Excuse me if this has already been posted but in case it hasn’t I thought I’d bring it some attention. I introduced a friend to HOTS about a year ago and she doesn’t own much of the roster. Similar to past offers you can only pick one bundle but they are a mere 100 gems. This kind of makes up for no Black Friday sales.
This is exceptional value, especially good for new players or anyone who has 100 spare gems around and wants to round out their collection.
I asked my friend to screen-cap them here they are:
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That’s a sick deal for new players. That’s the kind of thing that could actually draw people to the game, you know, if ActiBlizz ran a single ad for HotS once ever.
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It is, my friend is only level 30 or something but she had enough free gems. I almost didn’t post it as I worry that only smurfs will take advantage of it, because as you say, there is no advertising for HOTS.
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I always thought it was weird that they never brought this back. Though I expected it would cost more. They really don’t like money lol.
Definitely better than farming the gold.
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I thought the same. No Black Friday sale on the yearly boost that I know some veteran players do purchase and now this practical giveaway.
And now, the massive influx of smurfs begins.
That’s what worried me about posting this, do you think I should remove this thread? I just saw how it helped out my friend and that there is no real promotion about it.
The only reason my friend knew about it was because I accidentally clicked on the hero bundle tab when I meant to click on skins to forge my Sorceress Li-Ming skin! Poor Li-Ming, she’s always AFK now because she can’t decide what outfit to wear.
So like a flood of Smurfs?
I’ve never watched the Smurfs but apparently “the great smurf forest flood” is a thing.
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Oh, that wasn’t a comment regarding this thread. I think it is fine, especially given how little traffic this forum attracts. It was more my cynical self pondering how this may be too little, too late for newer players, and even more of an incentive for people to smurf.
Ah well, I have shared the news with friends who are genuinely new to HotS.
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100 gems what a steal…too bad i have the entire roster.
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I only have the one new friend to share it with, the rest are all veterans. She’s happy, she bought the support and specialist bundle. I just noticed that the Tassadar is in the support bundle, they should think of poor Dr. Logan’s feelings.
It would be nice if they promoted this outside of Hots, but there isn’t even a blurb about it on the Blizzard Launcher.
Same, but from just a glance it looks like they wisely haven’t included any hero released after Zul’jin.
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I wonder if anyone has worked out the best value. IE add the cost of every hero in a bundle and work out which is the best value
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My thought as well. Good direction, but maybe it could be a bit more costy.
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TBH, when I saw the cost I thought it was an error because i owned all the heroes. Then my friend tells me it’s shows 100 Gems for her, meh. You think they would have charged at least 1000 Gems, even then it would still be a bargain for new players.
This is Nexus 2.0 all over again but scaled exponentially, jesus christ.
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OK THESE ARE FROM THE NEXUS 2.0 BUNDLES
Actually it’s worth mentioning that everything was unlocked, like literally.
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Many people have been requesting this, maybe someone would like to make it a thread? I’ve made my one quarterly thread already.
Also yes, they are the exact bundles from 2.0 as it displayed the one I had bought back then. Also the Support & Specialist bundle gives it away with the title and also having Tassadar still in support.
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Wasn’t there an event where players would have to jump through a few hoops to earn one of the bundles for free?
How is it “scaled”. It’s the same exact bundles. You can’t even take one if you already took one before.
I won’t remember exactly something so specific from a 4 years ago bundle I’m still looking into it but thanks for the note.