It seems that we're finally getting into that delightful swing between official information and leaked information for the upcoming expansion.
Ridiculous Hatter of Coin Concede brought to our attention some information from Twitter user @basedinc, highlighting that there's pre-release Fireside Gatherings planned for April 5th at Microsoft Stores! We did some digging ourselves and found several other Microsoft Store Fireside Gatherings planned for the same date.
First image from @basedinc, via Ridiculous Hatter // Second image from us
In the past, pre-release Fireside Gatherings have taken place the weekend before the expansion goes live; April 5th is a Sunday, pegging our release date as the following Tuesday, April 7th.
What do you think of this potentially short schedule between reveal and release? Does it take some of the sting out of the lack of information so far? Let us know in the comments!
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As long as we can all enjoy card reveal timers for at least a little while - favorite part of pre expansion for me!
That means that the reveal season will last less than 20 days, which is quite fast considering what we're used to.
I'm not gonna complain about it: in fact, I totally agree with this approach (a shorter period of time guarantees the hype to not fade badly like in the past, when he always had 2 whole weeks of complete void between the announcement and the beginning of the reveal season); I just wish there was a bit more communication...
I just hope the reveal season doesn't have any weird gimmicks like those puzzle boxes
Why not? They're kinda neat. Remember Blackrock Crash? I actually enjoyed that Brawl together with the idea of the community working together in order to achieve some goals.
The more interactions the better it is for both of us.
No see Black Rock Crash was a fun interactive event for all the players.
The puzzle boxes were 30-60 minutes of streamers NOT revealing cards because of a gimmick getting in their way.
Actually that's how I discovered Regis Killbin's stream, his opening was so hilarious, I followed his channel and never regretted it. I agree some other openings were kind of awkward, though. You'd think that in this circumstance the most basic thing from a streamer would be to at least check out how these kind of boxes open before the stream, but apparently it's not. Trump's opening was particularly boring iirc.
Not a big deal though in the grand scheme of things. No one is going to lose their life because they didn't see a reveal the second it was "supposed" to happen :D
inb4 there's still a 14 day dry streak between announcment and the first card reveals, and they just cram them into 6 days.
My guess is announcement with reveals starting the following week. But they could realistically start the next day, or a few days after. Perhaps the Friday, March 20th is most likely since they'll probably want to stretch it out over 2 weeks and final reveal will need to be prior to pre-release events the weekend of April 3-5. With that in mind, final reveal (if they have one) would probably be Thursday, April 2.
To be fair, if it's going to happen even with this schedule I'm just going to laugh at myself
Ya! It will keep the card reveal hype going steady
Well that date doesn't sound surprising considering it has always been around this time.
I guess they're announcing the new year and first expansion at the same time this year. Looks like RoS was announced March 14, so that would be pretty close to the usual timing between announcement and release.
Exactly. RoS was April 9, WW was April 12, Ungoro April 6, etc.
Equally, Whispers of the Old Gods came out April 26th/27th. It wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility for it to have been further back in the month, especially with how late the New Year announcement is.
Good to have soft confirmation that we're on schedule, though!
Well, correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't WotG released prior to changing how many sets were to be released per year, slightly altering the reveal season?
They've never changed how many sets they release in a year - they've fluctuated between expansions and adventures, but it's always been three new releases a year.
And, to be completely transparent, Whispers is the exception; the previous year Blackrock Mountain's first wing released on April 2nd, and the majority of new releases do come out early-April, early-August and early-December, barring a couple anomalies.
I just pointed it out to say that the combination of the late announcement of the New Year and this prior expansion releasing later - notably the first after Standard was introduced, a 'big change' - was enough to cast some doubt on the release date.
Hearthstone's first year only had 2 set releases, Naxx and Goblins vs Gnomes, so that is the exception to the three a year rule. Though this year we're getting at least 4 expansions if you go by calendar year since Galakrond's Awakening was its own card set. I do wonder if we'll get a set then a mini-set all year. That would be awesome.
I stand corrected. Thanks for the extra info, didn't realized it had been that consistent and timely - much appreciated