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Yong Woo: "pre-purchase is on the web only"

EDIT: YONG WOO REPLIED https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/5b7e9k/yong_woo_prepurchase_is_on_the_web_only/d9n045a/

RIP Amazon Coins. RIP Google Opinion Rewards money.

https://twitter.com/ywoo_dev/status/794653381990096896

That also means you can't use your regular Google account or money you have in iTunes if you have an iPhone. Nothing. You can only buy through the Battle.net shop.

What happened? Why did they change it suddenly?

Also no cardback... What happened?

Yong Woo
Posted 9 years, 2 months ago (Source)
Hey guys! Yong Woo here. I want to give you guys some context on why we are doing pre-purchase this way for Mean Streets.

Couple factors that we had to consider:
- To be able to do in-game pre-purchase we currently have to do a patch
- We would have to do the patch after we announce because otherwise the content would get datamined
- Lead time for patches are significant and the timing window between BlizzCon and release is short
These factors contributed to us not doing pre-purchase at all for end of the year release in the past.

For Means Streets of Gadgetzan we wanted to give players an opportunity to get a great deal on a bunch of packs. Given the choice between doing nothing at all or providing a great offer on web only, we felt that it's better for the community to go ahead and make this deal available.

We are continuing to learn more about the best way to roll these out. I hope that sharing our thought process helps with our dialogue. Your feedback is really appreciated. Thanks everyone for your passion!

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<div class="md">Hey guys! Yong Woo here. I want to give you guys some context on why we are doing pre-purchase this way for Mean Streets.

Couple factors that we had to consider:

<ul>
<li>To be able to do in-game pre-purchase we currently have to do a patch</li>
<li>We would have to do the patch after we announce because otherwise the content would get datamined</li>
<li>Lead time for patches are significant and the timing window between BlizzCon and release is short</li>
</ul>

These factors contributed to us not doing pre-purchase at all for end of the year release in the past.

For Means Streets of Gadgetzan we wanted to give players an opportunity to get a great deal on a bunch of packs. Given the choice between doing nothing at all or providing a great offer on web only, we felt that it's better for the community to go ahead and make this deal available.

We are continuing to learn more about the best way to roll these out. I hope that sharing our thought process helps with our dialogue. Your feedback is really appreciated. Thanks everyone for your passion!
</div> (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/5b7e9k/yong_woo_prepurchase_is_on_the_web_only/d9n045a">Yong Woo</a>)
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<div class="md">Hey guys! Yong Woo here. I want to give you guys some context on why we are doing pre-purchase this way for Mean Streets.

Couple factors that we had to consider:

<ul>
<li>To be able to do in-game pre-purchase we currently have to do a patch</li>
<li>We would have to do the patch after we announce because otherwise the content would get datamined</li>
<li>Lead time for patches are significant and the timing window between BlizzCon and release is short</li>
</ul>

These factors contributed to us not doing pre-purchase at all for end of the year release in the past.

For Means Streets of Gadgetzan we wanted to give players an opportunity to get a great deal on a bunch of packs. Given the choice between doing nothing at all or providing a great offer on web only, we felt that it&#39;s better for the community to go ahead and make this deal available.

We are continuing to learn more about the best way to roll these out. I hope that sharing our thought process helps with our dialogue. Your feedback is really appreciated. Thanks everyone for your passion!
</div> (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/5b7e9k/yong_woo_prepurchase_is_on_the_web_only/d9n045a">Source</a>)
 
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