Blizzard Post - Update on Scholar Jaina and Horseman Uther

Submitted 3 years, 6 months ago by

Just thought I'd share for those that have not seen yet.

Source: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/hearthstone/t/update-on-scholar-jaina-and-horseman-uther/42044

Quote From Kerfluffle

We wanted to update everyone regarding our new hero skins, particularly Scholar Jaina and Horseman Uther. We are planning to add unique voice lines, start of game voice lines, and a couple other special voice lines to both Scholar Jaina and Horseman Uther in a future patch. We’ve taken feedback on board regarding emotes for those and upcoming hero skins. The next skin, which will be released shortly, has new emotes for all 6 regular board interactions and a few other commonly played lines as well. There will be hero skins in the next expansions associated with their corresponding Book of Heroes chapters that will not have unique lines at launch, but we plan to add them as soon as VO recording allows. Stay tuned for updates here.

Adding context as to how we got here: We started out with the idea of adding skins for our classic heroes that allowed us to get more options for visual customization into the hands of our players at a much quicker than normal pace. We’re confident in the idea behind these skins and they’re already seeing a lot of use within the game. However, we missed here on painting a clear picture of the difference between these skins and the alternate heroes we’ve done in the past, that include all sorts of unique audio and visual effects. That’s something we should have gotten across better and want to ensure that we address in the future.

  • JackJimson's Avatar
    670 673 Posts Joined 11/19/2019
    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    Just thought I'd share for those that have not seen yet.

    Source: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/hearthstone/t/update-on-scholar-jaina-and-horseman-uther/42044

    Quote From Kerfluffle

    We wanted to update everyone regarding our new hero skins, particularly Scholar Jaina and Horseman Uther. We are planning to add unique voice lines, start of game voice lines, and a couple other special voice lines to both Scholar Jaina and Horseman Uther in a future patch. We’ve taken feedback on board regarding emotes for those and upcoming hero skins. The next skin, which will be released shortly, has new emotes for all 6 regular board interactions and a few other commonly played lines as well. There will be hero skins in the next expansions associated with their corresponding Book of Heroes chapters that will not have unique lines at launch, but we plan to add them as soon as VO recording allows. Stay tuned for updates here.

    Adding context as to how we got here: We started out with the idea of adding skins for our classic heroes that allowed us to get more options for visual customization into the hands of our players at a much quicker than normal pace. We’re confident in the idea behind these skins and they’re already seeing a lot of use within the game. However, we missed here on painting a clear picture of the difference between these skins and the alternate heroes we’ve done in the past, that include all sorts of unique audio and visual effects. That’s something we should have gotten across better and want to ensure that we address in the future.

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  • duppie's Avatar
    HearthStationeer 320 240 Posts Joined 04/02/2019
    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    I'm glad they're responding to the feedback and putting some effort into updating the voice lines.  The community did it's job of giving appropriate feedback on something that should be better, and they're listening and doing something about it.  That's the kind of interaction you like to see.  

     

    That's sort of what I thought.  I got the idea that these heroes were meant to be less unique than the true hero power/animations skins.

     

     

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  • Bersak's Avatar
    Magma Rager 720 432 Posts Joined 06/12/2019
    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    That is great stuff, well done community! I’m especially happy for Uther, that bad boy wasn’t cheap and the low effort voicelines flew under the radar.

    I get the philosophy behind no additional voicelines for the Book-of-Heroes characters but then they should have been accessible through gameplay.

    Winner winner chicken dinner

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  • drgardevoir's Avatar
    80 6 Posts Joined 09/30/2020
    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    good job blizzard i'm happy for everyone who owns those portraits.

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  • Thraxus's Avatar
    1060 339 Posts Joined 05/08/2020
    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    I hope they put Jaina up for sale again, but I somewhat doubt it. I would have bought the bundle knowing this.

    English is not my native language, so please excuse occasional mistakes

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  • ArchSpike's Avatar
    530 165 Posts Joined 06/24/2019
    Posted 3 years, 6 months ago

    It would certainly be financially dumb to not put her up for sale again from Blizzard's perspective if they actually are going to fix the voicelines.

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