Dean Ayala Asks: What Would Get You Back Into Hearthstone?
Hearthstone's Dean "Iksar" Ayala had a question for those that used to main Hearthstone as a game but no longer do.
What do they need to do to get you back?
We're actually quite interested in knowing too. With many old Hearthstone players still frequenting our site to see what the game is up to or to chat with old friends, there has to be something the Hearthstone team could do to reel you back in?
Quote from Dean AyalaIf Hearthstone used to be your main game but isn't anymore, what would get you back?
Too many nerfs indeed :)
I don't know what would get me back since I'm playing this game as of now after 2 months break. However, I think these ideas would bring most of players back if implemented, which are the reasons why I left this game for 2 months due to these non-implemented features:
Agree on Anduin. They get rid of 'sorry' because of trolling and yet that arrogant little shit still has his condescending 'wow' FFS.
I would like to see "Sorry" emote, too! Personally, I don't use "Sorry" because of BM. Rather, I feel "Sorry" for them, for real.
More of a focus on characters from WoW. Rastakhan's Rumble was a great return to form in that regard, even if Nalorakk and Akil'zon were missing. There's troves of lore characters that can be added to Hearthstone, especially from MoP.
Cheaper packs for developing nations like India. ₹3k to ₹3.5k for 50 packs isn't affordable for a vast majority of Indians. The quantity of Indians should make up for the lost profit per transaction. That's how Walmart operates
Stop nerfing basic cards and rotating classic ones. Just make a smaller core set with cards you'll never touch again (or rotate the core set every 2 years).
Stop printing cards that literally say "you win the game" (like Mechac'thun, Hakkar, DKs) or give you so much advantage that you literally build the deck around them even if they seem to have an absurd downside(Baku and Genn). Make combos more interactive, Hearthstone is a game about trading Minions, not about playing 3 cards and winning instantly after drawing your whole deck. You once said, after the nerf to Warsong Commander, that combos are fine, as long as they don't instantly win the game, then you did all you could to ignore what you said. I get that the team probably has changed a lot, but that's not a good reason to go back on what you said. Just make card simple, but intresting.
And make the dust system less punishing. At least change commons to give 1/4 of their value like other cards.
PS: make Yogg-Saron a core set card, that's the soul of HS.
Rotation..
Ben Brode
Hearthstone 2: Battle Royale
Stop making so many worthless cards in your expansions.
Slow down the power creep, and go back and buff some classic cards. Even in wild, countless cards are utterly useless due to power creep. Look at the Wild Tourney, so few actual wild cards.
Bring back adventures.
Make certain cards obtainable through achievements.
Old cards need discounts for the dust needed to make them.
I upvoted this just for the first point. The Indian gaming market has a lot of potential, but paying ₹3k - ₹3.5k just isn't affordable enough. Also, the game needs to be much smoother than it is.
hmm maybe a aditional option to get dust and quest that award Card (any time of card legen - epic - rare - comm) so that way any player would get more involved with the game apart from the casual ladder
How about actual single player PvE rewards. Free packs, dust, random free cards. Anything!
this should be ongoing. Let me play all of the single player dungeon runs over and over. Give rewards beating all 10 challenges. Etc.
Many free to play games give rewards for playing PvE content.
Once upon a time... several stuff about 2v2 experiences were said, there was that thing called achievement being mentioned quite a lot... Last year B.Brode talked about tournament in game mode... still none of those stuff are in game.... oh and that other thing about extending or not the rewards beyond your 500th win for every class...
In general all of the stuff many people waited but actually got canceled...
The last thing... that is probably only me... I always hoped for some more complex formats... or a sandbox kind of version that you can adjust the rules of the game...
The discounts on packs tho.... those activision kind of ways... You can see that noone is coming back for those ones right?
draft and you can keep cards
new classes sure many would return to play!
- more frequent changes
- make it so that wins in Arena count towards the golden hero portrait
- maybe reward more gold for 3 wins in play mode (maybe 20 gold or sth)
- Genn and Baku should be hall of famed, they massively limit the design space and make the game very stale (never changing meta)
Well, consider that I bought the content for the main game mode. At the time , they had no information that they would rotate it out.
I did not want to play some random secondary gamemode with the money I paid.