If this is posted in the wrong area, I apologize, and please move it, but I thought it seemed like the right spot once you read past the first two paragraphs.
I'm not sure how many of you play Hearthstone, but I've gotten pretty into it over the past year or so. Anyway, the proposed change coming soon is that "old" sets (Goblins vs Gnomes) will no longer be sold, nor will old adventures be available for purchase. Blizzard plans to segregate the community into "Standard" and "Wild" play. "Standard" being restricted to cards that are in the base set, and the two most recently-released expansions, as well as any adventures that come out during that time. "Wild" is for play without those restrictions. Major tournaments and competitive play will be encouraged to go the standard route, with wild being just for funsies.
To me, this seems like a move to encourage sales of only the newest product (while rendering old sales worthless) to anyone wishing to stay competitively viable, and not have to put effort into balancing new cards to what's already out there. Also, no longer selling the GvG packs (you can still craft them) creates a false scarcity of those cards since getting "dust" to craft cards is a lousy return on gold spent for packs.
My concern, and what will tie it to game discussion is: as we go forward with Shadow Era (which brought me back to CCGs after quitting MtG), is this a potential change that could happen? I haven't seen any evidence to think that Wulven would do this, but the money-grubbing move made by Blizzard has left a bad taste in my mouth, and concern for the future of a game I genuinely love.
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