According to HSEsports, a new Esports card back, Golden Skies, will be added in Patch 20.2 as a reward for competitors competing in the main Masters Tour events.
We'll get to see the animation on Tuesday when the patch hits.
This reward is going to retroactively apply to those competitors in the Ironforge and Orgrimmar events within a month of Patch 20.2 going live. If you see this card back out on the ladder, you're playing against someone who knows whats up.
The card back is only available to competitors, much like the Golden Celebration card back was the reward for being in the Hearthstone Championship Tour. Patch 20.2 drops next week on May 4. Also, don't forget to tune in to this weekend's Masters Tour Orgrimmar event where card pack drops will be available for watching.
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At first I´ve read title as: "Everyone is Getting a New Esports Card Back for Masters Tour Event" and got excited. Then I´ve read it the second time... Guess no sweet candy for us this time, sigh :P
I’m sure many will disagree with me, but it is bs that there are card backs that can only be obtained by the elite of the elite. There should be a way to obtain any card back or cosmetic without being a pro player
While I think it's cool to give top level players special card back. It kind of spits in the face of players who would like separate legend card backs for reaching legend in wild or classic. You could also give out cardbacks for battlegrounds and 12 win runs in duels/arena.
This is the second cardback that only a minority of folks will get, and standard legend cardbacks has lost any meaning it once had. So in that sense, this is frustrating.
I don't agree. It's kinda cool when you face an opponent who has a very special cardback, makes me wonder if it's a known player or something. Makes it more interesting to me.
I get where you are coming from, but at the same time I think it is cool that those who got to the top can have some extra in-game bling to show for it, even long time after they might not be playing anymore, or at that level. It is just a nice commemorative item. I get you might want the card back too, and 'OCD' collectors will get crazy mad they can't have these, but I think its nice. And not like this is the first time there is a card back for competing in tournamets.
A card back is insubstantial enough that I think this is fine, too. There've got to be well over 100 in Hearthstone now, right? Maybe even approaching 200? It'd maybe be different if this was something like a Hero portrait where a lot of dev work went into something not widely available.
This is basically the digital equivalent of what you'd get in a goodie bag at one of these events.
It's even worse: there are card backs (that of my avatar) that are only available to people who are from a single specific country out of the hundreds in the world (you can already imagine what country it is). Is that racism?
If that's racism, then the world has truly collapsed because I don't think I can keep my sides from bursting in laughter watching cyberwarriors battling over mcdonald's decision to sell pork burgers in China but not anywhere else.
On the card back thing. Well, I don't think I've ever fawned over a token and think myself more special compared to anyone else. But to each their own I guess.
USA is not a race
I live in Toronto, with a friend who used to live in New York. She got upset once when the Starbucks in Toronto was running a promotion that wasn't offered in New York - apparently, it was "preferential treatment," or some bullshit. I suggested that companies have the freedom to market their products in different places however they want to market them, and that exercising that freedom didn't amount to "preferential treatment" - at the time, there was a holiday in Canada, but not in the USA. Hence, the promotion.
To answer your question - no, it isn't racism.
It's also perfectly acceptable for Blizzard to offer in-game cosmetics to folks based on their skill-level. Christ. It's a competitive card game.
But nonetheless those exclusivities are not for everyone.
For instance, I have all the monthly card backs that show my loyalty to the game from day one... however Blizzard spits in my face by selling those card backs for a symbolic amount of gold to everyone regardless of their seniority in the game.
Or for example, Blizzard also spits in the faces of those who spent real money on a pre-purchase to receive an exclusive card back, and now they see how those card backs are also sold to everyone for a symbolic amount of gold.
It is clear that there are first class clients and exclusivities and second class clients and exclusivities.
To be fair, your decision to treat monthly cosmetics as something that "shows your loyalty to the game" isn't Blizzard's problem - you choose to give the rewards the meanings that you choose to give them.
As far as Blizzard "spitting in your face" for choosing to give a different meaning to those cosmetics - again, you are free to feel betrayed, and perfectly free to post about your feelings if you choose to do so. You'll concede that choosing to feel betrayed isn't the same as actually being betrayed - the same holds being spat upon.
The internet won't break if you stop pretending to be upset every time you use it.
GLHF.
You're joking or being sarcastic, right? Because I just can't believe anyone could say such bullshit seriously.
How the hell are we going to choose the meaning of a reward? A reward or award is given to someone by virtue of an achievement that he/she has achieved, and objectively that is what it means, no more, no less.
Of course some of you are capable of anything, cheap philosophy included, so to continue to idolize the almighty but humble Blizzard, the one who is never wrong and always does everything right.
You paid money for a card back. You got a card back. You really think Blizzard are spitting in your face allowing other people to enjoy it years later? You're going to call yourself a second-class client because other people can buy a card back? Freakin' lol.
Okay then, let's remove any kind of exclusivity after a while!!
When will I be able to buy the card back of my avatar with gold? Or the card back this news is about?
Do you seriously see feasible, reasonable and logical to sell the Esports Card Back for Masters Tour Event for a few hundred gold? Not at all, right?
I reiterate again: there are first class clients and exclusivities and second class clients and exclusivities
Yes, I think it would be absolutely fine to put this card back and the Dalaran Flame card back in the store eventually. I don't necessarily think that exclusivity holds any value in a digital format. That's why NFTs are dumb.