Blizzard's Known Issues for Hearthstone's 29.2 Patch

If the increase in XP was equal to the increase in the requirements, the community outcry would be far less. This will probably be another 'debacle' like when the new Rewards Track was first introduced. It will most likely be dialed back a tiny little bit to the amount they were aiming for anyways. Anything extra beyond that amount would have been a bonus. A portion of the community will (actively) support this decision. Why? I do not know. Yes, XP is 20% more but the requirements are 200% more. These are clearly not equal proportional increases.

Blizzard is seemingly telling people like me who have been loyal for a decade and are already on the verge of quitting to finally call it a day. After playing for 10 years and having spent a considerable amount of money on Hearthstone, I have completed almost everything there is to complete in this game (53870 achievement points). This might actually be the final needed push for me personally. I was thinking of completing the last few remaining achievements left to do and probably go on a hiatus or downright uninstalling afterwards, but maybe this will happen sooner rather than later now. As a completionist myself, this is really frustrating to me. What a disappointment in the anniversary year of Hearthstone!

I like the idea of the weekly quests lasting longer, but yeah, the math doesn't add up. If you've doubled the amount of Battlecries/Murlocs/Excavate cards that I need to play, then the XP should be (roughly) doubled. 

I'm sure Blizz has the data on how many players have no quests left by Friday, and this is their "solution" to that problem. Needs some fine-tuning. 

There is no way I can complete these in one week. With the old weekly quests I already didn't always manage to complete them before the week ended.

I'm seriously considering whether I should quit the game. I don't like the feeling of being squeezed for money. And there are plenty of other good games to play.

I guess I'll stop playing until they roll it back; ultimately the people responsible for monetization probably care more about seeing the numbers drop than about any other form of protest.

Well, the expected response has been announced. Everything is still going according to their plans. The XP part remains capped as is apparently, so let us see how 'much' they will dial down the requirements part. I bet my left shoe it will still be quite disproportional, but how far apart they will be after the update is now the question.

Blizzard is literally saying: "We want you all to work much longer, but overall you are going to be paid less (XP) for it."

Now imagine your boss would say something to you like this, what would your response to such insanity be? 🤔

Obviously, they want players to spend more time in the game. Adding incremental tiers on top of the quests would have done the trick, really. They clearly have the technology available, just copy and paste it from the existing achievements system. Everything would be the same for the casuals and more engaged players would have something extra to work towards and thus play more. Instead they chose the bad option to lump everyone together and make things much worse for most people and also mess with the XP versus requirements ratio.

Ultimately, if the updated weekly quests are going to be still too disproportional, then make them infinitely rerollable. Let players mulligan these ridiculous quests over and over, so at the very least we can decide how to suffer through the most appealling ones in order to still get the XP.

It all feels planned: first triple the requirements for +20% XP, then bring it down to double (*) but still only give +20% XP. Make it sound like they caved in to community backlash while still significantly worsening the economy for many players.

In itself this wouldn't be enough to make me quit, but it's part of an overall trend to monetize ever more aggressively. Back when it was only cosmetic, I would roll my eyes and move on, but now it's starting to affect how much money it costs to build a decent collection. I'm not interested in playing more and I don't want to pay more for the amount of time that I am playing the game. It seems they're on a course to make the game too expensive for me and if I'll be forced to quit anyway in the not too distant future, I might as well quit now and save myself some frustration.

(*) They haven't announced the new requirements, just said that they will be between the old and the current amounts. I have a gut feeling it will be right in the middle, but that is just a guess at this point. Edit: The new numbers differ per quest, but on average they indeed roughly doubled compared to the old situation, for example 5 wins -> 15 wins -> 10 wins.

I guess OutOf has given up on reporting actual Hearthstone news. The quest drama is the biggest Hearthstone story so far this year, but all we see is the trickle of uninteresting non-news spoonfed to the site by Blizzard.

... I'm seriously contemplating asking for a refund on the season pass - changing the terms and rate of exp mid way throught a month/season is leaving me with a bitter taste in mouth ... 

Even though i agree almost all of the statements about quests and pass bonus, i don't blame blizzard for that.

I'm blaming who keeps buying its products even though they periodically increases the game's monatization more aggresively in years. Sorry but forum posts and reddit are not place to show your response and reaction. That reaction should be shown as not buying its products when they do their bad act.

It's simple real life thing. Noone stops benefiting from something if the situation keeps hapenning.

I mean, it is not first time they are doing it and people kept buying even though they don't agree. Companies only understands your reactions when they saw sale amounts, your forum posts and reddit posts are nothing.

As you can see, they are toying with you as they actually plan to increase it by 2x but increasing it for 3x so when people react they can decrease it. Mass of people will be glad with this change (or their act like decreasing) or just don't care and keep buying believe me.

I'm glad i stopped buying from blizzard for Heartstone since rastakhan's rumble. I still enjoy playing this game but it can't take a single dim from me anymore. You should do the same or just stop playing at all.

The  thing i am actually sad about is BG Duos. It is just shadowed by all the drama and it is most fun stuff in years for hearthstone in my opinion. They just shot a bullet on their own leg...