Developer Insight: Hearthsteel Virtual Currency and Housing in Midnight

Haha.

How are the people that were coping about how this was going to be just like trader’s tenders taking the news?

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Fell for the bait…

I’m going to call things like this “Pulling a Kotick.”

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Hate to see it, I was looking forward to this feature. If they were going to intro a cashshop I at least would have preferred they let the function be usable in live for a few months MINIMUM. There is 0 good will to be thrown away on this. Blizzard is in good will DEBT.

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I for one am not coping and admitting I was wrong. This sucks

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Vindication has never felt worse :frowning:

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I would like to say the same thing, but tbo, i have poor impulse control. I sank a lot of money into SWtoR, even while subbed, and dont get me started on SWGoH, that mobile game… over 5k down the drain there.
I intentionally avoid games like that now because of what ive learned about myself. I think Im going to cancel my collectors editions and call it a day. i dont need the temptation in my life. its like an alcoholic working in a bar. its a bad idea.

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They can be, I am sure.

Lol, you dont need to. You can earn gold easily.

Tell me how often you play, in terms of hours per week, and I can tell you what your possible gold income could be.

It was actually inevitable. They know the kind of “gamers” they have on the hook with something like housing.

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Feedback: No digital currency. You can write as much PR and peddle as much copium as you want to people who were gonna gobble it up regardless, but it’s a dirty practice.

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It doesn’t matter what I “could” do, when I play, I do what I enjoy, which is not all the garbage that gives decent gold

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Can I buy back my healer interrupts with hearthsteel?

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I don’t want to talk about it.

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Oddly, I’ve only bought one deco pack from Old Repbulic. Everything else I just got in game. Now… outfits? Oh man… I’ve spent so many Cartel Coins on outfits… LOL

Some people here just don’t understand when someone doesn’t want either a mud hut with no working windows and bad ceilings and no courtyard or a wooden shack with no working windows and bad ceilings and no courtyard. They’re like: “Why would you ever want to make Villa Torlonia(Frascati)? Those expectations are ridiculous, your dream house should look like my dream house, which is the bare minimum Blizzard will add!”

So you have never gone out of your way to farm something that you wanted?

Ahh, the copium. It won’t go to the development of new features. Blizzard is already earning mountains of cash as it is. This excuse is pure nonsense.

That being said, it’s also irrelevant. The fact is that premium currency should not exist in any game ever, not even free to play games, and especially not in full priced AAA games with a subscription. Premium currency serves no purpose except to obfuscate the real monetary value of items and play mind games with mismatched currency bundles and leftover currency. If you are going to sell microtransactions there is 0 reason not to just let you buy it straight up with cash. PREMIUM CURRENCY SHOULD BE MADE ILLEGAL

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Very rarely, but when I do I realize how boring it is and go do something I enjoy. I barely did any farming even during the farming boost event

It is a bit wild to try to claim everyone will be able to do it and immediately say someones wrong when they say they can’t

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Judging buy the number of people that bought the $90 mount I believe the majority of the playerbase wants to be milked. Put everything cool in the store, don’t drip feed.

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