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When I have to rate the powerlevel she is a 4-5 star champion

When I have to rate the gameplay of her archetype... -1 star

 so let's hope she is not half as strong as she looks because NOBODY needs a high variance archetype to be competetive as it's hurting competetive integrity a lot

Same thoughts here, this new runestones BS is the really scary stuff. In the near future they will probably link this new currency to the other game modes as well and that will just further devalue our gold stashes.

Can't muster any excitement for new cards when the meta is so un-fun, I don't feel like playing LoR at all right now

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or Dota autochess,

Oh I wish more people would play Dota Underlords, I wish it so much, but sadly Valve stopped updating the game 2 years ago. Such a shame, it was by far my favorite auto-chess game and the playernumbers even were fine when the devs out of nowhere and without a official announcement first reduced and finally completely stopped updating the game.

Thanks for checking my math, Neb! While achievement hunting today, I found examples of both doubling and incrementing, so there really is no pattern to follow. 

Anything or nothing could happen at any time. C'est la vie. 

Welp, that seems like start of the end for BG, these changes are complete bs, I won't be surprised if people will jump to TFT or Dota autochess, maybe not the same thing but at least they're not hidden by a paywall (Or at least TFT isn't)

The fact that you can’t buy the pass with gold seems like an obvious step from their perspective. Judging on my friends list, many people play BG’s only and for them the game was 100% free. This was nice - obviously - but I get that cosmetics aren’t enough to pay the bill. 

Also, the fact that they take BG’s cosmetics onto their own pass, leads to the conclusion that they will fill the gaps in the regular pass with actually interesting things for regular players. I really didn’t care for a second Sneed’s skin so that’s a positive in my book.

Where I get upset, is that the most paying HS fans get billed too. I bought pre orders mostly because they gave me access to every aspect of the game. Taking that away, immensely lowers the pre order value and as long as they don’t compensate, this change will make them earn LESS money from my side. 

The P2W is indeed real but I couldn’t care less about BG’s ratings. It’s just a number without any frame of reference anyways

Runestones are obviously pure BS. I wonder if they dare the scummy 1900 Runestones package but the pass costs 2000. Oh boy, Reddit would burn. 

the whole system its far from balanced, go to HSReplay to see the numbers

Oh boy... looks like those greedy execs and Bobby Kotick got their hands on BGs, RIP

It is a perk to pick 4 heroes. The armor-system is supposed to balance out the differences between heroes. So in theory every hero has the same chance of winning. It just reduces the chance of a F2P-player to pick a fun-hero.

As I commented somewhere here. The leaving of player before a lobby starts, will have consequences for balance issues with heroes.  As BG is designed around a 8 player lobby.

That is exactly why I used "should be".

Thanks for your reply. I think your first point makes the most sense. Diablo Mortal isnt released in the Netherlands and Belgium because of the lootboxes and the EU is really investigating the gambling aspect of lootboxes.

Good thing that i stopped palaying BG for the most part already, and now that I won't be getting weekly quests for it I might as well forget the kode exists 

"should be"... But it isn't really, lets be honest here...

They didn't forget, they explicitly said "nah we don't want to"

Okay, so now instead of paying a bunch of gold for more hero options at the start of a BG game, you are now FORCED to pay REAL money in order to get more options? Now that's straight up P2W, because you can spend money in order to increase the chance of getting a better hero. Sure they say that they will balance the other heros in order to make up for the less slots, but lets be real...

If they say there going to balance the heros better.... WHY DIDN'T THEY DO IT ALREADY? Additionally if you look at this from a business standpoint, they probably WANT most heros to be trash. Why? Because that will incentify players to buy the pass in order to get a increased chance of getting a better hero. Additionally when i'm talking about balance, the armor system is honestly not that good. Too much armor = more highroll games, which are boring because then it's highroll vs highroll. Don't hit the card you want? Concede. And on top of that, their often pretty late with removing armor from OP heroes, so that just makes their previous track-record look worse. So i personally have no faith in blizzard actually balancing the heroes.

Tbh one of the things people also forget about is that there is Lobby legends, which is the BG E-SPORT. Which means if you buy the pass for more hero options, your actually getting a BIG competative advantage... because getting better heroes = climbing a bit easier = better chances in the long-run of reaching Lobby Legends, high MMR or the top of the leaderboards. So basically by spending money, you get a competative edge in a mode that has it's own dedicated E-SPORT. That goes way too far.

Honestly, have they learned NOTHING from the previous Battle Pas controversy?!? I just don't understand why there is no way to unlock those slots with gold. (Actually i do, its "Blizzard Greed") If this pass was cosmetic only, (And maybe a EXP boost or something) like the battle pass then there would be not that much to complain about, actually the rest of the update looks very good/interesting. It's just this P2W bs that's holding the update back. R.I.P. the most F2P friendly mode in HS. (Which was also one of the main reasons why its so popular.)

1. Helps circumvent anti-gambling lootbox regulation. This system is already in place in the Asia servers for this reason.
2. Makes it psychologically easier for people to spend money. Spending three dollars for a measly two packs sounds laughable to everyone because you know exactly what dollars are worth and what you could be spending that money on instead. If they cost 300 Crystal Sparkly Gems instead consumers are less likely to notice the real price of what they're spending.
3. By offering only specific amounts of paid currency purchases instead of exact exchanges of real money, forces people to have to purchase more Sparkly Gems than what they actually need.

that false, P2W imply that a player who pays get an edge on winning a match, and thats this case

in some game you cant buy the same amount of runes that cost the bundle for example, so you always spend more money on runes you dont need

Some products, like Pre-Purchase Bundles, the Hearthstone Tavern Pass, and Packs (purchasing more than one at a time) will be able to be purchased with money or Runestones. A few other select products, like individual packs and cosmetics crafted in the Collection, will remain purchasable with only Gold.

Doesn't appear to be the case for now. Right now they're mostly targetted at BG, but maybe they're gonna be used for main game cosmetics as well, but the essential purchases like Tavern pass and pre-orders will still be available for money directly.

What is the advantage of using a fantasy currency?

You will still have to grab your debetcard or creditcard to buy the runestones.

As far i understand it, the runestones is how most real money purchases will now be done.

like instead of 15 euro/dollar bundle youl need 15 euro/dollar worth of Runestones to buy it now iinstead of directly with real money

Yaaaay, in-game currency, totally what this game needed.

Fucking hell, one of the better parts of Hearthstone's monetization was that you would always know what you were paying for, but now you're gonna go ahead and add an unnecessary middleman so you can discreetly fuck with the pricing.

Wouldn't be surprised if this Runestone shit makes it into regular Hearthstone as well.

Thank fuck I don't actually care about BGs but my heart goes out to anyone that does.

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I hope we will get an event...

Guess we will find out next mini set.

Or an actual event. They havn't done a classic hallows end event in a while, so there is certainly a real possibility here.

I really like the Cluedo-theme and all the call backs to a murder mystery. I hope we will get an event to find out who did it or if it even happened (Did Sire Denathrius create False Flag, the Nezhtrezim he is?)

Guess we will find out next mini set.