Upon it hitting Tavern Brawl o' Clock today, the newest Tavern Brawl was nowhere to be found.
The "Closed for Renovations" previously has meant that the game was about to be patched. If we're getting a patch today that means patch notes. Patch notes mean we're probably getting some Battlegrounds changes. Battlegrounds changes mean DRAGONS!
A couple of days ago, Hearthstone's Battlegrounds visionary, Conor Kou, had tweeted things were just around the corner. Sounds like we're finally arriving at that corner!
Of course, this is all purely speculation. Maybe Blizzard goofed something up and they're fixing the brawl instead of letting it go out broken.
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If you install the 16.4 patch, the brawl is available--it's Shiftcon West.(your deck is full of Shifter Zerus and Shifting Scroll).
From my understanding of how Hearthstone works on the backend -
They have multiple versions of the game available when new patches are about to hit. When you connect, you get routed to a pool based on your client version. This is due to mobile clients not getting updated as fast as desktop, but they can't just prevent them from playing.
So, because of this, when a Tavern Brawl hits right before a patch is about to go out, they only activate the brawl on the new pool of connections and not the old one. Maybe some tech prevents it from being live on both the old version and about to release version, or maybe they just don't really care much. The moment we can patch our clients and login, we'll be able to play brawl right away.
Edit: The comment I was responding to was deleted =(
is it those reddit theory? my mistake. I didn't see the date. LOL. Probably happening in the past too
EDIT. Still on twitter to finding it out. (and reddit too, in case something comes up, I'll post it)
Similar thing has happened in the past, and the very next day, a big patch came to hearthstone.
If it's the same, I could assume that we'll have a big update tomorrow, including the tavern brawl. (Tuesday or Thursday, I guess it's the latter)
Well, regardless of what the deleted comment was, I'm glad it sparked a response that improved my understanding of what (likely) goes on behind the scenes. I had always wondered what was done to keep players with and without an update apart, but not enough to look into it.
Tl:DR
We are all looking for anything to give us a sign of when the new year announcement is coming
Hype!
"Maybe Blizzard goofed something up..."
You must be kidding. When's the last time that Blizzard...oh wait O_o
On a serious note, I hope we are getting some sort of positive update today!
Watch it's just a bug haha.
verry intresting