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I absolutely love the "Festivals" Blizzard is doing right now and hope they become a trend
Double gold from quests? Free arena entries and packs? Slight adjustmens to the game's main menu to accommodate the new festivals?
I think all of these are really great decisions by Blizzard and spark activity from the community. Hell, I kept logging in daily to do a new quest since I got a lot more gold than usual. During the entire duration of the Ragnaros' festival I skyrocketed from ~300 gold to nearly 2000 on quests alone, allowing me to save up on the packs when the next expansion launches in August
I just hope these Festivals aren't a one-time only thing as a way of building up hype for Frozen Throne next month and that these limited time events will keep making a return even after the expansion's launch, like say once per month every month or something like that
It helps to fill in the dead air between expansion releases (especially since both festivals so far had a unique thematic Tavern Brawl) and gives the playerbase an incentive to boot up Hearthstone more often
Iksar
Glad you like them. In the last year and a half or so we dedicated a team to what we call live-content that includes brawls, fireside gatherings, events like these, and a bunch of other cool stuff. I've been excited for these two events to go live for awhile now and I know they have a bunch of other things in store for the future you all will enjoy. Thanks for the feedback!