We've got two new deals in the Hearthstone shop for Mercenaries to celebrate the launch which are quite generous!
Mercenaries Welcome Bundle
The Mercenaries Welcome Bundle is available for $5 USD and contains:
- 1x Random Legendary Mercenary
- 10x Mercenary Card Packs
This bundle is available through November 15, 2021.
Mercenaries Launch Bundle
The Mercenaries Launch Bundle is available for $20 USD and contains:
- 1x Random Epic Mercenary
- 1x Random Legendary Mercenary
- 20x Mercenary Card Packs
This bundle is available through November 1, 2021.
You have until November to decide if you want these bundles so give Mercenaries a shot and come on back to the shop if you think they are worth picking up.
Comments
I was kinda hoping to reroll mercanaries legendary quest for a Hearthstone one.
Can only remove it though - ah well.
Actually better deals than the pre-orders. I think pre-order people have a legitimate complaint here if they want to press Blizzard on it.
That's right, FortyDust said that.
With preorder you got a diamond frame and the mercenaries come with some voice lines in that form, so i guess you paid for extra bling.
Now if we can get more $5 bundles for Traditional Hearthstone, that would be great!
Oh yes please! Its such a great price point, you can put anything there that's even the tiniest bit of a deal and it'll get swooped up. I'm so surprised they don't use it alongside a regular expansion launch.
I don’t know a lot about the psychology behind F2P games, but my guess is that they found that $5 deals are counterproductive. If you buy it, then a week later when a $20 sale appears you’ll decide you can pass because you just bought something. Not EVERYONE will think that way, of course, but if just 25% of $5 deals keep someone from buying a $20 deal, then it’s not worth it.
It looks like Hearthstone reserves the $5 price point for introductory deals only. New players also get (got?) a $5 deal on normal card packs. The thinking behind this is apparently that it gets the player used to spending money.
The aim of this bundle is introduce the payment to players. Who pays once, even a small amouňt, is more inclined pay again
I don't imagine there is a very large demographic of players who would be willing to spend $5 that aren't willing to spend $10. If you aren't used to spending, you won't spend. If you are used to spending, the difference of a few dollars won't deter you.
There IS a fairly large contingent of players who would make one $10 purchase but not two $5 purchases. Psychology is funny like that.
The images used here are not representative of the actual bundles.
Whoa, that's an interesting client error. Thanks, I'll get those fixed since it looks like a relaunch fixed it.