Hearthstone
How do you feel about no reveals on the weekends?
Submitted 2 months, 2 weeks ago by
Fluxflashor
It's been at least a few expansions now where Blizzard has either abandoned weekends or very lightly sprinkled reveals during them. Personally, I'm a huge fan of it since it gives you some time to recover from the week's reveals but man, reveal season seems to have started so slow this time around.
So how do you feel about it? Do you like the extra time to think about the new cards or would you rather get everything out there as soon as possible for full theorycrafting?
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It's extremely convenient for me this time, as I'm watching most games of the (football) Euros and don't have much time to engage with the Hearthstone reveals at all. That will gradually get better during the next days, as the tournament nears its end and there are fewer games per day. So yay from me for this specific weekend that has just ended.
In a vaccum, I'd prefer a constant flow of cards to keep the hype up. They should be revealed in bundles of synergising stuff imo, getting standalone reveals makes theorycrafting very hard. So ideally, I'd like to see a somewhat shorter but ongoing reveal season until the expansion launch.
I do appreciate that you guys can enjoy your weekend without somebody having to stay on watch all the time though <3
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Oh yeah, synergy reveals would be awesome. I like how the mini-sets are typically class-based now which gets close to that.
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This is the old school style of reveal season. I wasn't a big fan of how they did the reveals for the past couple years, where they announced the set then went quiet for a couple weeks, then dropped every card entire classes at a time. I much prefer this slow eek. It keeps me coming back every day. I hope it ends with another mass card dump. Those are always exciting, to see what obscure neutral common ends up being a staple.
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I personally miss the end-of-reveal streams where they saved a few Legendaries for them. It was real fun seeing them in action right away. They probably made it so that pre-orders do better.
This reveal season in particular, though, started really weird. You have the reveal stream day 0, a single reveal day 1, nothing the following day, then a few reveals for days 2 and 3 before the weekend break. If this reveal season was a plane, Patches the Pilot shot it out of the sky and forced a landing.
I think it's a nice reminder that while Hearthstone is entertainment/leisure for the people who play it, it's work/employment for the people who build it and promote it.
There's plenty of time to see the new cards before the patch drops.
The start of this reveal season did feel a bit wonky, though. Maybe they tweaked the schedule at the last minute because of those leaks?
I've noticed for the past couple years, each reveal season feels different, or they're at least changing tactic on how they bundle their synergistic cards. I still remember when during the Castle Nathria expansion reveal, Relic Vault was revealed on a Friday with us having no idea what relics were at the time, so we couldn't properly evaluate this card till the following week when we saw all the relics. I prefer the class card dumps they do now, showcase an entire mechanic/archetype all in one go.
Also remember as time goes on, less and less reveals will be given to 3rd party promotors (think content creators, gaming new sites etc). This game is 10 years old after all so it stands to reason Blizzard will be revealing more cards themselves as people become less interested in new expansions. I do wish Out of Games was given more reveals though. Still remember that sick Xaril, Poisoned Mind reveal when Flux used to run Hearthpwn.
As for new reveals on the weekend, it used to annoy me when I was more invested in the game coz sparse weekend reveals have always been a thing. Now I spend my time in other games or adulting to really notice 😅
It makes sense from Blizzard's side as well. If people have questions on interactions for specific cards, revealing during the week enables faster response times.
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