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Here's a bit of code somebody whipped up that will tell you the the current cost of a collection in Artifact. Click Run in the top middle and it'll spit out some results on the right. Pauper is the cost of every common, Peasant is the cost of every common and uncommon, and Full is the cost of every card in the game. This is for a full playset, so 1 hero and 3 of every other card, which is the limit for a deck.

As of writing this post, the cost of Pauper is $10.72, Peasant is $35.71, and Full is $272.99

https://repl.it/repls/FrostyLightheartedInstitutes

This is a chart tracking how the full cost of a collection is changing :

https://www.howmuchdoesartifactcost.com/

The cost of a full collection is hanging around $280. That might sound like a lot, but I guess ask yourself two things: 1) Do you need a full collection, and 2) what would the cost of a full collection of Classic in Hearthstone cost?

I think the pauper and peasant costs are super reasonable. Full is way more than I want to spend. But the question is - what is the cost of getting the cards I want? Well, a giant majority of cards on the market are around 5 cents. There's a large collection of cards that are in the 40 - 80 cent range. There's some rare cards that cost a few dollars, then a few expensive heroes. Axe is the most expensive hero at $26 right now. Drow Ranger is the next at $19, Kanna costs $13, then a couple non hero rares at about $10. Then about 10 cards in the $3-7 and everything else is below that.

To me, this means that no matter what deck I want to build, I can just go to the market and buy it for a reasonable price. In Hearthstone, if I want a specific legendary and some epics, it either means a TON of grinding and waiting or buying another $50 worth of packs to get the dust to do it. I find this soooo much more affordable.

To talk a bit more about free to play models - I do not see grinding for gold as "free". I only see it as free if it's what I was going to do anyways. When I log onto Hearthstone, I feel like I need to complete the quests every day and grind the 10 gold win stuff in order to get the cards I want. But my preference would be to just play the way I want to play. Hearthstone isn't my job... it's what I'm doing for fun. If it's directly influencing what I'm doing away from what I naturally want to do, then it's costing me something. I think this is a viewpoint problem people have, and not an actual problem with Artifact's monetization.

Artifact gives me the freedom to play that way.

I didn't really talk about actual gameplay here, but I guess I'l just say this - I absolutely love it. I'm loving the game.

tl:dr: The Artifact community is very happy. F2P players are not happy, but personally, I find the Artifact model very affordable and freeing. I'm very happy with the way the game is turning out. If anybody tries the game out I'd be happy to play you and give tips. I'd love to host some Artifact tournaments here, but it doesn't sound like we are gonna have the playerbase =x
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