Dragonflight is possibly the only expansion that seems to have "universal" love. Even Legion, which had countless numbers of people praising it during the cycle was met with pockets of hatred when it came to the legendary system with its horrendous RNG. I know plenty of people who quit because of legendary nonsense (who came back for BFA) but I haven't encountered anyone that has left Dragonflight. That's not to say no one has, my pool of closeish friends is certainly not reflective of the player base as a whole, but it is interesting to see that and the overall positive attitude towards DF.
I regret not playing Dragonflight much. I'll login occasionally to do some of the limited-time stuff, but I actually feel like I missed out on so much stuff and the huge backlog of story quests doesn't really help with that. WoW creating FOMO is not a feeling I have had in a very long time and I cannot wait to see where they are planning to take it for the next expansion. If the leaks are true and we're looking at a Dwarven expansion, I might need to get a crew together.
I am 100% open to doing guest posts from the community!
The hardest part would be us getting up guidelines on how things get formatted, though anyone who has been reading our news feed for the past few years has likely picked up on it a bit ;)
As far as getting in touch, I'd send myself a private message here on the site about a topic and maybe a brief sample of what could be expected. If approved, we could then get it into our CMS and attached to your name. You can also send me an email!
I do have some plans in motion to let our community help us cover anything and everything though, with us being able to feature said content in our news feed - more details on that when it makes sense.
I don't know of any online game out there were people aren't always saying it's dying. I'd be willing to wager in most cases it's people not playing the game anymore being the ones crying about it too. Sunk cost fallacy is a helluva drug.
I really don't understand why so many people are talking about 10 folks leaving as the time to quit HS. The team has over 100 people (likely over 2-300 at this point) so 10 people in the grand scheme of things isn't very many. The time to quit was when the game started getting more RNG heavy, we didn't have duplicate protection, and the only thing we could buy was card packs or three cosmetic skins. Hearthstone had some dark times and bad monetization patterns in those days, even for a card game, which is why we saw the changes.
Agreed that it feels like a "cut some people loose before the acquisition" situation so Microsoft doesn't take the flak.
Great tip! It's an easy way to try and force certain class cards to appear which can help make the game a bit more accessible if you're on a budget and only care about a couple of classes. It is one of the better things they have added to the shop over the years IMO.
Somewhat off-topic, here in Canada right now our grocery industry has record profits meanwhile everyone working the stores is having problems affording the same food they are selling. Absolutely FUBAR. Public companies were honestly a mistake.
Ranking wikis based on number of pages isn't a great metric - Wowpedia for example has a pages for a good chunk of all the quests in the game, with not many in my experience have had content that helps people with pain points during them and instead exist to function just as a database - something a non-wiki site does much better. That's not to say there aren't good quest pages on Wowpedia, because there are and there is great historical information on a page such as for Thunderfury's questline, but they are a rarity.
Pages on wikis that don't provide a boost of true usefulness have never been really interesting in my eyes so there is clear bias there. Wowpedia does need to find a new host though because fuck giving Fandom any more views! I hope they figure out a new domain so if they ever have to migrate again, they can take the domain and run.
I should also mention that the HS wiki likely isn't that big anymore from a traffic point of view. HS as a whole gets less traffic on the internet now and Fandom certainly added a ton of new wikis to the site over the almost decade Hearthstone has been around - I'm showing my age and bias.
Layoffs reportedly hit Blizzard today. A tools engineer at the company for 18 years said they were suddenly let go without notice due to a restructuring of the Hearthstone team. Waiting for comment from Activision Blizzard.
Source tells me 10 people impacted, all within Hearthstone. Activision Blizzard statement: "Organizational changes were made to the Hearthstone team; as a result a small number of roles have become redundant. We want to thank these employees for their many contributions."
It's certainly possible some positions could be hit due to the Microsoft acquisition going through. I'm not certain that will happen. Blizzard might be a part of the Microsoft family, but they should still be their own studio, much like all the other studios under the Microsoft Games/Xbox branch. It's not like they'd dump the social team and use an existing studio's team.
I hope there aren't any big layoffs if they do happen. Blizzard needs all the people they can get to keep their stuff pumping for Game Pass.
I'd prefer no DLC purely because I know they weren't holding anything back, which is something I feel happens in most games now, and I can get that full game experience by simply plugging in a cartridge.
If Ocarina of Time had DLC, there'd be carts out there that never got updated (and in some ways that is true with the various versions of OOT that exist with certain bugs fixed or music removed) so it would be a gamble if you were going to get the "full game" effect.
I definitely feel like we can't be too far off DH and DK getting added into the Twist mix, even if its briefly for a season here and there. The opportunity to get both of these classes a round of new cards is simply too great and it makes it a lot easier to incorporate them into future bits of content that may otherwise not feel a fair.
I just hope that a Frozen Throne Demon Hunter hero isn't as overpowered as some of the ones back in the day lol
I couldn't agree more.
Dragonflight is possibly the only expansion that seems to have "universal" love. Even Legion, which had countless numbers of people praising it during the cycle was met with pockets of hatred when it came to the legendary system with its horrendous RNG. I know plenty of people who quit because of legendary nonsense (who came back for BFA) but I haven't encountered anyone that has left Dragonflight. That's not to say no one has, my pool of closeish friends is certainly not reflective of the player base as a whole, but it is interesting to see that and the overall positive attitude towards DF.
I regret not playing Dragonflight much. I'll login occasionally to do some of the limited-time stuff, but I actually feel like I missed out on so much stuff and the huge backlog of story quests doesn't really help with that. WoW creating FOMO is not a feeling I have had in a very long time and I cannot wait to see where they are planning to take it for the next expansion. If the leaks are true and we're looking at a Dwarven expansion, I might need to get a crew together.
I get chills everytime I think about his openings.
I am 100% open to doing guest posts from the community!
The hardest part would be us getting up guidelines on how things get formatted, though anyone who has been reading our news feed for the past few years has likely picked up on it a bit ;)
As far as getting in touch, I'd send myself a private message here on the site about a topic and maybe a brief sample of what could be expected. If approved, we could then get it into our CMS and attached to your name. You can also send me an email!
I do have some plans in motion to let our community help us cover anything and everything though, with us being able to feature said content in our news feed - more details on that when it makes sense.
Ain't that the truth!
I don't know of any online game out there were people aren't always saying it's dying. I'd be willing to wager in most cases it's people not playing the game anymore being the ones crying about it too. Sunk cost fallacy is a helluva drug.
Fixed, thank you!
I really don't understand why so many people are talking about 10 folks leaving as the time to quit HS. The team has over 100 people (likely over 2-300 at this point) so 10 people in the grand scheme of things isn't very many. The time to quit was when the game started getting more RNG heavy, we didn't have duplicate protection, and the only thing we could buy was card packs or three cosmetic skins. Hearthstone had some dark times and bad monetization patterns in those days, even for a card game, which is why we saw the changes.
Agreed that it feels like a "cut some people loose before the acquisition" situation so Microsoft doesn't take the flak.
Great tip! It's an easy way to try and force certain class cards to appear which can help make the game a bit more accessible if you're on a budget and only care about a couple of classes. It is one of the better things they have added to the shop over the years IMO.
Yup, got that fixed just as you posted :D
Record profits? Fire them all!
Somewhat off-topic, here in Canada right now our grocery industry has record profits meanwhile everyone working the stores is having problems affording the same food they are selling. Absolutely FUBAR. Public companies were honestly a mistake.
Okay, I laughed more than I should have.
Ranking wikis based on number of pages isn't a great metric - Wowpedia for example has a pages for a good chunk of all the quests in the game, with not many in my experience have had content that helps people with pain points during them and instead exist to function just as a database - something a non-wiki site does much better. That's not to say there aren't good quest pages on Wowpedia, because there are and there is great historical information on a page such as for Thunderfury's questline, but they are a rarity.
Pages on wikis that don't provide a boost of true usefulness have never been really interesting in my eyes so there is clear bias there. Wowpedia does need to find a new host though because fuck giving Fandom any more views! I hope they figure out a new domain so if they ever have to migrate again, they can take the domain and run.
I should also mention that the HS wiki likely isn't that big anymore from a traffic point of view. HS as a whole gets less traffic on the internet now and Fandom certainly added a ton of new wikis to the site over the almost decade Hearthstone has been around - I'm showing my age and bias.
Looks like I'm wrong. I guess we'll see who was impacted soon.
https://twitter.com/ethangach/status/1706809151178068475?s=20
Layoffs reportedly hit Blizzard today. A tools engineer at the company for 18 years said they were suddenly let go without notice due to a restructuring of the Hearthstone team. Waiting for comment from Activision Blizzard.
Source tells me 10 people impacted, all within Hearthstone. Activision Blizzard statement: "Organizational changes were made to the Hearthstone team; as a result a small number of roles have become redundant. We want to thank these employees for their many contributions."
It's certainly possible some positions could be hit due to the Microsoft acquisition going through. I'm not certain that will happen. Blizzard might be a part of the Microsoft family, but they should still be their own studio, much like all the other studios under the Microsoft Games/Xbox branch. It's not like they'd dump the social team and use an existing studio's team.
I hope there aren't any big layoffs if they do happen. Blizzard needs all the people they can get to keep their stuff pumping for Game Pass.
Yeah it's way too many advertisements causing the problems.
We're not exactly out of that realm either with our ad stack, but it's a hella less intrusive than the nonsense at Fandom.
All Fandom wikis end in fandom.com
Completely agreed!
I'd prefer no DLC purely because I know they weren't holding anything back, which is something I feel happens in most games now, and I can get that full game experience by simply plugging in a cartridge.
If Ocarina of Time had DLC, there'd be carts out there that never got updated (and in some ways that is true with the various versions of OOT that exist with certain bugs fixed or music removed) so it would be a gamble if you were going to get the "full game" effect.
1000% agreed. No reason not to do skins for these!
Yeah it's about damn time! Looking forward to seeing what the contents are later!
Looking like the currency charge effect mtx is getting a cousin.
Update, Blizzard has confirmed Caverns of Time will be present for at least the first 3 seasons in Twist.
I definitely feel like we can't be too far off DH and DK getting added into the Twist mix, even if its briefly for a season here and there. The opportunity to get both of these classes a round of new cards is simply too great and it makes it a lot easier to incorporate them into future bits of content that may otherwise not feel a fair.
I just hope that a Frozen Throne Demon Hunter hero isn't as overpowered as some of the ones back in the day lol