Tempo Games is launching a flash 24-hour Black Friday event for The Bazaar starting November 28, alongside a preview of major mechanics changes coming to Vanessa, Pygmalien, and Dooley in next week's patch.
24-Hour Black Friday Event Details
If you are looking to capitalize on limited-time mechanics, you need to mark your calendar immediately. The Bazaar is hosting a "Black Friday" event that runs for exactly 24 hours. The window opens at 9am PST on November 28, 2025, and closes at 9am PST on November 29, 2025.
While specific rule deviations haven't been fully detailed, these events usually shake up the standard economy or offering rates. Given the limited duration, this is likely intended as a fun, chaotic break from the standard ladder grind rather than a permanent shift in the game's economy.
Patch Preview: The Era of Item Modification
Looking past the holiday event, the upcoming patch (slated for release next week) is introducing a significant layer of complexity: item modification skills. The developers are adding unique new skills for Vanessa, Pygmalien, Dooley, and Mak.
This is a massive shift for the meta. Instead of just buying items and positioning them, these heroes will now have more agency in altering the properties of the items themselves. For a strategy game like The Bazaar, this increases the skill ceiling dramatically. You aren't just drafting a build; you're crafting specific tools to fit that build.
How will the balance changes affect Jules and Pygmalien?
The patch isn't just adding new toys; it's fixing broken ones. The balance team is explicitly targeting Jules and Pygmalien for buffs. Specifically, they are looking at underutilized items in their kits.
This is the best kind of balancing—buffing the weak stuff rather than just nerfing the strong stuff. By elevating the "trash" tier items for these heroes, it opens up new build paths that simply weren't viable before. If you've been avoiding Jules because her consistency felt off, this update might be the time to pick her back up.
General fixes are also incoming to smooth out outliers across the rest of the roster, but the clear winners of this patch look to be the heroes getting those shiny new modification mechanics.