HDT changed the way they handle collections in the client so we updated to use their new logic. They also did some Mercenaries specific stuff so we'll have to look into that down the line so we can sync that stuff for folks too.
I'm aware of an issue with the plugin not working with the latest deck tracker version. Completed swamped at the moment though so I haven't been able to look into it. Hoping to get this resolved as soon as possible, which is most likely after reveal season is done.
Regarding Scrapsmith's "alternate" art: as orc art is correct, the dwarf art is not. The dwarf art was an accidental mismatch that made its way onto the site - this should get fixed after the holiday break!
IMO this stream isn't bad at all. They had to finish up their game they were in when the hour hit (it didn't take long) and then the card reveals started afterward. They're talking about the cards much like any other content creator would, the difference is its live this time instead of prerecorded. Its basically just a long YouTube premiere.
The problematic live reveals are the ones that bullshit for 10-15 minutes, or the sites that forget they even have a reveal, so you're sitting around for a single card for all that time. This time we're getting 11 cards. Worth the wait!
Ah, homepage and then click on the "Forums" button that is on the page (not the navigation). It is where all the Sidebar content lives that one would normally have access to on a desktop view.
Forums is a bit of a shitty name for it of course. There was a point in time where there was only forum threads listed on the sidebar, and sidebar feels a bit weird of a name for mobile. Sigh.
To keep things clean, probably not. We always go with Blizzard time (Pacific), Site time (Eastern), and then generally Europe since that's our second largest source of traffic.
I recommend checking out the card reveal countdown page for Fractured in Alterac Valley for anyone that doesn't want to do any time zone math, or to look at the sidebar on the homepage or Hearthstone portal.
I'm going to assume whatever dumps on Nov 24 will be the "pack filler" and the cool cards we'd normally see during a stream, like a few remaining legendaries and epics, will end up in creator hands.
The only question I still have is when do the reveals start. Not likely to be the weekend because Blizzard has mostly stopped doing weekend reveals (bless) and Thursday+Friday is probably out of the equation due to American Thanksgiving at the Hearthstone team being on vacation for the week. So, early Monday is possible.
I would never have guessed the site would be online. It was slow, but it managed to stay afloat which was impressive to see. In the years of doing card reveals and them getting so many of them, I've never been able to post one of their reveals within 5 minutes.
FWIW I think this is going to be called Horrid Abomination. Basing that on some World of Warcraft data and figured I'd comment here just in case it ends up being right.
People on our current staff don't understand how to fully do a card reveal and they are already familiar with several of the systems we have on the site, so it wouldn't be something very accessible. As cool as it would be to have the community take care of it, and it is something I've thought about for other titles (allowing some form of community involvement in reveal seasons) but ultimately, its just too complicated and the either there is too much freedom available which ends up being a liability issue or there's no freedom and its impossible to react to differences in reveal periods.
It sucks for everyone, not just the people running community sites.
This is a complete departure from the norm for reveals with no communication about what is going on - though the bad communication part isn't exactly new for the Hearthstone team.
Card reveal season exists for one sole reason: it sells the game. No one is going to buy Hearthstone packs if they have no idea what is going to be inside of them. One can count that as publicity or good will for sure, but there is absolutely no reason why they shouldn't make it known where these reveals are going to take place.
As of right now, we know where the next two reveals are coming from - Lt. Eddy and PCGamer. Maybe we'll get lucky and a couple of more will be added afterward, but if my suspicions are correct, we'll go into the night without knowing where anything is coming from.
All they need to do is fill out the URLs of where we can find reveals and there would be zero problems. If they don't want to tell us, then drop the countdowns since they are absolutely pointless. Last night when we had the Chinese reveal at 3 AM, it wasn't like the countdown meant the card magically appeared in the gallery afterward - that was many hours later. It's sad.
I appreciate you (and everyone who liked your comment) for the kind words. I know, and plenty of folks on the team took over some duties earlier over the past few days. We don't have people for around the clock coverage with stuff though and not all of our card reveal tooling is very accessible to the team so I sort of have to be here (plus there are bills that need to be paid).
I am proud that we've got a great enough team that I can bow out if needed as proven earlier this week and past weekend. I'm hoping to take a week off come December, as I'd like everyone else on staff to as well, right around the holidays, where anything we do publish on the site will all be pre-scheduled - just a bit of a shame since December is the best month for ad revenue lol.
Since starting the site, I haven't had any time off even though I've had a few attempts to make it happen. At the end of the day though, we're behind in the grand scheme of things and any time taken off just delays stuff even more and its a bummer. I know how important it is to take time for yourself and I certainly don't practice what I preach, but it really does just come down to there is no good time. If I get deep into something that isn't immediately content related, which happens more than I'd like but that's also just the reality of wearing many hats, usually our front page takes a hit for the day.
I'm tired of Activison Blizzard being run by a bunch of asshat clowns. I'm tired of bad communication. I'm tired because its card reveal season. I'm tired because there's some shit going on in my life right now and I really wish it wasn't a card reveal season right now.
An updated plugin is now available which fixes the crash issue and once again syncs collections. Please install v0.0.4 - download link here https://outof.cards/hearthstone/decktracker-plugin/
HDT changed the way they handle collections in the client so we updated to use their new logic. They also did some Mercenaries specific stuff so we'll have to look into that down the line so we can sync that stuff for folks too.
This article very clearly doesn't use any of our card reveal article conventions =/
Moved this to the correct forum.
I'm aware of an issue with the plugin not working with the latest deck tracker version. Completed swamped at the moment though so I haven't been able to look into it. Hoping to get this resolved as soon as possible, which is most likely after reveal season is done.
Sorry for the trouble!
Nvm, just confirmed on Twitter that its a mistake.
https://twitter.com/MyntyPhresh/status/1463311735926898695
Yeah, it did. Something funky going on with it...
IMO this stream isn't bad at all. They had to finish up their game they were in when the hour hit (it didn't take long) and then the card reveals started afterward. They're talking about the cards much like any other content creator would, the difference is its live this time instead of prerecorded. Its basically just a long YouTube premiere.
The problematic live reveals are the ones that bullshit for 10-15 minutes, or the sites that forget they even have a reveal, so you're sitting around for a single card for all that time. This time we're getting 11 cards. Worth the wait!
Ah, homepage and then click on the "Forums" button that is on the page (not the navigation). It is where all the Sidebar content lives that one would normally have access to on a desktop view.
Forums is a bit of a shitty name for it of course. There was a point in time where there was only forum threads listed on the sidebar, and sidebar feels a bit weird of a name for mobile. Sigh.
It literally says its 11 card reveal and afterward they state they will also be reviewing them.
Also, Blizzard retweets confirm its a big reveal.
To keep things clean, probably not. We always go with Blizzard time (Pacific), Site time (Eastern), and then generally Europe since that's our second largest source of traffic.
I recommend checking out the card reveal countdown page for Fractured in Alterac Valley for anyone that doesn't want to do any time zone math, or to look at the sidebar on the homepage or Hearthstone portal.
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/expansions/fractured-in-alterac-valley/card-reveal-schedule
I'm going to assume whatever dumps on Nov 24 will be the "pack filler" and the cool cards we'd normally see during a stream, like a few remaining legendaries and epics, will end up in creator hands.
The only question I still have is when do the reveals start. Not likely to be the weekend because Blizzard has mostly stopped doing weekend reveals (bless) and Thursday+Friday is probably out of the equation due to American Thanksgiving at the Hearthstone team being on vacation for the week. So, early Monday is possible.
That would be really cool!
I would never have guessed the site would be online. It was slow, but it managed to stay afloat which was impressive to see. In the years of doing card reveals and them getting so many of them, I've never been able to post one of their reveals within 5 minutes.
Mind. Blown.
FWIW I think this is going to be called Horrid Abomination. Basing that on some World of Warcraft data and figured I'd comment here just in case it ends up being right.
As expected, the official Hearthstone gallery has not been updated for overnight reveal URLs.
I'm disappointed that I called that ahead of time.
People on our current staff don't understand how to fully do a card reveal and they are already familiar with several of the systems we have on the site, so it wouldn't be something very accessible. As cool as it would be to have the community take care of it, and it is something I've thought about for other titles (allowing some form of community involvement in reveal seasons) but ultimately, its just too complicated and the either there is too much freedom available which ends up being a liability issue or there's no freedom and its impossible to react to differences in reveal periods.
It sucks for everyone, not just the people running community sites.
This is a complete departure from the norm for reveals with no communication about what is going on - though the bad communication part isn't exactly new for the Hearthstone team.
Card reveal season exists for one sole reason: it sells the game. No one is going to buy Hearthstone packs if they have no idea what is going to be inside of them. One can count that as publicity or good will for sure, but there is absolutely no reason why they shouldn't make it known where these reveals are going to take place.
As of right now, we know where the next two reveals are coming from - Lt. Eddy and PCGamer. Maybe we'll get lucky and a couple of more will be added afterward, but if my suspicions are correct, we'll go into the night without knowing where anything is coming from.
All they need to do is fill out the URLs of where we can find reveals and there would be zero problems. If they don't want to tell us, then drop the countdowns since they are absolutely pointless. Last night when we had the Chinese reveal at 3 AM, it wasn't like the countdown meant the card magically appeared in the gallery afterward - that was many hours later. It's sad.
I appreciate you (and everyone who liked your comment) for the kind words. I know, and plenty of folks on the team took over some duties earlier over the past few days. We don't have people for around the clock coverage with stuff though and not all of our card reveal tooling is very accessible to the team so I sort of have to be here (plus there are bills that need to be paid).
I am proud that we've got a great enough team that I can bow out if needed as proven earlier this week and past weekend. I'm hoping to take a week off come December, as I'd like everyone else on staff to as well, right around the holidays, where anything we do publish on the site will all be pre-scheduled - just a bit of a shame since December is the best month for ad revenue lol.
Since starting the site, I haven't had any time off even though I've had a few attempts to make it happen. At the end of the day though, we're behind in the grand scheme of things and any time taken off just delays stuff even more and its a bummer. I know how important it is to take time for yourself and I certainly don't practice what I preach, but it really does just come down to there is no good time. If I get deep into something that isn't immediately content related, which happens more than I'd like but that's also just the reality of wearing many hats, usually our front page takes a hit for the day.
I thought I was missing something key that I had seen. Thanks for posting the link here, the situation really is more fucked up than I wrote.
I'm tired.
I'm tired of Activison Blizzard being run by a bunch of asshat clowns.
I'm tired of bad communication.
I'm tired because its card reveal season.
I'm tired because there's some shit going on in my life right now and I really wish it wasn't a card reveal season right now.
If you know where to look, you could have seen this a couple of weeks ago :D
But yeah, got on it as soon as we could, and now there's a larger update here! Thanks