With Microsoft's recent play to acquire Activision Blizzard for $69 Billion, Ben Brode has convinced the Hearthstone team to provide one final act of kindness to the community before their inevitable takeover. Datamined internally as "Ben's Kindness", this one-time quest will appear when you login to Hearthstone and reward your account with 1 Gold.

Ben Brode hasn't been with Blizzard for many years at this point, working on his company Second Dinner which has a Marvel game in the works, so it's quite fascinating to see the pull he still has with Hearthstone's team members that haven't left to join his video game company. Regardless of the intentions, this is quite generous though with there being plenty to do in Hearthstone with 1 Gold. Here are just a few things you can do with this act of kindness:

  • Pool your Gold together with 99 other friends and buy a card pack.
  • Convert your 1 Gold into 1 Arcane Dust.
  • Sob in the corner of the Dragonblight game board with the broken pillar.


"I choose you to get 1 Gold!"

Datamining suggests that this quest is permanently active, which means that even newer players will get to see the kindness of Mr. Brode. Thanks, Ben, for this infuriatingly simple act of mental torture.

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This article was created because Ben wanted to actually do this. Happy April Fools Day =)

Quote From Ben Brode

The one thing I regret from my time on Hearthstone was not executing my April’s Fools Day joke of giving everyone 1 Gold for free.