Blizzard Responds to Community Outrage on Purify
There has been outrage in the community over the weekend after Purify was revealed. It has lead to jokes, memes, countless threads, and a few big-time Hearthstone community members made videos addressing the card.
Iksar stated on reddit that they were already happy with the options Priests were getting from Karazhan through Neutrals and because of that wanted to try something different.
What are your thoughts on the matter?
Quote from /u/IksarHSWe've had similar articles in the past about design stories for particular cards, I think the most recent one I remember discussed all the design iterations that Yogg went through. Card designs have a number of different goals, sometimes those goals are immediate competitive play and sometimes they shoot for something else. Things like flavor, arena viability, or sprinkling in tools for a new or existing archetype. In smaller sets, it can be a little risky to take a gamble on a new toolkit because there are fewer cards to work with. In the case of Priest, we were pretty happy with the amount of options the class was getting from neutral (Barnes, Curator*, Medivh, Dragon Cards) to do some testing with a new archetype that Purify could be a part of. In my mind there is some positive to the outcry over Purify because I think people will definitely try it out and report any successes/failures/stories they had building and playing a 'silence your own stuff' priest. None of this is to say anyone is wrong in their feedback, but just to communicate some of the ideas surrounding a card design. Hearthstone is important to all of us, and we're trying to do better in terms of communication and understanding what different communities (like this one) are most interested in. I've been happy to be here and have a conversation about what you all want from the game, thanks for being so passionate about it. :D
So... they said nothing in this post... Why they couldnt say? ---- Yes the card sux, we will rebuild it!! Thanks for advising us...
It could be so simple, and everyone will be happy!!! Just change the card to cost 1, Silence any card and buy a card!!!
i played handlock before the molten giant nerf, silencing an Ancient Watcher on Turn 2 was a really strong play, we probably could see a more midrange version of priest in the future
yeah, but it cycles itself.. its no different than playing a hypothetical 4/3 minion on turn 1, and buffing it to 5 health with pw:shield. an on turn 3 priest can finally make hero power useful by healing this minion back to 4 or 5 health after it trades with a 3 or 2 atk minion. then they can safely transition to their 4 mana minion of choice.
Yeah, that is Assuming 1. you start with coin (already poor position), 2. You have both cards and waste coin on ancient watcher (lol). 3. On turn 3 you have acolyte, or your hero power is pretty terrible tempo. 4. All that time enemy have no way to deal with your play and does not see it coming to play around it, since otherwise you lose every turn.
It's a 4/5 yeti with 1 card draw.
Not buying this expansion and giving Elder Scrolls Legends is the best thing I can do to tell Blizzard they're full of shit.
in World Of Warcraft Purify is spell that removes all the debuffs on a friendly target, so why not making the card like the lore + drawing the card instead of silencing your own minions which sucks if your minion have an effect on it...
As a community we need to protest by not buying the new adventure so blizzard actually dose something about this sick joke.
Just to elaborate on my post.. I've been playing Hearthstone since beta and its maybe the most consistent fun game in my life but this card alone is making me lose hope. If Blizzard doesn't do something about this i don't think i see much of a future with this game anymore and it might mean its time to move on to better things. Fuck you Blizzards dev team i thought what we had was special :*( sigh...
I feel your pain. I will be purchasing this adventure only because I've been hoarding in-game gold. Not sure if I will ever spend a real penny on this game ever again. I've already started to save up on dust for the next expansion.
lmao. Go ahead and quit over a card or a class. Jesus you sound like Reynad when he rage-quit his live stream the other night. Just go already then. So much damn crying revolving around Blizz games; it's stupid. /endrant
"I always wanted to make my own minions worse... *laughs*"
/facepalm
Yes I noticed that when watching it live.
- The audience reaction
- Frodan (who I assume is being paid by Blizzard) can't hide his disdain in both his reaction, reply, and knowing look at the audience.
It's good that at least the developers are aware of the response, and indeed posted to indicate so.
But that's the most positive thing I can think to say. The response was, well, lacking at best. It should have at least said they would monitor the release and make changes as appropriate to Purify or Priest in general if the class continues to be virtually absent from both Tournaments and an approximate 40% + win rate on ladder (which it will).
It doesn't matter what classes are liked or disliked by players, all of them need to be viable. A failure to ensure that, or at least be willing to make changes to ensure it are game balance and design failures.
edit: the 40% figure was one I picked out the air to make my point - I'm not necessarily saying exactly 40% but simply viable in competitive play at high and low levels just like all other classes should be,
LOL I like how Frodan goes "........Huh" in other words duh fudge is this ?
Ha ha, I thought that was funny as hell. Just classic commentary.
Crafting The Beast in 3, 2, 1, ...
So an 8 mana 9/7 that requires 2 cards and draws a card? Isn't Ragnaros just better?
So a 9/7 minion and 2 cards combo for 8 mana? How is that better than Ragnaros?