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We heard you wanted a card back this year so we put in two card backs.
One card back is available with your virtual ticket purchase and a second one is available as a part of the BlizzCon® Premium® Upgrade® Package® for an additional $29.99. You also will received 10 Goblins vs Gnomes booster packs with your BlizzCon® Premium® Upgrade® Package®.
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Blizzard will try to keep up with Valve and boost revenue by selling hats for Jaina.
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that is actually better than golden marin, you can at least dust this guy...
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For hunter, i won buffing Hyenas.
For Warrior, I started using Alarm-o-bots, but couldn t win. So I changed to a strange version of Tempo/Armor Warrior and won on my second try thanks to Frothing Berseker and Greater Mithril Spellstone
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Hey fam, got your synopsis here...
0:00:25 Covering that they dont have a guest this week but Chanman is happy that Gaara's camera is so clear that they dont need a guest. Not sure what was happening with this comment but it made Chanman laugh. Vehement denial that guests were demanding to be paid hourly to come on.
0:01:55 Chanman puts Gaara on the spot, asking where he finished last season. Gaara comments it wasnt well, needing sleep, and something about having to help his mom highlight her hair. Chanman comments on finishing top 20 or its not worth playing. Assumption is he means rank 20.
0:04:05 Gaara makes a list of everything that Shudderwock shaman can beat. This goes on for some time, and in great detail. Somewhere between Undertaker Hunter decks, the 8th circuit court, mods on Reddit, and Pot of Greed Chanman asks Gaara if he's ever done auto-reverse on underwear when he runs out of clean ones.
0:04:51 Gaara steps away from the camera. He comes back in and answers 'yes'.
0:07:44 Gaara's mom comes in. She's ticked off. Like really ticked off. They talk in some foreign language, but it's clear she has a southern accent. The words 'Doritos', 'fish chocolate', and 'beef balloon' seem to come up between them often during the yelling.
0:05:01 Gaara calls his mother a 'smorc'. She points to the camera, says 'PLACID DUCK SMASH' and swings something. Gaara's camera goes out.
0:15:04 Chanman discusses aggro in the current meta intelligently, while you hear muffled screams from Gaara's feed.
0:34:48 Gaara comes back to the feed in different clothing. He expresses his thoughts on aggro decks. Chanman immediately agrees, contradicting the last 15 minutes of discussion.
0:45:38 Gaara's mom comes into Chanman's feed. She says sternly in Somali, "oog dooga mooga boog as roog". Chanman's feed goes out as he says, "Mrs. Gaara, I've dont smorc my carpet ulcers"
0:55:09 Gaara puts together some of the most insightful comments about the EU playoffs, and the new meta shift making counters to decks more extreme, and midrange decks suffering because of it.
0:56:21 Gaara's mom comes back on the feed. Chanman is now in Gaara's feed.
0:59:37 Chanman and Gaara discuss how to kill players playing aggro decks. No joke.
1:11:40 Discussion about online betting on video games, and crypto currencies.
1:28:14 Gaara's mom shuts off Chanman's feed.
1:29:22 Gaara and Chanman look pensively at each other, type something on the computer and slowly move out of frame.
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Raza was very similar to Keleseth. One early battlecry, and you are permanently at a disadvantage until the game ends. Aviana/Kun BS can be disrupted more easily because it comes later in the game and a Dirty Rat can ruin it in several ways.
Besides... With Jade Druid still existing and festering like a malign, unterminable tumor despite nerfs, there were clearly better contenders for nerfs by the time the rotation hit.
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Quote from murloc_leader >>belgium is just stupid. how long has hots and overwatch been in belgium? 2 or 3 years idk? the point is those games have been there for some time but now EA fucks up with battlefront2 loot boxes and suddenly everyone thinks every loot box in every game is teriible
There's a technique that countries like to do to companies when it comes to regulation. When a company goes to far, such as create games like Night Trap and Mortal Kombat, the government steps in and makes an ultimatum: self-regulate the problem or we'll step in.
For the record, the above example resulted in the gaming industry self-regulating via the ESRB. Note that the system is NOT government regulated in the US: there's no actual LAW requiring games to be rated or for stores or people to actually give a care about it. But the gaming industry self-regulates it and pushes everyone else to follow it.
(the movie industry is the same way btw. A 9 year old is legally allowed to watch a rated R movie, but no theater is going to let you anyway).
Loot boxes are really a VERY big issue going on right now, and that actually does include F2P games. Yes, no one forced the child to buy $10,000 worth of random stuff on Clash of Clans. However, as I would put it, me being an idiot and leaving the keys in my car doesn't give you the right to steal the car. The companies that run these gacha/loot box systems not only know that many are getting addicted and dumping far too much money into them, but they are encouraging it and tailoring their games to help breed the mentality in their players.
And it's not required for the industry to run these things. Yes, games are expensive, but so are the revenues from their sales. Other industries, such at movies or music, fantasize over the profits the gaming industry draws in, and that's without counting microtransactions. It's good profits. It's just not as good a profit as a F2P game like hearthstone or fire emblem heroes. And the idea of combining the two is a dream many in the industry would love. But it's not required.
The voices that decry loot boxes now never loved them. Even the ones in Overwatch. What's changed is that enough of the community got a taste of the loot box life in 2017 and rejected it. In particular, the Star Wars community, who was already reeling over the issues of the first game got a taste of it. And a bad taste.
A lot more people who weren't part of loot box life now know of it and hate it completely. The folks who accepted Overwatch's system still do but most aren't going to go to arms to defend it. The folks who hated it from day 1 see this as the chance to change the fate of Gaming and are doubling down.
Meanwhile, governments did their "self-regulate or else" statement. And the response, which I got to see as it was happening, was "nothing's wrong, we don't need to do anything".
And here we are.
As far as why note Hearthstone? Probably because this wasn't an all encompasing report of activision-Blizzard or the industry as a whole. The government was given specific games to look over, judged based on those games, and acted on them. Belgium doesn't isn't exactly have a "department of E-gaming" to deep dive over the nuance of everything. To which Team 5 is probably thankful that the rest of Blizzard didn't raise a fuss over the matter.
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Hey guys I got the synopsis right here:
0:00:00 - Opening and welcoming shadybunny. Gaara looks like he's trying to a fart. Shadybunny is obviously not prepared for this.
0:00:33 - Chanman challenges the viewers to hold in their farts for the length of the video as a joke. Shadybunny laughs, obviously not aware of what he's dealing with.
0:01:11 - Discussion about Shadybunny's marksman glasses he's wearing. Chanman asks if it helps. Shadybunny pauses and comments that glasses wont help him get past rank 20. Discussion on explaining contacts vs glasses to Chanman.
0:01:55 - 0:02:08 - please guys watch just this part. Gaara puts on sunglasses to be like Shadybunny and Chanman goes full retard looking for things to say.
0:04:04 - It becomes evident to Gaara while Chanman is rambling on about hotdogs being sandwiches that he has overtrusted the fart from earlier.
0:07:02 - Weekly review of everyone's week. Gaara talks about having a bad week with control decks, but couldnt level much because his mom grounded him for not taking the trash out. Shadybunny realizes what this show is and logs onto Fortnite.
0:13:32 - Shadybunny explains his switch to Standard from Arena, offering Gaara to move to Arena from Standard as he'll find easier excuses for losing tournaments.
0:28:45 - it's been almost 15 minutes since Shadybunny has spoken. His screen is obviously flashing and changing, further confirming the dude is alt tabbed both literally in figuratively for this show.
0:32:09 - Gaara's camera has now moved approx 3 inches closer to his face from the start of the show.
0:33:53 - They discuss Malygos for at least 10 minutes. About 8 minutes into it Chanman realizes Malygos isnt a Pokemon card.
0:44:24 - They ask Shadybunny what was the worst decision he's ever made in Hearthstone. He says Valuetown episode 182. Chanman laughs for the next 4 minutes and Gaara continues to move his camera closer to himself.
0:51:38 - Discussion on quest rogue balance. Gaara comments that Blizzard doesnt care about balance of the game as much as they do about the length of these videos or bookmarks.
0:58:51 - Argument of over or under for toilet paper and which technique is used by people that play Druid. Agreement reached that people that play quest Rogue dont wipe.
1:04:33 - Chanman comments that people that play Shudderwock shaman put cat food in their spaghetti. Shadybunny's glasses clearly show a reflection of "Victory Royale" at this point.
1:13:30 - Q&A submitted asking Chanman if he's ever reached legend. Gaara now has the camera less than an inch from his eye. Shadybunny begins talking to the wolf drawing on his wall.
1:26:23 - Gaara's camera is now down his shirt. Chanman checks twitter for questions, and there are none. He asks if we should just have some nerfs in a month. It's not clear if he's talking about Hearthstone cards or these videos.
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I'm pretty sure hearthstone is not going to change just because there's a difference in terms of how packs and loot boxes are perceived. Like sure they are both basically the same thing, with packs actually being more viscous in terms of how important the rare drops are, but going after packs in hearthstone only would spiral more things out of control. Going after packs is basically the same as going after any card game, and in the 25~ years in which most card games have been around, this isn't really an issue. Granted this could be because of a secondary market that Hearthstone lacks, but I still don't think they are going to go after packs the same way.
Not to mention of course if belgium bans buying packs, that literally puts people that live in belgium in a disadvantage if they were to want to get cards faster.
Blizzard doesn’t sell packs in China any more.
They sell dust. And give out packs as a bonus.
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I have whizzbang :) he is a very good card
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Good question. I think that it has the potential to be consistent: a 10 mana play Florist + Tar creeper with floop, faceless and maly in hand (and a shitload of armor) can make it that we spend only 4 (0-mana faceless+floop), 5 (0-mana floop+faceless), or 6 (2-mana maly + floop and no waiting an extra turn) mana for 2 malygos, therefore dealing 34 dmg with 1 swipe and 2 moonfires. Im already excited lol.
EDIT: I had completely forgotten about the biology projects. WTF druidstone again nicee.
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I think this list might be too greedy. Id take out une cope of each Dreampetal Florist and Juicy Psychmelon and the Gloop Sprayer, and add instead some taunt package (Stonehill Defender. Tar Creeper, the 3/6 druid taunt, etc). Otherwise you are relying too much on drawing Spreading Plague before an aggro deck mauls you to death.
I'm excited for Druid, tho.
EDIT: I realized that oaken summons can tutor floop, so that's a no go.
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Finally the second Flurry I accidentally crafted will come in handy.
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Seems reasonable. Thanks!
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It can be understood through thorough thought, though.
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Got 4 from bunny and I got a third amalgam, a first book of scepters or whatever, and a second night prowler; the rest was dust. Not so bad bc it was free
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Guy's smart: PhD student of organic chemistry.
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Bunnyhoppor cleared the group stage! That's 2 packs for me folks.
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hunterace, Frozen, SamuelTsao.
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I feel sometimes that ChanManV and Gaara are in completely different levels of understanding HS. I feel that the discussions would be more to the point if ChanManV understood the game a bit better: I did not like the discussion about how the archetypes should be redefined in HS only because some decks are not really what we are accustomed to. They are archetypes for a reason: they will not exactly fit the description of every deck but at least the general idea is what categorizes them.
I agree with Gaara that often the casters do not properly cast because they have no idea what's going on during matches. I fel that Blizzard would rather make the casters fol around instead of actually explaining what is going on. I watch the tournaments to understand what plays are being done and which decks are better under which circumstances, not to see some dudes get paid to tell inside jokes