Most of the cards are going to stay. They'll change stuff every year but it won't be as crazy as this year.
The cards that are only in the core set cannot be obtained in packs or crafted - but you can craft golden copies. If any of these cards rotate, they'll likely get dumped into the Classic set.
Basically, they're making some of the new DH cards evergreen so they won't rotate when the year is over, and yes, everyone will get those for free.
However.
When you get the cards for free, you still don't own them. For players that haven't crafted them or found them in AOO packs, they won't be able to disenchant any copies and it should look like how Basic cards look today. If you do own them, you'll be able to disenchant them and then keep playing with them through the rental copies.
But, if they decide to remove those cards from the core set at a later date, you won't have them anymore if you disenchanted them since you were using the rental copies so I'll never advise anyone to disenchant their cards.
The YouTube videos always go up later than the cards. We're not going to wait for the video to come out so we can post them :P
If you go back and look at previous reveal posts, you'll see the videos since they get added in later (99% of the time by FrostyFeet). You're too quick to look at reveals!
The simulator is just for fun. We value goldens like crazy and there are multipliers when you get multiple goldens to make packs go real crazy.
Don't read into it too much :D Just know that each pack opening uses the same rates of appearance as the real deal, we just don't take into account collections or pity timers because to do so would be against the point!
There isn't much we can do about it, unfortunately. Putting it on the homepage doesn't work out and space on our navigation is at a premium. Sticking it under cards is really the best we can do.
A lot of people open a ton of packs each expansion though, so it definitely gets hit! People just don't save the bad packs :D
We might have to do some more site achievements for it. It might also be neat to link the packs on the relevant collectible card pages now that I think about it. Would be a nice spot for some extra promo.
I don't know about a universal wild pack though. I'd much rather be able to make an educated decision on what packs I want to buy. If I wanted to make a mech-style deck, for example, I'd go for Goblins vs Gnomes or Boomsday Project packs before anything else.
I think it would be cool to have a wild pack available though in addition to everything else. It would be a great way to fill in spots, which is also why we probably won't see it, lol.
Really hoping we get Alterac Valley. The snow theme there might be primarily present to make people think we're getting Alterac Valley though, Blizzard could be aiming for a sneak attack there. Though, Darkmoon Faire was also pretty obvious the second we all saw last year's teaser.
Whenever the BNet client won't patch, it means it hasn't gone live yet. Very odd of them to release notes and then not drop the patch, but I'm sure there's a good reason for it.
The team responsible for patching the game is different than the one running content. Plus, all the BlizzCon stuff is pre-recorded so it's not like anyone appearing in the content couldn't be helping with stuff if that was their area (it isn't).
I'm certain they are waiting for things to wrap up a bit more for the day. I do think it's insane to push such a large patch during BlizzCon though. This kinda hurts content creation since you're crowding the most important information.
It isn't pretty as it was never touched beyond the initial barebones site launch but it shows the most recently active peeps. Yeah, we could probably upgrade our search with something to let you search for members. Search is a pain point for the site, we've done a couple of updates to it but it isn't great and I don't know if we want to keep using what we have or find a new solution. TBD
Of course! Any public company that releases numbers is going to cherry-pick them in a way that makes them look good for the shareholders.
For the sake of argument, let's say that every active player was counted 3 times because they logged into NA, EU, and SEA during the year. That still gives us just under 8 million players that logged in and played for the year. There aren't any problems with finding games quickly, even with the playerbase sharded into all the different regions so I don't see a big problem with their numbers.
Hearthstone becomes problematic the day that it takes you a couple of minutes to find a match on the low end.
Though without a doubt we are no longer in the most popular period for Hearthstone. That time sailed ages ago. Players themselves don't matter much though if all the players playing are more engaged.
Yeah... let me fix that real quick. Huge oversight to not exclude that :sweat_smile:
Most of the cards are going to stay. They'll change stuff every year but it won't be as crazy as this year.
The cards that are only in the core set cannot be obtained in packs or crafted - but you can craft golden copies. If any of these cards rotate, they'll likely get dumped into the Classic set.
It is so great that they actually made speedstone a thing. People have been asking for it for a long time so this is PERFECT.
Now we just need people to rock it on ladder and to show demand for a real mode!
Basically, they're making some of the new DH cards evergreen so they won't rotate when the year is over, and yes, everyone will get those for free.
However.
When you get the cards for free, you still don't own them. For players that haven't crafted them or found them in AOO packs, they won't be able to disenchant any copies and it should look like how Basic cards look today. If you do own them, you'll be able to disenchant them and then keep playing with them through the rental copies.
But, if they decide to remove those cards from the core set at a later date, you won't have them anymore if you disenchanted them since you were using the rental copies so I'll never advise anyone to disenchant their cards.
Luckily we're already familiar with most of them. The big news will be the cards that receive changes and the new ones - mostly the new ones.
Can't wait to see what they've been cooking!
The YouTube videos always go up later than the cards. We're not going to wait for the video to come out so we can post them :P
If you go back and look at previous reveal posts, you'll see the videos since they get added in later (99% of the time by FrostyFeet). You're too quick to look at reveals!
According to the phases, it's sometime in the first phase. My best guess is it'll launch a month or two into the Barrens expac, so May or June.
Yeah, I'm not thrilled with how they're going about the whole mercenaries thing.
There are 10 special mercenaries that are going to be highlighted hardcore. 5 Horde and 5 Alliance.
These characters are all going to get their own "Book of Heroes" style adventure in the "Book of Mercenaries".
Then all of them are in the Mercenaries mode, which has more than just those 10 mercenaries.
I heard you liked mercenaries so I put mercenaries in your mercenaries so you could learn more about mercenaries.
I wish they would have been more creative with the mode name.
The simulator is just for fun. We value goldens like crazy and there are multipliers when you get multiple goldens to make packs go real crazy.
Don't read into it too much :D Just know that each pack opening uses the same rates of appearance as the real deal, we just don't take into account collections or pity timers because to do so would be against the point!
There isn't much we can do about it, unfortunately. Putting it on the homepage doesn't work out and space on our navigation is at a premium. Sticking it under cards is really the best we can do.
A lot of people open a ton of packs each expansion though, so it definitely gets hit! People just don't save the bad packs :D
We might have to do some more site achievements for it. It might also be neat to link the packs on the relevant collectible card pages now that I think about it. Would be a nice spot for some extra promo.
100% would have been nicer to have them earlier!
I don't know about a universal wild pack though. I'd much rather be able to make an educated decision on what packs I want to buy. If I wanted to make a mech-style deck, for example, I'd go for Goblins vs Gnomes or Boomsday Project packs before anything else.
I think it would be cool to have a wild pack available though in addition to everything else. It would be a great way to fill in spots, which is also why we probably won't see it, lol.
Really hoping we get Alterac Valley. The snow theme there might be primarily present to make people think we're getting Alterac Valley though, Blizzard could be aiming for a sneak attack there. Though, Darkmoon Faire was also pretty obvious the second we all saw last year's teaser.
Echoes of Alterac anyone?
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You're right!
I'd rather have more consistent spell damage cards than the RNG with the hero power if we really want SD Shaman to shine.
Whenever the BNet client won't patch, it means it hasn't gone live yet. Very odd of them to release notes and then not drop the patch, but I'm sure there's a good reason for it.
The team responsible for patching the game is different than the one running content. Plus, all the BlizzCon stuff is pre-recorded so it's not like anyone appearing in the content couldn't be helping with stuff if that was their area (it isn't).
I'm certain they are waiting for things to wrap up a bit more for the day. I do think it's insane to push such a large patch during BlizzCon though. This kinda hurts content creation since you're crowding the most important information.
We do have a member list! Its shown under the Forums dropdown.
https://outof.cards/members/
It isn't pretty as it was never touched beyond the initial barebones site launch but it shows the most recently active peeps. Yeah, we could probably upgrade our search with something to let you search for members. Search is a pain point for the site, we've done a couple of updates to it but it isn't great and I don't know if we want to keep using what we have or find a new solution. TBD
Nope.
Of course! Any public company that releases numbers is going to cherry-pick them in a way that makes them look good for the shareholders.
For the sake of argument, let's say that every active player was counted 3 times because they logged into NA, EU, and SEA during the year. That still gives us just under 8 million players that logged in and played for the year. There aren't any problems with finding games quickly, even with the playerbase sharded into all the different regions so I don't see a big problem with their numbers.
Hearthstone becomes problematic the day that it takes you a couple of minutes to find a match on the low end.
Though without a doubt we are no longer in the most popular period for Hearthstone. That time sailed ages ago. Players themselves don't matter much though if all the players playing are more engaged.