Hearthstone Battlegrounds is my most played game of all time (especially Hearthstone in general). I have also always believed that Blizzard generally houses one of the best game designers and artists of all time.
However, the move to make Battlegrounds pay-to-win with gemstones now is predatory, evil and wrong. There is no grey area there: it is fairly black and white. I know that you know it. I know that most people familiar with the topic know that too.
I am boycotting Blizzard now and calling upon others to do the same. I have deleted all my Blizzard games now and will do this not out of lack of money but out of principle.
I think I’ve paid hundreds of dollars for banana and oyster skins in Fortnite. Because the model is fair and I want to support this approach and developer’s creativity. I’ve paid a lot for Dota 2 skins because the model is fair and fun. I also believe that as far as buying packs in a CCG goes, Hearthstone model has been a bit pricey but more fair than many of the alternatives.
I understand that staying profitable can piss people off. This is different, though. And again, you know it at Blizzard. This is what your company will get associated with. $100K p2w Diablo Immortal model and going p2w with BG. Good job. Please try to make it right, Blizzard.
Hopefully this post does not get taken down, but if it does, it will be very telling too.
I hope enough people can let the company know that they are making a mistake after a mistake and are ruining their own reputation. It pains me as I hate to see Blizzard keep falling this low. If I was holding any Activision-Blizzard shares, I would’ve sold them despite the Microsoft acquisition and MW2 looking great from what we know.
I mean…I wouldn’t go as far as to say putting a small price tag on a few additional perks in a game mode is “evil”, especially when you admit having already paid hundreds of dollars in another game for pretty much the same thing, but you do you brah
This is really not about a total paid amount, it’s about making something p2w in context of where Blizzard is going right now. I think they are going down and will drag their player base with them. I believe something has to be done about it.
Why do you call them blizzard? The final nail in blizzard coffin was when they launched war 3 remastered. The ones who are here right now are just some incompetent and useless developers who are just trying to milk the last amount of money before the company die, or what do you think players will stay after the greedyness they showed with imortal and now battlegrounds? Not even Microsoft will be able to revive this zombie. The only thing that keeps people on battlenet are the cod games. Now even them started to put they’re games back on steam
Warlords of Draenor was close to be the best expension ever made.
It had one of the best questing/leveling experiences of all wow. The story’s and a cinematic where amazing.
The idea of having your eyes own place (garrison) was very cool.
The first 2 raids had some crazy and original boss fights. The heroics where nice.
It just had no good endgame.
The garison ended up ruining a lot of things in the end like professions, aspeicaly things like herb and mining.
And there wasn’t really any nice goal throughout the expension. Like the legendary cloak or stuff like that.
Also a ton of mechanics from dreanor are Stil very popular in retail.
For example time walking dungeons.
Changes to Pvp.
Gear stats.
From what I have understood from WoW’s history, the game peaked during Wrath of the Lich King, started losing popularity during Cataclysm, flopped with Mists of Pandaria and then made one of the most controversial lore decisions by introducing alternate timelines with Warlords of Draenor during a time where Blizzard even stopped reporting subscriber numbers to shareholders because it was that bad and the story was not that well received either.
I personally liked Legion, having only gotten into the game around that time (Which held my interest for about a year or so, another when Classic came out) and even I could tell the game had fallen on hard times.