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I guess it isn't a huge gamebreaker, but I don't understand how the glaring text inconsistencies continue.

After all this time we still have cards that perform similarly and yet are worded differently. Does Blizzard not have a ruleset for this? I think someone at /r/customhearthstone did a list of what keywords go in what order, and how to word certain things.

Here are two examples that I saw IMMEDIATELY and I don't know how there is no Quality Control reviewing these.

Arcane Anomaly is literally a reverse Mana Wyrm. How do you not just change "attack" to "health?

Arcanosmith doesn't specify the name of the minion it summons. I didn't even have to search for other minions it has inconsistency with; all three of those cards are on the list of the first wing neutral cards. The other card? ~~Albert Einstein~~ Arcane Anomaly, the other botched card.

These are the two that stood out to me the most in Karazhan. There are probably more.

Edit: Onyx Archbishop says it summons a minion that died, not a random one.

Iksar

Posted 9 years, 4 months ago (Source)

Any chance of players getting a way to add bugs to your bug tracker? Or at least some sort of forum where players could post bugs/errors/text inconsistencies?

The playhearthstone.com website has a place to post bug reports. Our QA team looks there frequently and puts stuff into our internal bug tracking tool so we can fix them.
Iksar

Posted 9 years, 4 months ago (Source)

Paging /u/IksarHS
Can we get an official response about how important the text on the cards is to Team 5?
Cuz it really seems like it isn't a priority.

We spend so many hours talking about card text consistency. It's a balance between trying to say what is consistent vs what feels correct on the first read. Unlike physical card games, we have some room to give people a clear idea of what a card does rather than spell out the rules exactly word for word. Because the game figures out some stuff for you, sometimes we lean on the 'easier to read' instead of 'exactly correct'. Sometimes we swap some words here or there to get the line breaks we want (orphans pls). In any case, card text is very important to us and sometimes cards go through so many iterations some card text inconsistencies that aren't related to some of the things I just said slip through the cracks. These posts are cool though, our QA/Dev teams are reading these forums and HS forums all the time, stripping bugs from posts and putting them into our official tool to be fixed later. We'll discuss the ones you mentioned as well!

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    <div class="md"><p>Any chance of players getting a way to add bugs to your bug tracker? Or at least some sort of forum where players could post bugs/errors/text inconsistencies?</p>
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<div class="md"><p>The playhearthstone.com website has a place to post bug reports. Our QA team looks there frequently and puts stuff into our internal bug tracking tool so we can fix them.</p>
</div> (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/4xbrej/i_guess_it_isnt_a_huge_gamebreaker_but_i_dont/d6hklrp">Iksar</a>)
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    <div class="md"><p>Paging <a href="/u/IksarHS">/u/IksarHS</a><br/>
Can we get an official response about how important the text on the cards is to Team 5?<br/>
Cuz it really seems like it isn't a priority.</p>
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<div class="md"><p>We spend so many hours talking about card text consistency. It's a balance between trying to say what is consistent vs what feels correct on the first read. Unlike physical card games, we have some room to give people a clear idea of what a card does rather than spell out the rules exactly word for word. Because the game figures out some stuff for you, sometimes we lean on the 'easier to read' instead of 'exactly correct'. Sometimes we swap some words here or there to get the line breaks we want (orphans pls). In any case, card text is very important to us and sometimes cards go through so many iterations some card text inconsistencies that aren't related to some of the things I just said slip through the cracks. These posts are cool though, our QA/Dev teams are reading these forums and HS forums all the time, stripping bugs from posts and putting them into our official tool to be fixed later. We'll discuss the ones you mentioned as well!</p>
</div> (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/4xbrej/i_guess_it_isnt_a_huge_gamebreaker_but_i_dont/d6erjol">Iksar</a>)
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<p><div class="md"><p>We spend so many hours talking about card text consistency. It's a balance between trying to say what is consistent vs what feels correct on the first read. Unlike physical card games, we have some room to give people a clear idea of what a card does rather than spell out the rules exactly word for word. Because the game figures out some stuff for you, sometimes we lean on the 'easier to read' instead of 'exactly correct'. Sometimes we swap some words here or there to get the line breaks we want (orphans pls). In any case, card text is very important to us and sometimes cards go through so many iterations some card text inconsistencies that aren't related to some of the things I just said slip through the cracks. These posts are cool though, our QA/Dev teams are reading these forums and HS forums all the time, stripping bugs from posts and putting them into our official tool to be fixed later. We'll discuss the ones you mentioned as well!</p>
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