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It's not new, at least for mobile. I experienced lags after prolonged play for last few years.

To be fair, most applications have some form of a memory leak in some fashion.

Not by that much, though. A noticeable decline in performance within the first 1.5-2 hours is a major fucking leak. Even the worst, ad-ridden, China-made mobile apps don't have that kind of problem. Blizzard is among the largest Video Game companies in the world, we, as customers pay them millions of dollars every year. Is it so wrong to ask for a quality product? 

Figured I'd post here as well. My entry: https://i.imgur.com/9qy9Lwf.png

On the one hand I appreciate their transparency. On the other hand this confirms my fears that Mercenaries will be unfinished and rushed. But I'll still play it. Have a six-pack prepared in the fridge and I hope the bucks won't be game breaking/ fun breaking.

Edit: the original bug was actually in the patchnotes, which means that they should revert the xp-bar change.

"Fixed a bug that sometimes caused the middle of the screen to become unclickable."

This isn't the first time Blizzard has published known issues before patch day, see: https://outof.cards/hearthstone/2888-hearthstone-patch-200-known-issues-if-youre-having-issues-with-tomorrows-patch-this-is-why 

And the reason they let us know about these issues now is coz they couldn't add the fixes into this patch or they are still busy fixing the issues but couldn't delay mercs again. I'm happy they announce the known issues to the public but it's also to help their support teams so they not overrun with support tickets due to these bugs. 

Sad to see Alutemu and Monsanto didn't make it, but damn happy Gaby did. The kid is a Hearthstone prodigy, winning world's would cement him as the GOAT no doubt

this stuff look hot

Yeah. Alas, if the release were put off again due to these bugs, they'd be getting the same amount of criticism.

Gotta look woke. That's why.

Yeah but not the memory leak, that is just bizarre.

Why is Valeera, the often advertised face of this game-mode, missing from their list of mercenaries?

I'm sort of speechless to be frank. I did not expect to win or even tie for 1st. 😂

Can't find a better art and not sure about wording.

EDIT: Add a new variant...

time to get ideas from heroes of the storm 😆

I feel like 20 buck is a little cheap to be doing Blizzards work lol

Nothing like starting off the Season with another tie lol. Congratulations to Neoguli and MathU!

Even if its true, the question would be whether its acceptable for developers to knowingly release something in such a state. There's plenty of instances where games are released filled with bugs, game breaking or not, but its very rare for them to release it with a list of known bugs and proceed to let the public deal with it.

This is not specifically a criticism of this situation, its just odd so I mentioned it.

Been at this for like 2-3 hours, but I've got an entry made up: https://imgur.com/sLjAfgg

I need that Anduin skin! 

"lag and performance slowdowns, especially in devices with less RAM. " = memory leak. could cause issues for mobile players

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Performance bug where playing Mercenaries for longer periods (around 1.5-2 hours) will cause lag and performance slowdowns, especially in devices with less RAM. The workaround at this time is to restart the client if that begins.

so they're launching mercenaries with a memory leak. that's just super.

To be fair, most applications have some form of a memory leak in some fashion. (The longer they run, the memory they use up due to logging, caching, etc) There's very few that can "indefinitely" run without the device/server being taken down for maintenance.  Even "always on" applications/web services usually do a load balance from a primary site to a failover periodically without any end-users being none the wiser.

Is it great that the memory leak is enough of a problem for them to announce it ahead of time?  No of course not.  But at least they are acknowledging it.  Feels like your comment is the quintessential response to the mindset "damned if you do, damned if you don't".

If they didn't announce it, people would be up in arms.  They announced it, people (i.e. you) are still upset.  I'm so glad I'm not in game development 'cause all developers have to deal with entitled customers but I'll tell ya,  gamers are the next level of entitled most of the time.  I wouldn't wish angry entitled gamers on my worst enemy. 

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Launching with bugs? Oh well, at least they're being honest with it. Not a good look though.

Kind of an odd take to be honest.  Almost All software launches with bugs.  They are either known (and not announced) or unknown, and later backlogged to fix. 

Thank you Avalon for this interesting challange!

I used the most obvious deck for my first try and played a generic Deathrattle Hunter. Since I have not played Duels for a couple of months, I didn't expect a great result, but I ended up highrolling to 12:0 (on casual).

My hero power was Death Games, my signatue treasure Deathstrider.

My first passives didn't provide any synergies with my deck, so I picked Fireshaper. My second passive was Emerald Goggles, which helped me a lot to do some high tempo plays in the early game.

I was lucky and found Gentleman's Top Hat, which has a great synergy with the hero power and Deathstrider (see 12 win screenshot).

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Deathly Hollows 12:0 run

Wild · Deathrattle Hunter · by Haffax733 · 4 years, 11 months ago

• 1 Carrion Studies x 1
• 1 Tracking x 1
• 1 Trueaim Crescent x 1
• 2 Cat Trick x 1
• 2 Kindly Grandmother x 1
• 2 Mad Scientist x 1
• 2 Nerubian Egg x 1
• 2 Terrorscale Stalker x 1
• 2 Wandering Monster x 1
• 3 Bloated Python x 1
• 3 Devilsaur Egg x 1
• 5 Carnivorous Cube x 1
• 5 Teacher's Pet x 1
• 6 Savannah Highmane x 1
• 7 Darkmoon Tonk x 1

1,620 Dust 1,281 0 Copy Deck Code