Happy New Year! Some items in this changelog have been previously deployed and were added just to keep you in the loop.
New Features
Added Discord integration
You can connect a Discord account to your Out of Cards account.
Currently, this is only used for giving our Premium members a special role on Discord.
We run checks every 10 minutes, so it may take a little bit of time before new premium members get their role.
New Ad Provider
We've changed ad providers, to NitroPay!
If you are in certain regions and are a non-premium user, you'll have some options.
European members will receive a GDPR prompt their first time visiting the site and any time they don't have the proper GDPR cookie set.
California members can click on a "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" link in the footer and on our privacy policy.
Game Portals!
These are customizable homepages for an individual game. If you don't want to see anything from a particular game, you can visit them and bookmark them instead.
There is a known issue with forum threads showing up from all forums. We're not quite ready with that part yet ;)
If we're talking purely from a monetary point of view, Patreon is better because it is a reliable source of income and more likely to give the site more money on a per user basis. Ads have so much variability, it isn't easy to say if it would be more beneficial for us for any particular user to have them subscribe or just use the site the way they normally do with ads enabled, though it certainly could be possible.
After we're sustainable, the main question becomes how can we use extra revenue to grow even more. There are a lot of things that we could do for the card game community as a whole, and more dedicated people on the staff is always going to be a good goal to reach.
On a more charity note though, I always love the "random" charity events held in the gaming community throughout the year. I think it would be really cool to get some awesome people together to do something similar, using the platform for a good cause. Not something we can immediately jump into, but it has definitely crossed my mind.
I looked into this and have deployed a fix. There were a couple of oddities with some people not getting proper credit and it looks like this should be the last case covered. So sorry for the trouble!
If you end up stopping your support on Patreon in the future, please reach out and I'll credit your account with extra supporter time. The same goes for anyone else who has had issues and I can verify that it is the case.
We're going to be getting some nerfs soon to a bunch of stuff, including Deathrattle Rogue, so there's a decent chance mage can pickup some steam from that. We've also got 35 new cards coming out at some point in the near future which could open up a lot of new and exciting options.
You will never see anything that overlays the site or intentionally redirects you. If a bad advertisement that redirects does show up, we'll squash it as soon as we know about it.
December would have been the most interesting with the expansion launch, though it probably would have just heavily diluted the results, adding tons of junk data to the rank 25-16 area. November is likely a more accurate representation of the majority of the year since it wasn't a crazy hype area of the year. It would be interesting to see if December buffed up the low end back up to 75% of the player base, or even higher.
Yeah, it feels a bit weird to call it out, it's very self-congratulatory, but there is no way this is simply a coincidence
Fluffy Kibler Dragon was such a good one.
No clue!
We're not actively or planning on developing any desktop tools for games. It's a very common question that comes up!
35 new cards! They've probably got some playtesting that shows these cards may still be problematic.
The effect being changed is indeed a nerf so you'll be able to full dust refund.
Happy New Year! Some items in this changelog have been previously deployed and were added just to keep you in the loop.
New Features
Changes
Bug Fixes
You can use the "display" filter to change it to card images! UI for this could definitely be improved.
Thanks for disabling adblock and the kind comments <3
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Emptyness, thanks so much for your support! I feel like a broken record every time I say it, but I really do mean it.
Everyone has been so awesome with the site and I can't wait to give everyone more fun stuff to play with.
If we're talking purely from a monetary point of view, Patreon is better because it is a reliable source of income and more likely to give the site more money on a per user basis. Ads have so much variability, it isn't easy to say if it would be more beneficial for us for any particular user to have them subscribe or just use the site the way they normally do with ads enabled, though it certainly could be possible.
If you can, I recommend sticking with Patreon!
Agreed, total weirdos! DARK MODE LIFE!
After we're sustainable, the main question becomes how can we use extra revenue to grow even more. There are a lot of things that we could do for the card game community as a whole, and more dedicated people on the staff is always going to be a good goal to reach.
On a more charity note though, I always love the "random" charity events held in the gaming community throughout the year. I think it would be really cool to get some awesome people together to do something similar, using the platform for a good cause. Not something we can immediately jump into, but it has definitely crossed my mind.
<3 Thanks for the support!
Thank you so much for your support over the years Wolfgang!
Definitely plan on doing more "insightful" stuff as time permits and there is interesting enough stuff to talk about, so I'm glad you like the format.
Hey AngryShuckie!
I looked into this and have deployed a fix. There were a couple of oddities with some people not getting proper credit and it looks like this should be the last case covered. So sorry for the trouble!
If you end up stopping your support on Patreon in the future, please reach out and I'll credit your account with extra supporter time. The same goes for anyone else who has had issues and I can verify that it is the case.
We're going to be getting some nerfs soon to a bunch of stuff, including Deathrattle Rogue, so there's a decent chance mage can pickup some steam from that. We've also got 35 new cards coming out at some point in the near future which could open up a lot of new and exciting options.
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/667-hearthstone-is-getting-a-balance-patch-changes-coming-to-battlegrounds-rogue-warrior-and-galakrond-archetypes
I can agree though, I haven't been too excited about Mage in a while even though it is my favourite class.
You will never see anything that overlays the site or intentionally redirects you. If a bad advertisement that redirects does show up, we'll squash it as soon as we know about it.
December would have been the most interesting with the expansion launch, though it probably would have just heavily diluted the results, adding tons of junk data to the rank 25-16 area. November is likely a more accurate representation of the majority of the year since it wasn't a crazy hype area of the year. It would be interesting to see if December buffed up the low end back up to 75% of the player base, or even higher.