if you pay close attention to data, the total playing hours and bought packs for this expansion has been lower than the past two. With Kobold being lower than KOFT, that’s 2 expansion straight with lower playing hours and packs bought.
i understand that Ben Brode left Blizzard For his Personal reasons, but could it also have something to do with the game generally going down hill? I mean Ben obviously wouldn’t tell you that, but what if he had a growing feeling of it and decided to leave before Reputation of HS goes down under him?
Im going to continue to play HS nevertheless , but just as a thought. What do you think?
if you pay close attention to data, the total playing hours and bought packs for this expansion has been lower than the past two. With Kobold being lower than KOFT, that’s 2 expansion straight with lower playing hours and packs bought.
i understand that Ben Brode left Blizzard For his Personal reasons, but could it also have something to do with the game generally going down hill? I mean Ben obviously wouldn’t tell you that, but what if he had a growing feeling of it and decided to leave before Reputation of HS goes down under him?
Im going to continue to play HS nevertheless , but just as a thought. What do you think?
Before he left, Ben Brode said himself that Blizzard is ahead by 3 expansions. Witchwood just released, they currently have 2 expansions in final testing and 1 in early development.
In other terms, Ben Brode's departure will not have any impact on the game for at least for a year, since he worked on the next 3 expansions yet to be released.
if you pay close attention to data, the total playing hours and bought packs for this expansion has been lower than the past two. With Kobold being lower than KOFT, that’s 2 expansion straight with lower playing hours and packs bought.
i understand that Ben Brode left Blizzard For his Personal reasons, but could it also have something to do with the game generally going down hill? I mean Ben obviously wouldn’t tell you that, but what if he had a growing feeling of it and decided to leave before Reputation of HS goes down under him?
Im going to continue to play HS nevertheless , but just as a thought. What do you think?
Before he left, Ben Brode said himself that Blizzard is ahead by 3 expansions. Witchwood just released, they currently have 2 expansions in final testing and 1 in early development.
In other terms, Ben Brode's departure will not have any impact on the game for at least for a year, since he worked on the next 3 expansions yet to be released.
Except Brode hasn't been involved with the card design for quite some time, so I can't see how his departure would affect the next expansions.
With the way people had been predicting/asking for an icecrown expansion since very early on in hearthstone, I highly doubt it would be that surprising to the team that it would perform particularly well. I can't really take this seriously as the reason behind him leaving, or that there's any intense conspiracy behind him leaving at all.
This may seem strange to those of you still living in your mama’s basements but in the real world people leave jobs all the time to pursue other opportunities. Some people get offers for more attractive opportunitunities and some people feel that after x number of years that its time to move on.
“Man leaves job” should really not be a newsworthy event.
In the case of Ben, he had been with blizzard for 15 years. Thats probably longer than a lot of people on this forum have been on this planet. He had a fairly high profile role but at the end of the day, it was just a job and he decided that it was time for him to move on.
It might have been tempting to quit at the perceived peak, sure. The game isn't worse, or less interesting, but interest may be declining a bit (and revenues going down, I would certainly believe.) Diminishing returns, familiarity. Plus Artifact is coming and I wouldn't be surprised if that made a pretty big dent in HS. Add to which, a lot of years at the job, and maybe that thought that if he doesn't start something of his own now, before too many years roll past, he may never do so.
IF this is the reason Ben left, it wasn't his fault, its that blizzards expectations were too high. Its pretty hard to make a game more profitable each expansion, there has to be a limit to it.
I believe we can all agree that the magic is a bit gone and Hearthstone's hayday has been and gone. Ben left not because the ship is sinking (but the ship sinking is natural) but because he chose to leave before everything starts losing charm. Good choice.
I believe we can all agree that the magic is a bit gone and Hearthstone's hayday has been and gone. Ben left not because the ship is sinking (but the ship sinking is natural) but because he chose to leave before everything starts losing charm. Good choice.
He did say he's going to start his own gaming company. I wish him luck and if he decides on a card game, he could make one even better than HS ever could be. :)
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if you pay close attention to data, the total playing hours and bought packs for this expansion has been lower than the past two. With Kobold being lower than KOFT, that’s 2 expansion straight with lower playing hours and packs bought.
i understand that Ben Brode left Blizzard For his Personal reasons, but could it also have something to do with the game generally going down hill? I mean Ben obviously wouldn’t tell you that, but what if he had a growing feeling of it and decided to leave before Reputation of HS goes down under him?
Im going to continue to play HS nevertheless , but just as a thought. What do you think?
is this the first post about him leaving?
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With the way people had been predicting/asking for an icecrown expansion since very early on in hearthstone, I highly doubt it would be that surprising to the team that it would perform particularly well. I can't really take this seriously as the reason behind him leaving, or that there's any intense conspiracy behind him leaving at all.
Trolls will be trolls
This may seem strange to those of you still living in your mama’s basements but in the real world people leave jobs all the time to pursue other opportunities. Some people get offers for more attractive opportunitunities and some people feel that after x number of years that its time to move on.
“Man leaves job” should really not be a newsworthy event.
In the case of Ben, he had been with blizzard for 15 years. Thats probably longer than a lot of people on this forum have been on this planet. He had a fairly high profile role but at the end of the day, it was just a job and he decided that it was time for him to move on.
Nothing more to see here, move on folks.
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It might have been tempting to quit at the perceived peak, sure. The game isn't worse, or less interesting, but interest may be declining a bit (and revenues going down, I would certainly believe.) Diminishing returns, familiarity. Plus Artifact is coming and I wouldn't be surprised if that made a pretty big dent in HS. Add to which, a lot of years at the job, and maybe that thought that if he doesn't start something of his own now, before too many years roll past, he may never do so.
IF this is the reason Ben left, it wasn't his fault, its that blizzards expectations were too high. Its pretty hard to make a game more profitable each expansion, there has to be a limit to it.
I believe we can all agree that the magic is a bit gone and Hearthstone's hayday has been and gone. Ben left not because the ship is sinking (but the ship sinking is natural) but because he chose to leave before everything starts losing charm. Good choice.