This has nothing to do with ads. If I wanted to push more ads, we would have made individual articles for each card reveal and then done separate articles for each class and their spoilers. (In-article ads are certainly nice, but they are nothing compared to what we have in the header that everyone sees on a page load). Hell, we woulda gotten better SEO if we divided stuff up better too!
The reason for this format was primarily because space for content is going to be very tight over the next couple of days so by including our thoughts now, it lets us save that space for other articles that are planned. It's also a nice little test to see what people think about it. If it's popular, we'll maybe attempt to do the same thing during an actual reveal season. We have so many more staff members now that it makes doing real-time reviews easier.
We will be doing a full recap of the mini set a little later today which will have the cards in a more normal gallery format organized by class which will feel less chaotic.
I'm surprised that I'm even faster than the OoC front page. The mini-set has just been announced officially on YouTube: Introducing the Darkmoon Races Mini-Set!
It usually takes us an extra few minutes after announcements drop to write out our social posts, make our post image, format the article :P
Some serious hypefest going on today though helllll yeah!
It's the default site event that is active during a non-event period. Yes, it's not really supposed to be there, however, we also don't link very prominently to the page and the page itself isn't a pretty listing yet so I'm not too worried about it displaying. It may actually have a use going forward to explain some stuff.
We've been lucky enough to have some snow stay on the ground over the past couple of weeks, but damn, it ain't what it used to be. I need to move further North.
Every card released that is for a class is dual-class.
You can build decks with two classes.
They release some dual-class cards every expansion.
My interpretation was that Dean meant #3, which I agree with. Though, a new constructed mode that lets you dual-class like dual-class arena would be amazing.
I commented on this when the event first went live and was hoping we wouldn't see it brought up again because it can be "abused". It's an issue with how dumb our tasks system is and how, right now, it isn't really worth the time to flesh it out more since it will be abandoned in favor of something more advanced in the future. I don't really mind that you can "exploit" it because honestly, it's all fun and games and since it's available for everyone and not just a few people, it feels fair.
TL;DR: Won't fix, don't really consider it an issue even though it kind of is. Have fun and have some snowflakes. *throws snowball*
Dean used to be very active and then after some harassment he took a vacation from Reddit and Twitter which is where he does most of his community outreach. He's slowly easing back into it which is awesome and I hope people take it easier on him.
With that said, Hearthstone has never been very good at community communication. I'm thankful we at least have gotten spurts of it, but I'd love to see more consistency and people in proper charge of just engaging with the community. Less about managing what streamers are doing and more just talking.
Yeah, its exciting to see that people will get more frequent gold unlocks which means you can actually do something with it if you want to spend it during the cycle. Giving everyone more choice is a good thing!
I'm sorry you feel that way, FortyDust =(
This has nothing to do with ads. If I wanted to push more ads, we would have made individual articles for each card reveal and then done separate articles for each class and their spoilers. (In-article ads are certainly nice, but they are nothing compared to what we have in the header that everyone sees on a page load). Hell, we woulda gotten better SEO if we divided stuff up better too!
The reason for this format was primarily because space for content is going to be very tight over the next couple of days so by including our thoughts now, it lets us save that space for other articles that are planned. It's also a nice little test to see what people think about it. If it's popular, we'll maybe attempt to do the same thing during an actual reveal season. We have so many more staff members now that it makes doing real-time reviews easier.
We will be doing a full recap of the mini set a little later today which will have the cards in a more normal gallery format organized by class which will feel less chaotic.
Confirmed
It usually takes us an extra few minutes after announcements drop to write out our social posts, make our post image, format the article :P
Some serious hypefest going on today though helllll yeah!
It really should be!
66, you get full playable copies.
I suspect you may be biased... hmmmmm
It's funny this got brought up again because it's coming out late tonight or tomorrow. Been a weekend project of mine.
Update: Few other things have come up preventing deploying this. Some work on notifications-related stuff.
Observant =)
It's the default site event that is active during a non-event period. Yes, it's not really supposed to be there, however, we also don't link very prominently to the page and the page itself isn't a pretty listing yet so I'm not too worried about it displaying. It may actually have a use going forward to explain some stuff.
Its similar pricing/value compared to Galakrond's Awakening!
Its similar pricing/value compared to Galakrond's Awakening, so yeah, you do understand correctly!
The 4 legendaries alone might be worth the $15! I hope all of them are playable in some capacity instead of just being memes.
We've been lucky enough to have some snow stay on the ground over the past couple of weeks, but damn, it ain't what it used to be. I need to move further North.
I see it as one of three things:
My interpretation was that Dean meant #3, which I agree with. Though, a new constructed mode that lets you dual-class like dual-class arena would be amazing.
I know there's a good chance you're just joking around, but in all seriousness, they almost certainly have it finalized by this point.
I wish people would stop talking about it :D
I commented on this when the event first went live and was hoping we wouldn't see it brought up again because it can be "abused". It's an issue with how dumb our tasks system is and how, right now, it isn't really worth the time to flesh it out more since it will be abandoned in favor of something more advanced in the future. I don't really mind that you can "exploit" it because honestly, it's all fun and games and since it's available for everyone and not just a few people, it feels fair.
TL;DR: Won't fix, don't really consider it an issue even though it kind of is. Have fun and have some snowflakes. *throws snowball*
Once they become "regular" priced, they'll display as owned for everyone. Its a query I need to run that hasn't been created yet :D
There is a second confirmed game mode that will arrive before the next expansion. Here's a post we did on it!
https://outof.cards/hearthstone/2064-hearthstones-year-of-the-phoenix-phase-3-brings-another-new-mode-to-the-game
Dean used to be very active and then after some harassment he took a vacation from Reddit and Twitter which is where he does most of his community outreach. He's slowly easing back into it which is awesome and I hope people take it easier on him.
With that said, Hearthstone has never been very good at community communication. I'm thankful we at least have gotten spurts of it, but I'd love to see more consistency and people in proper charge of just engaging with the community. Less about managing what streamers are doing and more just talking.
Yeah, its exciting to see that people will get more frequent gold unlocks which means you can actually do something with it if you want to spend it during the cycle. Giving everyone more choice is a good thing!
We don't know when the mini set for DMF will arrive.
The next major expansion should release in April though!