'We are so back': After a month of spent strangling itself with monetisation, promising new auto-battler The Bazaar finally makes things right for its players

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," Raynad wrote at the time.