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That picture doesn't look like an organized tournament; it looks like all out mayhem. That can apply to any game mode, to be honest.
I think the picture at least confirms that it is not a Cosmetics / Statistics / Achievements button but instead an actual mode. I feel most believed this to be the case already anyways but this just confirms the initial speculation.
A form of tournaments has to be the front runner. Now whether or not it is just a simple "sit and go" format or big tournaments with a varying degree of settings is up for debate. I imagine they will start with a basic scheme and then expand upon it as time goes on.
I for one think it would be awesome to have a poker stars style big Sunday tournament every week to look forward to. :)
I'll go with a Tournament mode that follows a Swiss tournament format.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament
I think that they will reveal something in the E3 coming soon.
While I kinda like the idea of it, wouldn't that take forever? There could be hundreds of thousands of players registered and games can take 20+ minutes. You'd probably get some amount of grace period before you have to start your next match. So, it could be a half hour for each level of the bracket. With 17 rounds they could accomodate 131,072 players but at a half hour per round that's 8 and a half hours. That's pretty insane if you ask me. Plus I'd imagine the first time they do this it could get way more entries than that.
First: Xsplit or Obs would not work on an Ipad or an Android device.
Two: You have to remember to start the recording all the time.
Three: You don't want to end up with 12 minutes recording for a 12 minutes match (which take to much space as it is pure video). With a auto-record built in, the only thing that need to be recorded is small list (cards that were played). When you want to replay it, the software simply goes through the list, and show each move (with a few seconds delay in between). So a 12 minutes match can be showed again in 1or 2 minutes, with small delay between each cards.
But again, once again, we are likely getting tournament mode... Just hope that it is something that will eventually show up.
It'll be Constructed Conquest mode I bet.
You pay an entry fee and submit 3 decks. You then play against random other Conquest players until you either win with all your decks or lose with all of them. Then get rewards based on that.
Either that or Constructed arena style, where pay an entry fee, play any Constructed deck you want and have X amount of lives. You get rewards at the end based on how many wins you had. In fact, it'll probably be the exact same 12-3 Arena scoring (maybe even rewards?).
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Yea, it would definitely take forever. That's a really good point. I remember one of my buddies making it to the bubble in the Sunday Million once and that was 16 hours of playing if I recall correctly haha. A lot would depend on the format they choose for it. For this game it would probably better if the chose one of the following routes for that type of event. Either have satellite tournaments that grant entry to larger tournaments in a season type format or alternatively have a performance system that grants entry based on rank to larger tournaments. That way the large tournaments have dates firmly set in the future and have a limited number of contestants to avoid timing constraints.
That is all a pipe dream though. As I stated earlier they will likely not introduce tournaments of this scale off the bat. A smaller sit-and-go style format makes the most sense to start out with. Have a buy in system of X amount of gold and fixed number of participants.
Example. 8 person Sit-N-Go - Conquest Format Buy In - 150 Gold
Buy entry. Choose Decks. Wait in queue as it finds 7 others. Tournament starts. Top 3 get payouts scaled to total buy in cost less the rake.
That is what I am imaging and hoping from this damn mystery button. Hopefully I don't end up being disappointed. :)
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StaffI hope it's a game mode we haven't thought about yet, something new and original. Safer bet though is that it's a tournament button of some kind.
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Just like WoW, I think it'll be similar to a weekly quest system. It will basically be a constructed tournament you can do once a week. You get three classes and three losses. Top three winners get rewards. You can only do it once a week.
The other option is guild wars. It'll be just like clash of clans. 10 to 20 active members out of 50 who fight weekly. You fight until you get knocked out, the guild with last standing members wins.
Just a button for 8 man sit and go's would change my opinion of the game dramatically. Wherein I do want big honkin' tournaments that could be joined or qualified for, the 8 mans would be the precursor.
If that's what this is, I will completely forgive them for the alternate hero cash grab and would likely buy them as my way of saying I'm sorry.
This would change my Hearthstone consumption from "Finish quest and log off" to a real interest in the game.
1. Sadly for mobile devices there really isn't a good answer to the recording matches.
2. Once you get in the habit of doing it this becomes as second nature as logging into the game itself. Having trouble remembering put a sticky note on your monitor or open up notepad on the computer and leave a sticky on your home screen .
3. You are totally speculating that this is how a record option would be implemented by blizzard in game. I agree if they used your way it would be a lot better and faster to go through games and quickly find key points in a game.
This goes out to anyone that has a desktop or laptop download xsplit or obs if you are interested in recording your games and watching the playback to see where you went wrong. I can't really speak for obs I use xsplit and its very easy to use and free.
One thing people have been neglecting to mention is the negative player experience in casual - it could be some sort of free-for-all solution where there are disincentives for playing super competitive ranked deck. This fits in with the brawl picture, but it doesn't make much sense for this to be a whole new button on the main screen.
Another thing people haven't mentioned is other limited formats, although arena seems to have draft covered pretty well, there is still room for a proper sealed format - (i.e. open 10 packs (maybe some seeded class packs) and build a deck out of them).
That said however, constructed tournaments seem like the most likely answer. HOWEVER, how do they keep the game casual and pick-up and play? They're committed to supporting mobile and tablet players who can't commit multiple hours to a full-scale tournament.
Looking to MTGO Online highlights all the logistical problems that can pick up and where Hearthstone is poorly suited to this kind of system.
I'm intrigued by what solution they've found, and hope for some super-smart surprise one. My best thoughts are to copy the arena model where you have an 8-man knockout/3-round swiss, earning bronze/silver/gold depending on number of wins. I can see them calling it something like "Tavern Brawl" or "Gauntlet" in that case if brackets are not directly fixed, as it wouldn't be a true tournament mode.
Pricing becomes a real issue, as the gamble is far greater than arena where you expect a bit of variation. People are going to want to play this mode a lot, and figuring out the meta is going to be substantially trickier than ranked.
Seem like now you can have more than 100 friends. It goes up to 200 friends. Wondering if it's related.
Speculation over:
http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/blog/19508176