Blizzard Cancels the Year of the Raven Livestream Due to Ranked Play Issues
RANKED PLAY HAS RETURNED! Check out the update Blizzard posted in this post.
Due to ongoing issues with the ranked ladder, Blizzard has cancelled tomorrow's Year of the Raven Q&A Stream. There is no note of a rescheduled date at this time. We've been updating our original post with updates as they come out here.
To see the Year of the Raven announcement, check it out here.
Quote from Jesse HillGreetings,
Currently, the Hearthstone team’s primary focus is working to resolve the issues with Ranked Play as soon as possible. You can view the updates on this issue here.
To focus on these issues, we will be cancelling the Year of the Raven developer livestream that was originally scheduled to take place on Friday, March 2. Your questions are very important to the team, and we would still like the chance to address them. If you have any additional questions you would like answered, please still definitely send them our way. You can do so by posting on the Year of the Raven announcement blog found here.
Thank you for your understanding, and we look forward to speaking more with our community soon.
We have implemented a hotfix which should resolve the issues we were seeing with Ranked Play. With this fix in place, we are now working on addressing the accounts of players affected. Once that is completed, we will be able to bring Ranked Play back online.
We will continue to provide updates until Ranked Play is back up. [Source]
because it affects negatively the player experience, and for any game companny this is a terrible situation, and the other games that i talked about, do give the compensation for problems and bugs, and yes they doesn't have control of it. "Bugs happens, so you fix it and try to compensate your players because if they stop playing you lose your job"
It only affects the crybabies that need more dust to craft a legendary negetively
Why there are only 4 people working in HS
All the dumb whiney bullshit memes in this comment section are exactly the attitude that causes them to have to cancel this. If we actually had some god damn civil discourse in the community then maybe they would be able to have an adult conversation with us even when difficulties are happening, but instead they have to shut it down because we're all too big of children and are spamming the FAQ with bullshit they already know about. Im so freaking mad at the community right now. I was super god damned hyped about the stream and its not happening because of us. Not because of them, things break. They know this and are working to fix it. Its because we can't give them an inch of fucking breathing room when things arent perfect for us. If the community wasnt such a shitpile then they'd still have the stream and just open up with apologies and an explanation of what's going on. Instead we get banished to the quiet corner while the adults fix the problem.
I think the reason they cancelled is because they need time to work on ladder, not because us.
xX_Clerk_Xx: "I think the reason they cancelled is because they need time to work on ladder, not because us."
Well now that I got my rant out, I'll take a deep breath and be civil. Short answer: I disagree with you.
Longer answer: While it being Brode and Woo makes what you say have some merit, I'm willing to bet that everything for the stream is ready and if not, none of the people who are working on graphics and video production are helping fix problems with ranked ladder. If Brode and Woo can't step away from the chaos for 45m-1h to do this stream then their management skills suck. They should be able to trust their engineering team to keep working on the problem while they do some community outreach. But the optics of two of the biggest guys in the company doing a live stream hyping whats coming next while the game has one of its biggest bugs ever is bad. IMO, they canceled it for that reason. Admittedly, that doesnt mean its the communities fault. They might have cancelled it anyways just to avoid those bad optics. But, they certainly can't let that be the public perception when the community is in the state that its in.
It was described as a Q&A stream and I imagine it would have been very hard to find questions they wanted to answer among the flood of questions about the ranked play problems.
As for the community reaction to the problems itself, I have mixed feelings. As a player, it's a minor inconvenience that I have to complete daily quests in casual instead of ranked, but nothing more than that. But as a software developer, it seems to me that this kind of issue a) should have been caught during testing and b) shouldn't take so long to debug if proper error detection and logging is in place. Perhaps Hearthstone became a success more quickly than they expected and they never had the time to replace their prototype quality code with robust code, because they're always having to add new features.
You're right that the bug should have been caught. The community is right to hold them accountable. And if they don't make good via handouts, promotions, etc then the community should be as bonkers as it is now **when we get to that point**. But the level of toxicity about everything that happens is insane. We could have held them accountable and still had the stream but we're too busy screaming to realize that our ears are bleeding.
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I wanted to get news of the new expansion :(
Time for ‘murica to get 246 free packs as ‘compensation’.
A computer programmer's ability diminishes with each passing hour after a full workday. Keep them working long enough and they will be making things worse instead of better.
Well live stream would be during work hours anyway...
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Blizzard Entertainment. Their intelligence is extremely subtle...
Hopefully this will stop the tin foil hat people and their theories about Blizzard fucking up ladder on purpose to promote the brawl.
I didn't even know this was a thing.
but i thought execly the same thing. It is a to obvious coexistence...
Haven't been effected by this glitch yet but I'll take some free packs (:
What a bunch of buffoons.