Two Expansions and One Adventure Per Year
Polygon recapped their trip to Blizzard a few months ago to discuss the Standard format alongside other community members. We've recapped the important parts below!
Quote from Blizzard
- No longer will set releases alternate between adventure and expansion.
- We will see two expansions per year (start and end) and one adventure (middle). At least for now.
- Ancient of Lore and Keeper of the Grove "maybe those aren't the right choices" - Mike Donais
- Leper Gnome and Knife Juggler are two neutral minions being looked at.
- The move to Standard may be a bit early, but they don't want to get to the point where it feels impossible to catch up.
- Wild was originally going to be known as Legacy but Brian Kibler urged them to make it more Warcrafty.
- Adventures could potentially come back out of "the vault" much like Disney's movies do. (Idea is not mature)
The only thing i find complete bullshit with hearthstone expansions is: releasing sets of 100-150 cards twice a year is fucking expensive, for those of us who don't have the time to farm gold everyday and resort to purchasing card packs and adventures to play current meta. Basically this means instead of paying $25-35 per expansion I'm basically going to be forking out $80 twice a year without a guarantee i will have every card in the set. Ontop of all of this, the exchange rates are horrible atm so eg. 60 packs which is the best deal is $85AUD.... 40 packs for $65 etc.
Im sure im going to get alot of hate for this but for an aussie, that's damn expensive man. thats almost half my rent for the week; put it that way.
The only thing i find complete bullshit with hearthstone expansions is: releasing sets of 100-150 cards twice a year is fucking expensive, for those of us who don't have the time to farm gold everyday and resort to purchasing card packs and adventures to play current meta. Basically this means instead of paying $25-35 per expansion I'm basically going to be forking out $80 twice a year without a guarantee i will have every card in the set. Ontop of all of this, the exchange rates are horrible atm so eg. 60 packs which is the best deal is $85AUD.... 40 packs for $65 etc.
Im sure im going to get alot of hate for this but for an aussie, that's damn expensive man. thats almost half my rent for the week; put it that way.
Keep up the good work, Hearthpwn!
Wild was originally going to be known as Legacy but Brian Kibler urged them to make it more Warcrafty.
Hate to say it but 80% of players played other card games and will be sayin Legacy instead of Wild, why? because in my opinion the same name Wild is kinda childish, and Legasy has a good memmory of the other card games ;) so, it doesnt really matter if the sign will say Wild, every player will read Legacy ;)
tem que nerfar eh essa desgraça de reno isso sim! :(
Legacy > Wild
Kibler < Monkey
I hope Blizzard considers creating the Sealed Draft game mode showcased by Tempo Storm. Hearthstone needs another low cost game mode since I fear that Standard and its yearly double expansions will be too costly for the average player to keep up and stay competitive.
Why not bring back Warsong Commander exclusive to wild? I know it's a basic card but can't blizzard make some changes to include it in GVG or a special case all together.
And all nerfed cards. We have standard, let's make wild unplayable.
Wild is supposed to be wild I guess.
Wild mode - cemetery cards ... or cesspool.
Blizzard... I want more adventure, or I'll get pissed off.
I actually like adventures very much, fuck me right?
Adventures are fun to play as well as relatively cheap as you only need 2800-3500 gold to have EVERY card in the adventure as well as you have fun playing it. 3500 gold won't even make a dent in many expansions due to all the legendarys and epics which will probably cost you 15,000 gold if lucky might be a bit high, but it is going to cost us a lot more gold or money to keep up now which I am not a fan of.
FWIW - 35 packs from 3,500 gold will net all the playable cards from an expansion, assuming one dusts for them, and then begins amassing a larger collection. Both GvG and TGT feature fewer than a dozen playable rares, half-a-dozen epics, and a single legendary (although Justicar is only played in a few decks). Other cards, like Vol'jin, are playable but hardly necessary - most Priest decks don't run him, for example. At BlizzCon 2014, it was mentioned that more than three-quarters of players specialize in only a few classes, so the requirements for being competitive are even less stringent - TGT gave Control Warrior two cards, for example, while Zoo received one. Standard makes it a lot easier for new players to be immediately competitive.
Holy shit, 3 set releases per year?
That is alot imo. Blizzard is really pushing this money machine to its limits.
I don't think it's healthy for the game to change that much that fast.
2015:
spring: Blackrock Mountain
summer: The Grand Tournament
autumn: League of Explorers
Problems?
I don't know. I guess it depends on how you look at it. Expensive for DLC, but cheap compared to MTG.