Hearthstone Tavern Talk: Bringing Back Heroes, Balance Frequency, Community Card Art
The Tavern Talk series continues!
- They still hope to bring back some old heroes you can't get anymore. Very fluffy answer here.
- There are disadvantages to changing cards too often.
- They want you to play decks you enjoy and make you feel that your cards are still going to be there tomorrow.
- The art team accepts portfolios if you think your art matches the Hearthstone theme.
Quote from Jesse HillEver wondered what’s goes on behind the closed doors of the tavern? Ava and the crew’s antics aside, the Hearthstone development team works hard on a myriad of tasks to bring you the game you know and love so well. More than that, we also make the time to read about the different issues and questions the community brings to light each day.
Welcome to Hearthstone Tavern Talk, where we’ll share with you answers to some of the questions we see in our community!
What is the Hearthstone’s team stance on adding more or bringing back past Heroes?
We want to keep adding more cosmetic Heroes to the game. Along with card backs, they give players more visual options on how they want to play. We’re also hoping to bring back some of the ones we’ve featured in the past to give a wider audience a chance to get them. We’ve always got something in the works, but for various reasons it does take time to get them out into the game. Meanwhile we’re hard at work ensuring more valiant (and diverse) Heroes can join you on your Hearthstone adventures!
Why doesn’t Team 5 do more frequent balance changes?
Balance changes do some great things for Hearthstone. They reinvigorate the whole meta: people start experimenting with all kinds of decks and trying to find out which ones are strong or fun for them. In addition, there usually are a lot more decks and classes that people can play after balance changes, and this provides a lot more freedom to players to do what they like best.
However there are some disadvantages to frequently changing cards.
- Some people enjoy a meta that has settled down so that they can build a deck to counter the meta. When people are all experimenting with different classes, it is a lot harder to build a deck to counter the meta.
- Frequent changes make your collection feel less solid. This makes it harder to get excited about a specific card or deck you have.
- If things changed every week, players will not have enough time to explore all the nuances of a certain card.
- People grow accustomed to a favorite deck and when that deck is frequently changed up due to balance changes, the player often feels less inclined to trust the game as a whole.
Would you ever be open to receiving card art submissions from players or the community?
We love admiring community artwork for Hearthstone or the Warcraft universe in general. Many of the images you see in the game have been created by artists directly employed by Blizzard, but many more are created by our external art partners. We have reached out to artists like Monica Langlois and received permission from her to publish her Fen Creeper art in the game. We also discovered artists like Wei Wang and Tooth via fanart submissions.
If you feel your art style matches Hearthstone’s, we encourage you to submit your portfolio to the Hearthstone team at artsubmissions@blizzard.com. Remember to have “Hearthstone Art Submission” in the email title!
See you at the next edition of Hearthstone Tavern Talk!
Cheers!
Why does it have to be "every week"???
Bring my dirty Yogg back, and i'll maybe, just maybe, play Hearthstone again.
So in Team 5's mind, you can only do balance changes once every three months or once a week...........guys its not that we want constant changes, we simply want more frequent changes (hint: this doesn't mean once a week.....just more frequently than once every three months or once a year like you've been doing).
Just because Clash Royale does monthly changes doesn't mean that monthly changes for hearthstone will work.
But whenever you nerf/buff a series of cards the meta changes... therefore a refreshed a meta.
Wish hearthstone would do more changes frequently like eternal. Just about every month the meta changes.
HoF-ing 3 cards/year is not refreshing enough imo.
Well this game doesnt only include noobs, legend is a thing for a reason. Something noobs might like pros might not so you have to find a balance.
Instead of nerfing cards I actually just want counterplay. But some cards/interactions atm just doesnt have an answer.
I want a counter card to hand hoarding like dirty rat in the basic set. I want an actual card that resets opponents hero power to basic hero power and i want a silence and destroy a weapon card.
Cards need to have answers and blizzard slept on this. As for now i just play my dayly quest and proceede to play other games but i would prefer to actually have fun in hearthbstone again.
I just want my goddamn Tyrande Whisperwind. Just give it away in a worldwide promotion already
I got mine for $5 on eBay :)
Same..got twitch prime to realise there was a new reward.. been waiting ever since
A format that changed expansions every month would always interesting and would make it easier to craft cards and not disenchant any.
Altough I agree it would always be interesting, how would it exactly make it easier to craft cards? if anything it would make it harder
When I said easy I meant "comfortable" since the meta is always changing you wouldn't have to worry about wasting dust.
I keep re-reading this over and over, I keep agreeing with grmisterX... It would definitely make it harder to craft cards because the meta would change too often, especially when those cards are legendaries and epics.
Yeah no, that would ruin queue times and basically remove an entire class from the meta...
Not to mention it would artificially inflate win rates since everyone would simply ban the class or deck that actually counters their deck.
Just give us ability of banning one class in constructed. I don't wanna play against OP druid so I can ban him! A simple solution for OP decks.
It isn't fun to have one or more decks you like to play randomly get killed (because let's face it most of T5 nerfs are not slight power checks but pendulum nerf ban hammers).
I've already had more than one deck I liked killed due to nerfs and one deck killed due to a bug that has still not been fixed after an unrelated hotfix to fix other cards. That isn't a fun play experience.