If that were the only way to obtain packs, maybe you'd be right. But it's not even close to the entire free rewards package. It doesn't take a lot of brain power to get that, either, but you're arguing in bad faith soooo... missing obvious things is to be expected.
I will buy these cosmetics since I am still a completionist for traditional Hearthstone, but I am seriously considering changing my current policy and be more selective about what to buy when the next rotation hits. For sure, if they decide to flood us with dozens of cosmetic bundles each year, I will reach my tipping point very soon™.
No one "buys" Battlegrounds. You can get the pass, but you don't have to. When you play a free game where the monetization is primarily through cosmetic items, yes, you should expect a lot of cosmetic items to be released and promoted.
If you aren't cool with that, stop playing, following and caring about free games.
Also, cosmetic items are created by the art department. No matter how many skins they add, it takes absolutely nothing away from development of any game mode across all of Hearthstone. If you want to complain about the state of Hearthstone (and rightfully so), your beef is with the design team and live team of Hearthstone.
Oh yea good point, also Lady Prestor and Kazakus were shown too. Maybe they do updates similar to BGs where they add a couple new heroes each expansion. I'd be quite surprised if Mercenaries gets it's own expansion, similar to traditional HS.
I agree that this is most likely. In WoW you can root someone and it stops them from moving but they can still attack and do everything, whereas if you freeze something it can’t do anything; would assume this is similar in Merc, whereby if something is rooted it can still use spell abilities but not physical attacks, whereas frozen stops it doing anything
There were also about a half dozen substantive articles about the new Mercenaries mode. The news comes in at whatever pace it comes in, and I hardly think you should fault a news site for posting new content once it's known to them. It's true that right now the front page is mostly cosmetics, but that's just the order those updates became available as news.
There's also my personal favorite (Kel'Thuzad), and the King of Hearthstone: Dr. Boom! Something else to consider is the number of people from the reveal trailer who are not among the datamined Mercs: ETC, Medivh, Lorewalker Cho, Maiev, High Inquisitor Whitemane, etc.
Got to save something for the expansions, I guess? Or we don't have all the Merc information, which is definitely possible.
Except that's not what he said. He LITERALLY said:
After the Mercenaries announcement I decided that the amount of paid stuff they started tossing around is just way too much and switched from a completionist (gathering each and every piece of cosmetics/card backs/etc.) to a F2P player.
F2P. Do you know what that means? Free to play. i.e. "I don't spend money".
Then, to top things off, they follow that first statement up with this:
The incoming portraits only reaffirm my decision. No more preorders from me either.
Portraits, PURELY OPTIONAL cosmetic pieces which does not impact his/her/it's ability to play Hearthstone whatsoever and he has the gall to say "no more preorders either" ? It's being completely infantile about something that is not even required to play the game. Like I said in my previous post... He already made him up his mind to not spend money, he was just looking for some excuse to announce it to the world for some odd reason.
At no point did he make the comment or insinuation "this is the point where I decided not to buy every skin". So I'm not sure how you went from "F2P/No more preorders" to "I'm not going to buy every skin", wishful thinking perhaps? I myself pre-order almost every expansion (except for 2 expansions in the past) and occasionally buy skins/cosmetics. I don't consider myself "Free2Play" because I'm a purchasing consumer.
And lastly, he's not the OP (original poster), he's just a commenter like you and me. FluxFlashor is the one who posted the thread/article.
That complaint is even more ridiculous because Blizzard wasn’t behind this news blitz in any way. It’s just how OOC decided to present the information that they researched without any help from Blizzard. (Presumably because OOC knows their readers want this information?)
I promised to myself I will never buy "just a cosmetics" , already broke it once for Sylvanas skin first time she arrived and it looks like I will do it again. Sorry Bob, but Party Medivh is just too cool. Well played, Blizz.
OP’s note sounded completely fair to me. I’m also sick of all the negative comments people are posting about the game, and I’d have no patience for things like “greedy Blizzard is trying to suck us dry with these cosmetics.” But I have no problem with “this is the point where I decided not to buy every skin.” They weren’t complaining at all, just saying what was right for them.
OP, I hope you enjoy the game with your new approach.
Dear Blizzard, please have the ONIK music playing in the background if you have this Medivh as your bartender and I'll literally pay you double for this skin. I love that song so much...
After the Mercenaries announcement I decided that the amount of paid stuff they started tossing around is just way too much and switched from a completionist (gathering each and every piece of cosmetics/card backs/etc.) to a F2P player. The incoming portraits only reaffirm my decision. No more preorders from me either.
Considering they seem to be moving to a "free"-ish model, cosmetics are never something for you to "complete" unless you're a whale. I doubt you were spending a ton of money on the game in the first place if your immediate reaction to this is "no more preorders from me either". This may come off as a little harsh, but posts like yours seem to only ever have the premise of "I R ANGRY WIT BLIZARD, I TAKE MUH MONIES AND GO". Instead of looking at the big picture which is this:
You are not entitled to everything released in a game. Especially cosmetics. Buy the cosmetics that tickle your fancy, ignore the ones that don't. This isn't some PlayStation RPG/story game, you're not here to collect 100% of everything and earn a platinum trophy or something. This is a competitive card game.
Collect cards/Mercenaries and improve your tactical decisions from a collection standpoint? Sure, and quite reasonable. Collect every skin, cosmetic, gold/diamond card? No, unless of course if you plan on spending A TON of money. And if someone out there wants to do that, more power to them.
Complaining about not being able to afford/complete all the cosmetics in a game is like complaining that someone else that lives near you has 3 BMW's, while you can only afford a cheap Mazda. That's part of being an adult... is realizing that just cause something IS available, or someone else has something; doesn't mean you are entitled to have it as well.
I really like the Jaina skin, but its likely not going to be individually purchasable. Which is a shame, because Id probably spend some cash on one skin as opposed to none for all.
For some reason having that one fat frog in one of thrall's hand makes it all the more desirable as a skin.
It's pretty damn telling that many of the game's formats are currently in various advanced stages of BROKEN but what occupies the majority of space on news sites is not "all the things we're going to do to make things better". It's an endless spam of how many more cosmetic .jpegs you can now buy for retarded amounts of money. Seriously, where are the times when you could just buy a game and be confident in not being aggressively advertised to to buy more shit for something you already bought. Yeah Hearthstone is a free-to-play game but it already requires a hefty investment of either time or money to keep up with in just the constructed formats, now we're getting another format that has its own separate progression and thus, monetisation, that will potentially siphon tons of money from people who already pay tons for constructed and yet apparently it's not enough. There simply has to be a full front page of new cosmetics every week else the game is just not profitable enough apparently.
Ranked Rewards for Hearthstone Mercenaries Season 1
If that were the only way to obtain packs, maybe you'd be right. But it's not even close to the entire free rewards package. It doesn't take a lot of brain power to get that, either, but you're arguing in bad faith soooo... missing obvious things is to be expected.
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Hmm ... on one hand, Stormwind made me not want to support Hearthstone financially anymore, but on the other hand, these skins are amazing.
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I will buy these cosmetics since I am still a completionist for traditional Hearthstone, but I am seriously considering changing my current policy and be more selective about what to buy when the next rotation hits. For sure, if they decide to flood us with dozens of cosmetic bundles each year, I will reach my tipping point very soon™.
Gala Medivh is Coming to Party in Hearthstone Battlegrounds as a Bartender Replacement Skin
No one "buys" Battlegrounds. You can get the pass, but you don't have to. When you play a free game where the monetization is primarily through cosmetic items, yes, you should expect a lot of cosmetic items to be released and promoted.
If you aren't cool with that, stop playing, following and caring about free games.
Also, cosmetic items are created by the art department. No matter how many skins they add, it takes absolutely nothing away from development of any game mode across all of Hearthstone. If you want to complain about the state of Hearthstone (and rightfully so), your beef is with the design team and live team of Hearthstone.
Who Are the Protector Hearthstone Mercenaries? All 16 Collectible Launch Mercenaries
Oh yea good point, also Lady Prestor and Kazakus were shown too. Maybe they do updates similar to BGs where they add a couple new heroes each expansion. I'd be quite surprised if Mercenaries gets it's own expansion, similar to traditional HS.
How to counter Warlock?
FINE ... "a" top deck, depending on which data you are looking at.
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I agree that this is most likely. In WoW you can root someone and it stops them from moving but they can still attack and do everything, whereas if you freeze something it can’t do anything; would assume this is similar in Merc, whereby if something is rooted it can still use spell abilities but not physical attacks, whereas frozen stops it doing anything
Prophet Velen
Ah, makes sense.
Gala Medivh is Coming to Party in Hearthstone Battlegrounds as a Bartender Replacement Skin
In the last 24 hours, two articles were posted about upcoming balance updates:
There were also about a half dozen substantive articles about the new Mercenaries mode. The news comes in at whatever pace it comes in, and I hardly think you should fault a news site for posting new content once it's known to them. It's true that right now the front page is mostly cosmetics, but that's just the order those updates became available as news.
Who Are the Protector Hearthstone Mercenaries? All 16 Collectible Launch Mercenaries
There's also my personal favorite (Kel'Thuzad), and the King of Hearthstone: Dr. Boom! Something else to consider is the number of people from the reveal trailer who are not among the datamined Mercs: ETC, Medivh, Lorewalker Cho, Maiev, High Inquisitor Whitemane, etc.
Got to save something for the expansions, I guess? Or we don't have all the Merc information, which is definitely possible.
Hearthstone's Fairy Tale Hero Skin Bundle Preview - 5 New Hero Skins Coming
Not to mention his staring contest with the one on his shoulder. :D
Hearthstone's Shadowlands Hero Skin Bundle Preview - 4 New Hero Skins Coming
Except that's not what he said. He LITERALLY said:
After the Mercenaries announcement I decided that the amount of paid stuff they started tossing around is just way too much and switched from a completionist (gathering each and every piece of cosmetics/card backs/etc.) to a F2P player.
F2P. Do you know what that means? Free to play. i.e. "I don't spend money".
Then, to top things off, they follow that first statement up with this:
The incoming portraits only reaffirm my decision. No more preorders from me either.
Portraits, PURELY OPTIONAL cosmetic pieces which does not impact his/her/it's ability to play Hearthstone whatsoever and he has the gall to say "no more preorders either" ? It's being completely infantile about something that is not even required to play the game. Like I said in my previous post... He already made him up his mind to not spend money, he was just looking for some excuse to announce it to the world for some odd reason.
At no point did he make the comment or insinuation "this is the point where I decided not to buy every skin". So I'm not sure how you went from "F2P/No more preorders" to "I'm not going to buy every skin", wishful thinking perhaps? I myself pre-order almost every expansion (except for 2 expansions in the past) and occasionally buy skins/cosmetics. I don't consider myself "Free2Play" because I'm a purchasing consumer.
And lastly, he's not the OP (original poster), he's just a commenter like you and me. FluxFlashor is the one who posted the thread/article.
Hearthstone's Fairy Tale Hero Skin Bundle Preview - 5 New Hero Skins Coming
As a Pirate Warrior player, I would absolutely love to have that Garrosh skin.
Gala Medivh is Coming to Party in Hearthstone Battlegrounds as a Bartender Replacement Skin
That complaint is even more ridiculous because Blizzard wasn’t behind this news blitz in any way. It’s just how OOC decided to present the information that they researched without any help from Blizzard. (Presumably because OOC knows their readers want this information?)
Gala Medivh is Coming to Party in Hearthstone Battlegrounds as a Bartender Replacement Skin
I promised to myself I will never buy "just a cosmetics" , already broke it once for Sylvanas skin first time she arrived and it looks like I will do it again. Sorry Bob, but Party Medivh is just too cool. Well played, Blizz.
Hearthstone's Shadowlands Hero Skin Bundle Preview - 4 New Hero Skins Coming
OP’s note sounded completely fair to me. I’m also sick of all the negative comments people are posting about the game, and I’d have no patience for things like “greedy Blizzard is trying to suck us dry with these cosmetics.” But I have no problem with “this is the point where I decided not to buy every skin.” They weren’t complaining at all, just saying what was right for them.
OP, I hope you enjoy the game with your new approach.
Gala Medivh is Coming to Party in Hearthstone Battlegrounds as a Bartender Replacement Skin
Dear Blizzard, please have the ONIK music playing in the background if you have this Medivh as your bartender and I'll literally pay you double for this skin. I love that song so much...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlHx7YNWYGY
Hearthstone's Fairy Tale Hero Skin Bundle Preview - 5 New Hero Skins Coming
Pirate Garrosh is really cool! (Unlike Pirate Valeera).
However I'm sure these would be cash only and would cost too much, so definitely not worth it (for me, of course).
Gala Medivh is Coming to Party in Hearthstone Battlegrounds as a Bartender Replacement Skin
What? You need to invest time to keep up with constructed? What a shame!
What they made a seperate game within the Hearthstone universe and want to make some profit with the new mode? How dare they!
You rant doesnt make any sense at all. Balance updates are coming next Tuesday, so I really dont care that there are more cosmetics coming out.
Hearthstone's Shadowlands Hero Skin Bundle Preview - 4 New Hero Skins Coming
Considering they seem to be moving to a "free"-ish model, cosmetics are never something for you to "complete" unless you're a whale. I doubt you were spending a ton of money on the game in the first place if your immediate reaction to this is "no more preorders from me either". This may come off as a little harsh, but posts like yours seem to only ever have the premise of "I R ANGRY WIT BLIZARD, I TAKE MUH MONIES AND GO". Instead of looking at the big picture which is this:
You are not entitled to everything released in a game. Especially cosmetics. Buy the cosmetics that tickle your fancy, ignore the ones that don't. This isn't some PlayStation RPG/story game, you're not here to collect 100% of everything and earn a platinum trophy or something. This is a competitive card game.
Collect cards/Mercenaries and improve your tactical decisions from a collection standpoint? Sure, and quite reasonable. Collect every skin, cosmetic, gold/diamond card? No, unless of course if you plan on spending A TON of money. And if someone out there wants to do that, more power to them.
Complaining about not being able to afford/complete all the cosmetics in a game is like complaining that someone else that lives near you has 3 BMW's, while you can only afford a cheap Mazda. That's part of being an adult... is realizing that just cause something IS available, or someone else has something; doesn't mean you are entitled to have it as well.
Hearthstone's Fairy Tale Hero Skin Bundle Preview - 5 New Hero Skins Coming
I really like the Jaina skin, but its likely not going to be individually purchasable. Which is a shame, because Id probably spend some cash on one skin as opposed to none for all.
For some reason having that one fat frog in one of thrall's hand makes it all the more desirable as a skin.
Gala Medivh is Coming to Party in Hearthstone Battlegrounds as a Bartender Replacement Skin
It's pretty damn telling that many of the game's formats are currently in various advanced stages of BROKEN but what occupies the majority of space on news sites is not "all the things we're going to do to make things better". It's an endless spam of how many more cosmetic .jpegs you can now buy for retarded amounts of money. Seriously, where are the times when you could just buy a game and be confident in not being aggressively advertised to to buy more shit for something you already bought. Yeah Hearthstone is a free-to-play game but it already requires a hefty investment of either time or money to keep up with in just the constructed formats, now we're getting another format that has its own separate progression and thus, monetisation, that will potentially siphon tons of money from people who already pay tons for constructed and yet apparently it's not enough. There simply has to be a full front page of new cosmetics every week else the game is just not profitable enough apparently.
/rant
Gala Medivh is Coming to Party in Hearthstone Battlegrounds as a Bartender Replacement Skin
Every Bartender skin seems more awesome than the one before it. Well, except Ve'nari who I find kinda boring and forgetable.
Gala Medivh is Coming to Party in Hearthstone Battlegrounds as a Bartender Replacement Skin
News information overflow....
Hearthstone's Fairy Tale Hero Skin Bundle Preview - 5 New Hero Skins Coming
All the Threatening voice lines are so hilarious, I have to buy this bundle 🤣