I've since clarified what the final design team is responsible for. Just wanted to make a note of that so it doesn't look like Demon didn't read the article. Rushing to get the news out ftw.
I actually really want to get optional sounds on pack openings, and I'd like them to be a bit more animated too. It was indeed not done to start with because I wanted to get the feature out. See that we still don't have achievements for the pack opener.
The scrolling thing is also not going to be required if you're opening additional packs, we had talked about that right after the feature went live.
Not sure if we'll reveal the entire logic behind packs though, if we do that may come at a later date when its more finalized. I think we could use some tweaks still =)
It is because of the no dupes legendary rule for pack opening.
If there is a particular legendary you want to craft golden, you want to do so before opening card packs because there is a chance you will open it with the "normal" version. By crafting it first, it won't be possible to open a normal version of the card until you've got every legendary from the set in your collection.
It would be so sad to want to craft a golden Zephrys to get it in one of your packs as a normal. If you were to craft it golden, the only use for the non-gold is to turn it into 400 dust, which sucks considering the alternative was to open a different legendary.
Yeah, it would have been helpful to actually indicate it was a random drawing. My assumption was that of everyone assuming it was random unless otherwise noted was a bad one to make. Going forward, I'll make sure all giveaways state the way the draw will occur. If that doesn't happen, hold me accountable!
No, but you can ticket Blizzard support and ask them to refund your purchase because you won a community giveaway and the code cannot be redeemed because you had already pre-ordered. They should understand the situation and go through with it.
Reposting my comment on the giveaway post here so it gets viewed.
It is my understanding some people are giving me a hard time about the giveaway, some claiming its just rigged and staff are going to win it. I'm disappointed that people feel that way and think so little of me.
There is zero incentive to rig giveaways. There is never anything to gain when you are ultimately risking your reputation and potentially putting yourself in legal hell by doing so. Imagine caring so little about your community you'd give it all up for a couple of hundred dollars; I cannot stand people who don't follow through with giveaways or "give them" to friend. Social media has been such a plague for that stuff, it is worse than the "Free iPods" of the mid 00's. I don't care who wins, as long as you follow the rules, you can win. Yes, there have been staff members who have won giveaways in the past, I don't forbid any of them from entering as they are not paid employees or contractors of the site.
Anyway, I do apologize it took a bit too long to announce winners for this giveaway. The winners should have been drawn the morning after the giveaway ended, plain and simple. There was a miscommunication though, which is also my fault so don't shoot Frosty, he had stated I hadn't drawn the winners yet yesterday though they did end up getting drawn last night. I just went to take a nap (card reveals recovery is so fun) afterwards so I could then work on our announcement post with a clean slate and unfortunately slept for just over 12 hours.
We're not going to be doing a community compendium for the expansion based on voting data on cards. We don't have enough vote data to make it interesting enough. This will be fixed going forward by making the voting available in other areas of the site to help encourage everyone to click those stars!
It is my understanding some people are giving me a hard time about the giveaway, some claiming its just rigged and staff are going to win it. I'm disappointed that people feel that way and think so little of me.
There is zero incentive to rig giveaways. There is never anything to gain when you are ultimately risking your reputation and potentially putting yourself in legal hell by doing so. Imagine caring so little about your community you'd give it all up for a couple of hundred dollars; I cannot stand people who don't follow through with giveaways or "give them" to friend. Social media has been such a plague for that stuff, it is worse than the "Free iPods" of the mid 00's. I don't care who wins, as long as you follow the rules, you can win. Yes, there have been staff members who have won giveaways in the past, I don't forbid any of them from entering as they are not paid employees or contractors of the site.
Anyway, I do apologize it took a bit too long to announce winners for this giveaway. The winners should have been drawn the morning after the giveaway ended, plain and simple. There was a miscommunication though, which is also my fault so don't shoot Frosty, he had stated I hadn't drawn the winners yet yesterday though they did end up getting drawn last night. I just went to take a nap (card reveals recovery is so fun) afterwards so I could then work on our announcement post with a clean slate and unfortunately slept for just over 12 hours.
We're not going to be doing a community compendium for the expansion based on voting data on cards. We don't have enough vote data to make it interesting enough. This will be fixed going forward by making the voting available in other areas of the site to help encourage everyone to click those stars!
This past reveal period has been eye opening into what kind of resources are required to run the site at a high load due the constant surges of people visiting. In preparations for the expansion next week, we'll be adding some additional caching for logged out users and I'm going to be bumping up the number of instances powering the site. There will be a very small, less than a minute, service interruption late on the weekend to enable this new configuration.
I'm confident we'll be fast, and without a doubt faster than HearthPwn ever was with launch days. It was always frustrating when people at HearthPwn knew the expansion was launching and didn't scale up the site correctly in preparation for the day. I remember when we went offline for a few minutes as an expansion was launching, the key moment of launch day. I don't plan on bringing that curse with us here =)
Was having this issue earlier with the invisible card. Could keep clicking it to get more points.
You don't actually get more points though if you save it. You also can't cheat the system in anyway at all because we save every single pack you open even if you don't manually save it so it shows up on the leaderboard ;)
The stuff I wanted to do with HearthPwn for years but never got support on, were going to get there with Out of Cards. I'm committed to being a top resource for this game because it's what we all deserve. Very happy to partner with HSReplay to help make my vision a reality.
Rates are indeed based off the same ones we've got from the game. The only thing we don't do is give you a guaranteed legendary card in your first 10 opened packs or every 40, so your luck in Hearthstone should be slightly better :D
I've since clarified what the final design team is responsible for. Just wanted to make a note of that so it doesn't look like Demon didn't read the article. Rushing to get the news out ftw.
Cannot recommend Zilliax enough. The amount of play the card has gotten over the past year has proven it a worthy craft.
Mech Paladin tons of fun though, its so great to see a starter version that can evolve.
Revolutionary! Never would have thought to put these cards together.
I actually really want to get optional sounds on pack openings, and I'd like them to be a bit more animated too. It was indeed not done to start with because I wanted to get the feature out. See that we still don't have achievements for the pack opener.
The scrolling thing is also not going to be required if you're opening additional packs, we had talked about that right after the feature went live.
Not sure if we'll reveal the entire logic behind packs though, if we do that may come at a later date when its more finalized. I think we could use some tweaks still =)
Overall though, great feedback, thank you clawz!
Such an awesome deck!
It is because of the no dupes legendary rule for pack opening.
If there is a particular legendary you want to craft golden, you want to do so before opening card packs because there is a chance you will open it with the "normal" version. By crafting it first, it won't be possible to open a normal version of the card until you've got every legendary from the set in your collection.
It would be so sad to want to craft a golden Zephrys to get it in one of your packs as a normal. If you were to craft it golden, the only use for the non-gold is to turn it into 400 dust, which sucks considering the alternative was to open a different legendary.
Mythic+ is plenty of fun, join us! :D
Agreed though, fantastic article from Goliath!
Yeah, it would have been helpful to actually indicate it was a random drawing. My assumption was that of everyone assuming it was random unless otherwise noted was a bad one to make. Going forward, I'll make sure all giveaways state the way the draw will occur. If that doesn't happen, hold me accountable!
Appreciate the response, jagu!
No, but you can ticket Blizzard support and ask them to refund your purchase because you won a community giveaway and the code cannot be redeemed because you had already pre-ordered. They should understand the situation and go through with it.
Reposting my comment on the giveaway post here so it gets viewed.
It is my understanding some people are giving me a hard time about the giveaway, some claiming its just rigged and staff are going to win it. I'm disappointed that people feel that way and think so little of me.
There is zero incentive to rig giveaways. There is never anything to gain when you are ultimately risking your reputation and potentially putting yourself in legal hell by doing so. Imagine caring so little about your community you'd give it all up for a couple of hundred dollars; I cannot stand people who don't follow through with giveaways or "give them" to friend. Social media has been such a plague for that stuff, it is worse than the "Free iPods" of the mid 00's. I don't care who wins, as long as you follow the rules, you can win. Yes, there have been staff members who have won giveaways in the past, I don't forbid any of them from entering as they are not paid employees or contractors of the site.
Anyway, I do apologize it took a bit too long to announce winners for this giveaway. The winners should have been drawn the morning after the giveaway ended, plain and simple. There was a miscommunication though, which is also my fault so don't shoot Frosty, he had stated I hadn't drawn the winners yet yesterday though they did end up getting drawn last night. I just went to take a nap (card reveals recovery is so fun) afterwards so I could then work on our announcement post with a clean slate and unfortunately slept for just over 12 hours.
You can see the winners and their responses highlighted here
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/255-our-favourite-saviors-of-uldum-cards-as-spoken-by-the-community
We're not going to be doing a community compendium for the expansion based on voting data on cards. We don't have enough vote data to make it interesting enough. This will be fixed going forward by making the voting available in other areas of the site to help encourage everyone to click those stars!
If you check out the data, there are too many cards at 0 or 1 votes to truly do a "Magma Rager Award".
It is my understanding some people are giving me a hard time about the giveaway, some claiming its just rigged and staff are going to win it. I'm disappointed that people feel that way and think so little of me.
There is zero incentive to rig giveaways. There is never anything to gain when you are ultimately risking your reputation and potentially putting yourself in legal hell by doing so. Imagine caring so little about your community you'd give it all up for a couple of hundred dollars; I cannot stand people who don't follow through with giveaways or "give them" to friend. Social media has been such a plague for that stuff, it is worse than the "Free iPods" of the mid 00's. I don't care who wins, as long as you follow the rules, you can win. Yes, there have been staff members who have won giveaways in the past, I don't forbid any of them from entering as they are not paid employees or contractors of the site.
Anyway, I do apologize it took a bit too long to announce winners for this giveaway. The winners should have been drawn the morning after the giveaway ended, plain and simple. There was a miscommunication though, which is also my fault so don't shoot Frosty, he had stated I hadn't drawn the winners yet yesterday though they did end up getting drawn last night. I just went to take a nap (card reveals recovery is so fun) afterwards so I could then work on our announcement post with a clean slate and unfortunately slept for just over 12 hours.
You can see the winners and their responses highlighted here
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/255-our-favourite-saviors-of-uldum-cards-as-spoken-by-the-community
We're not going to be doing a community compendium for the expansion based on voting data on cards. We don't have enough vote data to make it interesting enough. This will be fixed going forward by making the voting available in other areas of the site to help encourage everyone to click those stars!
Hey CovenantKevlar,
This past reveal period has been eye opening into what kind of resources are required to run the site at a high load due the constant surges of people visiting. In preparations for the expansion next week, we'll be adding some additional caching for logged out users and I'm going to be bumping up the number of instances powering the site. There will be a very small, less than a minute, service interruption late on the weekend to enable this new configuration.
I'm confident we'll be fast, and without a doubt faster than HearthPwn ever was with launch days. It was always frustrating when people at HearthPwn knew the expansion was launching and didn't scale up the site correctly in preparation for the day. I remember when we went offline for a few minutes as an expansion was launching, the key moment of launch day. I don't plan on bringing that curse with us here =)
You don't actually get more points though if you save it. You also can't cheat the system in anyway at all because we save every single pack you open even if you don't manually save it so it shows up on the leaderboard ;)
Golden cards will be in the database soon. I've been just been confirming our import is going to go smoothly =)
There is definitely room for more cool stuff with our partnership but we don't have anything else to announce right now.
Winrates won't be available in deck search, just the deck pages.
The stuff I wanted to do with HearthPwn for years but never got support on, were going to get there with Out of Cards. I'm committed to being a top resource for this game because it's what we all deserve. Very happy to partner with HSReplay to help make my vision a reality.
Rates are indeed based off the same ones we've got from the game. The only thing we don't do is give you a guaranteed legendary card in your first 10 opened packs or every 40, so your luck in Hearthstone should be slightly better :D
Why are you bumping this thread?
Don't you have things to do on the "we’re usually first to the reveals" site which has got to be the greatest lie ever told. OMEGALUL.
Don't advertise your trash here. Your welcome to be a member of this community, but you can keep your HearthPwn shilling at the door.