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About animation speed

The recent Shudderwock "nerf" made me think about animation speed in general. I'm curious about why Blizzard didn't speed up every animation.

For example Lorewalker Cho takes a lot of time to complete every single animation when you play a spell and if you manage to get two Cho on the board playing becomes difficult. Yeah I know that it is irrelevant since no one plays Cho, but still if they sped up one card why not speed up everything?

Hadidjah

Posted 7 years, 6 months ago (Source)

I'm super swamped today and I'd like to give you a proper response rather than a rushed one, but I'll come back round to talk about this a bit when I have some time. If I don't show back up by Sunday please feel free to ping me.:)
Hadidjah

Posted 7 years, 6 months ago (Source)

Hey so, if you’re busy that’s cool I’m just curious about animations and stuff.

I gotchu friend!
Hadidjah

Posted 7 years, 6 months ago (Source)

/r/hadidjahb

o hai :)
Hadidjah

Posted 7 years, 6 months ago (Source)

Question for you: If there was a checkbox in HS options, "play all animations at 3x speed", what percent of players do you think would tick it?

What percent of pros/streamers?

I really don’t know the demographic breakdowns well enough to guess percentages, but in a world where it somehow doesn’t just give you a clear advantage like /u/jippiedoe mentioned, I would imagine a fair chunk of the commuter crowd and people who only have time to sneak in a pick-up game here or there, and a lot of hardcore/competitive players. I would guess that that includes a lot of pros/streamers as well, although I’m not sure Hearthstone would stream quite as well at x3 speed since a lot of the existing pacing is there to support readability (but if the streamer’s audience is more hardcore, maybe they would be fine with that too :P).

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<div class="md"><p>I'm super swamped today and I'd like to give you a proper response rather than a rushed one, but I'll come back round to talk about this a bit when I have some time.  If I don't show back up by Sunday please feel free to ping me.:)</p>
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    <div class="md"><p>Hey so, if you’re busy that’s cool I’m just curious about animations and stuff. </p>
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<div class="md"><p>I gotchu friend!</p>
</div> (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/8nrgui/about_animation_speed/e01sd77">Hadidjah</a>)
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    <div class="md"><p><a href="/r/hadidjahb">/r/hadidjahb</a></p>
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<div class="md"><p>o hai :)</p>
</div> (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/8nrgui/about_animation_speed/e01scqf">Hadidjah</a>)
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    <div class="md"><p>Question for you:  If there was a checkbox in HS options, "play all animations at 3x speed", what percent of players do you think would tick it?</p>

<p>What percent of pros/streamers?</p>
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<div class="md"><p>I really don’t know the demographic breakdowns well enough to guess percentages, but in a world where it somehow doesn’t just give you a clear advantage like <a href="/u/jippiedoe">/u/jippiedoe</a> mentioned, I would imagine a fair chunk of the commuter crowd and people who only have time to sneak in a pick-up game here or there, and a lot of hardcore/competitive players.  I would guess that that includes a lot of pros/streamers as well, although I’m not sure Hearthstone would stream quite as well at x3 speed since a lot of the existing pacing is there to support readability (but if the streamer’s audience is more hardcore, maybe they would be fine with that too :P).</p>
</div> (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/8nrgui/about_animation_speed/e01t4rf">Hadidjah</a>)
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<p><div class="md"><p>I'm super swamped today and I'd like to give you a proper response rather than a rushed one, but I'll come back round to talk about this a bit when I have some time.  If I don't show back up by Sunday please feel free to ping me.:)</p>
</div> (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/8nrgui/about_animation_speed/dzyofeu">Source</a>)</p>

<p><div class="md"><p>I gotchu friend!</p>
</div> (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/8nrgui/about_animation_speed/e01sd77">Source</a>)</p>

<p><div class="md"><p>o hai :)</p>
</div> (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/8nrgui/about_animation_speed/e01scqf">Source</a>)</p>

<p><div class="md"><p>I really don’t know the demographic breakdowns well enough to guess percentages, but in a world where it somehow doesn’t just give you a clear advantage like <a href="/u/jippiedoe">/u/jippiedoe</a> mentioned, I would imagine a fair chunk of the commuter crowd and people who only have time to sneak in a pick-up game here or there, and a lot of hardcore/competitive players.  I would guess that that includes a lot of pros/streamers as well, although I’m not sure Hearthstone would stream quite as well at x3 speed since a lot of the existing pacing is there to support readability (but if the streamer’s audience is more hardcore, maybe they would be fine with that too :P).</p>
</div> (<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/8nrgui/about_animation_speed/e01t4rf">Source</a>)</p>
    
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