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Fluxflashor

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

    You're welcome <3

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

    Since we've pushed out a few updates since this was last updated, I'm going to include some additional changes just so everyone is aware of them.


    New Features

    Hearthstone

    • Card pages now support full art.
      • It is going to take some time to get all of Hearthstone's full art into our database, but it will come with time. 
      • We can also create and showcase wallpapers on card pages!

    Runeterra


    Changes

    Hearthstone

    • You can now filter by Artist on the card listing.
    • Card pages now display their artist when we have full art available.
      • If we have a link to the Artist's website, we've included it here.

    Runeterra

    • Deck listing now defaults to the hottest decks on the site.
      • This should have been changed a very, very long time ago. Apologies!
    • Deck widgets in news articles and on the portal now display their Shards cost.
    • Ruenterra Expansions page overhauled to use images like our Hearthstone one.

    General

    • Added a link to our Merch store on the navigation.
    • Avatars now get resized to a maximum of 180px by 180px.
      • If your avatar isn't a square, it's going to be forced into being one.
      • Unfortunately, we no longer support animated gif avatars because of this. They may make a return in the future.
    • Listings on the site now tell you how many results were returned.
      • Admittedly, this needs to look a little bit better since its very plain, but its functional!
    • Made an update to our RSS feeds to assist readers in finding our thumbnail images.

    Bug Fixes

    Hearthstone

    • Fixed an issue with collection calculations displaying too many missing stars on deck pages.
    • Removed note about how the collection manager can't be automated and replaced it with a link to the HDT plugin.
    • Fixed a missing Hearthstone breadcrumb on Tavern Brawl pages.
    • Fixed collections not correctly syncing. (This has been fixed for over 2 weeks)

    General

    • Fixed an issue where some users were getting Premium access without paying for it.
    • Polls no longer generate client-side errors if you are not logged in.
    • Achievement triggers no longer generate client-side errors if you are not logged in.

    Regrets

    Runeterra

    • We didn't get out voting and discussion site rewards for the Call of the Mountain reveal season.
      • There was a bit too much going on to get this out. Our site migration took much longer than originally expected which pushed this back until the point it no longer really matters.
      • Thanks to everyone who is participating anyway!
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    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Yeah, he was disappointingly super late. We've now got it in our post (was AFK making and eating breakfast so I wasn't around when he finally got to uploading it)

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    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    I don't think it's fair to require "infinite" value from the Battle Pass. If the Gold progression is going to be the same as before, these packs are just icing on the cake and are definitely not the target of the players who grind out full bundles worth of gold each set. If they were to replace them with more Gold, there's less chance you're going to buy something.

    At the end of the day, Hearthstone does need to sell stuff to us to remain profitable. I'd be completely on the side of "packs suck" if it wasn't for their clear messaging that nothing is changing to hurt the Gold income for F2P players. Ben Lee even said he personally made 5K gold per set and he expects to make the exact same without changing how much he played.

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

    How so?

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    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    I suspect we'll get to see numbers closer to the reveal of the next expansion, if not during the reveal. At that point all the math can be done (if Blizzard didn't provide it all) and feedback can be heard.

    If Dean thinks this is going to be just as good as today though, that's a pretty big stance to take publicly (Ben Lee has as well) so I see no reason why they aren't behind honest. I don't think the player base would forgive them if it wasn't truthful

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    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    I'm very disappointed they aren't pushing digital copies with the purchase. It would be an amazing way to boost the sales and make paper look even larger than it is.

    Though, I do agree, they should just make this available as a purchase in MTG Arena itself. It would have to be a bit cheaper, though you would get a full playset since they are cosmetic skins, so it wouldn't be too cheap. I'd love myself some Eldraine lands or those SUPER SEXY Theros gods they put out during the world champs last year.

    I think the ban and suspensions is important though. Keeping the games 1:1 makes it very easy to transition between them. Magic already has a lot of rules and is quite a complicated game so adding more confusion into the mix doesn't seem like a great idea. Definitely one of the more unfortunate downsides to their digital format since it doesn't feel very digital.

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    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Now that's a great goal idea! Would be nice to have that immortalized in an email that also tells you about how many Murlocs were played that month. =D

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    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Not sure why you believe we're talking about a different timeline of events. The only reference is with the quote from a Blizzard Employee saying it was only supposed to be available during a short window during Scholomance pre-release (they are certainly mistaken and which is why it was brought up)

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    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks for the feedback! I've updated the dropdown to show the ML in brackets. For ease of reference for anyone who hasn't cruised on by yet:

    • 11 oz - 325 ml
    • 15 oz - 443 ml

    Personally love the larger 15 oz. Makes for good hot chocolate :D

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

    I've made a dedicated section for European Merch. This is also linked at the top of the Merch Store under "European Catalog". Anything there will ship from Europe.

    https://shop.outof.cards/collections/ships-from-europe

    For other countries around the world, fulfillment is only in the US and Europe (Though Stickers and Mugs can be fulfilled in Australia too) so if you're worried about import taxes, my suggestion would be to only order an item to possibly skirt through the customs process. For what its worth, when I ordered samples of everything, they came from the USA and I wasn't charged any import duties when they came over the US/Canada border. I also received each of my items one at a time which was sorta frustrating, but that likely helped with that too.

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    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Fulfillment is either in the USA, Latvia, or Spain. It will ship from the closest available source unless it happens to be out of stock. I wish there was a way we could automatically display that information to everyone because I know how much import taxes can suck.

    Thinking about it though... I could probably set it up so we had different products based on your region. I'll have to dig into that.

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

    Damn, I wish I had of thought of that one, HentaiLover.

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    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    See, that would just be too smart. I miss the days of the Unicorn Priest hahaha

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    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Our supplier, unfortunately, ran out of totes sometime between yesterday morning and now, so they automatically went out of stock on our store. RIP that opportunity :P

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

    I would LOVE to do pins. I've got hundreds of them myself and it's something that we might have to run some form of a Kickstarter for them to see if we could make it happen. It isn't possible to do low batches of pins since the tooling for them is expensive and they require minimum quantities.

    One day, we will definitely have pins. I have no clue when we'll be able to make that a reality though.

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

    Hey Vandaren!

    I wrote about Derpcorn a while back, March of 2019 to be exact, in our "Welcome to HearthStation" article.
    https://outof.cards/hearthstone/1-welcome-to-hearthstation

    Although the description only applied to Hearthstone back then, we have the same idea for other titles covered. 

    Quote From Fluxflashor
    Our lovely mascot, Derpcorn! It defines what we want out of HearthStation and what we like in the greater Hearthstone community - majestic playfulness. Hearthstone is a game, and games are meant to be fun. We want to encourage and spread fun to help make the Hearthstone community more inviting.

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    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Hey RavenSun!

    I definitely agree that more can be done with it. The primary goal for the initial push was to give people an option to grab some swag with the mascot on it because in a survey, quite a few people had responded they were interested in exactly this. I know on a personal note though, I don't really just like wearing logos of things outside of maybe if one was to go to a  specific event and it fit in there well with the crowd.

    Creating a unique style, incorporating the brand in different ways within those styles is a more long-term goal with what kind of merch we're going to offer. I'd like to create stuff that isn't just tied to the site but rather the card game genre in general. Some stuff might end up being really far out there and over the top while other stuff may be more subtle. Launching different collections of products overtime will hopefully bring out stuff people of all sorts of types will be interested in.

    It's also funny that you mention seasonal logos though. This was actually a big design decision for Derpcorn back when it was originally created and I hope we can get on that train for the events towards the end of this year. Halloween just has too many options and the end of year festivities also gives us some fun potential for mascot upgrade. Playing dress-up = yessss!

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    Posted 4 years, 4 months ago

    Maintenance has concluded. Sorry for the additional time!