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What do y’all think of the short reveal schedule?

What does everyone think of having all the card reveals (excluding the initial announcement) happen over the course of one week?

Personally, I’m a bit disappointed because instead of having a true reveal season we’re having a reveal week. Seeing new cards and thinking about them is always exciting for me, even more so than actually playing the cards (since most cards don’t live up to their hypothetical potential). Seeing cards in one big card dump or concentrated in a few days makes each card feel less unique and causes me to spend far less time thinking about them. What do y’all think? 

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  • What does everyone think of having all the card reveals (excluding the initial announcement) happen over the course of one week?

    Personally, I’m a bit disappointed because instead of having a true reveal season we’re having a reveal week. Seeing new cards and thinking about them is always exciting for me, even more so than actually playing the cards (since most cards don’t live up to their hypothetical potential). Seeing cards in one big card dump or concentrated in a few days makes each card feel less unique and causes me to spend far less time thinking about them. What do y’all think? 

  • I am glad they are picking up the pace, I used to hate the long wait between reveal season and release

  • I appreciate it honestly 

  • I wish they spread it over two weeks. Basically, cut out last week where they announced nothing and just halve the reveal rate.

    Otherwise, faster reveals are better in my opinion.

  • if we put on our tin foil hats it would seem like its a ploy to keep the hype up and score more preorders.

    It is a little too fast, but then again, we used to have like 5 cards per day for 2 weeks with a small break on Sunday, and the agony of waiting hours before the next card reveal does get on my nerves at times.

    Friendly

  • I prefer how it was done before. Mostly because I want to see them ASAP

  • now its better, before u had to wait a week with nothing. this time its all done fast, no need to be in a waiting room.

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      now its better, before u had to wait a week with nothing. this time its all done fast, no need to be in a waiting room.

      We still had to wait a week after the initial announcement, and we'll still have to wait a week after the reveals finish, so nothing is different there.

      Anyway, it is not as easy as it might seem to compare long and short reveal seasons, because to do that fairly you have to compare hype and boredom levels throughout the entire month before release (including before anything is announced at all), which need to factor in how enjoyable the preceding meta is. Certainly it is easy to forget how anxious people were to hear something - anything - when reveals get going.

      On average I'm sure people will prefer the coming week over the old slower reveals, and will use that to argue that they prefer shorter reveals. BUT on average they also disliked the previous weeks more, so that it cancels out when you account for everything. Slow(-ish) and steady wins the race for me, but it's all personal preference and it makes next to no difference when the set is released.

  • Now that we're at it, I'm surely gonna enjoy it.

    But the long wait was... Too long. 2-3 long weeks wasted with too few new cards to theorycraft with.

    I prefer having few cards incoming regularly 1 month before release, for theorycraft purposes during the latest stages of an expansion, when there's no more room for homebrewing with known cards.

    Or no reveals at all for meta madness (possibly paired with an Old God expansion).

  • It's good that they ditched the two weeks of nothingness after the initial announcement (although I feel like they kinda dropped the ball this time around as well as the announcement was followed by one week of complete radio silence).

    As for the reveal period itself, little bit over 1 week (like now) feels a bit too squished to my taste. As OP said, there's not too much time for evaluating the cards individually and trying to figure out what kind of decks could work. For me, the ideal reveals would take maybe 2-2.5 weeks; fast enough to keep the excitement going but still allowing proper analysis of each revealed card.

    I'm also curious about the multi-source reveals that seem to become more and more common lately. Surely it's not an ideal marketing strategy to have couple of people revealing their cards at the same time, is it? If the official schedule doesn't see any alterations before that, we'll even have a quadruple reveal this time around (on 28th). That's going to be wild.

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  • I find long reveal periods exhausting. On the other hand, this long waiting hypes me up a lot more! (I’m strangely  unexcited this time around)

    I actually don’t know what I like more. I guess the Activisions marketing department will soon have the numbers for both approaches and chose the more profitable one for future expansions.

    • It is a tricky balance.  There are a subset of players who will come back to the game during the reveal period because they are exited.  They play more and keep up with new card reveals.  They will then burn themselves out and leave the game again within 2 weeks of a new expansion or sometimes before an expansion even releases.  I have experienced this myself.  The month long past reveals are way too much and as you said exhausting.  Marketing is probably looking at the month after release as well as the reveal period in making the financial determination.  I think FrostyFeet has it right.  2-2.5 weeks looks like the sweet spot.  S. Academy reveal seems a bit short.

  • I kinda like that they do it this way - because we get to see the cards earlier than before :) 

  • I like the shorter reveal season, but not this short. If they gave us say a card a day every day last week then it would have felt a bit more exciting. 

    What I would like is for them to announce the expansion maybe a week sooner, and then start revealing cards very slowly for a week or two, then have the last week be really fast with a ton of cards.

    Basically, I want them to do what they are doing now, just give us a few more cards before the big reveal week to fill time.

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