First off, powerful effects are fun. Second, people only started talking about this change after Shaman had gotten its time in the sun (Desert Hare Evolve stuff) when the mechanic had been around forever. And lastly this makes evolve effects and their ilk less friendly to new players by making the effects less obvious on the cards.
It just seems like a needless change all the way down.
Presumably this is coming about because of Chinese laws against loot boxes being purchasable with real money. I think up til now Blizzard had adopted the "Buy something, get packs as a gift" model that League of Legends uses in China. This seemingly allows for packs as a more direct purchase.
How would it be possible to consider spent mana on something like Conjurer's Calling and Evolve? What happens if I evolve a devolved board? What was the spent mana on the minions I'm transforming? What about tokens, since they come into play for free do they evolve into 1 drops?
Just curious as to whether or not you thought about what you were saying.
That makes sense but after the Oko ban and the Once Upon a Time ban is green still powerful enough to warrant this ban? It just seems like the weakest of the three cards, again I really haven't been paying attention to Standard, more of a Modern player. It seems powerful, but not broken from the outside looking in. I just hate seeing colors get completely invalidated by a ban.
It's more likely that they needed to meet this patch deadline with four heroes, Reno was having visual issues and wasn't launch ready. Swap him for a functional hero and push 4 working heroes so the customers have new things to play with. I'm sure Reno will arrive in the future.
BUT, you still looked at it. Marvel's name puts eyes on your project. It's on the developer to make the game look appealing to people. All I'm arguing is that Marvel + Ben Brode brings eyes to the project. The potential audience is right there.
I feel like they already have an audience just by being a Ben Brode project. I'm sure I'm not the only one that will play the game specifically because he's involved.
Also, Marvel is a much bigger brand than WoW. so if Hearthstone being a card game in the Warcraft universe was good enough to attract an audience, then their game being based in the Marvel universe should have a similar, if not larger, effect.
I don't think they need to do much to get an audience in the door. It's capitalizing on that audience that should be their primary objective.
This is just not the article for those topics. Not every article has to cover the political stances Blizzard has taken. This article would be really strange to cover something like protests back to back with what Twitch Drops viewers can get for watching the streams.
I personally think this site should have rules overviews for the different games it covers, just an article on Magic, Hearthstone, Legends of Runeterra once its out. Just to have a reference so the games can 'Cross-Pollinate' so to speak.
China is currently making international moves to silence critics of their handling of the Hong Kong protests. They are using international spending power to exert their will over people who don't live in their country, which is bad. Blizzard basically bent the knee to China because Blizzard's Chinese investors didn't like what Blitzchung said on air. Kibler is stepping down as a move of solidarity with Blitzchung essentially and he is the first high profile caster/content creator that has made a move like this.
Honestly kinda troubled by the characterization of this as anti-China, its far closer to pro-Hong Kong. May just be personal biases here but anti-China sounds like exactly how the Chinese gov't is trying to cover the news out of Hong Kong, when in reality China is making anti-Hong Kong moves and Hong Kong is retaliating.
So what would you expect for a lead up to the Halloween in game event? The event should be hyped up should it not? Should they have said nothing and then just rolled into the Halloween event? Hype like this gets people to return the game, and once they return it's good to have bundles for sale so that if they want to play more seriously they can pick up some packs at a discount. I don't think we should be removing resources from product development. I understand your content above all viewpoint, but I think you're missing the bigger picture here. It's a card game, they are designed to allow the players to create their own content.
To reiterate I understand your viewpoint that there isn't enough content in Hearthstone, but I disagree almost entirely with that premise. I just don't see this content vacuum you seem to think there is when it comes to Hearthstone. There is plenty to do, plenty to accomplish, and I have never run out of ways to have fun with the game since I started playing in Naxx.
What part of this is not an actual announcement? They are announcing how they are doing the Halloween event. If the only time Blizzard talked about the game was when they were making MASSIVE changes, we would never hear from them and you'd complain about a lack of communication.
Also, the Wild cards coming to Standard that were announced right here are something that impacts "Hearthstone as a Whole". It's the first time Blizzard has done something like this and may pave the way for future changes.
AAANNNNNDDDD, FYI most people are content with three expansions a year and a new variation of Dungeon of Run with each of those. What do you want? New expac every month? I'm not saying it wouldn't be nice to get a new format but are you really taking the stand that until they announce something in that vein that all announcements are non-factors? That isn't a hill I would die on buddy.
I can't figure out why people want this change.
First off, powerful effects are fun. Second, people only started talking about this change after Shaman had gotten its time in the sun (Desert Hare Evolve stuff) when the mechanic had been around forever. And lastly this makes evolve effects and their ilk less friendly to new players by making the effects less obvious on the cards.
It just seems like a needless change all the way down.
Presumably this is coming about because of Chinese laws against loot boxes being purchasable with real money. I think up til now Blizzard had adopted the "Buy something, get packs as a gift" model that League of Legends uses in China. This seemingly allows for packs as a more direct purchase.
How would it be possible to consider spent mana on something like Conjurer's Calling and Evolve? What happens if I evolve a devolved board? What was the spent mana on the minions I'm transforming? What about tokens, since they come into play for free do they evolve into 1 drops?
Just curious as to whether or not you thought about what you were saying.
I'm so excited for Evolve to be gone, I may actually stop playing Battlegrounds and play some real Hearthstone
I will probably play this even if it's bad. 2x Galakrond battlecry, regardless of what it is, sounds meme'y enough for me
neat.
That makes sense but after the Oko ban and the Once Upon a Time ban is green still powerful enough to warrant this ban? It just seems like the weakest of the three cards, again I really haven't been paying attention to Standard, more of a Modern player. It seems powerful, but not broken from the outside looking in. I just hate seeing colors get completely invalidated by a ban.
I haven't been paying much attention to Standard, can somebody explain the Veil of Summer ban?
Wait...we are actually getting Pioneer on Arena? I'm about to come back to this game with some old school Theros style.
It's more likely that they needed to meet this patch deadline with four heroes, Reno was having visual issues and wasn't launch ready. Swap him for a functional hero and push 4 working heroes so the customers have new things to play with. I'm sure Reno will arrive in the future.
BUT, you still looked at it. Marvel's name puts eyes on your project. It's on the developer to make the game look appealing to people. All I'm arguing is that Marvel + Ben Brode brings eyes to the project. The potential audience is right there.
3 Mana, Deal 3, Add a lackey to your hand, Pump up my win condition.
I'd play it, lots of stuff for three mana.
I feel like they already have an audience just by being a Ben Brode project. I'm sure I'm not the only one that will play the game specifically because he's involved.
Also, Marvel is a much bigger brand than WoW. so if Hearthstone being a card game in the Warcraft universe was good enough to attract an audience, then their game being based in the Marvel universe should have a similar, if not larger, effect.
I don't think they need to do much to get an audience in the door. It's capitalizing on that audience that should be their primary objective.
This is just not the article for those topics. Not every article has to cover the political stances Blizzard has taken. This article would be really strange to cover something like protests back to back with what Twitch Drops viewers can get for watching the streams.
I personally think this site should have rules overviews for the different games it covers, just an article on Magic, Hearthstone, Legends of Runeterra once its out. Just to have a reference so the games can 'Cross-Pollinate' so to speak.
I've been playing this deck all day so far, I love it. Feels good to play Overpowered BS alongside the less than stellar Totem Package. A+
China is currently making international moves to silence critics of their handling of the Hong Kong protests. They are using international spending power to exert their will over people who don't live in their country, which is bad. Blizzard basically bent the knee to China because Blizzard's Chinese investors didn't like what Blitzchung said on air. Kibler is stepping down as a move of solidarity with Blitzchung essentially and he is the first high profile caster/content creator that has made a move like this.
Honestly kinda troubled by the characterization of this as anti-China, its far closer to pro-Hong Kong. May just be personal biases here but anti-China sounds like exactly how the Chinese gov't is trying to cover the news out of Hong Kong, when in reality China is making anti-Hong Kong moves and Hong Kong is retaliating.
So what would you expect for a lead up to the Halloween in game event? The event should be hyped up should it not? Should they have said nothing and then just rolled into the Halloween event? Hype like this gets people to return the game, and once they return it's good to have bundles for sale so that if they want to play more seriously they can pick up some packs at a discount. I don't think we should be removing resources from product development. I understand your content above all viewpoint, but I think you're missing the bigger picture here. It's a card game, they are designed to allow the players to create their own content.
To reiterate I understand your viewpoint that there isn't enough content in Hearthstone, but I disagree almost entirely with that premise. I just don't see this content vacuum you seem to think there is when it comes to Hearthstone. There is plenty to do, plenty to accomplish, and I have never run out of ways to have fun with the game since I started playing in Naxx.
What part of this is not an actual announcement? They are announcing how they are doing the Halloween event. If the only time Blizzard talked about the game was when they were making MASSIVE changes, we would never hear from them and you'd complain about a lack of communication.
Also, the Wild cards coming to Standard that were announced right here are something that impacts "Hearthstone as a Whole". It's the first time Blizzard has done something like this and may pave the way for future changes.
AAANNNNNDDDD, FYI most people are content with three expansions a year and a new variation of Dungeon of Run with each of those. What do you want? New expac every month? I'm not saying it wouldn't be nice to get a new format but are you really taking the stand that until they announce something in that vein that all announcements are non-factors? That isn't a hill I would die on buddy.