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They should announce the expansion on July 24th, and keep announcing some cards every day until realese on mid august.... a perfect balance between the aproaches

 I'd almost prefer that to this here some cards, now wait two weeks before we talk about kkthx

 

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They should announce the expansion on July 24th, and keep announcing some cards every day until realese on mid august.... a perfect balance between the aproaches

 I'd almost prefer that to this here some cards, now wait two weeks before we talk about kkthx

 

 This. I'm not saying they should dilute their reveal, I'm just criticizing their 2 weeks of absolute silence because of an announcement made too soon.

TOO SOON BEN BRODE, YOU ANNOUNCED THE EXPANSION TOO SOON

I would have done 3-5 card reveal every week all at once then rain the rest in the final week.

I would have been ok with more than 2 weeks gap like they're doing now if the initial 5 cards were actually exciting. They're not.

All those cards are so bad that it kinda killed all my hype with such a big gap. It's going to take some really interesting new cards on July 24 to actually get me excited again for the new expansion.

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As I have mentioned elsewhere, they have now created hype about when the hype will start.  For example, a three page thread by fans about when the hype should start.  Precisely what Blizzard wants...

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Now, however, we get 5 cards announced (including 2 Arena-type-fillers) and a brand new mechanic, followed by plain nothing-at-all for at least 2 weeks. Ben Brode and his team seem to think it is better this way, although I don't see any open poll / question asked to the community, hence this thread.

Blizzard claims people lose excitement when cards are revealed to early.  But lets be real, the just want to have as much possible testing time before release so they can tweak problems cards at the last minute and avoid another Crystal Core

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As I have mentioned elsewhere, they have now created hype about when the hype will start.  For example, a three page thread by fans about when the hype should start.  Precisely what Blizzard wants...

Not sure if complaining about how blizzard does reveals counts as hype?  It's at least a buzz.  Hype though?  I see more trepidation with the cards they actually showed.

 "Any publicity is good publicity."

The fact that we're still talking about this expansion isn't going to change their minds. If anything, this just proves that we're getting more angsty to see some cards, which is essentially hype.

So yeah, we fell right in their trap.

As badly as I want to see new cards(so badly), I have to admit that there's not much of a building "fever pitch" when there's a steady stream of cards. Un'goro was exciting, but it wasn't a massive deal in that last week until the release happened. Blizzard wants there to be a buildup of excitement, not what they observed, which was a kind of preeeeeeetty good excitement, but just pretty good.

I'd like to see how this method of reveal works, maybe trickle out a few more cards between the initial reveal and the first big card dump for next expansion.

I would like a surprise dump, honestly. No announcements of announcements of announcements. Just dump most of it within a week from the expansion launch, along with the trailer and the video of Ben and the other currently death-knight'd dev (sorry, I'm feeling a bit lazy to look him up) explaining shit. Assuming the power-level isn't Gadgetzan-level of stupid, players would be all over the place with the new cards for quite a while, and it would be a very pleasant surprise.