Known issue that we've got outdated older cards. There are thousands of cards that need to be rendered again to get their correct Undead or dual-tribe tags after Blizzard's update. It's a process and it's slowly being worked on. We also don't have dual-tribe support in the database at all, so cards can't be filtered if they have two tribes.
A change went out to remove colors from content. We've been having trouble with spam bots making use of colors to cleverly hide content.
The current plan is to bring colors back initially as a premium feature, so we can rest assured they will not be abused, with us potentially making colors available for "trusted" community members in the future once a system is in place to make that actually a thing.
Yeah, Blizzard killed Hearthstone esports for the big Overwatch League and Call of Duty League payday. Absolutely disgusting move by the finance department. Now the numbers are down and you know for a fact that there's some dude looking only at the numbers and thinks that axing the entire program is the right business play. I don't think that would happen, but I'm certain they are looking to cut costs on "failing" esports programs, even though esports are supposed to be a money pit in the marketing budget.
And if they don't jump ship, they could do more to push the event to players. Why Hearthstone itself doesn't have something in-game to promote it (and getting free packs when it does work) is beyond me. They should have been able to make development time at this point for the largest event of the year.
Went ahead and deleted the Brann tweet because it seemed like it was hurting more than it was helping. Never intended to bait people. Just wanted to reassure that we see the Brann conversation, and that he will 99.9% not be sticking around in Core for next year.
A balance patch is coming and outliers will be addressed. Choosing not to rotate Brann early doesn't mean we are ok with the state of certain things, and we're discussing solutions for a number of areas now.
Just to be clear, if he goes on vacation it would most likely be when the core set rotation happens with the first set release of next year. I don't want to get any hopes up for something sooner.
I just want to say that I really like this card. I haven't played Warlock in a very long time but being able to draw a bunch of cards and choose your Discard for 3 mana? Busted!
If you think for one second that I'm bitter about not being in their pocket, you are an idiot. Do you know how easy it is to be in Blizzard's pockets? Because anybody can do it, you just have to be willing to play by their rules. I've never played by their rules.
The stakes were never very high though. Hearthstone was young, they needed the big people in the community more than those people needed them so as long as you weren't hosting your own cosby suite that the world knew about, they didn't care and would work with you.
I have a record of calling them out on their bullshit, I have a record of datamining their games, and I have a record of ignoring their requests because I value independence. The new guard on the Hearthstone team doesn't like that and they really don't like when they make mistakes (like uploading their data to a public cdn) and then people talk about them publicly.
The Hearthstone team has every streamer in their corner, deciding what they can and cannot say. Notice how quiet people are during leaks and datamining? Yeah, it's not allowed to be talked about because people know if they do they risk ruining their relationship with the company and then they won't get invited to events. I'm not going to hold stuff back from being published, that's how you make money.
Out of Cards has always been for-profit and independant. No one dictates what we post and it isn't possible to run large websites anymore without a business model in mind. Companies can ask us if we'd like to post about a certain topic, and they do, but they don't dictate if the message goes out or what the message looks like. That's shitty content. Blizzard's Gear Store team regularly talks to me about the new products they have. Sometimes we post about them, but it's rare. In that scenario it has to be products I think would fit well with the audience and I'll tell you, Overwatch merch does not fit with the audience here.
They're more tight-lipped in a lot of the data in the client these days. Sometimes we see stuff that could be interesting, like the DK Location image, and I think I screwed up by not posting about that particular asset this time around because ultimately is gave us DK and it would have been a killer headline. I ended up not though because I didn't think about it very much.
I wrongly assumed they were just catching their assets up as a precaution. I would not have ever predicted a class at the end of the year, though it does make sense with Wrath of the Lich King back on and alive and the end of the Hearthstone year always being weaker for them than the start. It'll be very interesting to see the numbers and what the start of next year looks like.
Datamining though. Definitely my favourite type of content to talk about!
I'm very well aware of what their intention was - to do something silly. They clearly had a second-thought about it though because the tweets referenced in the article have since been deleted.
I'm not at all embarrassed and never will be. I'll continue to hold Blizzard to a higher standard. Their staff complained on Twitter about news outlets dropping bombs on them when the company was up to no good during the start of a card reveal season, well, in my eyes, they're now the people that are putting up junk in their reveal season.
And because I said it in another reply here but want to really hammer it home:
Misinformation is when you post something that isn't factual but your intent was not to deceive people. Disinformation is when there is deliberate deception involved. I don't believe Blizzard created disinformation here which is why it solidly falls into the misinformation category. Intent it what matters here. They made a mistake and they got called out on it.
Misinformation is when you post something that isn't factual but your intent was not to deceive people. Disinformation is when there is deliberate deception involved. I don't believe Blizzard created disinformation here which is why it solidly falls into the misinformation category.
While Hearthstone may just be a video game, that doesn't mean the community shouldn't be held to a higher standard. I've been saying for years that gaming should remain fun and that isn't something I'll ever disagree with, but that also doesn't mean we can't have serious conversations when people mess up.
And honestly? Blizzard messes up a lot. A lot of that I don't even talk about publicly because it's beating a dead horse at this point and overall we don't need that kind of negativity so consistently. Some folks call me a Blizzard shill, others call me a Blizzard hater, I just call it like I see it because we have witnessed one of the greatest gaming companies become a tenth of what it used to be. I really hope that Microsoft's acquisition of their IP and talent ends up being a positive for their titles because they certainly need all the help they can get.
I've been off their list since Alkali took over - the promotion company that was sending stuff out already had my information for the remainder of the sets they figured their gear out for.
Hearthstone is anti-datamining now and their repeated asks for me to take content down, which was denied, resulted in them saying no more free stuff. Which isn't that big of a deal, I don't have room for it all anyway. They believe stuff on a public CDN is private.
More info on this coming in a couple of days =)
Known issue that we've got outdated older cards. There are thousands of cards that need to be rendered again to get their correct Undead or dual-tribe tags after Blizzard's update. It's a process and it's slowly being worked on. We also don't have dual-tribe support in the database at all, so cards can't be filtered if they have two tribes.
A change went out to remove colors from content. We've been having trouble with spam bots making use of colors to cleverly hide content.
The current plan is to bring colors back initially as a premium feature, so we can rest assured they will not be abused, with us potentially making colors available for "trusted" community members in the future once a system is in place to make that actually a thing.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Yeah, Blizzard killed Hearthstone esports for the big Overwatch League and Call of Duty League payday. Absolutely disgusting move by the finance department. Now the numbers are down and you know for a fact that there's some dude looking only at the numbers and thinks that axing the entire program is the right business play. I don't think that would happen, but I'm certain they are looking to cut costs on "failing" esports programs, even though esports are supposed to be a money pit in the marketing budget.
And if they don't jump ship, they could do more to push the event to players. Why Hearthstone itself doesn't have something in-game to promote it (and getting free packs when it does work) is beyond me. They should have been able to make development time at this point for the largest event of the year.
Update 2
Thanks for that, updating our post!
Update: Maybe not
Huge props to the Hearthstone team for providing a quick deck recipe tavern brawl.
I too hope that one day China isn't such a special case in the world - North Korea too.
So many great minds locked away =(
I did not expect to wake up to a comment like this. Bravo.
Anachronos is crazy cool.
I just want to say that I really like this card. I haven't played Warlock in a very long time but being able to draw a bunch of cards and choose your Discard for 3 mana? Busted!
You're right! Fixing.
If you think for one second that I'm bitter about not being in their pocket, you are an idiot. Do you know how easy it is to be in Blizzard's pockets? Because anybody can do it, you just have to be willing to play by their rules. I've never played by their rules.
The stakes were never very high though. Hearthstone was young, they needed the big people in the community more than those people needed them so as long as you weren't hosting your own cosby suite that the world knew about, they didn't care and would work with you.
I have a record of calling them out on their bullshit, I have a record of datamining their games, and I have a record of ignoring their requests because I value independence. The new guard on the Hearthstone team doesn't like that and they really don't like when they make mistakes (like uploading their data to a public cdn) and then people talk about them publicly.
The Hearthstone team has every streamer in their corner, deciding what they can and cannot say. Notice how quiet people are during leaks and datamining? Yeah, it's not allowed to be talked about because people know if they do they risk ruining their relationship with the company and then they won't get invited to events. I'm not going to hold stuff back from being published, that's how you make money.
Out of Cards has always been for-profit and independant. No one dictates what we post and it isn't possible to run large websites anymore without a business model in mind. Companies can ask us if we'd like to post about a certain topic, and they do, but they don't dictate if the message goes out or what the message looks like. That's shitty content. Blizzard's Gear Store team regularly talks to me about the new products they have. Sometimes we post about them, but it's rare. In that scenario it has to be products I think would fit well with the audience and I'll tell you, Overwatch merch does not fit with the audience here.
They're more tight-lipped in a lot of the data in the client these days. Sometimes we see stuff that could be interesting, like the DK Location image, and I think I screwed up by not posting about that particular asset this time around because ultimately is gave us DK and it would have been a killer headline. I ended up not though because I didn't think about it very much.
I wrongly assumed they were just catching their assets up as a precaution. I would not have ever predicted a class at the end of the year, though it does make sense with Wrath of the Lich King back on and alive and the end of the Hearthstone year always being weaker for them than the start. It'll be very interesting to see the numbers and what the start of next year looks like.
Datamining though. Definitely my favourite type of content to talk about!
I'm very well aware of what their intention was - to do something silly. They clearly had a second-thought about it though because the tweets referenced in the article have since been deleted.
I'm not at all embarrassed and never will be. I'll continue to hold Blizzard to a higher standard. Their staff complained on Twitter about news outlets dropping bombs on them when the company was up to no good during the start of a card reveal season, well, in my eyes, they're now the people that are putting up junk in their reveal season.
And because I said it in another reply here but want to really hammer it home:
Misinformation is when you post something that isn't factual but your intent was not to deceive people. Disinformation is when there is deliberate deception involved. I don't believe Blizzard created disinformation here which is why it solidly falls into the misinformation category. Intent it what matters here. They made a mistake and they got called out on it.
Misinformation and Disinformation.
Misinformation is when you post something that isn't factual but your intent was not to deceive people. Disinformation is when there is deliberate deception involved. I don't believe Blizzard created disinformation here which is why it solidly falls into the misinformation category.
While Hearthstone may just be a video game, that doesn't mean the community shouldn't be held to a higher standard. I've been saying for years that gaming should remain fun and that isn't something I'll ever disagree with, but that also doesn't mean we can't have serious conversations when people mess up.
And honestly? Blizzard messes up a lot. A lot of that I don't even talk about publicly because it's beating a dead horse at this point and overall we don't need that kind of negativity so consistently. Some folks call me a Blizzard shill, others call me a Blizzard hater, I just call it like I see it because we have witnessed one of the greatest gaming companies become a tenth of what it used to be. I really hope that Microsoft's acquisition of their IP and talent ends up being a positive for their titles because they certainly need all the help they can get.
We should hold them to a higher standard.
We let people tell others they're crybabies. That's why comments here are still posted.
I've been off their list since Alkali took over - the promotion company that was sending stuff out already had my information for the remainder of the sets they figured their gear out for.
Hearthstone is anti-datamining now and their repeated asks for me to take content down, which was denied, resulted in them saying no more free stuff. Which isn't that big of a deal, I don't have room for it all anyway. They believe stuff on a public CDN is private.
Oops. I forgot to carry these over to the live site. The following Archetypes were added:
I'm also moving this to the Feedback forum.