Dragons are going to be rad though. I wonder which ones they'll be adding and if we'll get a custom dragon. Would be cool if they added a new Deathwing - his current iterations don't exactly work for Battlegrounds.
You can't redeem it twice. If you were to win, you can give it to a friend or you can always try to ticket support saying you'd like a refund because you won a giveaway on a community site. I know it has worked for some people to ask for refunds in the past, but I know they won't always do it since Hearthstone content typically is non-refundable.
I've never had a big issue with it. Here's how I've always seen it:
News Discussion - The lowest barrier of entry, usually the lowest quality of discussion. News posts drop down quickly during reveal seasons and people don't typically page through news posts, so its not likely to get much attention after the initial bit of time.
Card Discussion - Fairly hidden considering card pages themselves don't get a lot of traffic which means you have a lower chance of having a discussion at all. Even if we linked to the card pages as the place to discuss them, I don't think it's very approachable because most are likely to have the mindset "it doesn't matter".
Forum Discussion - A proper place to converse about a topic. As new discussion takes place, threads get bumped and more people have a chance to talk about that card. The best place for it.
I'd consider the forums to be the best place to discuss cards as it has the best format for a discussion. This is why we're promoting it with the buttons and why we're even making it a part of a giveaway.
As Sinti already covered, the votes, no matter where you see them (news, forums, card pages, expansion guide), are all linked back to the same card. We just give you some additional options on the card pages themselves if you want to rank any card for the different game modes. Having the "overall" rating in multiple places helps us get people to rank the cards.
You should have some time before the giveaway expires after the cards have all been revealed. I don't know exactly how much though ^^. For what its worth, you can vote on cards and change your votes whenever you please, so if you're afraid you may not get to them all, you can always vote as they come out and change your mind on how you ranked them when the whole set is revealed. May even be interesting for yourself to see how you initially ranked a card vs after seeing the whole set.
Btw, I think its super awesome and I appreciate everyone that takes the time to put in their best ratings - it can definitely help with the overall results!
While I agree ads suck, and I wanted to see how long we could go without them, at the end of the day, we did not receive the financial support from the community that is required to even pay for just the server bills. People gotta eat, we gotta keep the servers on, and so ads are now a thing.
Around 6 weeks ago, the first ads on the site were enabled. They were only visible to logged-out users.
Today, logged in users who are not a "supporter" of the site will also see ads, though a reduction of them compared to logged out users.
Site supporters will never see ads.
If you want to remove ads, you can support the site with a monthly contribution via Patreon. After contributing, you can link your OOC account to your Patreon account via account connect in account management and within 10 minutes you should be recognized as a site supporter.
If you can figure out a way we can support the site and the content creators on it without ads, I'm all ears. So far though, only 41 people are supporting us on Patreon despite hundreds of thousands of visitors each month.
With all that said though, the goal is to keep the ads as sane as possible. We already have a large amount of stuff blocked that could be making us more money, but I'm not okay with people get scammed. Our page load speeds still remain several times faster than HearthPwn too, so ads haven't had a huge negative effect on that.
And if you really want to, feel free to install an adblocker. If you do go this route, we'd love it if you would participate in the community as a way of giving back to it and if you see good deck guides, show authors support by giving them upvotes!
Edit: Checked it out, it says that the first 3 reveals will be made by blizzard, so who knows maybe they are part of the reveal stream.
We're actually not entirely certain if that even is the case. Blizzard just never published links for those, and several other reveals. I guess we'll see in a couple of hours
Just deployed an update that allows you to "jump to latest post" from the homepage forum widget.
Also, somewhat related, the recent threads page now will display the forum a thread belongs to. You can thank Sinti for asking me why that wasn't a thing.
Maybe the relevant card tags could be shown on the card's page? For example below the images.
I would love to find a place to put bbcode boxes on the card pages. The sidebar is a likely candidate, we just need to make sure we don't end up with 50 different bbcode options haha
Regrettably, the thread is missing some of the other attributes that are available right now, but maybe we can get those in or find a way to make an easier to view digest of all the bbcode options we have.
Also, all games will have their own card bbcode tags, so no need to worry about getting cards from the wrong games. Hearthstone will always be the base "card" and "cardimg" tags with other games getting prefixes attached ("runecard", "runecardimg", "mtgcard" "mtgcardimg") and having completely independent rendering logic where needed.
One of the biggest Pogs, maybe ever. Seriously though this is definitely half life 3 but they would never actually title it that because there's such high expectations attached to those words now.
According to leaked info, the game is actually a prequel to 2
We’re excited to unveil Half-Life: Alyx, our flagship VR game, this Thursday at 10am Pacific Time. Can’t wait to share it with all of you!
My mind = blown. After leaks this morning that Half-Life: Alyx was going to be a thing, and ones that looked very reliable, I thought we'd be in the dark until the actual announcement but it looks like Valve went and took charge on it to confirm.
It has been a long time since Half-Life 2 Episode 2, and although this is not likely to be a continuation of the story due to the "Flagship VR" nature of the game, getting to go back into that universe with 2019 tech is going to ROCK.
I don't even know what I want out of it. That oculus sure is going to come in handy though!
I love them since they'll hit the Amalgams :D
Dragons are going to be rad though. I wonder which ones they'll be adding and if we'll get a custom dragon. Would be cool if they added a new Deathwing - his current iterations don't exactly work for Battlegrounds.
You can't redeem it twice. If you were to win, you can give it to a friend or you can always try to ticket support saying you'd like a refund because you won a giveaway on a community site. I know it has worked for some people to ask for refunds in the past, but I know they won't always do it since Hearthstone content typically is non-refundable.
If I get to do what I want to with the compendium, it should be really awesome.
I've never had a big issue with it. Here's how I've always seen it:
I'd consider the forums to be the best place to discuss cards as it has the best format for a discussion. This is why we're promoting it with the buttons and why we're even making it a part of a giveaway.
As Sinti already covered, the votes, no matter where you see them (news, forums, card pages, expansion guide), are all linked back to the same card. We just give you some additional options on the card pages themselves if you want to rank any card for the different game modes. Having the "overall" rating in multiple places helps us get people to rank the cards.
Thanks for the support
You should have some time before the giveaway expires after the cards have all been revealed. I don't know exactly how much though ^^. For what its worth, you can vote on cards and change your votes whenever you please, so if you're afraid you may not get to them all, you can always vote as they come out and change your mind on how you ranked them when the whole set is revealed. May even be interesting for yourself to see how you initially ranked a card vs after seeing the whole set.
Btw, I think its super awesome and I appreciate everyone that takes the time to put in their best ratings - it can definitely help with the overall results!
T-T-T-T-Token!
While I agree ads suck, and I wanted to see how long we could go without them, at the end of the day, we did not receive the financial support from the community that is required to even pay for just the server bills. People gotta eat, we gotta keep the servers on, and so ads are now a thing.
If you want to remove ads, you can support the site with a monthly contribution via Patreon. After contributing, you can link your OOC account to your Patreon account via account connect in account management and within 10 minutes you should be recognized as a site supporter.
If you can figure out a way we can support the site and the content creators on it without ads, I'm all ears. So far though, only 41 people are supporting us on Patreon despite hundreds of thousands of visitors each month.
With all that said though, the goal is to keep the ads as sane as possible. We already have a large amount of stuff blocked that could be making us more money, but I'm not okay with people get scammed. Our page load speeds still remain several times faster than HearthPwn too, so ads haven't had a huge negative effect on that.
And if you really want to, feel free to install an adblocker. If you do go this route, we'd love it if you would participate in the community as a way of giving back to it and if you see good deck guides, show authors support by giving them upvotes!
That is the goal!
I'll be writing a script near the end of card reveal period to figure everything out :D
I like the nameVoterBot XL 9000 Extreme. Imma steal that.
ALL cards from the expansion.
Doesn't matter when you vote, just do it before the giveaway ends. You can also change your votes whenever you want =)
Only comments posted in the card discussion threads (not card pages) count as entries. Though I do encourage you to use the card pages too!
Yup!
We're actually not entirely certain if that even is the case. Blizzard just never published links for those, and several other reveals. I guess we'll see in a couple of hours
Just deployed an update that allows you to "jump to latest post" from the homepage forum widget.
Also, somewhat related, the recent threads page now will display the forum a thread belongs to. You can thank Sinti for asking me why that wasn't a thing.
I would love to find a place to put bbcode boxes on the card pages. The sidebar is a likely candidate, we just need to make sure we don't end up with 50 different bbcode options haha
I've updated our "how to link cards" thread over on the card discussion forum.
https://outof.cards/forums/hearthstone/card-discussion/944-how-to-link-cards-decks-in-your-content
Regrettably, the thread is missing some of the other attributes that are available right now, but maybe we can get those in or find a way to make an easier to view digest of all the bbcode options we have.
You can actually already do this, we just didn't document it!
Alleycat
Also, all games will have their own card bbcode tags, so no need to worry about getting cards from the wrong games. Hearthstone will always be the base "card" and "cardimg" tags with other games getting prefixes attached ("runecard", "runecardimg", "mtgcard" "mtgcardimg") and having completely independent rendering logic where needed.
According to leaked info, the game is actually a prequel to 2
Just not 3.
Valve Software on Twitter made their first tweet.
https://twitter.com/valvesoftware/status/1196566870360387584
My mind = blown. After leaks this morning that Half-Life: Alyx was going to be a thing, and ones that looked very reliable, I thought we'd be in the dark until the actual announcement but it looks like Valve went and took charge on it to confirm.
It has been a long time since Half-Life 2 Episode 2, and although this is not likely to be a continuation of the story due to the "Flagship VR" nature of the game, getting to go back into that universe with 2019 tech is going to ROCK.
I don't even know what I want out of it. That oculus sure is going to come in handy though!