Developer Insights: Live Stream Q&A – Year of the Mammoth – February 21st
After the announcement of the Year of the Mammoth a lot of people are going to have a lot of questions! Which is why Blizzard has planned another developer live-stream where they will answer your questions about all the planned changes coming with the next Standard rotation and onward.
Tune in February 21st at 11am PST (20:00 CET) on the official PlayHearthstone Twitch channel!
You can leave any questions you have in the comments below, and we'll send Blizzard the best ones!
Quote from PlayHearthstoneWant to learn what’s on the horizon for Hearthstone in 2017? Join us on February 21 at 11am PST for a live Q&A session on Twitch. This week our developers will be reviewing the upcoming changes for Year of the Mammoth, so tune in to hear their thoughts on topics like: set rotation, expansions with missions, and the Wild format.
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- Tweet @PlayHearthstone with the hashtag #QA with your question
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We’ll see you there!
This is the complete list for now. I just mentioned that, so you will know how far out the next set of nerfs will be if there is any. Blizzard likes to wait it out, which is fine as we can solve some of the problems in the meta, but once they made this announcement in early Feb it should have gone live.
How you guys design the balance status of card like piranha launcher, brass launcher, hidden cache, purify etc ? Do you expect it less popular than you think ? The meta is stale because most of cards just outvalued the others and a lot of meta defining card is epic which is hard to get for a lot of people.
As a long time player, sometimes I get tired of HS, and unable to stop because of the daily quest, for example, I miss out a 40gold quest, I have to WIN 12 match to catch up which is the hard thing to do, if your solution is buy packs, I have nothing else to say.
(Will we ever see the headless horseman in the Tavern Brawl?)
Question 1: In a recent Blue Post, Max McCall essentially condemned combo decks for being "non interactive" due to a general lack of minion combat. Will Blizzard begin giving the same view and treatment to hyper-aggressive face decks -- which by design don't even include minion removal but instead focus exclusively on going face?
Question 2: Is Blizzard going to update the tablet/PC GUI so card backs are fully visible at all times instead of only during opponent discovery?
Question 3: Are there any plans to make Hearthstone more F2P-friendly? (We understand Blizzard is a for-profit company expecting to make money, but in its current state, it can cost a LOT of money to remain competitive and keep up with the content.)
When you stop to say: "We think about it." and begin something real to do? When you stop be like the politicians handing out empty promises?
Why not keep the login rewards pemanent? every single other mobile card game does that.. is rewarding players for logging in too much?
Even the crappiest phone game has that daily scalling reward iot would feel good actually to get something for being an active players..
It's a right step but don't make it temporal.... there's an extra 130 card set this year...
Ben Brode should unnerf some cards and rotate them to the hall of fame set.
Molten giant
Blade flurry
Force of nature
About FoN: No. Just No.
I'd like to see a tavern brawl with all of the un-nerfed cards, along with some other funky rules.
The upcoming patch to balance pirates/shaman is coming over 10 weeks after the meta settled into this pattern. What steps are you taking to be able to patch cards faster in the future?
90% of heartpwn forumer feel control meta incoming after STB nerf.
But rise of jade will make control go to hell. nobody can stop the jade because jade only weak again aggro deck.
control from 50-50 vs aggro (Early removal & reno=win ) now become 30-70 vs jade (cancer infinite jade druid, value from jade shaman etc. can only hope steal win when opponent draw bad). nice rants and salt threads about aggro every days. blizzard listen u all should suffer in jade hell. Jade hell seen less when pirates around but will soon become tier 1 deck. nice
Mid jade shaman, Jade druid. jade rogue all will become tier 1. control deck all go to hell. nice!!!! aggro nerf = control suffer more. player nowadays dk what is diversity of deck and balance. they just wan control meta. just know complain about everything in games. they just prefer meta that skip 1-7 turn by using hero power and start drop big legendary every turn to easy win. Who run out removal and have greedy list win
no matter how blizzard change. greedy control deck had no place in HS. nvm let them suffer for 10 weeks jade meta. then they will ask blizzard unnerf aggro. hahahahahaha.
Renolock counters Jade Shaman. Miracle is 50% vs Jade Shaman and beats Renolock. Dragon Priest is 50% or better vs Jade decks. We may even see zoo and Murlock Paladin come back. I'm sure we'll have more diversity than you think.
A oficial tournament mode will come this year? And about skins, they are my favorite collection in Hearthstone, we will see a new pack of alternative heroes in the store?
Can they plan to make golden "Gelbin Mekkatorque" and golden "Elite Tauren Chieftain" obtainable? Being unable to obtain these two cards just because not being a beta player is not a good idea, which also means any player playing post-beta is forever unable to obtain a true full golden collection. This really hurts the incentives of collector players in investing in this game. Being a collectible card game, you should give player option to obtain every card, however hard they are. Besides, cardbacks are used for the spot of showing specialty/privilege/certain event participation, making only two cards exclusively to collection just feels not right. And if "Captain's Parrot" and "Old Murk-Eye" can become craftable after their quest is removed, why can't golden "Gelbin Mekkatorque" and "Elite Tauren Chieftain" be craftable, and they even belong to the same set now.
Blizzard can you offer the option of purchasing complete non-golden sets for a flat price with money? This price would be less than buying packs in bulk to complete an expansion. Cards would be non-disenchantable to prevent farming dust and keep price lower. F2Ps and people that are fine with 40-80% collections can still buy packs as well as those that want complete golden collections.
Adventures were essentially that. Flat price, guaranteed cards, and a fun little PVE to boot.
And guess what? They're killing adventures. For more random trash and filler expansions.
Is there any plans to revamp the reward structure for Constructed?
Right now it's under-rewarding and dull. Seems like there is plenty of room for improvements.
Hearthstone is still not supporting higher resolution than 1080p and ultrawide monitors is there any plans in near future for making a full support for these settings??
Thank you for the support and response to the community needs
Much appreciated
Since the old sets keep rotating out, have the developers ever thought about re-releasing old sets and adventures, so that new players can experience and collect them? Just for example, opening Naxxramas or The Grand Tournament for only a month during a down period.