Hearthpwn

It's kinda crazy that the majority of things on this list are improvements that Blizzard should be making to the game, regardless of whether or not they will or won't be free. I can't understand why Blizzard would even associate most of these things with money, by framing the question like that and including development work that should obviously be done to the game in updates...

And as for the couple things that might not be expected in the normal course of patch updates, ehhh... I could think of a lot more valuable things to spend money on. In fact, everything on this list should be free; I can't imagine paying for any of it, especially the improvements that should be done regardless. Pretty mindless and inflammatory survey, Blizz...

Still laggy as hell for me. Whenever I open or reload a Hearthpwn page (ANY page), it literally takes 7 to 10 seconds to fully render enough so that I can start scrolling/clicking/whatever. I'm using Firefox with Adblock (and HOSTS filtering) on a $2000 gaming laptop. I don't why some people report better responsiveness, unless they're on mobile.

I think it was earlier in this thread, but there's a guy who posted instructions to see how many third-party servers the site is accessing with each page load, and it's totally redonkulous. There's seconds of latency/ping because of this, as well as all the APIs that Hearthpwn plugs into, in addition to ad servers and analytics...

I hate to put anyone job's in jeopardy by publicly complaining, but the UX is a complete mess. I've never experienced this much bloat and unoptimized coding on any other website, anywhere, anytime. Maybe it's not the UX's team's fault, and Curse is forcing them to use all this garbage. If that's the case, then Curse really needs to take a good hard look at its policies. If it's the coders' fault, they need to roll up their sleeves and fix these mistakes they've not only made, but continued to build upon.

On a more positive note, they should be commended for creating a really awesome-looking website with some of the most handy and useful features in the industry of gaming websites. The problem is that the experience is ruined by the horrible result at the end-user's browser. They haven't even acknowledged these problems, let alone talked to us about the process, except for pointing out that mobile browsing should be "faster" now. They just skipped right over the elephant in the room, like they're trying to ignore it or something. I don't get it. I really don't...

How are you "currently playing" this deck when Malchezaar's Imp isn't even released yet?

Couple things:

1) You should add a new attribute to each card in the database, after the Expansion tag. This should define which "week" or "wing" of the expansion the card came from. For example, the upcoming Malchezaar's Imp would have a value of "2" or "3" (depending on how you define the free wing; if it's zero, this card would be "2")... This would help us figure out when the card comes out just by looking at the card's database entry, but more importantly, it would play into the next suggestion...

2) Fix the deck filtering so that searching for decks with only Kara cards from wings 1 to 2, for example. It looks like this feature is already built-in, but it doesn't actually work. When I was messing around with it last week, the results were all wrong. Like when I tried searching for decks that only included Kara cards from the free and first wing, it kept showing me decks with unreleased cards. And even vice-versa, actually. I suspect this may be because there doesn't appear to currently be a card attribute like described my first suggestion, but maybe you guys have it as a "hidden" value; I dunno. But this aspect of deck filtering is also confusing because you just provide two blank fields, in which we assume we're to put numbers in. I'm guessing it's supposed to be like 1 to 4, or 2 to 3, or even 1 to 1 (the last being an example of only cards from the first wing). But does "1" include the free wing? Is "0" a valid number?

Thanks...

Fine, he hit the "Arena" tag when posting and can't change it. He could have deleted it and reposted it for the good of the community, though. We need to cut down on all this streamer spam anyway.

Quote from Fearior >>

It was not Arena deck,,, 

Why's it tagged as such?

Quote from Silence_and_i >>

It actually is, you just have to be lucky enough to get good opening cards. For example velen's chosen is just OP when you cast it on your 1 or 2 drop minion and keep healing it each turn. Shadow world pain and death best removals ever and if you can keep the tempo you can easily win late game with Mind Control.

I agree with you, but unfortunately, we live in a time when things like YouTube subscriber counts and number of Twitter followers are more important to companies than education and experience. You can see this everywhere online, especially in the online journalism and news. Websites will commonly pass on applicants with actual journalism degrees and professional writing experience, in favor of kids with a built-in social media following...

This is one of the reason why it seems like the news sucks everywhere on the Web, because so many of those writers don't have a formal education in writing or journalism. (And there's more to a journalism degree than just learning how to write; it's also about ethics, objectivity and recognizing newsworthiness.) So we've got all these kids doing all these related jobs under the banner of "content creators," but most of them never learned how to produce quality content.

So this is a news post about news that didn't happen? Just so we're clear, let's think about that... It's a blurb-article at least, but it's still reporting on a source who's reporting that nothing is happening. I don't think you guys should waste too much time on unconfirmed news (or lack thereof) when it's sourced to social media (or even community managers for a gaming company, who are generally more like customer support than true PR). Unless it comes from a press release, PR and marketing, or a high-level game dev at the company, it's unsubstantiated news and should be functionally no different -- in that capacity -- as your friends on Twitter.

Or was it just a slow news day, and you needed to fill up 500 words' worth of white space?

It's almost like they're trying to publish original content without paying for journalists and writers to actually produce original content, isn't it? Same old story all over the web, but it can be even worse among gaming sites.

So this whole story is essentially like playing Master of Ceremonies without any spell power minions.

To everyone complaining about how this is a violation of free speech:

Freedom of speech does not grant you the right to say whatever you want without consequence. It just means that the government isn't allowed to stop you from saying it. So when you say shit that you know people in charge (ie blizzard and twitch) will find offensive, you better be ready to accept the consequences. And them taking action doesn't impinge on your freedom of speech rights. 

Here's a checklist:

Did you get to say it?

Were you prosecuted by the government for saying it?

If the answers were yes and no respectively, your freedom of speech rights have not been violated. Tough shit if you feel otherwise.

This is pretty simple, turn on subscriber mode, you can't chat if you don't pay money. If that doesn't weed out the idiots, get rid of chat!  When there are 50k people on a stream, chat serves absolutely no purpose other than to spam childish nonsense and emotes. No actual conversation or sharing of opinions is happening, there are too many people typing to even read the chat in many cases.

I get that chat is an integral part of the twitch platform, and it's actually pretty good in small streams where real conversation and questions can be addressed, or the viewers understand that a certain level of obscenity is acceptable, but on major events, chat should not exist. If people want these events to be taken as seriously as professional sports, than this chat needs to go asap.

Synergy with Mind Control Tech?

Welp. I was already losing interest in this game. Arena is the only fair mode, it takes way too much time to get to legendary, and I have a feeling the Naxx stuff is going to be too p2w or even p2play. I can't believe there are people suggesting that 1000-2000g per wing is reasonable. That's like 10 or 20 bucks per wing. A wing of a small expansion of a free to play game shouldn't sell for as much as a full game. Maybe I'm spoiled by Steam and GOG Summer sales, but there are some really good games out there that I can play for a few bucks. I'm not gonna drop 40 bucks on 4 wings of a free to play game to get 30 new cards for a game that doesn't provide me much incentive to keep playing anyways. Only arena is worth playing imo. If Blizzard plays this wrong, I'm probably done with this game.