We're still missing signature cards for Ravenous Kraken and Angry Helhound which I assumed would've been included in this Halloween event. Guess not so no idea when we getting these signatures.
Zeddy also mentioned in this video: https://youtu.be/hWyhR-QApMA?t=454 Blizz accidentally gave players some of these packs but then removed them, oops 😅
The idea sounds fun but the implementation is what will matter. How many cards can we add to the side board? When can we use cards from the side board? What would the visual UI design look like?
Ofc we don't know this info from data mining but maybe future patches will have more data/art assets. I just hope sideboarding doesn't change how we play the game. Wouldn't be fun if every game was determined by countering win conditions at the perfect time. Almost like having a permanent Zephrys the Great
Deathwing, because we don't have enough versions of Deathwing in Hearthstone!
Why yes, we do need more versions of Deathwing in HS 😁
Great article and breakdown of the different timelines that could be used in the next expansion. Definitely looking forward to more legendary dragons and (hopefully) another reprint of Deathwing coz I need more
Wonder if there's gonna be a MS presence at Blizzcon this year. Regardless, I just hope all Blizzard games improve and maybe, just maybe MS will push Blizzard to release Warcraft 4 and Starcraft 3 🤞
If Blizzard need to add disruption of any kind, I'd prefer it be on neutral cards like Dirty Rat or Theotar, the Mad Duke. Not sure why Priest and Warlock have disruption as their class identity coz then it just creates bad sentiments for those classes. Remember when everyone and their grandmother was hating on Priest and Warlock when unnerfed Mindrender Illucia and Tickatus were in Standard? If disruption was only relegated to neutral cards, their power level would be more acceptable (with Theotar, the Mad Duke being the exception).
Although, would Theotar, the Mad Duke have been such a controversial card if Sire Denathrius wasn't in the same set? If you play Theotar now in this current meta, it whiffs a lot. Had a priest steal my Yogg recently and it barely made a difference.
I have a feeling this move to Steam is also due to the Netease/China debacle that happened in January this year. Blizzard definitely lost a big region and lots of revenue from the breakup. It's funny seeing the majority of the Overwatch Steam reviews are in Mandarin.
Also wouldn't be surprised if D4 is review bombed as well even after all the good changes coming in Season 2.
There are rumors that once MS acquire ABK, they will boot up the Starcraft or Warcraft franchise again coz MS aren't shy of RTS games seeing as they recently did AoE IV
While these nerfs were definitely needed, I feel control archetypes won't thrive in Twist purely because of Jade Golems. I still remember very vividly how much of a tyrant Jade Druid was when KotFT launched. Add on to the next season's twist rule of XL decks, longer games just means bigger and bigger golems and control decks don't have infinite removal.
I appreciate those buffs, especially to Lord Jaraxxus so we can finally play him and HP on turn 10. The buffs to DK are a bit sad though as this may mean Blizzard is giving up on rainbow DK. This also hints that there's a flaw in the rune restriction system which I thoroughly enjoy as an idea but can see has some issues practically.
I'd imagine Tony would have a functional change after he rotates to wild. It would be funny if Blizzard changed his text to say copy your opponents deck seeing as piracy is all about copying files illegally 🙃
Might as well just kill the card like they did with Illucia
Amazing breakdown and comparison between games. Definitely found the loot boxes in HOTS very lackluster and didn't bother with them at all. Just goes to show how a company (in this case GGG) can make loot boxes enticing to purchase. I do find though that I'm buying more boxes now since the duplicate protection than before. Then again, the fact the MTX add an extra gameplay interaction raises the value of each item in the boxes.
Appreciate the time you took detailing the comparisons and can definitely say GGG should be the king of MTX and loot boxes.
Loot boxes seem to be on a slightly downward trend recently, but microtransactions as a whole aren't going anywhere.
This statement might be true for other games but damn, when GGG took forever to release the TOTA mystery box in August, all their news posts comments were: "where's the mystery box?"
I for one spend too much money on PoE MTX coz they are that good. I eventually sold all my Dota 2 cosmetics on the Steam Marketplace just to purchase one of the (more expensive) PoE supporter packs.
My friends and I also have a "rule" at the start of a new league: You found a divine? Best thank Chris Wilson by buying a mystery box 😜
According to Mythic+ data and Warcraft logs, the number of players completing raids and dungeons were substantially less in the Dragonflight expansion launch compared to Shadowlands. So according to data, it just goes to show how badly Shadowlands burnt players that never returned for the next expansion. I'm sure Blizzard also have this data so maybe that's why they brought Chris Metzen back to try salvage what's left of Retail WoW.
As for WoW Classic, whatever they do, they better not remove Deathwing from the lore. I'd be very upset with that retcon.
No idea why American companies are so harsh with lay offs. In the company I work for, if there are redundant positions, the employees are first given the opportunity to change teams or at least go through the interview process again for a different team/department (within the same company) if there's vacancies available.
ABK definitely has that "corporate no care" behavior, very sad.
We're still missing signature cards for Ravenous Kraken and Angry Helhound which I assumed would've been included in this Halloween event. Guess not so no idea when we getting these signatures.
Zeddy also mentioned in this video: https://youtu.be/hWyhR-QApMA?t=454 Blizz accidentally gave players some of these packs but then removed them, oops 😅
The idea sounds fun but the implementation is what will matter. How many cards can we add to the side board? When can we use cards from the side board? What would the visual UI design look like?
Ofc we don't know this info from data mining but maybe future patches will have more data/art assets. I just hope sideboarding doesn't change how we play the game. Wouldn't be fun if every game was determined by countering win conditions at the perfect time. Almost like having a permanent Zephrys the Great
Every Project Manager's favorite card
Ah the nostalgia of Clippy!
Why yes, we do need more versions of Deathwing in HS 😁
Great article and breakdown of the different timelines that could be used in the next expansion. Definitely looking forward to more legendary dragons and (hopefully) another reprint of Deathwing coz I need more
Wonder if there's gonna be a MS presence at Blizzcon this year. Regardless, I just hope all Blizzard games improve and maybe, just maybe MS will push Blizzard to release Warcraft 4 and Starcraft 3 🤞
I am beyond excited for this game and this news is definitely promising although I don't remember having much lag in other RTS games like SC2.
If Blizzard need to add disruption of any kind, I'd prefer it be on neutral cards like Dirty Rat or Theotar, the Mad Duke. Not sure why Priest and Warlock have disruption as their class identity coz then it just creates bad sentiments for those classes. Remember when everyone and their grandmother was hating on Priest and Warlock when unnerfed Mindrender Illucia and Tickatus were in Standard? If disruption was only relegated to neutral cards, their power level would be more acceptable (with Theotar, the Mad Duke being the exception).
Although, would Theotar, the Mad Duke have been such a controversial card if Sire Denathrius wasn't in the same set? If you play Theotar now in this current meta, it whiffs a lot. Had a priest steal my Yogg recently and it barely made a difference.
I have a feeling this move to Steam is also due to the Netease/China debacle that happened in January this year. Blizzard definitely lost a big region and lots of revenue from the breakup. It's funny seeing the majority of the Overwatch Steam reviews are in Mandarin.
Also wouldn't be surprised if D4 is review bombed as well even after all the good changes coming in Season 2.
There are rumors that once MS acquire ABK, they will boot up the Starcraft or Warcraft franchise again coz MS aren't shy of RTS games seeing as they recently did AoE IV
I'm hoping we can experience another Chris Metzen "What's up Blizzcon!" moment. Other than that, another bold prediction would be... WoW II...
Least the laid off employees got a 6 month severance package. Don't recall Blizzard ever doing such nice things.
While these nerfs were definitely needed, I feel control archetypes won't thrive in Twist purely because of Jade Golems. I still remember very vividly how much of a tyrant Jade Druid was when KotFT launched. Add on to the next season's twist rule of XL decks, longer games just means bigger and bigger golems and control decks don't have infinite removal.
I appreciate those buffs, especially to Lord Jaraxxus so we can finally play him and HP on turn 10. The buffs to DK are a bit sad though as this may mean Blizzard is giving up on rainbow DK. This also hints that there's a flaw in the rune restriction system which I thoroughly enjoy as an idea but can see has some issues practically.
I'd imagine Tony would have a functional change after he rotates to wild. It would be funny if Blizzard changed his text to say copy your opponents deck seeing as piracy is all about copying files illegally 🙃
Might as well just kill the card like they did with Illucia
Amazing breakdown and comparison between games. Definitely found the loot boxes in HOTS very lackluster and didn't bother with them at all. Just goes to show how a company (in this case GGG) can make loot boxes enticing to purchase. I do find though that I'm buying more boxes now since the duplicate protection than before. Then again, the fact the MTX add an extra gameplay interaction raises the value of each item in the boxes.
Appreciate the time you took detailing the comparisons and can definitely say GGG should be the king of MTX and loot boxes.
This statement might be true for other games but damn, when GGG took forever to release the TOTA mystery box in August, all their news posts comments were: "where's the mystery box?"
I for one spend too much money on PoE MTX coz they are that good. I eventually sold all my Dota 2 cosmetics on the Steam Marketplace just to purchase one of the (more expensive) PoE supporter packs.
My friends and I also have a "rule" at the start of a new league: You found a divine? Best thank Chris Wilson by buying a mystery box 😜
According to Mythic+ data and Warcraft logs, the number of players completing raids and dungeons were substantially less in the Dragonflight expansion launch compared to Shadowlands. So according to data, it just goes to show how badly Shadowlands burnt players that never returned for the next expansion. I'm sure Blizzard also have this data so maybe that's why they brought Chris Metzen back to try salvage what's left of Retail WoW.
As for WoW Classic, whatever they do, they better not remove Deathwing from the lore. I'd be very upset with that retcon.
No idea why American companies are so harsh with lay offs. In the company I work for, if there are redundant positions, the employees are first given the opportunity to change teams or at least go through the interview process again for a different team/department (within the same company) if there's vacancies available.
ABK definitely has that "corporate no care" behavior, very sad.