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My wallet getting a workout today... @PlayHearthstone expansion... @FortniteGame naruto skins @RiotForge Ruined King and Hextech Mayhem (grats @LLoombe!)

My wallet getting a workout today... @PlayHearthstone expansion... @FortniteGame naruto skins @RiotForge Ruined King and Hextech Mayhem (grats @LLoombe!)

  • Iksar
    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
    My wallet getting a workout today... @PlayHearthstone expansion... @FortniteGame naruto skins @RiotForge Ruined King and Hextech Mayhem (grats @LLoombe!)

    • MichaelLoda
      Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
      @IksarHS @PlayHearthstone @FortniteGame @RiotForge @LLoombe the Naruto x Fortnite thing was a mistake

      • Iksar
        Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
        @MichaelLoda @PlayHearthstone @FortniteGame @RiotForge @LLoombe you are wrong, and you'll be wrong when Naruto goes into Hearthstone, too. BELIEVE IT

        • zeropat0000
          Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
          @IksarHS @MichaelLoda @PlayHearthstone @FortniteGame @RiotForge @LLoombe Please make this a thing. I want to sacrifice my own minions to upgrade my sharingan.

          • MichaelLoda
            Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
            @zeropat0000 @IksarHS @PlayHearthstone @FortniteGame @RiotForge @LLoombe Well Gul'dan has killed his own clan too so it's fitting

            • zeropat0000
              Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
              @MichaelLoda @IksarHS @PlayHearthstone @FortniteGame @RiotForge @LLoombe Warlock Itachi and DemonHunter Sasuke having the dual class sharingan spell that changes their hero power to: reveal all stralthed enemy characters, gain +1 spell damage

              • MichaelLoda
                Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
                @zeropat0000 @IksarHS @PlayHearthstone @FortniteGame @RiotForge @LLoombe Ok but still I don't wanna think about it... No Naruto in HS...

                • Iksar
                  Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
                  @MichaelLoda @zeropat0000 @PlayHearthstone @FortniteGame @RiotForge @LLoombe cman i deserve it, don't take this from me

                • zeropat0000
                  Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
                  @MichaelLoda @IksarHS @PlayHearthstone @FortniteGame @RiotForge @LLoombe After you play sharingan spell your next sharingan spell upgrades to mangekyo sharingan. Destroy a friendly minion. Your hero power draws a card and deals 1 damage (affected by spell damage).

                  • MichaelLoda
                    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
                    @zeropat0000 @IksarHS @PlayHearthstone @FortniteGame @RiotForge @LLoombe Ok how about this: Orochimaru, Legendary Hero card. After you die you resurrect as Pain, Legendary Hero card. And then as Tobi, and then as Madara, and then as Kaguya, and then as whoever the hell is a villain in Boruto... that's infinite resurrecting, OP

                    • Iksar
                      Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
                      @MichaelLoda @zeropat0000 @PlayHearthstone @FortniteGame @RiotForge @LLoombe If we ever did an IP crossover we'd probably do it in BG. Sell some skin bundles, maybe new emotes, maybe a new board skin, some finisher animations. Introduce Naruto heroes, put Naruto characters as a new tribe. Eventually pull the heroes and characters out but leave cosmetics.

                      • zeropat0000
                        Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
                        @IksarHS @MichaelLoda @PlayHearthstone @FortniteGame @RiotForge @LLoombe Sad truth :( constructed players will settle for a sharingan cardback

                        • Iksar
                          Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
                          @zeropat0000 @MichaelLoda @PlayHearthstone @FortniteGame @RiotForge @LLoombe Yeah, it's hard to make it make sense from a business POV for cards. You give up X% of your dollars to the IP holder, so in order to release an expansion of a different IP we'd have to make up that X% through additional sales. Not sure that is realistic. Maybe, I'm skeptical.

                          • Iksar
                            Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
                            @zeropat0000 @MichaelLoda @PlayHearthstone @FortniteGame @RiotForge @LLoombe Where as with cosmetics, a lot easier to see getting X% more purchasers when partnering with an IP than if we were to release just any old cosmetic bundle we'd normally do.

                            • Iksar
                              Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
                              @zeropat0000 @MichaelLoda @PlayHearthstone @FortniteGame @RiotForge @LLoombe IP holders (good ones) also normally require MG, which stands for minimum guarantee. Basically some up front amount of dollars to work together, then % rev of sales on top of that. MG can be 0 for small, lesser known IP to many millions for best IP out there.

                              • zeropat0000
                                Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
                                @IksarHS @MichaelLoda @PlayHearthstone @FortniteGame @RiotForge @LLoombe So what IPs could hearthstone realistically afford?

                                • Iksar
                                  Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
                                  @zeropat0000 @MichaelLoda @PlayHearthstone @FortniteGame @RiotForge @LLoombe Any. Hearthstone is one of the most successful games businesses of all-time. Affording to do it vs doing it profitably vs doing it at a high enough quality are all different questions.

                                  • MichaelLoda
                                    Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
                                    @IksarHS @zeropat0000 @PlayHearthstone @FortniteGame @RiotForge @LLoombe How is Hearthstone doing now compared to years ago btw? Back when there was just a single preorder and only 3 skins? It was doing well? Now there's so much stuff on the store, is it because the scope of the game has increased and it costs more to develop?

                                    • Iksar
                                      Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
                                      @MichaelLoda @zeropat0000 @PlayHearthstone @FortniteGame @RiotForge @LLoombe Hearthstone is incredibly successful, both as a business and as a game people are logging in to play. More stuff in the shop is mostly cosmetic, we've gotten better at working with outsource studios, giving personalized offers, and just increasing the size of our team.

                                      • Iksar
                                        Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
                                        @MichaelLoda @zeropat0000 @PlayHearthstone @FortniteGame @RiotForge @LLoombe Demand for it was there, so we've been increasing in size and shop offers to meet the demand.

                          • MichaelLoda
                            Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
                            @IksarHS @zeropat0000 @PlayHearthstone @FortniteGame @RiotForge @LLoombe Yo how about a Witcher crossover tho 👀

                            • Iksar
                              Posted 3 years, 9 months ago (Source)
                              @MichaelLoda @zeropat0000 @PlayHearthstone @FortniteGame @RiotForge @LLoombe Our game director (ben lee) was the game director for GWENT before he got here.
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