It’s been an ugly month in Hearthstone’s neck of the woods — and it’s only getting worse. Community outcry over what it’s seeing as stingy and greedy business tactics with the game’s revised reward structure and new its Tavern Pass system are sparking riots and protests pretty much anywhere that Hearthstone and its studio rears its head.
Considering that, it was probably not the best time for Blizzard to try to break out a light-hearted “Ask An Old God Anything” Q&A session this week. In fact, this event only got as far as the announcement before it was bombarded with furious player tweets, prompting Blizzard to quietly pull the announcement and cancel the AMA.
And over at the game’s Reddit, a full-blown Hearthstone revolt is raging up and down the posts with players condemning “Blizzard Greed” and publicly quitting. Blizzard promised a couple of weeks ago to make fixes and improvements to the game’s business model, but so far, the community isn’t buying it.
“We have been listening to your feedback regarding the rewards track and it’s clear we missed the mark both in how we communicated and implemented the full functionality of this first version of our rewards system,” the studio posted on November 17th.
