A month ago, The Bazaar launched in open beta. It was a disaster, alienating a faithful community that had been building up steam throughout the game's closed beta period. It wasn't just that players saw the new autobattler's free-to-play monetisation as extreme, drawing pay-to-win accusations, but that the game's creator—former professional Hearthstone player and streamer Reynad—went scorched Earth at the community subreddit.
"Seeing Reddit lose it today lets me breathe a huge sigh of relief," Reynad wrote at the time. "I'm pretty confident we're on the right track now."
