Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft's latest DLC Mean Streets of Gadgetzan has just been launched, but a certain bug has meant that tri-class cards were given a higher drop rate. Blizzard has, however, issued a statement, written by community manager Zeriyah, and released a hotfix.
The statement starts by saying: "After the launch of Mean Streets of Gadgetzan on the Americas server, we discovered a bug with Mean Streets of Gadgetzan card packs that unintentionally made the drop rate of tri-class cards higher than intended. We apologise for any inconvenience this has caused."
"A hotfix was rolled out to all players on the Americas server at 2:30PM PST (10:30PM GMT), which corrects this issue. Players on the Americas server will now see tri-class cards appear at a drop rate that is consistent with other cards of their rarity. "
"Any player on the Americas server who opened Mean Streets of Gadgetzan packs before 2:30PM PST will receive additional Mean Streets of Gadgetzan packs as compensation. The affected players will receive 33% of the total amount of Gadgetzan packs opened before 2:30PM PST, rounded up, to a minimum of one, regardless if the player acquired packs through gold, Quests, or real money. Since cards are generated upon pack opening and not pack purchase, packs purchased before the hotfix but opened after the hotfix will not experience this bug and will not be a part of the compensation roll out."
Zeriyah continued by giving examples of this. "For example, if a player opened their 50 pack pre-purchase bundle before 2:30PM PST, they will receive 17 additional packs. (33% of 50). If a player opened one pack of Mean Streets of Gadgetzan cards and completed a Quest that awards two packs before 2:30PM PST, they will receive one additional pack. (33% of 3). If a player opened 47 packs before 2:30PM PST, and 23 packs after 2:30PM PST, they will receive 16 additional packs. (33% of 47 affected packs)."
Good news for affected players, too, as Zeriyah also revealed that "compensation has now been applied to all affected Americas region accounts. If the compensation packs do not appear for you in your "Open Packs" screen, please relog into Hearthstone. Thank you for your patience as we worked to resolve this issue!"
Were you affected by the bug at all?