Their main purpose is to hype more players who didnt preorder RoS yet. No one of those streamers will find best deck anyway because they will not play vs horde of aggro and other players on real ladder so they can not refine perfect lists. It is just smart advertising for Twitch audience.
Well if those recipes are any indication of hyping people up then it fell flat those are the most boring recipes I have seen in a long time. To bad I can’t disenchant wizbang he not even worth it right now.
I am not a Blizzard fanboy, I haven't even preordered the expansion , I will craft the cards that I want , that I think they will be fun and not netdeck as I think the 90% of the accusers of the twitch stream in this thread do.
So, why exactly the stream was bad? Of course everyone can feel a little envious that he couldn't try at the same time as the pros to theorycraft and have fun, but I have a word for you. PATIENCE. I watched like 2-3 hours of the stream and I think it was pretty fun. Especially seeing Kripp cosplaying Jaina was hilarious lol.
Now let's talk with facts:
1) At some point of the stream there were 90k people watching...what? People theorycrafting? The latest Magic gathering tournament gathered at its peak 120k for watching high quality content battles and it was a very well organised stream. I play mainly Hearthstone but I have to give them credits. So, not that much less people to watch some other people just having fun, AND NOT COMPETING. Do you know what is that? It's hype for the new expansion and stale for this f boring stale meta.
2) Blizzard's preorders I am sure highrocketed after the theorycraft stream. I will not preorded just because I have a decent amount of gold and dust to create like 60% of the cards and leave what I don't want outside of my crafting pool.
3) Let's go to the hot topic....You wanted to have fun theorycrafting your own decks? Really? There are trillions posts already about theorycrafted decks and there are comments on them, so people are searching-exchanging ideas, which I fine pretty healthy. People are going to netdeck pros? REALLY? this is happening from the beginning of Hearthstone because people are either lazy to craft their own, or have limited dust amount, or they just want to play the top tier decks just to win. I just described 90% of Hearthstone players , so 90% of twitch stream accusers here, are probably netdeckers, which are complaining like crybabies that they couldn't theorycraft on their own when they are going to do THE EXACT SAME THING(netdecking on of the pros from their twitch stream) right after expansion launches.
4) It's not like hackers hijacked every electronic device out there and you were unable to shut them down as well. You could just not watch the stream. Accusing a stream but still watching it , it's like accusing companies making chocolates that you eat that they are to be blamed that you get fat, and not accuse yourself for eating them. Grow up.
5). That was a wall of text but I can't stand stupidity , and I can't stand netdeckers as well. I will go play with my Tess Rogue, Dragon Hunter, Shudderwock Battlecry shaman(not elemental) and the other homebrew decks without accusing Disguised Toast for stealing my ideas.LOL
This is pretty largely right-on, save for the disdain for netdecking.
The preview stream is marketing, it's low-stakes fun, and it fills some of the empty space between the final reveal stream and the new expansion's actual opening.
I agree with the OP, it takes the magic away a bit.
Well if those recipes are any indication of hyping people up then it fell flat those are the most boring recipes I have seen in a long time. To bad I can’t disenchant wizbang he not even worth it right now.
I wish I'd just said this in the original post! It's gotten way too convoluted
This is pretty largely right-on, save for the disdain for netdecking.
The preview stream is marketing, it's low-stakes fun, and it fills some of the empty space between the final reveal stream and the new expansion's actual opening.
Was your 69th upvote, and proud of it. :)
Hey. =)