ElephantBanjoGnome wrote:
Hearthly wrote:
In other words, you're in the situation you're in through choice, so stop moaning!
Says King Moan-kla! Except you throw a couple of sour grapes instead of bananas
You're right about how I could buy 30 packs - I could also get no legendaries at all. Holding out to ascertain the Naxx prices is sensible though, no need to pay for that if I don't need to. Being dedicated F2P means I struggle more to get the wins and it requires a lot of dedication. It would be easier to spunk some cash on many decks, but I also feel like I've really earned what I've got.
If Naxx is something trivial like 150 gold per weekly unlock (which might be about right, the same price as an arena run?) then how much would that cost? Are there 9 areas? 1350 gold?
At which point I'll happily spunk the rest on an arena run a day. It's probably sensible to bet on myself getting an average of 3 or 4 wins (making them break even as far as just buying packs goes), so that's the better way to eventually spend it.
But it might also be 250 or 500g per area, you just don't know.
King Moan-kla, I quite like that
My point is you've got options, you know as well as me that you could 'convert' that 3000 gold into a couple of legendaries of your choosing by one means or another, even if 30 straight packs came up blank. (The figure is 5% so one pack in twenty on average contains a legendary.) Plus IIRC you do already have some legendaries so you're not starting from a blank list.
Being F2P may make things harder for you in some match ups where players have 'paid to win', (although IMO the game has been in its current state for so long now that even F2Pers could have put together a pretty awesome card selection), but considering the
ASTOUNDING generosity of this game towards 100% F2Pers such as yourself I honestly don't see how you can think you've got any room for complaint whatsoever. I mean, there is literally NOTHING in the game that is out of reach of F2Pers, no single card, no single ability, no game mode, nothing, not one tiny thing that isn't available to you - albeit it might take you longer to get there.
Even then the game is very generous IMO, I burned through every last scrap of dust I had to craft Jaraxxus and in less than two weeks of doing an Arena run every day or every other day, (for free, just using quest reward gold), and simply DE-ing duplicates from those and getting dust from the rewards, I'm back to nearly 500 dust again - and the most powerful cards in the game only cost 1600 dust each.
I mean, there has to be
something in it for those who are prepared to lob a chunk of cash at the game, and that something is a shortcut to some of the cards (and only some of them, I've spent £72 on cards and there are loads of legendaries that I'm missing, including ones I'd really like) - otherwise everyone would be 100% F2P and the game would make no money and Blizzard would close it down, unless you're suggesting they decide to set themselves up as a charity and rattle tins at supermarket entrances?
You're already playing the game off the back of folks who
are prepared to spend some money on it, (you do at least accept that not everyone can be F2P or the game simply wouldn't exist at all?), so to then call foul when they've got some nicer cards than you seems rather disingenuous