I'm gonna sneak something in later for this. I was trying to get it out before the morning deploy but got caught fixing a couple of critical bugs instead.
That's a real cool feature, thanks a lot! Also for letting us know your thought process. The customer service on this page is insane. As a certified quality manager, that warms my heart.
I did say when we launched I always wanted my transparency with stuff =D
My only regret is that we don't talk more about upcoming stuff. Sometimes stuff just isn't worth talking about if its too far out because it would let competitors know what we're thinking. I'd rather anyone that wanted to lift features from here instead have to be reactionary. Though, no one has made an attempt at that yet over the past year so that's funny :P
Great work, thanks for your dedication! I'll use the opportunity to request a quality of life feature. I really like the concept of the portals. Would it be possible to expand this feature to the point where users could permanently choose one of them in account management?
It's a very interesting point of discussion. The original idea is we were going to let everyone decide what they would see on the homepage as far as the news went. Over time though, I no longer thought that was the best solution and instead provided the portals that we now have. The way I've seen it, having the portals be dedicated places gives people a more tailored experience for each title and they have more benefits by visiting them individually if you so choose. It is easy for people to update their browser bookmark for the site so they can visit the portal over the homepage.
Allowing for a swap-out also sucks because if someone happens to follow two games instead of one, they wouldn't have a special homepage option available to them.
Now, some of that is a bit dated though and I'll explain why!
We've got a feature dropping either late tonight or tomorrow which brings back decks to the homepage. Our first iteration of this was exactly what we see on the Hearthstone portal, but it was silly to have Hearthstone decks be the only thing featured on the homepage. The new widget has some customization to it which will allow you to select a default game and even a default sort so that you will always see what you want when loading up the homepage. A good example of this would be for Wild Hearthstone players. If you want to only see Wild Hearthstone decks on the homepage when you visit, this will be exactly what you're going to see. You'll also always have the ability to view the other stuff by using the available sorts, but your default preference will be saved.
This might get extended to news posts.
The decks part of it wasn't very complicated to figure out and make performant. With news being simpler than decks, the ability to customize which games get displayed on the homepage news feed for any one person isn't a difficult extension. I do dislike that you lose some potential overlap. Maybe one day Riot makes a really cool Runeterra announcement that could entice a player that is only interested in Hearthstone, but has been having a negative time recently, but it won't be able to because they decided they only wanted to see Hearthstone news. One workaround I had considered for this problem is we'll inject major announcements (flagging articles them as such) into the homepage feed no matter what, but this would only be confusing to people.
I see pros and cons on both sides of it. Ultimately though, I do think leaving the choice in the hands of everyone is a good idea. You're all smart enough to decide what you want to see and on the very tiny chance you visit the homepage and don't get to see that Wizards is giving everyone a bunch of free stuff because you only want to see Hearthstone content, that was that person's choice to make.
No ETA on news on the homepage changes, but decks are arriving very soon.
What don't you like about the current arena reward structure?
I believe the addition of experience which contributes to earnings in the Battle Pass might make it feel better without changing the actual structure of the Arena Rewards, though I'd love to know what you think would make Arena itself better.
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.
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)
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.
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
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.
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
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)
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.
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.
I'm gonna sneak something in later for this. I was trying to get it out before the morning deploy but got caught fixing a couple of critical bugs instead.
I did say when we launched I always wanted my transparency with stuff =D
My only regret is that we don't talk more about upcoming stuff. Sometimes stuff just isn't worth talking about if its too far out because it would let competitors know what we're thinking. I'd rather anyone that wanted to lift features from here instead have to be reactionary. Though, no one has made an attempt at that yet over the past year so that's funny :P
I didn't say stuff enough, so, stuff.
It's a very interesting point of discussion. The original idea is we were going to let everyone decide what they would see on the homepage as far as the news went. Over time though, I no longer thought that was the best solution and instead provided the portals that we now have. The way I've seen it, having the portals be dedicated places gives people a more tailored experience for each title and they have more benefits by visiting them individually if you so choose. It is easy for people to update their browser bookmark for the site so they can visit the portal over the homepage.
Allowing for a swap-out also sucks because if someone happens to follow two games instead of one, they wouldn't have a special homepage option available to them.
Now, some of that is a bit dated though and I'll explain why!
We've got a feature dropping either late tonight or tomorrow which brings back decks to the homepage. Our first iteration of this was exactly what we see on the Hearthstone portal, but it was silly to have Hearthstone decks be the only thing featured on the homepage. The new widget has some customization to it which will allow you to select a default game and even a default sort so that you will always see what you want when loading up the homepage. A good example of this would be for Wild Hearthstone players. If you want to only see Wild Hearthstone decks on the homepage when you visit, this will be exactly what you're going to see. You'll also always have the ability to view the other stuff by using the available sorts, but your default preference will be saved.
This might get extended to news posts.
The decks part of it wasn't very complicated to figure out and make performant. With news being simpler than decks, the ability to customize which games get displayed on the homepage news feed for any one person isn't a difficult extension. I do dislike that you lose some potential overlap. Maybe one day Riot makes a really cool Runeterra announcement that could entice a player that is only interested in Hearthstone, but has been having a negative time recently, but it won't be able to because they decided they only wanted to see Hearthstone news. One workaround I had considered for this problem is we'll inject major announcements (flagging articles them as such) into the homepage feed no matter what, but this would only be confusing to people.
I see pros and cons on both sides of it. Ultimately though, I do think leaving the choice in the hands of everyone is a good idea. You're all smart enough to decide what you want to see and on the very tiny chance you visit the homepage and don't get to see that Wizards is giving everyone a bunch of free stuff because you only want to see Hearthstone content, that was that person's choice to make.
No ETA on news on the homepage changes, but decks are arriving very soon.
Updated with all English images.
Sorry, but we only allow posts in English on Out of Cards. Locking this thread.
This has been an absolutely insane month. To think that Runeterra and Hearthstone are always going to overlap 3 times a year is a bit much :D
What don't you like about the current arena reward structure?
I believe the addition of experience which contributes to earnings in the Battle Pass might make it feel better without changing the actual structure of the Arena Rewards, though I'd love to know what you think would make Arena itself better.
Lucky for you, Aurelion Sol is in our deckbuilder so you can theorycraft!
https://outof.cards/legends-of-runeterra/deckbuilder/
Fury Mechanic Reveal
https://outof.cards/legends-of-runeterra/1788-fury-is-a-new-keyword-coming-in-call-of-the-mountain-5-new-cards-revealed
You're welcome <3
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
Runeterra
Changes
Hearthstone
Runeterra
General
Bug Fixes
Hearthstone
General
Regrets
Runeterra
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)
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.
How so?
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
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.
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
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)
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:
Personally love the larger 15 oz. Makes for good hot chocolate :D
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.