Hello all,
I am looking to get into a card game to play on iOS. I am just wondering how much it really costs per year to be able to play this game? I am not super competitive, but want to be able to do casual ranked matches.
Lanky
I play since closed beta. If you do not spend about 1000 usd each year on HS do not even dream about having a full collection.
The game is not fun nor ballanced since the first expansion (Naxxramas).
If I would not invest so much time into HS I would not even touch it.
In the past if you only played one class you could get every card and have a full 1 class out of 9 experience for free. This was completly ruined when they changed the yearly 1 expansion to yearly 3 and they doubled the amount of legendary cards.
The best part of HS was the adventures, but due to greedy decisions and plain lazyness (they do not want to design cool cards so they replaced the guaranteed legendary and epic drops with random=useless carspacks. You pay the price of 7 packs and you receive 3 packs as a reward…)
The last time I weote something negative on the forums I was banned. We shall see if they ninja ban me again.
Tl;dr: There is nothing to see here. Just move r along.
Ps:There is only 1 way to play HS and have fun for free. If you play arena only. (in most card games it is called draft) However 9 hs games out of 10 is decided by luck, even on professional level. So just skip it until the devs change for the better. Spoiler :They never will.
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The cost depends on how much variety you want. You can play relatively competitively for free (if you allow for a period of collecting resources in the beginning), but you’d be stuck with 1 or 2, maybe 3 decks per expansion.
If you wanna experiment, you gotta pay, but it’s FAR less than 1000 bucks per year.
I recommend checking out Gwent as well. It recently came out on ios and it’s by far the least expensive card game I’ve seen so far.
Although it can also cost you more then 1000 Euro per year. Depending on what you want. All cards, extra’s, all expansions, etc. I play the game for a few years now (a few months after it’s release). If I would tell you how much it costed me, you wont play it. But as said above; it’s all up to you. You can grind for gold, and try to buy the cards, the expansions if they are on sale, as with other packs. Or you can buy every card as soon as a new add-on arrives. All up to you 
Didnt spend money in over a year, oppened 230 Packs at start of expansions alone
Got nearly every common and rare. Only missing epics and legendaries
Yes full collection is as expansice, as not needed
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If you’re willing to do the daily quest every day (you can let them stack up to 3 days and they don’t take long), then you can play relatively competitively for free.
You can’t have every card, but you can have every common/rare, just have to be chosey on which epics and legendaries you craft in addition to the ones you get.
You think it’s hard to get all the cards for one class free now? No offence but you’re doing it wrong if you can’t. You shouldn’t as there’ll be some cards that will make you deck way worse, but you could.
Oh and those shiny adventures you laud over are actually coming back. Yay everyone playing the same thing as 35 cards isn’t enough to cause any diversity.
Dude WTF? How salty can you get? There have been so many cool concepts played around with in hearthstone and here’s the big one, they changed the raid format to make things more interesting. If hearthstone just stuck to 1 expansion per year being raid, packs, raid, packs, raid, packs then there is no way it would be able to keep up with other cards games.
The game would grow stale, boring and repetitive real quick. Have a look at Yugioh, they release a couple new sets every year, each having around 100 cards, about 70 of them being brand new. If hearthstone kept going how it was, every 2 years we would get a fraction of cards that Yu-Gi-Oh! Would get, the game just wouldn’t survive.
Also where did you pull the 1000USD from? Last I checked, about $210 would get a large pre order for each expansion and you’d be fine, the rest of the packs you would get from in game gold, free arena runs or tavern brawls.
Stop being an a***
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I’ve not spent much money on this game. Maybe the odd tenner or £20 for some cards. I have mainly used gold from World of Warcraft to buy tokens for Blizzard balance to fund this game. With the latest expansion I decided to save my gold in Hearthstone simply from the daily quests. I saved early on so was able to have enough gold for 87 packs. Personally I am not aiming to have a full collection and I suspect it is the same for most players. Anyway from now on I plan to just save gold from Hearthy unless they bring out a bundle with a Hero I really want.
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well to be fair (and I missed this ealier), he said you need about 1000 usd for a full collection.
iirc there once was a simulation that tried to find the number of packs you need to get all cards from an expansion without crafting any and I think the average number was 380.
for 330 USD (per expansion) you can buy 280 packs via the web store. including dusting and crafting this sounds like a reasonable number to attempt building a full collection from.
thing is, no one needs a full collection. not even dudes who like to experiment.
sure, sometimes it can be fun to craft a millhouse manastorm for funsies, but crafting all the milhouse-level legendaries every expansion is just silly. same goes for the other rarities.
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Assuming you do all your daily quests then this is the extra cost:
To play all decks: £500/year
To play most decks: £300/year (usually covers all the ones you’re interested in)
To play 2-3 top meta decks: £150/year
If you spend £0, you can get to play top meta decks from time to time, but it’s usually only 1 at a time, and it can be very difficult. You need to be smart with dust and gold.
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please show your calculations for this. seems way off.
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From daily quests and freebies you get about the equivalent of 400 packs a year. So the average worse case is 40,000 dust per year. Any card you get quadruples that number.
So it’s easy to have the top deck constantly, but depending on it’s cost you might be stuck playing it until the next nerfs/expansion. Could also go the route of constantly having the 2-3 cheapest meta decks constantly as they’re usually around/under the 5000 mark but you could expect to have the majority of commons/rares so it’s just the epics/legendaries and if any of the decks share those cards, that makes it even cheaper.
If you want several of the flashy meta decks, than you do definitely have to pay. How much purely comes down to how lucky you get and how expensive said decks are.
Its easy to get a full collection all it involves is doing the quests daily completing each tavern brawl weekly , trying your luck in arena if your good and reach 7 wins your in profit. Over a 52 week year you can get roughly 21900 gold from the quests, weekly tavern brawl 52 classic packs, the expansion release each 4 months averages around 36 packs per year minimum, the daily 100g for 30 games max out thats another 36500 gold. Also completing your 5 ranked bonus per month and maybe reaching rank 10 the gold cards your dust and craft other cards. These are basic I may of missed some other areas like side quests ,promotions , etc.
Id say its even more
since rasthakan i got
74 packs
92 packs
78 packs
Those are 244 without the quests or the brawl.
I HARDLY played every day.
Took 1,5 months off for another game this expansion
A mansion and a kidney. Now if you want those sweet golden cards too, better have Bill Gates in your family tree.
Seriously though, you dont need to spend big chunks of money to enjoy the game. Ive been in Hearthstone since Season 1 and ive hardly spent 200 EU in the span of 5 years.
‘Reading’ the Meta and having a good sense of which cards will stick around, this alone saves you alot of Dust. There’s decks that come and go but cost a little fortune to craft, others that stay relevant for a dozen of seasons.
Annual costs isnt the only variable on the table.