We're in the final snowstorm and it's a big one! Until February starts, we've got less than ideal driving conditions and you'll be able to earn 100 snowflakes per day. Bank them for next year's event, spend them, or spread the love by throwing snowballs.
The store will remain open for the first two weeks in February, closing on Valentine's day.
Its a cache problem with some shared caches on avatars in a few parts of the site. The whole thing needs a huge revamp which I hope I can get to soon because it looks so bad >.>
Chrome on iOS isn't actually any different than Safari when it comes to the rendering engine. Apple doesn't allow other browsers to bring their own engines, I believe due to security concerns. Though there aren't too many differences between the base of Chrome and Safari, Firefox is also forced to use the Safari engine on iOS which is quite a bit different than the Gecko engine that runs under Firefox.
Silly Apple =(
Apparently, we can just put the normal image in with the video tags though and iOS should display the static version instead of the animated that it should. I'll make sure we get that out in the near future. This is also an issue with our golden cards so they'll need that love too.
By the way, we have a special bbcode available for cardbacks that isn't documented (seriously, how often would you need to embed one compared to a card).
{cardback}name or id{/cardback}
Will embed the webm version of the card back into your posts. Just be sure to use square brackets instead of the curlybois. Id numbers can be found in URLs, much like they can be for cards, if you want to use those instead of names.
Aye, I was sad that Frostmourne got zero love. I would have ninja'd it onto the list if I wanted to go full bias :D
The trio of Death Knight card backs are all actually really good. I wish it was possible to showcase multiple card backs in a match somehow. Like, maybe piles of cards at the side of the board just so I can really flex on my opponent. Blizzard, I'll pay $5 a slot to unlock said piles.
Ah, damn it Apple. You know, you'd assume that in 2021 they'd actually support webm in their browser. What a damn joke. For all the time they spent on enabling privacy across their hardware, would it really kill them to get up to date with web standards?
I thought once every other browser supported webm, we had won the format war.
It might work on Safari 14/14.3. It appears there is partial support for the codecs so if you aren't up to date, give that a shot!
Another amazing Draenei card back! Seriously though, Blizzard, can the other races get some love? hahaha
I don't see a world where we don't get all the ranked card backs to return, it'll just be a matter of time so I hope you're still around when it shows up again!
I finally opened my copy of the Year of the Mammoth book over the weekend and yeah, the books really are amazing. There's some sweet concept art I had never seen for the set logos and the Knights of the Frozen throne logo, in particular, felt like "what were they even considering with this one". So great to see that development insight.
Also, Frost Lich Jaina in all her glory is an excellent sight to the eyes!
Oh and my favourite part about the art books as someone who has been using some of this art for content creation over the past 7 years is that I can think about almost every time and way I've used each of the pieces for banners, headers, news article images, and more.
Just a couple of months for Year of the Raven which is gonna be awesome!
I thought I actually removed that a while back, that's my bad.
It's not going to happen at this point so please spend away. January has just been too busy and stuff was not prepared in advance for the release. Poor judgment on my part assuming there would be some time to knock out a load of more rewards.
Snowflakes will still be usable next event though all old (current) rewards will have their costs increased so you are better off buying old rewards now (this was mentioned during the Halloween event).
Yup, it has allowed certain groups of people to connect that otherwise would not be able to in day-to-day life since it is such a small portion of the population. Now, this has also been a positive because there are some great social causes out there that have benefited greatly from this power, propelling knowledge into the greater public, but it's when this is used for evil that it becomes a problem.
Shit, the majority of my friend group is digital and I would never have known they were out there had it not have been for the internet. Such a great tool for meeting people that are close to you in niche interests!
Is it too hard to have a laugh these days? I didn't realize that one part of the community was strictly off-limits.
Similar jokes have been made at the expense of standard players as well, which greatly outnumber every other type of player in Hearthstone. People are passionate about the modes they like and I respect that, but at the end of the day, Hearthstone is meant to be fun and if we can't laugh together about how the community reacts to stuff, I really don't know what else to say.
This is the problem with the internet in general these days. People take stuff too seriously, are too polarized with their opinions, and it's too risky to say anything at all anymore. Well, that's one thing I'm not okay with and it's why we actually write opinion-based content on Out of Cards (you'll see writers give opinions fairly frequently whereas when we ran HearthPwn, that was a big no because how dare we possibly upset someone). Shit, comedians can't even say anything anymore because there is always a group of people that will get upset and cancel culture goes hard after them.
I think it's absurd that Blizzard won't make changes to cards that are clearly overpowered and hurting the game. But, Dean Ayala also said in his recent Q&A that maybe they need to gather more opinions of wild players to see if they're wrong. I can tell you, based on the years of talk about wild that I've been a witness to, Blizzard is wrong.
I'd like to do some consumer research on wild to see if our thoughts are validated on the 'just want to play my favorite deck' front. There are some, sounds like you, that want this curated experienced where the meta shifts and different decks are in power all the time. (Source)
And although I may not play the format, because it is absolutely too much of a hassle to get into, I don't hate wild. If I had that much disdain for it we wouldn't spend time every week working on content for it on the site and I certainly wouldn't have put the time in to make sure that in our homepage deck widget, community members could set wild as their preferred choice to see decks; Wild was the entire reason we let people set their own default sort.
I say none of this to "try and get you to stay" or whatever, I'm just not letting this go unanswered because you said I don't care about the format. Also, if people really want to use "cause me to leave the site" as a threat, it isn't a particularly great one to ever use against someone so I recommend not doing so in the future.
The new cards aren't flagged yet with the internal Hearthstone id numbers. Data imports for patches take time and since Blizzard, unfortunately, released the new cards on the same day that they patched, our deck strings don't work immediately.
Heads up!
We're in the final snowstorm and it's a big one! Until February starts, we've got less than ideal driving conditions and you'll be able to earn 100 snowflakes per day. Bank them for next year's event, spend them, or spread the love by throwing snowballs.
The store will remain open for the first two weeks in February, closing on Valentine's day.
Its a cache problem with some shared caches on avatars in a few parts of the site. The whole thing needs a huge revamp which I hope I can get to soon because it looks so bad >.>
Chrome on iOS isn't actually any different than Safari when it comes to the rendering engine. Apple doesn't allow other browsers to bring their own engines, I believe due to security concerns. Though there aren't too many differences between the base of Chrome and Safari, Firefox is also forced to use the Safari engine on iOS which is quite a bit different than the Gecko engine that runs under Firefox.
Silly Apple =(
Apparently, we can just put the normal image in with the video tags though and iOS should display the static version instead of the animated that it should. I'll make sure we get that out in the near future. This is also an issue with our golden cards so they'll need that love too.
By the way, we have a special bbcode available for cardbacks that isn't documented (seriously, how often would you need to embed one compared to a card).
{cardback}name or id{/cardback}
Will embed the webm version of the card back into your posts. Just be sure to use square brackets instead of the curlybois. Id numbers can be found in URLs, much like they can be for cards, if you want to use those instead of names.
Aye, I was sad that Frostmourne got zero love. I would have ninja'd it onto the list if I wanted to go full bias :D
The trio of Death Knight card backs are all actually really good. I wish it was possible to showcase multiple card backs in a match somehow. Like, maybe piles of cards at the side of the board just so I can really flex on my opponent. Blizzard, I'll pay $5 a slot to unlock said piles.
Ah, damn it Apple. You know, you'd assume that in 2021 they'd actually support webm in their browser. What a damn joke. For all the time they spent on enabling privacy across their hardware, would it really kill them to get up to date with web standards?
I thought once every other browser supported webm, we had won the format war.
It might work on Safari 14/14.3. It appears there is partial support for the codecs so if you aren't up to date, give that a shot!
The pizza card back is... special. Needs pineapple.
Also, olives don't belong on a pie!
Another amazing Draenei card back! Seriously though, Blizzard, can the other races get some love? hahaha
I don't see a world where we don't get all the ranked card backs to return, it'll just be a matter of time so I hope you're still around when it shows up again!
Go visit the card back pages and rate them all. If enough people do, we'll do a proper highlight =)
I finally opened my copy of the Year of the Mammoth book over the weekend and yeah, the books really are amazing. There's some sweet concept art I had never seen for the set logos and the Knights of the Frozen throne logo, in particular, felt like "what were they even considering with this one". So great to see that development insight.
Also, Frost Lich Jaina in all her glory is an excellent sight to the eyes!
Oh and my favourite part about the art books as someone who has been using some of this art for content creation over the past 7 years is that I can think about almost every time and way I've used each of the pieces for banners, headers, news article images, and more.
Just a couple of months for Year of the Raven which is gonna be awesome!
Thanks! I've been so damn good with it so far >.>
I thought I actually removed that a while back, that's my bad.
It's not going to happen at this point so please spend away. January has just been too busy and stuff was not prepared in advance for the release. Poor judgment on my part assuming there would be some time to knock out a load of more rewards.
Snowflakes will still be usable next event though all old (current) rewards will have their costs increased so you are better off buying old rewards now (this was mentioned during the Halloween event).
Yup, it has allowed certain groups of people to connect that otherwise would not be able to in day-to-day life since it is such a small portion of the population. Now, this has also been a positive because there are some great social causes out there that have benefited greatly from this power, propelling knowledge into the greater public, but it's when this is used for evil that it becomes a problem.
Shit, the majority of my friend group is digital and I would never have known they were out there had it not have been for the internet. Such a great tool for meeting people that are close to you in niche interests!
Is it too hard to have a laugh these days? I didn't realize that one part of the community was strictly off-limits.
Similar jokes have been made at the expense of standard players as well, which greatly outnumber every other type of player in Hearthstone. People are passionate about the modes they like and I respect that, but at the end of the day, Hearthstone is meant to be fun and if we can't laugh together about how the community reacts to stuff, I really don't know what else to say.
This is the problem with the internet in general these days. People take stuff too seriously, are too polarized with their opinions, and it's too risky to say anything at all anymore. Well, that's one thing I'm not okay with and it's why we actually write opinion-based content on Out of Cards (you'll see writers give opinions fairly frequently whereas when we ran HearthPwn, that was a big no because how dare we possibly upset someone). Shit, comedians can't even say anything anymore because there is always a group of people that will get upset and cancel culture goes hard after them.
I think it's absurd that Blizzard won't make changes to cards that are clearly overpowered and hurting the game. But, Dean Ayala also said in his recent Q&A that maybe they need to gather more opinions of wild players to see if they're wrong. I can tell you, based on the years of talk about wild that I've been a witness to, Blizzard is wrong.
And although I may not play the format, because it is absolutely too much of a hassle to get into, I don't hate wild. If I had that much disdain for it we wouldn't spend time every week working on content for it on the site and I certainly wouldn't have put the time in to make sure that in our homepage deck widget, community members could set wild as their preferred choice to see decks; Wild was the entire reason we let people set their own default sort.
I say none of this to "try and get you to stay" or whatever, I'm just not letting this go unanswered because you said I don't care about the format. Also, if people really want to use "cause me to leave the site" as a threat, it isn't a particularly great one to ever use against someone so I recommend not doing so in the future.
Fixed the issue, sorry about that. Going to redo everyone's candy cane transaction and give you all the correct pin.
I won't be removing snowballs from anyone so if you didn't buy the snowball pin, grats.
Agreed, it could resolve with a more useful message =)
This was fixed around 30 minutes after I had previously replied, sorry for not responding again!
The new cards aren't flagged yet with the internal Hearthstone id numbers. Data imports for patches take time and since Blizzard, unfortunately, released the new cards on the same day that they patched, our deck strings don't work immediately.
This will be fixed shortly.
It's easy. I see Dynasty Warriors, I upvote.
Thanks for catching that! His release order, like Illidan, didn't change. My mistake for not including him in the list.
Going to be working on full hero preview videos soon!