@megraam wrote:
So you were the part of this limited release until the have decided in a truly EA way things are too easy for players who don't pay2play and cut everything.
Quite the opposite. EA made it EASIER for players who don't pay. They made the pack contain twice the number of cards. They also made it so that at least 3 of the 6 cards have a chance of being rare or higher. Before only one of the 3 you got could be rare or higher.
@megraam wrote:
You have got a 100 gems quest weekly and I have seen 1 quest like this in 3 weeks,
To tell the truth, I haven't confirmed it's weekly. Somebody in reddit said they were seeing it weekly and I'm pretty sure I've seen it at least once a week. This is AFTER the global release so nothing has changed. Perhaps it's not guaranteed to be weekly and I was just having good luck.
@megraam wrote:
You were actually able to get heroes from packs and the whole forum is swarmed with us who don't get any heroes at all etc.etc.
Perhaps they did reduce the probability of getting heroes and maybe even legends. Probably to be more in line with the drop rate in other CCGs since they were considerably high (I've opened many packs in hearthstone and have like 5 legends total!) But the fact is that you don't need many heroes or many legends to be competitive or to have fun. They certainly add to the variety though but you can expect to get them as part of the progression through the game. I repeat YOU DON'T NEED THEM ALL!
@megraam wrote:
So you being part of this release don't get how things are for those who play since actual release. If you claim time isn't an investment here, how about you dust all you have got till 18th of October? Because like you said time doesn't matter here, right?
I was actually considering just creating another account so that I could get more cards from the gems you get from the ladder since the packs have doubled in size. Do I need to repeat this? DOUBLED IN SIZE!!! I decided not to since I was happy with where I was in the progression. It's kind of like just restarting an RPG. You might do that if you want to play through it all again, but if there is no need to, then you just continue on.
@megraam wrote:
Next, Hearthstone doesn't have a premium currency. You can buy packs for gold. You can win packs in arena when pay2win factor is nonexistent, only your skill matters. You can do it as much as you want. Here you get 70-80 gems per day and that's it, bye.
Saying that Hearthstone doesn't have premium currency is meaningless because you can still use money to buy packs or to buy entry to the arena, so that's basically the equivalent of a premium currency. If I pay $10 to buy a couple of packs its EXACTLY THE SAME THING as paying $10 to buy some gems to buy a couple of packs. And similar to the fact that you only get 70-80 gems here, you only get a limited amount of gold per day in Hearthstone when playing ranked or unranked, but frankly I find that the usefulness of the cards you get in PvZ is actually more than the cards you get in Hearthstone per time spent playing.
Now granted, it does have the arena, but as I said before, it is also an older game and we don't know if PvZ won't add a similar game mode in the future. After all, it's only a few months old.
@megraam wrote:
And time IS an investment here. All games are on this basis: you either waste a lot if time waiting to get a quest or you buy it for money.
Time/money ratio here is screwed, this is my point.
Nope, this is pathetic. If you are not having fun playing, then just don't play, play something else. Unless you are working for a gem farmer so as to sell an account (which is against the TOS and should be illegal), the time you spend should be time you are enjoying. The more time you spend playing a game and having fun, the better. If this is not your case then you really need to rethink your life and what you are getting from playing video games.
Now, if you are not having fun because you are being beaten up, then you just need to find a less competitive game or one with a progression that suits you.
@megraam wrote:
And I don't even mention paid cards which you can't get from non$$$ packs and you can't craft it. Turkey anyone?
As long as there are ways to play the game competitively without having to own those cards, who gives a rat's tail? Consider it an extra thing, a collector's item, something to entice people to spend money so they can have a business model, you know, to invest more time into making more cards and stuff.
