For those keeping track, Puzzling Cartel Chips aka “Dinars” were originally slated as Renown rewards at levels 17 and 19 through the Gallagio Loyalty Rewards Club. Players reasonably planned their progression around these highly anticipated tokens that would have allowed them to target specific raid items, a desperately needed QoL feature given how frustrating Great Vault RNG can be.
Then they quietly ripped them out of the Renown track before 11.1.0 without so much as a blog post.
Instead of an apology or explanation, we got vague reassurance: “They’re coming in 11.1.5!” when WoW content creator Naguura sat down with Ion Hazzikostas and Maria Hamilton for an interview in which Ion flat-out said Puzzling Cartel Chips would go out in patch 11.1.5
It’s April 22nd, Patch 11.1.5 is live, and once again Blizzard has fumbled the bag when it comes to basic communication and follow-through in the patch notes, on Wowhead, or anywhere else official.
At this point, it’s not just poor communication. It’s intentional obfuscation. Blizzard knew players were planning around these tokens. They knew people were holding out for Vault slots and raid clears in anticipation.
This isn’t a minor oversight. It’s a textbook example of bad faith development. You made a promise, walked it back without notice, then pushed it to the next patch. Why the backtracking with zero communication?
Blizzard, if you’re going to make promises, keep them. If you can’t keep them, communicate like adults. And if you can’t even do that then maybe stop acting like the community owes you infinite goodwill while you play bait-and-switch with internal disagreement of progression systems.
The longer this goes on without answers, the more it looks like Blizzard either:
Doesn’t know what it’s doing
Doesn’t care enough to tell us when things change.
Either one is a bad look. This isn’t about entitlement. it’s about respect for the player base that props this game up. You made promises. You created expectations. And then you went silent.
The lack of transparency lately is abysmal. Race to world first is over so there’s no reason to hold back dinars. I’m happy they’re doing it when its not the last patch of an expac but they need to let people have fun or be competitive in other aspects of the game without needing to raid.
Your interpretation of the transcript is wrong. The transcript is from an interview where the context of what he is saying only supports the (correct) interpretation that he said dinars were coming in 11.1.5.
Cool. So when Ion Hazzikostas said in the interview with Naguura:
“I mean we’ll have a lot more details, um, they’ll be, it’s going to be in the 11.1.5 update…”
…you interpreted that as what exactly? A suggestion? A maybe? A metaphorical patch number?
That’s not “we’ll think about it,” that’s “it’s going to be in the 11.1.5 update.” Full stop.
You can play semantic games all you want, but Ion flat-out said it was coming in this patch. Not “maybe later.” Not “TBD.” He specifically named the patch and associated the Dinar system with it. If you want to pretend that’s vague, that’s on you.
Then Blizzard pushed the messaging again after yanking them from Renown by saying they’d have more details once the patch went live. Well, guess what?
The patch is live.
Still no details. Still no Dinars. Still no mention in the official notes. You don’t get to rewrite the timeline just because Blizzard didn’t follow through. You don’t get to hand-wave their lack of transparency and say “WTH, dude, it just dropped today” when the entire player base was told to expect something and now it’s missing without explanation.
This isn’t about patience. It’s about accountability.
We were told Dinars were coming.
We were told they’d be here in 11.1.5.
This is the exact quote with the middle bs about why they removed them from the Renown track removed:
I mean… we’re going to have a lot more details… umm… there’ll be more info— it’s going to be in the 11 1 5 update. … We’ll have more details in the next update, though.
That’s the transcript I copy pasted from the other thread, FYI.
Sendryn inexplicably running defense for Ion again. Just ignore her semantic nonsense, she’s like Tiffany and the Shadowlands in regards to this topic.