Hearthstone to get premium coin and players are afraid to pay 2-win

But fortunately only in Battlegrounds mode.

Battlegrounds is the so-called “auto combat” mode in Blizzard’s card game hearthstonepull next week the second season I started. It’s accompanied by a bunch of news, and players don’t feel positive about it all. It’s all about a new currency, runes, that you buy with real money and then use to buy things in the in-game store, although some things in the store will still be directly purchasable with regular money. Blizzard has no plans to make it possible to earn in the game.

The main problem seems to be the fact that even now you can buy so-called “Battlefield Perks” for the gold you earn by playing, thus, among other things, opening up the possibility of choosing among four different heroes at the beginning of the match, which is a huge advantage.

However, with the second season, that will not be possible, but instead you have to unlock this possibility after purchasing the game mode battle pass with the new premium currency. Thus, many believe that the Battlegrounds part of the game will be 2-win.

For its part, Blizzard believes that the new currency will make it easier for them to sell smaller items, such as skins, and promises that the size of coin packs will be adapted to the most common purchases, so that you don’t have to buy a pack that’s too big and then overpay for a lot of coins.