Mean Streets of Gadgetzan Tri-Class Drop Rate Fixed (Players Receive 33% of Gadgetzan Packs Opened Before 2:30pm PST)

It seemed to a lot of people that they were receiving a lot of Tri-Class cards in their Mean Streets of Gadgetzan packs. There was apparently a bug that made the drop rate higher than intended. Blizzard is rolling out a hotfix and players that were effected by the bug will be receiving 33% of the total amount of Gadgetzan packs opened before 2:30pm PST.

Update

Packs appear to be being sent out to eligible players on NA!

packs-out

You can watch Kripp going through his collection as an example of how out of balance it was.

Greetings,

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 apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.

A hotfix was rolled out to all players on the Americas server at 2:30PM PST, 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.

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)

This fix will also be added to the release of Mean Streets of Gadgetzan before packs are available to open in all other regions, so players will not be affected by this bug when Mean Streets of Gadgetzan goes live in their region.

We are currently working on when the compensation will be applied to affected players. We will provide additional updates as they become available.

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we worked to resolve this issue as quickly as possible.

[Source]

Leave a Reply

10 Comments

  1. Anonymous
    December 4, 2016 at 11:48 AM

    Thought something was up when I opened two regular Ayas and a golden one. Thanx Blizz for the 24 free packs!

  2. Amz2R
    December 1, 2016 at 9:37 PM

    Can confirm. I got 46 packs…..then again I bought $150 worth lol

  3. Alsozatch
    December 1, 2016 at 6:19 PM

    Any information on when we get them?

  4. chris
    December 1, 2016 at 5:33 PM

    wow! free 80+ packs? OK!

  5. Oliver Howard
    December 1, 2016 at 5:33 PM

    Nice! I did definitely notice a higher number of tri-class cards, so this is nice payback – I get an extra 10 packs woo!

  6. david
    December 1, 2016 at 5:05 PM

    So how do they know who was affected(I was) or will we all be getting this payback?

    • David
      December 1, 2016 at 5:08 PM

      Nevermind, actually went back and read the article lol :p

  7. chris
    December 1, 2016 at 5:00 PM

    wow, thanks blizzard.

  8. KonuTech
    December 1, 2016 at 4:10 PM

    Alright. Cool. Europe. Wants. To. Play. Too.