Developer Insight: Hearthsteel Virtual Currency and Housing in Midnight

Community General Discussion
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eww

/10char

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people will hate it now but still buy it anyway

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Was the player housing worth it, fellas?

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I’m in SWTOR, still.

At least there, you get monthly Cartel Coins from your sub, which does a lot of stave off the “damnit I need 100 more but the smallest pack is 500” effect that so many microtransaction cesspits deliberately create/

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Its funny because its STILL for gold.

You can earn these shop items just like we can earn mounts. Through Gold.

“But I dont know how to earn that much gold” Eh. Stop spending on consumables that you double click accidentally for M+ and youll earn LOADS of gold.

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This needs to go back to the drawing board. A new currency for housing items, fine, but making it for only real money, that’s not good. Unless you get some of this currency regularly without the need for buying them, that needs to be done.

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All they did was add a convoluted step to buying stuff in the cash shop. For reasons unknown.

Instead of, “Here’s a pack of 10 chairs, a dining room table, dishes and a side bar for $10,” they went “here’s a new currency for you to figure to buy them individually!”

It’s pretty stupid.

Nah. My theories were half wrong to everyone. The other half isn’t, though. The cash shop isn’t being inundated with all of the decos.

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If Blizzard can esportify it… maybe?

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Oh man. I heated my popcorn for this one.

Can’t wait to see soul cry his heart out.

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I’m gonna be honest, I genuinely don’t see the issue here.

Spend $1. Get 100 Hearthsteel coins. Buy 100 chairs for ¢1 each. Blizzard only has to process 1 transaction, and therefore gets charged less by the banks processing it.

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…..oh.

Oh wow.

So it is fundamentally a cash-bought currency, and you need to re-buy anything you want multiples of?

That’s…yikes. That’s a choice.

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mythic decoration invitational

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Remember a few days ago when your coping mechanism was “it’s just datamining this isn’t a cash shop currency”

And now the new one is “well okay it is a cash shop currency but….”

Nobody takes you seriously when you eat the boot of the billion dollar company this much.

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We’re already winning.

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Heck yeah! Now all they have to do is add a cash shop currency that allows you to buy vault slots.

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Now lets add loot boxes, err I mean “Surprise Gift Boxes” filled with furniture items to the store.

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This is a good idea.

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I literally said several theories, but hey, go off King.

Nobody takes you seriously when you run around calling people like me, that have been actioned for hating on blizzard 'boot lickers and/or eaters".

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Philosophy and Guiding Principles

At the top level, our main priority is making Housing fun and player-friendly, something that can be enjoyed by players of all kinds. To that end, here are a number of our guiding principles:

  • The VAST majority of Housing items are (and will continue to be) earnable in-game. Only a small fraction is available for purchase from the shop. Comparing this number against collectibles such as mounts is a good metric here, with more than a thousand mounts earnable in-game and only a few dozen from the shop.

  • Housing items tied to core fantasies of a player’s race or class, or that already exist in Azeroth, won’t be sold in the shop. Thematically important decor that players know and love will also not appear in the shop.

  • All Housing items in the shop will be available for individual purchase. While we’ll sometimes offer sales on bundles of items for a limited time, you shouldn’t feel like you have to spend money NOW or risk missing something you want.

  • Costs in the shop are clearly defined. The ratios of Hearthsteel to real money are fixed and easily understood at a glance. You should be able to obtain an amount that makes sense for the purchases you want to make.

  • Similarly, the costs of items are designed to align with Hearthsteel offer amounts in a player-friendly way. Buying Hearthsteel at the amount you want lets you purchase the items you want without requiring you to think about which packs should be added together to minimize leftovers.

  • The shop User Interface (UI) is straight-forward and easy to understand.

  • Hearthsteel should integrate cleanly into the existing Battle.net economy. This means not just being able to purchase it in-game, on the web, or in the launcher, but it should also be compatible with the normal flow of the WoW Token, letting you earn gold in game and then use that gold to ultimately purchase Hearthsteel via the WoW Token.

  • Hearthsteel is for Housing. We currently have no plans to use it for the Trading Post, mounts, transmogs, or pets.

Doesn’t sound too bad.

Hopefully that’s because it isn’t bad and not just because Blizzard knows how to spin and lie, but I guess we’ll see.

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Well this might be the hill to die on, the slippery slope. Tenders was interesting approach with seldom ways to buy from cash shop. Should be purchase with housing bundles that unlock assets, and only come with currency as bonus. Have way to acquire like tender.

Give this micro transactions to China servers.

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