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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 3 years, 3 months ago

    Those three are also pretty solid repeats! It just sucks because there is definitely a good chunk of repeat brawls people like to see, but if it becomes a yearly thing for all of them... are we going to end up in a spot where we have half the year just repeats of favourites?

    I still want to see them let us choose what brawls we want to play. Or like, put a couple live at the same time. If we had one brawl that was new and untested, alongside an old but good one, it would be a cool way of making sure the week always had something good to play in the mode

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 3 years, 3 months ago

    She will be returning, and probably before the expansion hits. Her return was datamined and usually, when new products are added to the Hearthstone client, they get used before the next major patch hits.

    Maybe next week?

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 3 years, 3 months ago

    Yeah, then Fandom bought and got rid of it all. Morons. I've see a lot of Curse peeps leave over the past few months too which is kinda impressive that Fandom really managed to kill everything that company was worth.

    Gov definitely wouldn't pursue anyone over a small giveaway. If they did, I think Twitch streamers would be in a lot of shit :D

    In reply to Fun at the Crossroads
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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 3 years, 3 months ago

    Countdowns should arrive this week with reveals starting as well. I don't have any inside confirmation on that, though I guess in fairness I couldn't say if I did anyway, but it lines up with the March 23 release date to start them now.

    If reveals take place this week, we get a final dump Tues or Weds next week and then a client patch that takes us into the pre-release weekend.

    I'm not exactly ready to screw up the sleeping schedule, but let's get to it!

    In reply to Fun at the Crossroads
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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 3 years, 3 months ago

    That's actually a Canada-wide thing, the skill-testing question! Quebec on the other hand, you need to do a bunch of stuff to legally run a giveaway there which includes but is certainly not limited to:

    • Telling the government about it a month in advance
    • Pay the government a fee based on the value of the giveaway
    • Provide rules in French and English

    This is why they are usually excluded; I won't tell if you don't tell. If the Quebec government wants to take me to court over it, they can be my guest. The only people excluded in our site giveaways are those in China since they can't redeem codes from outside the region, not that we have very many mainland visitors.

    I hate that there is technically a lot of laws that go into giveaway-related stuff. I get it, running lotteries that aren't governed just all become scams and if you look at Twitter or any other social platform, there are all these people running giveaways but never actually give out a prize or "give it out" to another account they own. Man, free followers would be nice!

    I'd love to see better laws around it all. The current ones, IMO, are too restrictive so everyone just ends up operating in a dark grey area since the burden of the overhead in running proper giveaways is too much to deal with. Not that it really matters though since I don't think anyone is actually going to go after someone handing out a $20 steam card or a $50 card pack bundle, lol.

    Sidenote: Back when the old site got acquired by Amazon, we weren't allowed to do any more giveaways which is why that stopped. I don't know how many people actually made that connection, but it was corporate policy at Amazon to require a lengthy process to run any kind of giveaway including legal council so it was seen as too much of a burden. The corporate world sucks the damn soul out of ya.

    In reply to Fun at the Crossroads
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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 3 years, 3 months ago

    Not an issue =D

    It might come in handy if someone else runs into a similar issue down the line and finds it by chance.

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 3 years, 3 months ago

    You can find your comments on your profile:

    https://outof.cards/members/h0lysatan/comments

    Nothing to look at your responses to a particular piece of content though. You best hope its a recent comment :D

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 3 years, 3 months ago

    Truth! Dead out the door when they had a pay to play motto.

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 3 years, 3 months ago

    It depends on how much you value your time. You might have some fun which is great, but imo it isn't going to keep most people around, especially with it not really having any other players to play against. 

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 3 years, 3 months ago

    It'll be dead on Monday.

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 3 years, 3 months ago

    Yeah! We run a script on the backend to do all the syncing so it can sometimes take a minute. I thought we had this explained better but it's possible it got lost in the few updates we've done (we could do a better job at explaining AND promoting premium imo).

    Glad everything got worked out though and thanks for the support! Keep in mind that Twitch Prime subs have to be manually redone so when it runs out, feel free to click that button again. <3

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 3 years, 3 months ago

    Probably a good call!

    My assumption based on the last expansion is:

    • Weds, March 17 - Final Reveal Stream
    • Friday, March 19 - Start of Pre-release weeekend
    • Tues, March 23 - Expansion launch

    This would give everyone at least 24 hours to finish all their reviews before the giveaway ends, but there definitely isn't much wiggleroom!

    In reply to Fun at the Crossroads
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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 3 years, 3 months ago

    Correct. It would be really messy to change the dates for a giveaway, in fact, I don't think you legally can. Not that its super serious, but if we did I'm sure someone could try to mess with us.

    My goal is to get the packs into everyone's hands before the pre-release event happens.

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 3 years, 3 months ago

    When Top Gear was good.

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 3 years, 3 months ago

    Yeah, it reminds me of all the WoW killers back in the day. Yeah, I love to play games that focus on their first few hours and then have zero content!!!

    Artifact was just too different. Maybe Richard Garfield was smoking some real funky stuff. I bought it on release, played it for 46 minutes and never went back in. I got an Axe in one of my packs though and flipped it on the market to pay for my game so that was kinda cool.

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 3 years, 3 months ago

    It's already up to 600 active people compared to the usual 60!

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 3 years, 3 months ago

    They don't use reddit as a single point of community sentiment.

    They have stated in the past they read feedback across many platforms and use that alongside data to make changes. Data is still going to be the biggest part of that equation though. With that said though, why don't people below Diamon 5 matter as much? The game is not only ultra-competitive, people play it at all kinds of ranks. Sometimes, there might be some stuff that ultra stomps the low-end of the ladder but not the high-end, does that not deserve balancing?

    I trust the Hearthstone team to make the right balance choices. As much as I've disagreed with many of their choices over the years, I don't believe they've done a particularly bad job at it, and, it's not like we really have another option. There are more card games out there that are just as fun and I'll play those if they start making bad decisions :D

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 3 years, 3 months ago
    Quote From clawz161

    but it's actually canadian money or something else that is worthless to you

    Wow, I'm hurt.


    You can earn both points at the same time, neither of them cancel each other out or change the odds of earning each other. I explained this above as did other staff members.

    It's pretty easy to just ignore the whole thing tbh, it isn't incredibly in your face with alarm bells and imagery, the only things you'll ever see is a toast a few times a day and the top promo slot on the site which is going to be something Runterra anyway. Know that the currency will convert over to a generic currency, Gold, when the event concludes so it is at least worth earning.

    I could make stuff opt-out, but I really don't want to do that. Everyone is a part of the same community here and we're all having a bit of fun with it. If it was actually causing people harm, I'd have a different stance on it and wonder why we did it in such a way that was going to do that. 

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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 3 years, 3 months ago

    I just wanted to confirm that as of right now, you are still experiencing an issue with this.

    I can see that you and a couple of other members were having a problem earlier today with visiting certain pages due to a backend issue. I've sent out two different deploys to fix two separate issues that could cause the oddity so it should now be resolved.

    If you are still receiving an error, respond here right away so I can make sure I can look at our error logs at the right time. Thanks!

    In reply to 500- server error
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    CEO 2015 3108 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 3 years, 3 months ago
    Quote From Pezman

    Thanks for the clarifications everyone!

    Honestly, I don't know how people keep up with multiple games! Between work and family, I only have so much time every day for gaming, so I bank it all into Hearthstone (which I love). I manage to keep up with the game in terms of both earning in-game rewards and spending real money because I don't invest time and money into other games.

    I can't even keep up with 1 as a player so it's no surprise that people find it tough to play 2 or even 3.

    I've got a lot of Hearthstone battle pass grinding to do ths month. A lot.