Dean Ayala on Potential Battlegrounds Reward / Progression System
You may have heard there was a special Summit meeting with the Hearthstone team last month for creators to learn about upcoming content to game, during which we had a chance to sit down with Dean "IksarHS" Ayala for an interview!
As you can imagine, much of that interview dealt with things we are not able to reveal just yet, but there was 1 particular answer that we can share early as a small sneak-peak, and which is highly relevant with last week's big Battlegrounds patch.
If you thought this Battlegrounds Dragons patch was big, it's apparently not even quite as big as Blizzard is aiming for! It would seem the future of Hearthstone Battlegrounds holds not only larger patches, but hopefully an 8 player lobby for friends and tournament organizers as well! And though it may be a ways off given the mode is still in beta, it sounds like we may very well see a progression system added to Battlegrounds in the future. This could greatly strengthen the mode's longevity, especially with fun/compelling player goals to keep things interesting.
Here's our question and Dean's answer, in full:
Quote from Dean "IksarHS" AyalaHearthPwn: Are there any plans to introduce a leaderboard or a reward structure to the Battlegrounds game mode?
Dean Ayala: I think over the next year we have big plans for Battlegrounds. The first thing we want to nail is the content pipeline. Like, how often are we changing things. That can be Hero Balance, that can be content update. I think the content patch that is coming, the Dragons patch, is probably like 75% to 85% of what we would want a big content update to be. So I think in the future you can expect big content updates around the same time you get expansion updates, so every 3 or 4 months. And then in between them we are going to do tons of Hero Balance, tons of card changes and that sort of thing.
Battlegrounds probably launched before it really had that final level of polish. I think it still has the beta tag on it for a reason. So we'd love to add some progression systems, love to add some goals for different players to hit. There’s just a bunch of features that we want to do first, like for instance getting 8 player lobbies, so you can queue up with your friends, but also for organizers outside of Blizzard to also make their own tournaments and broadcast those for people to watch. So that’s really the first feature. We’d love to do more, but that’s going to take some time.
If you liked this interview question, stay tuned as there's lots more to come once we're able to reveal it!
The wording was open to interpretation, "Making it so at least some quests are completed in Bgs" doesn't unequivocally translate to: "can be completed by participating in *both* game modes to meet the quest requirements."So why are you sooooooo "confused"????
One can assume it means what you said.... and one also could interpret it as asking for some quests to be completed specifically in that game mode exclusively similar to Dungeon Run quests... which is actually the argument you would probably want to make in favor of BG Exclusive Quests.
Ok maybe I was being a bit of a dick, but I thought the context made it clear together with the second part of the post you quote.
how about making it so (at least) some quests are completed in bgs ? things like playing cost minions, maybe taking turns don't complete in bgs
Why are people downvoting this? Can y'all read? Nobody is suggesting to make BG EXCLUSIVE quests, only to extend the existing ones to trigger off of BG activity besides wins, ON TOP OF standard activity.
because people that hates bg reaf 2 words and understand 1 letter, what people think out of this is make quest that only battleground can complete, when Tari is saying just, make quests like, play taunts, dragons, turns etc, have the chance to be complete in both modes, but, what can i say, haters hate first, and then hate more.
exactly all I am suggesting is stuff like maybe "deathwing" battleground hero could be counted as a warrior so it checks off "play 3 games as warrior" so I don't have to also play 3 rounds of warrior, or go into constructed and play 10 dragons or take 20 turns when I am doing all that stuff in battlegrounds anyway.
I will be disappointed if we get a Battlegrounds tournament mode before a constructed one
We all have a big expectation from Blizzard new year. But for my part none of them about Battlegrounds :) its the most boring and rng oriented mode.
I can only imagine how much brainstorming they've been doing on how to monetize Battlegrounds, and rightfully so.
They made a freemium game, but since BG came out the most popular part is completely free. Doesn't seem like a very solid business model?
You still have to own packs to unlock 3 heroes to choose from. For me personally, BG looked so interesting that I pre-ordered DoD just for early access to it. It is very addicting. Otherwise I might stop playing hearthstone in all.
I don't want to play BG, blizzard come on( don't tell me BG is your prime goal to make hearthstone better
I don't want to listen to Feylog. Hearthpwn come on( don't tell me Feylog is your prime goal to make hearthpwn better
They have a whole year planned out but want to do other stuff first? Progression and rewards are important. It's why we play for a long time. An update like the recent dragons introduction doesn't stay fresh for 3-4 months.
Nice to see they want some progression in bg.. it sure could add a lot, with better rewards included.. 30 minutes for a single star in kind of bad..