Tracking More Than 500 Wins? Coming Soon to a Hearthstone Near You
Over the years, community members have been asking if we could have Hearthstone track more than 500 wins per hero. It turns out that this will finally be coming to the game, with the limit being increased to unlimited. TRACK ALL THE WINS!
Quote from Ben BrodeWhy do you not allow players to track ranked wins past 500?
Makes it less powerful of a motivator if we add more rewards at 1k. But we decided not to do that, so we are going to add this soon.
There is no cap. Seems like my tweet may have been misinterpreted. (Source)
Adding a reward for doing a thing creates 'extrinsic motivation' do it. If I offered you X for doing Y, and you want X, you might consider doing Y.
If we offer you more rewards for reaching 1000 ranked wins, but you already have 1000 ranked wins, we aren't motivating you do anything. Our options were to cap you at 500, then unleash new rewards at 1k, giving 500 wins of progress towards a new reward, or just letting you count up from 500 now, and not adding rewards at 1k. We decided to go with latter.
I want to point out that I think adding more cosmetic rewards is generally cool. I just don't think 1000 ranked wins is a better place to put them than say, level 70, or in Ranked Chest rewards. (Source)
Why are they focusing on this instead of features we actually want, like the ability to purchase Wild card packs?
yeah because doing those two are mutually exclusive, amirite amirite?
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At 1000 wins I should get a golden Milhouse Manafort or Lorewalker Cho.
I don't understand why it's necessary to keep track of game wins over 500 if there's no rewards on the other side. Furthermore, if players have already won more than 500 games, will Blizzard be able to track that down and make someone's status when this update go live read (For example) "826 Wins"? If everyone had to "start" from scratch (500 Wins), it would be a real drag. Additionally, why to 1000 if we're counting beyond 500 wins with no rewards? Why not let the number rise forever? Giving the number of wins a cap can feel like a necessity to accomplish for some players. I don't agree with this update, I find it unnecessary, meaningless (In its current state), and 500 wins is hard enough.
Thoughts? :o
They have the information regarding the amount of wins you have, they just don't have a way to let you know that info. They have to keep stats and shit for balancing purposes.
WOW, this is such a GROUNDBREAKING announcement, this must have taken SO MUCH EFFORT. Nights without sleep, sweat, blood and tears, all to FINALLY, after years this game has been out, discovering how to make the counter go beyond 500. It really is something worth announcing, the day this feature is implemented shall be remembered throughout history as the day humanity became able to know how many victories over 500 they had on each of their heroes on ranked mode in hearthstone... assuming they won less than 1k games, OF COURSE, let's not be greedy and hope for something so perfect and unattainable as a "simple" counter that goes on and on forever, this is a foolish thought, no programmer could EVER do that.
I sure hope we eventually get a documentary portraying the "behind the scenes" of this epic struggle of increasing the counter's limit from 500 to 1k. No doubt such material could easily win an oscar, being such a tremendous breakthrough in human technology, only comparable to increasing deck slots from 9 to 18. I realise it might be hard to compress months of footage they must have filmed in the process for a short film, but this is the kind of thing that has to be preserved for future generations. My children shall one day know of the noble actions of Ben Brode and his homies, bringing development to us humble, undeserving buyers of packs.
ALL HAIL TEAM 5.
I just used all the irony I had left for the week.
Well done, ty for the smile.
To be fair, if they're making the counter unlimited, I actually AM pretty curious about how they plan to fit stupidly high win counts into the UI. Someone's probably at or approaching 6 digits by now.
I pity you for living such an irony poverished life. Should I assume you are American? I had heard that irony was in short supply in the US, but I had not realised that the situation was so catastrophic. We should immediately launch an online campaign for Europeans to donate any spare irony to reduce the cruel rationing you are suffering.
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Lol, here's the plot twist though. I was being ironic about how I had no irony left too.
I could absolutely go on. For example, I haven't even mentioned how this stupendous technology of going past 500 on a counter should be the one thing we send into space, so when alien life forms find it they too can marvel at our incredible creation (not the rocket, that kind of machinery is child's play compared to the astounding creation team 5 programmers team managed to pull off there). I am actually very surprised all the world leaders, including our crazy fat friend from North Korea, haven't yet declared a global holiday in tribute for the greatest thing humanity will ever achieve in it's entire existence. You can't say much about the future other than we're all going to die one day, but I guess we can all agree that our very last breath will be consumed by our body to activate our brains, so we can remember dearly the day we were blessed with such miracle in the form of a game feature. In truth, if there's an afterlife, it surely will only come for those who pay enough hommage to the very apex of human creations. I actually have no words to describe the feat, it is such incredible thing, legends say the feature actually created itself, and developers are merely it's prophets, this thing could actually be the holy grail, the original cause, that which existed before anything else and caused everything we perceive as reality. Philosophers have always asked the greatest unanswered question: "What is the purpose of life?", and I think we finally found the answer: a counter that goes beyond 500. That's it, stop the presses. Stop universities. Stop Factories. We're done, there's nothing else out there, we've reached the limit, we ended the game of life, all achievements were earned, nothing left to do except waiting for the Great Feature to bring forth it's celestial kingdom.
Should I proceed? Because I can.
And I'm from south america btw.
As if the 500 reward wasn't bad enough!
they decided not to do that, so they add it soon. whaaat?
Just make it go infinite or reset every 1000 wins.
I don't care about more rewards.
This will be like, I have 1000 wins on all heroes!!!!!! so what???!!?!?!?
Maybe a diamond bordered hero at 1000 win? 😄
Not a very big deal in my opinion, but makes my life as a completionist that much more stressful :)
2018 ''We are now considering removing the level cap. Who knows, maybe there is life after 60?''
Whats the point of adding extra Tracking if it only goes to 1000. Why not just show however many wins youve had (Track Indefinitely) seems like a more logical way of doing things..