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Fluxflashor

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    CEO 2025 3142 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    Site traffic is higher now than it was when we launched, though forum activity takes a bit of a dip between set launches for Hearthstone.

    Admittedly, decks have been a bit more of a struggle though. I believe us not featuring them in a widget on the homepage until recently may have hurt that part of growth. It's definitely something I want to see more of but it isn't very easy to incentivize people to write guides, plus, if the meta stops changing, why write or add a new deck to the site?

    The fragmentation definitely sucked when the split happened, but I agree, its better here than it is elsewhere. We have a more positive thing going on overall!

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    CEO 2025 3142 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    Gotta love a good troll mon.

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    CEO 2025 3142 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    I had a couple of black screens last night but since then in my 7 launches of the game I haven't had any new issues.

    I saw that some people are able to launch the game a second time with the game still being open and it fixes the problem. You end up getting a "reconnect" button which lets you in.

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    CEO 2025 3142 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago
    Quote From griffior

    Bug report.

    On mobile, on the hearthstone page, in the forums tab, selecting “new threads” shows threads from a year ago.

    Don’t know if this a known thing but it’s there.

    What in the...

    Thanks! I'll make sure we get this fixed on the next deploy.

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    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    Okay, technically it is 2:30 AM on the 17th for me, and most people its the 17th, but since the Pacific coast counts, we're going to pretend it is the 16th.


    New Features

    Magic the Gathering

    • Added set pages. Here's Zendikar Rising.
      • Cards currently only display in numeric order. Sort options are the endgame goal.
      • Cards themselves now nest cleanly under sets.
    • Modal Dual-Faced Cards can now be flipped!
    • Added tooltips for cards.

    Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway Card ImageBrightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway Card ImageFlip Card


    Changes

    Magic the Gathering

    • Split card frames now rotate 90 degrees so they can be properly read.
    • Added extra navigation when on non-Magic pages for faster browsing.

    Mythgard

    • Added to navigation.
    • Added a site header for the game.

    Runeterra

    • Imported fresh data for Patch 1.10

    Bug Fixes

    General

    • Fixed an issue with the portal deck widget showing the wrong game if you switched portals.

    Magic the Gathering

    • Fixed incorrect default width of cards. Was 240, is now 265.
    • Corrected images for Modal DFC cards. Previously the same image was used for both sides of the cards.
    • Card BBCode will now prefer a collectible card over a non-collectible.
      • MTG doesn't really have non-collectible cards, save for tokens. However, with the way our data works, Modal DFC (and some other dual-faced cards) have a back and front that is a separate "card" in our database. When requesting these cards in bbcode, we're assuming you will want the front face of the card by default.

    Mythgard

    • Fixed an issue when browsing Mythgard content that would result in a homepage error afterwards.
      • This was live for a few minutes this past afternoon. Sorry to the couple hundred people who ended up seeing the error.

    Flux Notes

    Yo! Couple things here.

    • MTG Deckbuilder should be out before the end of the month. We've got some big tech choices to get through to make this work well.
    • Mythgard support. You've noticed some Mythgard articles today. Thanks to Nirast for helping us cover the game! I'm not going to consider us fully committed to it just yet, which is why it doesn't have a large portal link on all pages, though the game has a great community and we'd love to give players a great home.
      • If there's some free time this month, we'll get a card database up for the title pending datamining and card generation. 
      • If helping cover Mythgard is something you'd be interested in doing as a volunteer, hit me up.
    • MTG "stuff" as a whole is still a work in progress. Card pages are still quite bare!
    • I'm going to bed now so I can be up for the launch of Zendikar Rising!
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    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    This week =)

    Still a work in progress, but all the cards are here. Deckbuilder should arrive this month.

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    CEO 2025 3142 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago
    Quote From Riffraff

    Oddly, I got a duplicate epic card in my single free pack, despite not having all mage epics in standard 

    These packs are special in that they don't follow normal pack rules.

    • You can receive duplicates
    • You are not guaranteed a legendary card in 10 packs

    The reason is because of how special the packs are. They use the same rules the Golden Packs do. Kinda cheesed about the whole situation but it just means it isn't worth buying the packs if they ever show up.

    In reply to Book of Hero deck
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    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    A site deploy has gone live tonight with support for Magic the Gathering cards. We've also fixed issues with site cache.


    New Features

    Magic the Gathering

    • Card database is live with more than 50k Magic cards
      • This is considered a soft release for right now.
      • Filters have not yet been touched much. We'll get these fleshed out more when the deckbuilder hits.
      • You can embed magic cards with the "mtgcard" bbcode. We'll detail this more in the future in a dedicated forum post.

    Changes

    Hearthstone

    • Fan Creations (deployed last week)
      • Cards now support multiclass.
      • Finalists can no longer vote on finalist entries.
      • Winners gallery has been updated to look nicer.
    • Deck listing now lets you sort by specific Tavern Brawls

    General

    • Articles now display their date in a mouseover tooltip on the timestamp

    Bug Fixes

    Runeterra

    • Fixed an issue with the patch filter on the homepage deck widget (This went out last week)
    • Fixed an issue with the region filter on the homepage deck widget

    General

    • Fixed issues where spam was getting through more often than it should have.
    • Improved performance on article loads
    • Fixed an issue where our site cache was unable to connect to certain site nodes
      • Since our move to new hardware a month ago, this has been an ongoing issue. Sorry for the slower than normal load times!
    • Improved query logic on the forums for some speedups.
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    CEO 2025 3142 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    I can confirm there is a bug with the front page deck widget with regions not working.

    The reason we have a region option, even though it doesn't work, is because we were not aware it was broken. As a workaround, use Sanns' link above to find Freljord decks on our deck listing. We'll get the issue fixed on our next site deploy.

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    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    Taric definitely went there first =D

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    CEO 2025 3142 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    Please don't leave me

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    CEO 2025 3142 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    You're fired

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    CEO 2025 3142 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    We import all the card data out of the Hearthstone client, so it would appear that Blizzard goofed with the card text! I just did a quick look to confirm this was the case. We'll have to add a string replacement to the importer to make sure this is resolved on our end since I doubt they'll fix it.

    Thanks for finding that! I've manually changed Eerie Statue for now.

    In reply to Can't and Can't
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    CEO 2025 3142 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    Sorry everyone, little late on the update - 8 new cards added!

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    CEO 2025 3142 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    Honestly, it does feel kinda ridiculous at this point lmao

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    CEO 2025 3142 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    OOPS!

    Don't pin that one on Echo, that was on me! Sorry about that and thank you, added the correct text to the article =)

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    CEO 2025 3142 Posts Joined 10/19/2018
    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    We have had two other purchasable Hunter heroes - Alleria Windrunner and Sylvanas Windrunner.
    https://outof.cards/hearthstone/guides/39-how-to-obtain-hearthstones-alternate-hunter-heroes/

    For Rogue, yeah, we've only had Maiev Shadowsong and that was a while ago. At least we can't be too far off a new Rogue hero!
    https://outof.cards/hearthstone/guides/43-how-to-obtain-hearthstones-alternate-rogue-heroes/

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    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    I think the real reason we're getting Jaina first is because she is the first hero you unlock when playing Hearthstone. They can move new players from the tutorial over to the adventure easily and it's an extra step of learning for the game.

    I wouldn't be surprised if the Book of Heroes is a new tutorial mode and once it's completed with all heroes available, that will be the new way to unlock them all. The Demon Hunter campaign was a great way to introduce heroes and its possible Basic card unlocks could be moved to individual fights in the adventure.

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    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    That is a great point! Demon Hunter is such an awkward class to talk about with stuff like this because they simply don't have the larger card pool everyone else does and with them being so aggressive, all the good cards are always so cheap.

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    Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

    I'm guessing $15 USD, though $10 would be ideal considering we're getting 10 new heroes in total.

    $10 for the hero, $5 for the packs isn't a bad breakdown for $15 though.