Runeterra has a lot of other issues right now, especially since our overall site data is out of date and there is a bunch of cards incorrectly flagged that need to be fixed.
Diablo IV and Overwatch 2 were, imo, justly given bad reviews.
D4 on launch was not a great game, season 1 still had lots of issues, and season 2? ehhhh. They are taking the game in the right direction though so given enough time, they should get to where they need to be for years to come.
OW2 was a horrible decision, monetization nightmare, and an insult to people playing OW1. My only hope for it at this point is with Blizzard and Activision being separated, we end up in a scenario where Blizzard can make OW2 more friendly. Tough call though since they clearly have some players playing it and it might be enough to support development and profits.
Monetization models for games as a service are just so weird
Yeah. It's kinda messed up how many games would be so good as $x purchases with cosmetic in-game purchases instead of this nonsense. I ran into that a lot with Clash Royale and is why I ultimately stopped playing it.
Rumble has such solid gameplay, and a bit of a grind is totally fine, just yeah "I just wish they'd make players jump through one fewer hoop with this upgrade system".
Yeah, after the initial "throw gold at them" it grinds to a halt.
I agree with dungeons being too long of a rotation. It super sucks if you can't do anything your first week in the game due to bad luck. I just so happened to join when it was Alliance focused and I picked Jaina as my first hero so I wasn't even aware that the dungeons weren't being uniquely tailored.
The talent system as a whole is unfortunately designed. I was able to achieve common on several minis unlocking possibilities of talents through a few weeks of play. With rare being so difficult to get though (and then epic) if you buy your first talent as the "wrong talent" then you're locking yourself out of talents with that mini for a long time.
I doubt we'll see the Battle.net launcher go away. There are millions of people conditioned to using it already, and people that use it avoid platform fees in other places when selling games or in-game content.
I do wonder if Call of Duty will eventually be leaving Battle.net though in favor of the Xbox app. It seems like Activision and Blizzard are being allowed to be separate entities again under Microsoft, so there's no real reason to keeping CoD on Battle.net. Maybe they push it there into a corner so they can get some sales still should people not want to go to Xbox or Steam, but no longer a main focus in the app.
I do hope Microsoft borrows BNet client engineers though to improve the Xbox app. So much potential but it just doesn't feel right. I don't know if the bnet team will have a good solution, but they've certainly done some great client work over the years.
I just hope their online is improved and people won't be able to cheat the system like has been the case for GTA5. The online can genuinely be quite fun, but then someone joins the server and teleports everyone somewhere or they just kill you over and over again with cheats. Invincibility when fighting is also bullshit.
Probably no change to that though, so bring on the money drops I suppose. At least that was the only positive thing to come out of a primarily client-side peer-to-peer architecture.
GTA as a series has some pretty messed up themes overall that aren't very "2023" so it'll be interesting to see what direction Rockstar goes. I hope they stick to their roots and give people some crazy stuff to play because honestly, real life is a hell of a lot closer to the picture GTA 5 paints than the magical fairy kingdom that people on social media seem to believe exists and "how dare rockstar do x y and z".
This is the definitive thread for you to tell us what's currently broken with the deckbuilder. That includes core functionality and cards that aren't flagged correctly.
We need feedback to know when stuff isn't working as expected. People that leave feedback inside of news article comments aren't helping us with visibility of issues. The deckbuilder experience should be smooth and cards should be showing up as expected.
Recently Fixed
Data can take a bit of time to uncache after changes are made to the Hearthstone database on our site so please be patient as the system catches up.
[NOV 8] Fixed an issue where multiclass cards were not correctly flagged.
[NOV 8] Fixed an issue where old Core Set cards were still flagged as if they were in the Core Set.
Originally I believe this was a data issue with the Hearthstone client. I was wrong. Our datamine scripts have been updated and this should, in theory, never be an issue going forward.
Current Issues
ETC doesn't allow you to add a sideboard.
The deckbuilder does not currently support sideboards, so this will require some new tech.
Dual tribes do not work
We don't have any support in the db for this but it is coming
Good to know, yeah it looks like support in Edge is considered experimental and you can enable to with a special flag.
No clue why its experimental considering it s on chromium lmao. Well, we'll refrain from using avifs going forward. Sometimes we get avif files and don't convert them but that's not a great experience if Edge is going to be silly. Thanks.
Yeah I'm pumped about that dropping at the end of the month. 10 player dungeon/raid in BFD sounds like it'll be a lot of fun to figure out and more importantly, the world is going to have lots to discover. The gated leveling experience also makes it easy to not fall behind which I appreciate as my time isn't as open as it once was lol.
I expect it at this point though. Classic, in what I feel is a lot of folks eyes is Vanilla -> Wrath. I'm pumped about Cataclysm though because that means Mists of Pandaria should be coming and oh boy, I would LOVE to experience that again.
I love that games are embracing their pasts. In the ever-evolving nature of the online service games, so much content is lost to time. I'm looking forward to getting some tilted drops in this week to relive some of chapter 1.
Double post time, get in quick so we can get Sylvanas as a guild, thanks. We're 13% of the way there and there's a new surge coming... tomorrow? So plenty of easy progression towards her.
Oh no, the thread that I get to reflect on the past month briefly and set myself up for failure by not accomplishing anything I'd love.
Looking back at last month quick, I finished all the Timewalking dungeons each week to get my achievement in Dragonflight, so that was great. I finally installed and played Forza Motorsport and have had a few peaceful hours of cruising Spa, Silverstone, and Suzuka. No F1 2023, but we're at the end of the season now with Brazil, Las Vegas, and Abu Dhabi left, so I know the itch will need to be solved by going back to the game. No Payday 3 at all. RIP.
This month I'm hoping to close out my Oracle of Seasons run and start Oracle of Ages. I may or may not have gotten stuck at one point, requiring me to experience an old school zelda title's feeling of exploration, which was something I hadn't felt in a long time. Apparently, I don't remember the games perfectly :D
Warcraft Rumble will also be touched every night for 10-15 minutes to build experience with the game - plus it's just a bunch of fun. I've been playing Rumble now for a little over a month and it has been exactly what I wanted from Clash Royale. Plus, Warcraft stuff so that's awesome.
Dragonflight will be played. I'm not really sure what I want to do in it, but everything has been fun to do so dabble I shall!
ARK: Survival Ascended came out and I've already got the boat built so my friend and I went on our first expedition this week to the Northern peaks. On our return trip, we caught a couple of Argentavis which are going to be great for transporting metal around, a resource we so desperately need. ARK is probably going to be the main game for me for November. We've also got half a dozen Trikes, an endless number of Dilos, and only a few deaths to the Alpha dinosaurs that keep interrupting us at our base.
November 30, World of Warcraft Season of Discovery begins and... yup I'll be playing. I might start a guild for it too, it would be nice to have at least a group of 10 to play the new Blackfathom Deeps raid.
It sounds like I have a lot to play this month, but I don't even know how much I'll end up being able to play games. There is just so much stuff to do- new staff to onboard, site updates to deploy, the Hearthstone expansion launch, the never-ending daily news to cover. I've always joked about wanting to clone myself, and I think I might need to seriously figure this out.
RIP fixing
Hearthstone collections should be fixed.
Runeterra has a lot of other issues right now, especially since our overall site data is out of date and there is a bunch of cards incorrectly flagged that need to be fixed.
Diablo IV and Overwatch 2 were, imo, justly given bad reviews.
D4 on launch was not a great game, season 1 still had lots of issues, and season 2? ehhhh. They are taking the game in the right direction though so given enough time, they should get to where they need to be for years to come.
OW2 was a horrible decision, monetization nightmare, and an insult to people playing OW1. My only hope for it at this point is with Blizzard and Activision being separated, we end up in a scenario where Blizzard can make OW2 more friendly. Tough call though since they clearly have some players playing it and it might be enough to support development and profits.
Yeah. It's kinda messed up how many games would be so good as $x purchases with cosmetic in-game purchases instead of this nonsense. I ran into that a lot with Clash Royale and is why I ultimately stopped playing it.
Rumble has such solid gameplay, and a bit of a grind is totally fine, just yeah "I just wish they'd make players jump through one fewer hoop with this upgrade system".
Yeah, after the initial "throw gold at them" it grinds to a halt.
I agree with dungeons being too long of a rotation. It super sucks if you can't do anything your first week in the game due to bad luck. I just so happened to join when it was Alliance focused and I picked Jaina as my first hero so I wasn't even aware that the dungeons weren't being uniquely tailored.
The talent system as a whole is unfortunately designed. I was able to achieve common on several minis unlocking possibilities of talents through a few weeks of play. With rare being so difficult to get though (and then epic) if you buy your first talent as the "wrong talent" then you're locking yourself out of talents with that mini for a long time.
I doubt we'll see the Battle.net launcher go away. There are millions of people conditioned to using it already, and people that use it avoid platform fees in other places when selling games or in-game content.
I do wonder if Call of Duty will eventually be leaving Battle.net though in favor of the Xbox app. It seems like Activision and Blizzard are being allowed to be separate entities again under Microsoft, so there's no real reason to keeping CoD on Battle.net. Maybe they push it there into a corner so they can get some sales still should people not want to go to Xbox or Steam, but no longer a main focus in the app.
I do hope Microsoft borrows BNet client engineers though to improve the Xbox app. So much potential but it just doesn't feel right. I don't know if the bnet team will have a good solution, but they've certainly done some great client work over the years.
I just hope their online is improved and people won't be able to cheat the system like has been the case for GTA5. The online can genuinely be quite fun, but then someone joins the server and teleports everyone somewhere or they just kill you over and over again with cheats. Invincibility when fighting is also bullshit.
Probably no change to that though, so bring on the money drops I suppose. At least that was the only positive thing to come out of a primarily client-side peer-to-peer architecture.
GTA as a series has some pretty messed up themes overall that aren't very "2023" so it'll be interesting to see what direction Rockstar goes. I hope they stick to their roots and give people some crazy stuff to play because honestly, real life is a hell of a lot closer to the picture GTA 5 paints than the magical fairy kingdom that people on social media seem to believe exists and "how dare rockstar do x y and z".
The update should be going live Fridayish, in time for updates to be made to collections prior to the launch of the expansion.
This is the definitive thread for you to tell us what's currently broken with the deckbuilder. That includes core functionality and cards that aren't flagged correctly.
We need feedback to know when stuff isn't working as expected. People that leave feedback inside of news article comments aren't helping us with visibility of issues. The deckbuilder experience should be smooth and cards should be showing up as expected.
Recently Fixed
Data can take a bit of time to uncache after changes are made to the Hearthstone database on our site so please be patient as the system catches up.
Current Issues
Good to know, yeah it looks like support in Edge is considered experimental and you can enable to with a special flag.
No clue why its experimental considering it s on chromium lmao. Well, we'll refrain from using avifs going forward. Sometimes we get avif files and don't convert them but that's not a great experience if Edge is going to be silly. Thanks.
Are you using Edge, by chance?
Apparently it's like the only browser that doesn't support the image format.
yeah if you just type “Out of Games” in the search box on the guilds panel you should be able to request an invite.
We've still got a few open slots!
Yeah I'm pumped about that dropping at the end of the month. 10 player dungeon/raid in BFD sounds like it'll be a lot of fun to figure out and more importantly, the world is going to have lots to discover. The gated leveling experience also makes it easy to not fall behind which I appreciate as my time isn't as open as it once was lol.
No one really knows tbh.
I expect it at this point though. Classic, in what I feel is a lot of folks eyes is Vanilla -> Wrath. I'm pumped about Cataclysm though because that means Mists of Pandaria should be coming and oh boy, I would LOVE to experience that again.
That's great :D
I love that games are embracing their pasts. In the ever-evolving nature of the online service games, so much content is lost to time. I'm looking forward to getting some tilted drops in this week to relive some of chapter 1.
Double post time, get in quick so we can get Sylvanas as a guild, thanks. We're 13% of the way there and there's a new surge coming... tomorrow? So plenty of easy progression towards her.
Let's gooooo!
That is a very good question. They are seemingly flagged as Year of the Wolf cards but they definitely are not. I'll check our data, thanks.
Oh no, the thread that I get to reflect on the past month briefly and set myself up for failure by not accomplishing anything I'd love.
Looking back at last month quick, I finished all the Timewalking dungeons each week to get my achievement in Dragonflight, so that was great. I finally installed and played Forza Motorsport and have had a few peaceful hours of cruising Spa, Silverstone, and Suzuka. No F1 2023, but we're at the end of the season now with Brazil, Las Vegas, and Abu Dhabi left, so I know the itch will need to be solved by going back to the game. No Payday 3 at all. RIP.
This month I'm hoping to close out my Oracle of Seasons run and start Oracle of Ages. I may or may not have gotten stuck at one point, requiring me to experience an old school zelda title's feeling of exploration, which was something I hadn't felt in a long time. Apparently, I don't remember the games perfectly :D
Warcraft Rumble will also be touched every night for 10-15 minutes to build experience with the game - plus it's just a bunch of fun. I've been playing Rumble now for a little over a month and it has been exactly what I wanted from Clash Royale. Plus, Warcraft stuff so that's awesome.
Dragonflight will be played. I'm not really sure what I want to do in it, but everything has been fun to do so dabble I shall!
ARK: Survival Ascended came out and I've already got the boat built so my friend and I went on our first expedition this week to the Northern peaks. On our return trip, we caught a couple of Argentavis which are going to be great for transporting metal around, a resource we so desperately need. ARK is probably going to be the main game for me for November. We've also got half a dozen Trikes, an endless number of Dilos, and only a few deaths to the Alpha dinosaurs that keep interrupting us at our base.
November 30, World of Warcraft Season of Discovery begins and... yup I'll be playing. I might start a guild for it too, it would be nice to have at least a group of 10 to play the new Blackfathom Deeps raid.
It sounds like I have a lot to play this month, but I don't even know how much I'll end up being able to play games. There is just so much stuff to do- new staff to onboard, site updates to deploy, the Hearthstone expansion launch, the never-ending daily news to cover. I've always joked about wanting to clone myself, and I think I might need to seriously figure this out.