Update 4:24 PM EDT: Official patch notes are listed below. No mention yet of a free packs event.
Hearthstone Patch 5.2.2 - Free Packs Event?
A new patch has been pushed the the live servers. Within it, an activate flag was updated under an event!
- set_rotation_2016_free_packs is no longer set to None but rather "set_rotation_2016_free_packs"
We aren't certain what this means but we'll update if we find out!
Official Patch Notes
Quote from Avarius
- We fixed an issue that prevented some players from starting a game
- Morgl’s hero power is now correctly animated
- Your quests should now display correctly
- [Mobile] Performance has been improved for mobile devices and tablets
- [Mobile] Those pesky vines that could show up during the mulligan phase have been pruned from Standard icons
- [iOS] iPhone SE should now display the correct UI
- [Apple] Addressed a crash on iPhone 6 Plus and Mac devices
I know right, a gig is just insane and takes so damn long to download! The world has clearly ended!!!1! /s
It takes me an hour to download that with my internet speed :/
pfft. with my internet speed it takes me at least 2h to download :(
Nobody said that? For some reason PATCH IS NOT OUT FOR IOS USERS. Why?
Probably not, but it could be free GVG packs to encourage players to play wild, since it's a bit dreary there at the moment.
it's nice that blizzard does these promotions like receiving free packs for new expansions, just like WOTOGs (13 free packs). Hope it happens again
IIRC, that was the first time they gave away actual free packs, and not a promo for buying (or "buying") something like a Samsgung Galaxy S4+, or signing up for the Crunchy Roll trial.
could it be that the change set_rotation_2016_free_packs = set_rotation_2016_free_packs is just changing it so it reads the value from a server config file instead. So they have ability to re-use this toggle without patching in the future? They can change the value on the server side at a moments notice maybe to add free packs on rotation of any new sets being introduced. Maybe?
3rd (or is it 4th) huge patch in a month?
Where is the patch? I'm on iOS and I can't see the patch on the updates.
set_rotation_2016_free_packs
In set rotation of 2016 Naxxramas and GvG cards were rotated out. Maybe we'll get free GvG packs? If we got Standard cards, it wouldn't make sense to mention the set rotation.
I am not sure what I was thinking - Thank you for correcting
Sets that will rotate out next spring: BRM, TGT and LOE. Only basic, classic and this year's stuff will remain in Standard when the first expansion of 2017 is released. Unless they change the rotation system, that is.
GvG was a December release too, it only lived for a year and a few months before being rotated out. Of course nobody even knew about Standard until recently.
Yes, and LoE came out in 2016, so it leaves in 2017
LoE came out in 2015... I thought it came out in early 2016