Do we really think it will matter, they most likely already have the “We hear you” post written.
More Shady Tactics from an Increasingly Shady Company.
We all should have bailed on Blizzard a long time ago
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We need to boycott blizzard and tag thrm in tweets, blow up every form of social media they have and scream out putrage at the top of our lungs. We have to act collectively as a community or change will never happen
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Its because how these things work, the only purpose they serve is get people to spend more. Its anti consumer. Just let us buy the things. On twitter they said the purpose was so we could buy small things easier, that makes no sense as we already can do that
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Ultimatley blizzard can do as they please within the margins of business, but we as consumers NEED to express some personal discipline by not supporting predatory practices, period. No one will help us but ourselves here people, we have to accept the fact that this is no longer the same game nor buisness we came to love and make a wise choice to no longer support it.
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Selwyn has it.
Consider why they are adding another currency when they already have coins,particularly a currency you can not earn in game.
They believe that people will spend more on runestones and then spending them on things they would not spend cash on and everyone that stops playing with unspent rune tones is pretty much money in the bank.
They may be trying a end run on various app stores. Oh no mr apple do you really want 30% of the 100,000 runestones people spent in hearthstone this month.
They ultimately would not be adding another currency if blizzard did not believe they could make more selling the currency then selling items.
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Given the extreme amount of bad press this is generating, makes me wonder if they’ll walk it back even a little.
How many yacht’s does Bobby need?
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The ultimate “buy runestones” move would be to gift everyone 100 runes and then put a 90 runes option to buy a pack.
In this way you are left with 10 runes and you already know there will be people pissed with that.
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Yes, because there are consumer rights in Asia and Europe that forbid buying lootboxes from money directly. Via an indirect currency (like these runestones are) they are allowed to do that. So it might as well just be a law-based change that doesn’t change the cost of anything you could buy.
How is it so hard to be patient and wait until we actually see how it turns out? This community is extremely fast with their pitchforks even when they don’t have enough information to properly judge the situation.
Let me get this straight…
You’re basically saying that maybe they are not effectively increasing the cost of in-game products by introducing currency obfuscation, but they are attempting to dodge laws for consumer protection instead, so we should just wait and see which of these two terrible intentions is the real one (if not both), and we should be content with it if it’s the later one?
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Yes.
These laws are meant to be a device against online gambling which is obviously not what lootboxes are meant to be. So they completely miss the point by targetting lootboxes as well or are at least in a grey area where it is not clear when lootboxes end and real gambling starts.
For comparison: Real trading card games like Yu-Gi-Oh or MTG are hardly considered gambling but are basicly the same and don’t fall under gambling laws.
I understand your point, but the examples given are somewhat invalid.
In both of the mentioned games you are able and allowed to purchase specific cards from other players. There is therefore no real parallel to hearthstone and other digital tcg.
A deterministic way of buying any specific item in the game should be introduced for people who don’t want to be subjected to gambling practices. That is if you don’t want them to be subjected to laws that are applied to gambling in general. And no, I wouldn’t consider dust crafting to be deterministic, you don’t get the same ammount of dust per X packs every single time, it varies greatly.
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Yeah… played WoW all my life until they ruined it, making the subscription un-worthy to pay monthly, and now they want to ruin Hearthstone too which was the only FREE TO PLAY game I enjoyed. I consider deleting BattleNet for good…
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i think they just want to put this new currency into their bundles which can be a good idea
instead of merc packs on the 80 packs pre order they will be able to put their value on runestones and people who dont play merc can choose how to spend them
all i care is the cost of the packs and HS battle pass staying the same
thats why my only problem with this change is making BG battle pass rune stone only because i wont be able to use another region ¨gold to get the BP
Iv deleted and reinstalled Blizzard games so many times. Iv decided Blizzard is a AAA developer from the 90s living off a cult of nostalgia and fanboys. Even most of their AAA games from the past now that im replaying im recognizing I never liked that much and instead only loved after modding the games into an improved state. But now we cant even mod games since Blizzard being the evil corporate overlords they are force online play of their games.
Its amazing how many people still whine if the cost of things dont change they dont care. The cost of things always changes, just in ways these types of people are not bright enough to see. These are Blizzards core base. The easily manipulated. People who think Battle Pass actually added up to a benefit vs more work for less results. Lots of videos out there going over BP and showing how we ended up worse off, yet the same fanboys still repeating the false narrative we ended better off…because they believe what they want to.
I flagged this comment for violating the Code of Conduct.
mutes another obvious fanboy
Its not about being able to play the game for free. Its about respecting the players time and money. You totally dont sound like a cultish fanboy repeatedly defending Blizzard and twisting logic to suit them.
Edit - Seeing this comment again its worth adding im not a F2P player. I usually buy the bundle of 2 legendaries and 50-60 packs each expansion. Im not asking for the game for free. Its too greedy by a factor of 10x as it is and runestones make things worse.
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“Fanboy” is meant to be an insult.
I’m an adult who accepts constant change as a fact of life.
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From what I can tell, the runestones will be sold in bundles that correspond to the price of the “major” items, like the Tavern Pass. So the idea that you are going to have to buy $50 worth of Runestones to purchase a $20 pass just doesn’t appear to be the case.
What this WILL allow, is for you to be able to purchase a single hero skin for $1. This isn’t feasible using cash because companies are charged fees on every transaction.
IF this is the case, (and I believe it is), then I don’t see what the outrage is about. The only drawback I can see is that if you ONLY want that one hero skin for $1, and nothing else, then yes, you would have to “waste” the money to buy the smallest bundle of runestones. But … you wouldn’t have had the ability to buy it anyway for cash, because they would not have offered an item that cheap because of fees.
Unless someone can enlighten me, I just see a bunch of outrage over a giant nothing-burger.
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people here are hypocrites they recommend games with a currency like the one HS is about to add aaaaall the time(runeterra shadowverse eternal card game mtg arena )
and now HS is adding it they are calling for a boycott