Plus the more heroes you get the faster you get gold because every-time you level a hero to level 5 you get 2000 gold. Dailies range from 200-800 gold. It only costs 2000-10000 gold for a new character so, if you level a char or two to lvl 5 do some dailies for a week/week and a half. You get another free character or two right there.
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Originally posted by JDis25 Plus the more heroes you get the faster you get gold because every-time you level a hero to level 5 you get 2000 gold. Dailies range from 200-800 gold. It only costs 2000-10000 gold for a new character so, if you level a char or two to lvl 5 do some dailies for a week/week and a half. You get another free character or two right there.
That's true in the first month or so. After that, leveling slows down and I get heroes at a rate slower than they release them.
I like the game but won't spend cash on it. If farming for all heroes was more reasonable then I'd farm them all and spend cash on skins and mounts. But I'm not really eager to spend cash in a MOBA that limits the heroes I can select.
Originally posted by JDis25 Plus the more heroes you get the faster you get gold because every-time you level a hero to level 5 you get 2000 gold. Dailies range from 200-800 gold. It only costs 2000-10000 gold for a new character so, if you level a char or two to lvl 5 do some dailies for a week/week and a half. You get another free character or two right there.
That's true in the first month or so. After that, leveling slows down and I get heroes at a rate slower than they release them.
I like the game but won't spend cash on it. If farming for all heroes was more reasonable then I'd farm them all and spend cash on skins and mounts. But I'm not really eager to spend cash in a MOBA that limits the heroes I can select.
So basically you are one of those that wants everything now without working for it....
So, the game went into open beta a couple days ago. As an avid DOTA 2 player, my friend has been harassing me to play HotS for months, but i wasn't about to spend $40 for dota-lite.
Well, its "free" now, so i've tried it out, and it is reasonably fun. Plays well, etc.
But, want to get custom stuff for your characters? Want to get new characters to play? Well, you have two options, open up your wallet for stupidly expensive stuff (cheapest skin i found was almost $7, mounts were ~$20 bucks, new characters averaged about $10). Or spend a completely and utterly RIDICULOUS amount of time grinding out the gold to buy it.
The cheapest character i found was 4000 gold. You average around 20-40gold per game. So, to buy one character out of about 40, you would have to play around 100 games.
Yes, you do get decent amounts of gold for hitting certain levels, i.e. at say level 3, and 6 and 10 and etc, you get 500-1000gold. Thing is, that slows down big time. I made level 6 in one night, my friend who has had the closed beta and has played well over 100 games, is only level 12. He just barely got enough gold to buy a second character.
So, just like hearthstone (actually its worse than hearthstone), you can either spend an exorbitant amount of money, or spend an exorbitant amount of time grinding out the gold to play it.
I don't understand why they didnt just follow the dota model. All characters unlocked, only charge for custom skins. Its made DOTA 2 a huge cash cow for valve.
The only good thing i can say about it, at least compared to hearthstone, is at least you know what you're buying. You're not buying some RNG thing that is gonna end up returning a whole lot of nothing to you.
Let me correct pretty much everything you said. Are you sure you played? You have so many lies in this.
FIrst off, There are 6 hero's available for 2000g. How could you not find one cheaper then 4000g? There are 36 hero's total right now and only 13 of them are 10000g or $10. They do not average at $10. That is the most expensive ones.
Regarding gold per game. If you refuse to give any real cash to blizzard at all, you will get 30g per win and 20g per loss. Once you hit account level 10 (super fast to do), you get a 7 day stimpack that gives you 75g per win and 50g per loss.
There are also weekly sales on hero's and cosmetics. I bought Jaina for $5 today with it's normal price of $10. If $5 is an exorbitant amount of money for you, I feel bad about your financial situation.
There are also many 2000g reward milestones as you level.
level 2 - 1000g
level 4 - 1000g
level 8 - 2000g
level 10 - 2000g
level 20 - 2000g
level 25 - 2000g
level 30 - 2000g
level 35 - 2000g
level 40 - 2000g
Plus you get 500g each time you get a character up to level 5, which is only 4-5 games. and with a weekly rotation of free characters, easy gold right there.
Plus the daily quests. 200-800g extra per day. When only 13 characters cost 10,000g and the rest are 2000-7000, its pretty easy and quick without spending a penny to get 10 unlocked hero's.
Get your facts straight before making up stuff to bash a game.
Yeah I see misinformation all the time, I'm not quite sure why there isn't a zero tolerance policy on this kind of stuff. Thanks for putting out the real numbers anyone who takes 30 seconds to log in and look around the game would know the OP is full of it.
There's also 1000g for doing the tutorial. You should be able to hit 10k gold in one afternoon and buy your favorite hero, not to mention you can try each hero before buying (including trying the skins).
That said, if you like a different game over this, that's fine. You are allowed to prefer dota2 over hots, nothing wrong with that (I happen to like dota2 more than hots too), but don't just make up fake numbers.
Ofc there have to be some resistance built in to the system. If not to few people would spend money on it and it would get shut down
You could with very little effort get a solid stable of two or three heroes with under a month of invested time. Any easier then that and they might as well give it all away for free.
But yes. Gridning is part of the game and it will remain that way. But this is Blizzard, there will be sales and events that will let you score some nice deals. So i see no real problem with it.
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That's true in the first month or so. After that, leveling slows down and I get heroes at a rate slower than they release them.
I like the game but won't spend cash on it. If farming for all heroes was more reasonable then I'd farm them all and spend cash on skins and mounts. But I'm not really eager to spend cash in a MOBA that limits the heroes I can select.
ITS NOT MMO!
sorry, had to:)
So basically you are one of those that wants everything now without working for it....
Yeah I see misinformation all the time, I'm not quite sure why there isn't a zero tolerance policy on this kind of stuff. Thanks for putting out the real numbers anyone who takes 30 seconds to log in and look around the game would know the OP is full of it.
There's also 1000g for doing the tutorial. You should be able to hit 10k gold in one afternoon and buy your favorite hero, not to mention you can try each hero before buying (including trying the skins).
That said, if you like a different game over this, that's fine. You are allowed to prefer dota2 over hots, nothing wrong with that (I happen to like dota2 more than hots too), but don't just make up fake numbers.
Ofc there have to be some resistance built in to the system. If not to few people would spend money on it and it would get shut down
You could with very little effort get a solid stable of two or three heroes with under a month of invested time. Any easier then that and they might as well give it all away for free.
But yes. Gridning is part of the game and it will remain that way. But this is Blizzard, there will be sales and events that will let you score some nice deals. So i see no real problem with it.
This have been a good conversation