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Fluxflashor

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago
    Quote From phiL

    Is it possible to extend the "Portal-Filter" to the "from the Forums"-Widget?

    https://outof.cards/hearthstone/ could only display "Hearthstone" (and general site-news) posts and threads

     

    This will be an addition soon. Forums don't currently have game flagging, so once that gets baked in and we flag everything, life will be good

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    We don't enforce a card limit on decks so its easy to share decks that break the deckbuilding norm. A good place this happens is in Tavern Brawls or Solo Content. I don't know why that person added that many cards to a deck, but I can tell you that when we do a deckbuilder update this year, we'll be letting people know when they are under or over 30 cards.

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago
    Quote From frenzy

    Is there meant to be an empty area top-right on the homepage?

    This is currently intentionally left blank. We've got an ad that displays there normally. We'll need to figure out something useful to put there for our supporter friends :

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago
    Quote From kolbenstein

    *Once the update is live, adjusted cards will be eligible for a full Arcane Dust refund for two weeks.

    It's been only 10 days since the patch and I already can't dust Ancharrr for a full cost refund. Anyone knows how come/why so?

    I've heard some devices/platforms aren't seeing the correct info but it seems to work on PC.

    It is amazing how Hearthstone QA seems to have gone out the window in the past 6 months. I love the speed that they're bringing stuff out, but really basic stuff is being missed

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    The mid-January site update! We're aiming to get a larger update out towards the end of the month with two long-anticipated features.

    New Features

    • You can now vote on Hearthstone decks on embedded deck widgets.
      • Sorry this took longer than intended. We had to combat caching mechanisms.

    Changes

    • Improved site-wide performance via caching improvements on comments.
    • Voting performance has been greatly improved.
    • Users with adblock will now see in-house promotions.
      • We're going to be using the ad space on the site for our own "ads" when visitors have adblock enabled.
      • Some of these "ads" will remind you that ads help keep the site running.
      • We'd really love it if you would unblock the site. The ads we display are less intrusive than a lot of other sites in the space.
    • Premium has its own dedicated landing page. We'll make it look better in the future.
    • Game Portals are now live on the Homepage.
      • These take the place of the Hearthstone decks that were on our homepage from the start.
        • Hearthstone decks will still display at the top of the Hearthstone Portal.
        • Dev Commentary: This is a change that needed to happen at some point. We aren't a site that only focuses on one game and by having the entire homepage covered in Hearthstone-only content, it doesn't feel right. More Hearthstone-specific content (brawls for example) will be pruned from the homepage in the future. We'll continue to use the homepage to spotlight content from all the titles we cover, so look forward to that.
      • These are easy ways to access the different "homepages" on the site that we're calling Portals.
        • If you only want to see information for one particular game, please feel free to bookmark that portal.

    Bug Fixes

    • Fixed Missing Galakrond's Awakening news article banner.
    • Fixed article images not showing up on social media correctly.
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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    That would be two tokens, each named Icicle, with the Freeze keyword being the only text they have.

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    No bonus reward for speedrunning. Nothing in the client data!

    In reply to Road to Northrend
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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Ugh, yeah, don't remind me. It was all fun and games when everyone said the rogue quest sucked... lol.

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    I'm really digging it, though yeah, it's going to be annoying!

    Love seeing Evasive get more love recently. Hurry up and keyword it already, Blizzard!

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    I suspect this is not the case. If Grand Lackey was itself a Lackey, generators of Lackeys would be able to generate him and we've recently seen why stuff like that is bad with the recent Alex nerf. It would be even worse though considering how small the lackey pool is.

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Honestly, I'm a little afraid of this card being too overboard because of Rogue. It'll be funny when Blizzard has to nerf it.

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    They aren't all that great tbh. If you look at other games, we get way more value for our pre-orders.

    I ultimately think the problem is Wizards is afraid to mess up their brand and physical product. They want magic to feel so premium so they can keep getting the price they do and if Arena becomes too cheap, it could hurt their physical sales.

    Part of me thinks that is a bit silly since Arena has more profit potential since you don't need to produce a physical product, but on the other side, physical product is great for certain types of releases (Secret Lair comes to mind) since the markup is insanely high and people are willing to pay that price for it.

    I'm definitely no expert though, so other than the fact that other games do more with their pre-orders, take my thoughts on it with a grain of salt.

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Nothing has materialized yet for any Shadowlands pre-order bonuses in Blizzard's other titles, but that doesn't mean it isn't going to happen. I'd find it very weird that a WoW collector's edition didn't come with bonuses for other titles. It is possible bonuses weren't allowed to be worked on by other teams so they didn't accidentally push out assets that would leak the expansion (we've seen similar things happen in the past which is why Hearthstone sometimes leaves descriptions on card backs "TBD").

    50/50 shot of there being a card back IMO. We saw one back in Warlords, they skipped Legion, and then we got one again for Battle for Azeroth. I'd love to see one considering how much cool Shadowlands art we've got so far.

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    The game has only been available for 2 separate testing periods, each lasting about a week, since the announcement last year.  When the game returns, and in an open state next week, it will have been just over 2 months since anyone outside of Riot has been able to play.

    I understand the frustration, but this information was shared quite a bit with everyone on their side, and we've published it at least a handful of times. 

    Game is amazingly polished btw. I don't see how the lack of a Runeterra-specific support ticket showcases otherwise since their official FAQs stated how everything was going to work.

    I hope you download the game next week when access is open to all on the 24th and get a chance to give it a shot!

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Hey Shwarzinator,

    Your version of Microsoft Edge or browser on Android is likely out of date. Older browsers aren't fully supported on the site since we use some more recent web features. I don't think it is too much to assume people are updating their browsers since it is a lot more commonplace these days. It also gives us a huge benefit where some of our favourite spammer friends are using such outdated browsers, they can't even use the site, letting us be more spam-free.

    I agree that we need more uniqueness on the Hearthstone side, it is our largest fault by far. Things are cooking and 2020 is definitely going to be our year! 

    Thanks for the comments and feedback <3

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks, Ballsdeeper. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    The on-site collection manager is actually closing in on release. I was aiming to have it out for the expansion last month but there are some technical hurdles to still work through. Since everything came to a halt the last couple of weeks of December due to the holidays, and now I've been plagued for a week (ugh, I love the Winter but I despise the sickness that always comes with it), so there's still work to do to get it out there.

    The release may end up being divided into a V1 and V2, with the initial launch being the collection manager itself and then client-side calculated deck costs. That is what is currently being evaluated. 

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    The dedicated Hearthstone portal on the site is available if you don't want the mix.
    https://outof.cards/hearthstone/

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Yep!

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

    Nah, so it was actually Animated Berserker. Mountainfire Armor we had put up as Mountain Fire Armor, and stated "the name is definitely not accurate" LOL. While technically we weren't wrong about that...