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Value Town Finale
Today, the last episode of ChanmanV's Value Town aired and it featured Hearthstone Senior Game Designer, Mike Donais. We've got a recap of new information, and the videos of the show below.
Thanks for the great show ChanmanV, we'll miss it! For more information on why ValueTown is being cancelled, check out this video.
Quote from Mike Donais on Value Town
- The next card expansion will feature "not exactly 100 cards, but it's a lot".
- The cards in the next expansion will come out of a new booster pack.
- You will still need to purchase Expert booster packs to get Expert cards. You'll have two choices in the store.
- There is no current goal for expansion release cycles, but they're working hard on the next one.
- The devs are not currently working on 2v2 formats. They're "maybe" thinking about it.
- Mike liked the Lord of the Arena series (Congrats Reynad on winning your own tournament) and it would be nice if they could facilitate this better.
- Instead of adding more silence cards to the game to combat potential Deathrattle problems, cards should be added which address Deathrattle directly.
- The Paladin class challenge was not the best one, it's a lesson learned. Could have been more buff cards.
Versus Series: Birdy vs Jonpii
Jotto's back with another episode of Versus Series. Today, Ace Breaker's own Birdy takes on DJ Jonpii in a best of three, deck elimination format. Check out the matches below, along with their decklists!
Arena Entry Issues
If you've been having issues entering the arena, Rolkyr posted a thread this afternoon requesting more information from players to help figure out the cause. You can submit your information here.
Quote from RolkyrWe are aware of the current issue with players being unable to enter the arena. If you are experiencing this, please reply with the following information below:
- What region are you playing in?
- Can you provide a screen shot of what you are seeing?
- Are you getting any errors?
- When exactly did this start happening?
- Are you stuck at the reward screen, the entry price screen or anywhere in between?
Any additional info on this matter is greatly appreciate. I will also be updating THIS thread with information as it becomes available to me. Thank you all for your patience as we work to get this resolved. Cheers!
Intel Hearthstone Tablet Giveaway
Free stuff? Yep! To celebrate the arrival of Hearthstone on Windows 8 touch devices, Intel is giving away 30 Hearthstone capable Tablets, and a 2 in 1 Ultrabook as a grand prize. The giveaway is only open to residents of the United States, and is accepting entries until October 12th.
RIP Value Town </3
New expansion will take a lot of time to be out.... Sad to see Value town end... It was one of the best E-sports show...
I just hope new expansion will keep the price of booster pack the same at 100 gold, and also make it available in Arena. Best solution for us players would be if you could choose booster pack which you'll receive, either when you start arena run or when you finish it.
I'm curious, to all the people who are wary of new booster packs, how did you think that the expansion would be released? I sort of figured it was a given that this was the way they'd do actual expansions, as opposed to adventures, simply because that's the way TCGs work.
So...Mike Donais says:
"There is alot of cool stuff in September" and he says it in a way that implies there's something we don't know about in Sept.
The Blizz PAX Blog Press Release says:
"A chance to find out what’s in the cards for Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, "
PAX Date "Aug 29th-Sept 1st"
Conclusion: Next Hearthstone Expansion could be announced at PAX Prime!
The hype is real
I would actually LOVE to have whole new meta because I haven't had so much fun as after Naxxramas in last few months ... people are actually trying to experience and fit new cards in their old decks and it is not like "zoo, zoo, zoo, zoo, random class, zoo, zoo ..." but there is actually some diversity
Out of 20 games I actually had just 3x zoo in last two days ... love that! :D
I believe that spectator mode should be No. 1 priority ;)
Is it one booster pack for the whole expansion?
Or you have to buy multiple booster packs, again and again until you collect all 100, which means duplicates and pure luck?
Mike Donais of the Donais 5c fame? O.o
Will the exepansion also contain basic cards?
I'm not quite sure about new booster packs. On the one hand it helps to get the new cards, on the other hand it's getting complicated when more expansions are released...
I don't think they are going to add more basic cards honestly. That would require raising max level of characters and it would be more learning for new players which is never good
For those of us WITH old cards, this'd be plain faster
Most players who have been playing regularly have their collections almost complete save few legendaries and epicks. Giving new cards to old booster pack would end up with you buying 10 packs and yet getting old cards in most of them, making hunting for new ones pretty dificuilt.
If you don't see it then be my guest and quit, noone cares if you play or not ;)
Booster packs have always existed in other card games, it's not a new thing. To say it's retard, then you're the retard for not understanding the purpose of booster pack. Just imagine if they're running the 10th expansion and still release cards into the good old expert packs, you'd be getting a legendary before you get a new card.
At least they're still working on it =(
Hope so, this format with 2 streams is not working well on every tournament. I watched one yesterday and they didn't had it centered and I saw just mana costs from cards and thats not for the first time ... :/
So this means tablet sooner than later?
A tablet giveaway is a nice idea, but playing on the iPad was difficult before Naxx and literally impossible now. I would avoid trying to play on a tablet that actually works much less a windows device. :/
Honestly I believe that making Arena tournaments should be made by chosing from 1 arena run for all players (like everyone has choice from card set 1 from 3 cards, then another 3 etc ...). That would made it really interesting for me... Also ...
"Congrats Reynad on winning your own tournament" - someone doesn't like Reynad :D :D :D