top fav character of mine since Warcraft 3
Well, a break of silence to say that they are working on bringing back the 2 missing promotional only heroes in the right way. With Tyrande being out by the end of the year (2019 or April 2020 is not clear).
Yes, we have heard promises like this in the past (Year of the Mammoth) and while we remain skeptical, we should also give them a chance to make this right. It’s a new team and clearly they are at least aware of and are working on making things better.
I remain ever hopeful that this time it will happen.
I really do hope so and I am giving them some benefit of doubt, but I will not praise them or celebrate this early. I will do so once that promise is fulfilled and I can play as her.
Well at least now they set a date to Tyrande.
Be it the end of 2019 or the end of the year of the dragon it does not matter, at least now they officially said something.
Regardless if they keep the promise or not, the end of the year will be the time where a little bit of faith in blizzard is restored or will be the time when I will give up on Blizzard totally.
If Tyrande is coming back, further discussion regarding this is almost useless. But my thought on some of the questions you asked,
Yes, these promotions are about $, and I have no idea what legal issue is there with Twitch/Amazon and Blizz, but these were simply promotion deal, nothing special. I mentioned this before, but you act as of this promotion deal was Blizz trying to backstab or turn its back on its playerbase. It’s not. It was a normal promotion deal to boost up Twitch Prime subs, only Blizz never expected backlash/outcry to be this severe.
For instance, people who cried over Tyrande never bothered to complain about Twitch Prime only card backs, golden classic pack (before Blizz gave 1 for free to all players), etc. Why do you think that is? Even Khadgar, iOS only promotion deal (albeit you could bought it using one of your friend’s iphone) was much less complained about. I’d say these people already know what a normal promotion deal is, some simply exclusive, out of their reach, not everything is entitled to them. They only complained because it was a Tyrande skin.
Rational? Not really. But I’m glad they finally can have their peace now.
But they’ve never come out and said that. As we’ve said repeatedly, they intentionally left it vague, citing “reasons.” etc. So throwing amazon under the bus wouldn’t damage their relationship with them.
If it were an NDA, they would have said so by now. Having an NDA about an NDA is usually reserved for government work, next level console type stuff, etc…not a two years old hearthstone promotion.
Because he came back through other means, and more than once for some people. Meanwhile, Tyrande has never even had one appearance for some people. Not counting people who cheated using location spoofing.
There is no peace for those who have waited years for her until everyone has her fair and square. And not locked behind some dumb preorder bundle.
I don’t recall twitch only card backs. I could be wrong of course. I remember a lot of golden cards, which were easily obtainable in game. The golden packs, which were of course the same thing as golden cards, were also obtainable in game. So, unless I missed something…for a long time, team 5 didn’t do that “limited time/limited availavility” window thing that kept people away from getting Tyrande. Sure, everyone can try prime free…once.
You use that at the wrong window…and that’s it. You then have to pay for it and you miss out. And has been discussed at length elsewhere on the hs forums…team 5 seems very tone deaf on the whole currency conversion issue outside the first world.
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Smiling and jumping for joy. Thanks, for listening and giving us a possible time-frame. Older card backs coming back would be cool (I missed the Jade one), but Tyrande coming back is brilliant something that is healthy for the community.![:heart_eyes:](https://dacy5cilkxabf.cloudfront.net/en/hearthstone/images/emoji/twitter/heart_eyes.png?v=6" ":heart_eyes:")