Portal to Méa - Custom Hearthstone Expansion - 145 Cards!

Quote From h0lysatan

I had these questions a while back about these custom Hearthstone, I meant no offense, I respect anyone decision about arts. I would even encourage them to keep pursuing this.

The thing is, up until now, after 6+ years, I haven't seen yet a single custom made Hearthstone being used by the Hearthstone team (please correct me If I'm wrong), since they always made their own arts (or new keywords) from their own team, maybe some arts from outside source, but never about the gameplay design or keywords.

So why keep doing this without any sort of incentives from them (Blizzard)?
Is it not a better alternatives to send them all of this directly? I mean, if you want to be recognized, plus your arts is fascinating, why not apply for the job?

Again, just curious. No offense in any way at all. Great job.

As someone who's very involved with the FC community, perhaps I can try to answer.

From what I can gather, people like to create cards just because it's simply fun to create your own card ideas for a CCG you really like. I like to create cards because it's fun. When people play a card game, it's natural for some of those people to start thinking of what cards they would create. Entire fan-made expansions is just a natural step from fan-made cards. Most of us don't care if these cards we make never get into the game because we simply enjoy making the cards that we make and don't expect anything to come of it.

As far as applying for the job goes, one does have to keep in mind that to get a job working at Hearthstone designing cards, there's a lot more than just being able to think of good card ideas. Knowledge and experience of proper game design is also required, which obviously not everyone has. Take me for instance. Regardless of what cards I have made, I don't believe that Blizzard would want to hire a 21 year old who lives on the other side of the country and knows very little about how to actually design the basis of games.

As far as there being no custom cards in the game made by us, this isn't necessarily true. Card designs that the FC community has made have sometimes ended up in the game at some point, although not necessarily those exact cards. Although we know that Team 5 has looked at cards made by the FC community before (in the past anyway, so their perspective of this may be different now), it's difficult if not outright impossible to judge how much influence from us they actually get from us.

But the main reasons people create cards is because they like to get creative with their own ideas, and they just simply enjoy making their own cards regardless of if anything actually comes of it or not.

Quote From h0lysatan

I had these questions a while back about these custom Hearthstone, I meant no offense, I respect anyone decision about arts. I would even encourage them to keep pursuing this.

The thing is, up until now, after 6+ years, I haven't seen yet a single custom made Hearthstone being used by the Hearthstone team (please correct me If I'm wrong), since they always made their own arts (or new keywords) from their own team, maybe some arts from outside source, but never about the gameplay design or keywords.

This is incorrect, while, ofc, we cannot with 100% certainty tell, if some real cards were inspired by Custom cards from community, there have been numerous instances over the years where cards from Custom expansions/classes and/or individual cards from various competitions have made it into the game in very similar, or literally the same, form (barring the art/name) as those made by community.

While some ideas one could argue would make it into the game sooner or later, so it wasnt really that much of "prediction", it could have influenced devs to finally put them in the game, if they were repeating among community a lot, this is also a way to give them feedback and "tell" them, what cards would we want to see in the game.

And as Demon said, it is a hobby as any other, so yes, we design cards for fun just for ourselves, or others to share them with :)