Held of on main paging it until I knew for certain it was going to be 4 full card reveals as the wording had some interpretation to it. Confirmed though, it's four full reveals, so it's likely to be all the explorers. That's gonna be one hell of a panel!
Are there going to be under-achievements as well? For example, there was that one post about the Ragnaros card back where Almaniarra got like a billion downvotes. So are they going to get some cool devil horns on their avatar or something? If so, I'm going to stop being so nice so I can get devil horns too.
Achievements will never promote negative behaviour =
Well that's certainly a huge increase compared to before!
I really still don't know how I feel about battle passes in card games. It's certainly a cool way to incentivize people to login while spending money since it is just too good of a deal, but I don't know, I feel like it can contribute to more burnout. I burned out of Apex Legends before I finished my battlepass and felt bad I was 20 levels away so I bought them. Now I'm not even playing season 2 because I feel like I'll be missing out if I don't buy the pass but I don't have the time to complete it. I'm in a similar boat with Magic where I'm playing much more Hearthstone atm so the pass almost doesn't make sense, maybe.
Regardless, good on them for actually hearing the community.
We've got achievements done and they'll be coming out this week. Notifications are up next so expect them real soon! I know how important they are to help direct people to active discussions and content, I regret not launching the site with them.
Notifications definitely are important and I am behind this 100%....but can we please not have achievements?
It's probably too late to ask at this point, but honestly it detracts from being in a community. The only people who find the need for achievements are the same people who derive personal value from their XBOX Live gamerscore. I mean to be perfectly honest, they weren't even achievements in the full sense of the word. Hell, beating Gears of War 3 on hard actually has more merit to it then "create a deck with Deathwing in it".
I have to disagree with you though I applaud the courage to stand up for what you believe in.
Achievements encourage interaction on the website which helps bolster the community more than anything. I've personally witnessed what they can do for a website and the love our community members have for them which is why they were a top priority. I think it is important that we can showcase how active someone has been on a site in a way that isn't just post count, even if some of the achievements are silly.
Ultimately it is a system designed for fun and if it isn't something you're interested in, you aren't required to participate - much like how we don't force people to click on fan creations content on the homepage. I think people who loved achievements before will really like what we've done with them here.
Its more so that they always saw wild as a way to play old decks and being always able to play them. If changing Barnes meant the archetype completely died off, that's a negative for their wild philosophy.
I don't agree with it for record's sake. People have been having problems with the card since it existed in Standard. It was a poor choice of a print.
We've got achievements done and they'll be coming out this week. Notifications are up next so expect them real soon! I know how important they are to help direct people to active discussions and content, I regret not launching the site with them.
I view the same thing as the OP , only seeing the 3 white bar on a PC ... BUT it is because i was zoom in a lot (i am an old man with need of glasses !! :-P) so when i zoomed out i saw the regular menu.
Hope this help
Seeing the white bars on PC will happen if you are zoomed in or have your display resolution set low.
You should have access to the forums though via the dropdown "hamburger" menu even on desktop. I'm able to see it and use it just fine here, though it sounds like something might be going wonky for some so I'd love to get to the bottom of it.
If you aren't able to get to the forums from the "hamburger" menu, are you able to show us what you see via a screenshot? Can be uploaded to a site like https://imgur.com
I really love this idea! One problem though is this would only work on PC, as mobile users would have so much screen clutter as it is, a pet would be hard to see as well. Their pet would have to be viewable outside of games, or something you swipe to see.
MY cosmetic idea is voice lines. You earn aditional voice lines and you can remove some and slide new ones in for every hero. This way we can bring back "oops" voice lines, and add some new ones. I like having conversations with other players only using the voice lines on the Hero's. We better becareful because Blizz is gonna steal these ideas and put them in loot boxes!!!
They should build the cosmetics into card packs, that way they can be themed for expansions and even give game veterans a reason to enjoy classic packs again. Every pack unlocks a sixth "card" which would be your cosmetic. If you already have it, enjoy some arcane dust instead. Cosmetics all craftable (or most at least) with arcane dust.
Would you mind providing a screenshot of the home page you see?
I've tried opening the site in Firefox but I just get the regular homepage, which includes a link to the forums.
I just want to make sure this is highlighted. Screenshots are incredibly vital here, and in most bug reports where functionality is not working as intended. If we can get some screenshots, we'll be able to help
I've always been a huge proponent of additional cosmetics in the game, specifically board flair.
Board flair was an idea I had a while back where we could unlock (paid or unpaid) items that would sit beside the board and would showcase your achievements (like 1000 wins with a class) or just be cool looking stuff you could interact with during a game much like you can a normal Hearthstone board.
The biggest blocker in creating such a system is mobile Hearthstone sadly. Mobile doesn't have any extra space beside the board for fun stuff like that, and there's no real room on the board for fun without removing the other corner that gives the board a theme. How do you think they could go about implementing this but for mobile users as well?
But yeah, super on board with this! A leveling system for said cosmetics would definitely let you stand out more too as you play more and more Hearthstone, rewarding players with cool stuff that isn't just winning 5 games every season.
Late last night I pushed changes to the site to prepare us for site achievements. We were running a bad check when users were not logged in that has now been fixed.
Sorry for the trouble, look forward to some fun this week =)
A few updates have been made to the card ratings system.
It now can be access on mobile.
You can now view the results of card ratings.
A few tweaks to the style.
Things I want to finish with it before the reveals really start.
Even better styling so it's more obvious how many stars you're rating something.
The ability for us to put card ratings inside of the card discussion threads.
Card ratings in our card reveal news posts.
I understand the issue you've encountered with left-to-right vs right-to-left. A good way to think about it, at least for now, is that since the items are aligned to the left side of the widget, that's the starting point and is usually the case for such patterns. That isn't an excuse for out current rating implementation though, it's not great.
This really needs to happen yesterday. Some threads are now very long. Implementing this will make people super happy.
I think they just made it happen (at least on mobile interface) however some other stuff (last post by column) is now lost
Yeah, we ditched the last poster column on mobile since it isn't crazy important. The replies column inherits the "jump" button to the most recent post in the thread and once we start tracking when there are new replies for you to view in a thread and make that very obvious via the new icons that have appeared, the latest post column will just be wasted space for mobile.
View count was also dropped for mobile as it isn't very important, a longer space for thread titles really helps the readability of the site.
The official site has the empty slots waiting for the community reveal timetable but it's still empty. About two weeks until community reveals should be a solid guess. Blizzard has previously given us some cards via blog posts even before the community reveals start so make sure to check our front page every now and then for latest reveals (usually blogs happen at 10:00 PDT/13:00 EDT/19:00 CEST).
didn't want to open a new thread so I'm asking in here, Will be a countdown in frontpage like we used to see when they reveal the reveal times (revealing reveal times lol)?
Countdowns are ready to go as soon as we have the dates and times from Blizzard. Got that ready last week =
Held of on main paging it until I knew for certain it was going to be 4 full card reveals as the wording had some interpretation to it. Confirmed though, it's four full reveals, so it's likely to be all the explorers. That's gonna be one hell of a panel!
Achievements will never promote negative behaviour =
I too am a wild advocate but don't play it myself. I love what the format is, I just want to play with the new toys 99% of the time
Well that's certainly a huge increase compared to before!
I really still don't know how I feel about battle passes in card games. It's certainly a cool way to incentivize people to login while spending money since it is just too good of a deal, but I don't know, I feel like it can contribute to more burnout. I burned out of Apex Legends before I finished my battlepass and felt bad I was 20 levels away so I bought them. Now I'm not even playing season 2 because I feel like I'll be missing out if I don't buy the pass but I don't have the time to complete it. I'm in a similar boat with Magic where I'm playing much more Hearthstone atm so the pass almost doesn't make sense, maybe.
Regardless, good on them for actually hearing the community.
Yeah seriously. The free packs alone was gonna do well, this is gonna bump it up to top on twitch ez
I have to disagree with you though I applaud the courage to stand up for what you believe in.
Achievements encourage interaction on the website which helps bolster the community more than anything. I've personally witnessed what they can do for a website and the love our community members have for them which is why they were a top priority. I think it is important that we can showcase how active someone has been on a site in a way that isn't just post count, even if some of the achievements are silly.
Ultimately it is a system designed for fun and if it isn't something you're interested in, you aren't required to participate - much like how we don't force people to click on fan creations content on the homepage. I think people who loved achievements before will really like what we've done with them here.
Hey thanks for pointing that out - it looks like I was missing Alec on my tracker. I've since added him and updated the post.
Its more so that they always saw wild as a way to play old decks and being always able to play them. If changing Barnes meant the archetype completely died off, that's a negative for their wild philosophy.
I don't agree with it for record's sake. People have been having problems with the card since it existed in Standard. It was a poor choice of a print.
Thanks so much!
For those who want to know the rewards:
We've got achievements done and they'll be coming out this week. Notifications are up next so expect them real soon! I know how important they are to help direct people to active discussions and content, I regret not launching the site with them.
Seeing the white bars on PC will happen if you are zoomed in or have your display resolution set low.
You should have access to the forums though via the dropdown "hamburger" menu even on desktop. I'm able to see it and use it just fine here, though it sounds like something might be going wonky for some so I'd love to get to the bottom of it.
If you aren't able to get to the forums from the "hamburger" menu, are you able to show us what you see via a screenshot? Can be uploaded to a site like https://imgur.com
They should build the cosmetics into card packs, that way they can be themed for expansions and even give game veterans a reason to enjoy classic packs again. Every pack unlocks a sixth "card" which would be your cosmetic. If you already have it, enjoy some arcane dust instead. Cosmetics all craftable (or most at least) with arcane dust.
I just want to make sure this is highlighted. Screenshots are incredibly vital here, and in most bug reports where functionality is not working as intended. If we can get some screenshots, we'll be able to help
I've always been a huge proponent of additional cosmetics in the game, specifically board flair.
Board flair was an idea I had a while back where we could unlock (paid or unpaid) items that would sit beside the board and would showcase your achievements (like 1000 wins with a class) or just be cool looking stuff you could interact with during a game much like you can a normal Hearthstone board.
The biggest blocker in creating such a system is mobile Hearthstone sadly. Mobile doesn't have any extra space beside the board for fun stuff like that, and there's no real room on the board for fun without removing the other corner that gives the board a theme. How do you think they could go about implementing this but for mobile users as well?
But yeah, super on board with this! A leveling system for said cosmetics would definitely let you stand out more too as you play more and more Hearthstone, rewarding players with cool stuff that isn't just winning 5 games every season.
Late last night I pushed changes to the site to prepare us for site achievements. We were running a bad check when users were not logged in that has now been fixed.
Sorry for the trouble, look forward to some fun this week =)
Fought this on ladder while I was playing Murloc Shaman. I hate this deck and want to play it. Bondage Warrior for life!
This was pushed live the other day so I'm marking this as resolved.
There's a new filter on the deck listing that allows you to enter a dust count min and dust count max. I've always been a fan of budget decks being 1600 dust or less to create, so here's a link to Budget Standard Decks.
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/decks/?is_standard=true&cost_min=0&cost_max=1600
We'll probably add something to the navigation for it in a future update.
A few updates have been made to the card ratings system.
Things I want to finish with it before the reveals really start.
I understand the issue you've encountered with left-to-right vs right-to-left. A good way to think about it, at least for now, is that since the items are aligned to the left side of the widget, that's the starting point and is usually the case for such patterns. That isn't an excuse for out current rating implementation though, it's not great.
Yeah, we ditched the last poster column on mobile since it isn't crazy important. The replies column inherits the "jump" button to the most recent post in the thread and once we start tracking when there are new replies for you to view in a thread and make that very obvious via the new icons that have appeared, the latest post column will just be wasted space for mobile.
View count was also dropped for mobile as it isn't very important, a longer space for thread titles really helps the readability of the site.
Countdowns are ready to go as soon as we have the dates and times from Blizzard. Got that ready last week =