The rewards of the Arena of Hearthstone often lead to dissatisfaction. The Game Director wants to change that.
Among the most lucrative game modes of Hearthstone is the Arena. For 150 gold coins or nearly €2, players can assemble a deck by repeatedly choosing from three cards. With this deck, they can compete until they achieve either 12 wins or suffer 3 losses.
Depending on how many wins are achieved before exiting, a different number of reward chests are provided afterward. These contain gold, arcane dust, card packs, or sometimes even individual cards. However, these cards are often a source of frustration. Quite frequently, a pack contains only a common card and isn’t even golden. For many players, this feels like mockery, as the value of this reward chest is less than one-fifth of a card pack.
Ben Brode, the Game Director of Hearthstone, has addressed this issue and explained on Reddit that this feedback is highly valued. In a future update, they plan to revise the Arena rewards.
However, it is not about a blunt increase in value, but rather a redistribution of rewards. The “overall value” of the rewards should not change. This means in clear terms that if they enhance the chest with the common non-golden card, then one of the other chests must lose some value. However, they did not specify concrete plans for this.
In the future, the developers of Hearthstone aim to deliver smaller updates more quickly to address bugs and other issues early on. They acknowledge that this hasn’t worked very well so far.
By the way: “Earlier,” the “common non-golden cards” were still a reward chest containing 5 arcane dust – making them even less valuable. In comparison, a single card looks much better, doesn’t it?
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