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]
It is always about money. Do you really believe that the ranked changes break the game even without A patch?
They want you to play this New brawl or wild arena to consume your in-game currency so it will be possible to gain money from you with the New expansion. How does A player could play brawl or arena instead of ladder? Ofc if there is no ladder, so let's break the ladder then.
We will get our ladder back after wild event, don't worry and play some casuals.
I think you need to take a breath and think about what you're typing buddy. You can still make gold doing casual and arena. If your "theory" was true then they would have taken them offline as well.
This is tinfoil nut-job level stuff.
But there was a patch with it, it just didn't switch to this version until yesterday. And since Casual (plus dungeon run for plenty of people who still happily play that) exists it does not force anyone to put in money at all.
I am not sure why people that play so much of the game to care about a couple of days without the ladder are so aggressively cynical about everything that happens on Blizzard's end.
Free entry: 280g + 1 legendary from pack. Yeah, it's a cospiracy to consume my in-game currency.
Some proper tin foil, lizard men talk this. If you think it makes commercial sense to do what you're on about then you have zero understanding of business in general. Child.
Definitly Illuminati Confirmed. Can't believe what is going on in some people heads...
this is too much of a bad reputation to be intentional...
Why do i imagine blizzard offices like NERV hq during an Angel attack xD
Haha, I wish.
Damn for about the second i believed in that
It's a shame that a thing like this can happen. But as a developer I have to admit that very rarely this kind of shit knocks on a door and flies to your face.
I understand the frustration of the community, but come on. I know I will not be popular after this comment, but nobody could play for almost 1,5 days and everybody have to act like this? You guys really don't have something else to do? I feel really bad for you. Honestly.
By the way I'm sure they will compensate us. This will not give us the elapsed gaming time, but if it will not happen once more, I'm ok with it.
But I'm surprised that they cancelled the stream. It would need Brode (or someone) with a guy and a team which doesn't do any development work anyway (I mean some background workers). In a perfect world they would create a post about the next expansion, but it wouldn't give them enough clicks and hype.
I agree with you.
About the cancellation of the stream, my guess is that the developer team has worked for 24h+ by now (and may still be working right now) so they deserve some kind of rest before they can answer questions on stream. But any guess is as good as mine.
only goes to show how badly you need a PTR
just saying
If only the bming assholes who bring tier 1 decks in casual could cancel their life too.:P But i guess these things can happen only to small indie companies :P
Small Indie Company
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Battlecry: Whenever you win a game, receive a random amount of stars. Then ladder goes offline for 1-99 days. Receive 5 dust.
SMMAAALLLL
This is because they don't unnerfed yogg,
Give yogg some offering bliz
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