Ben Thompson Has Left The Hearthstone Team
It appears that Ben Thompson has left the Hearthstone team, we can tell by his latest additions to his ArtStation portfolio where he's mentioning his departure from the Hearthstone team.
Quote from Ben Thompson
"This logo was bitter-sweet as it would also serve to close out my tenure with the Hearthstone team and the game that had come to mean so much to me over the last decade."
- Ben was working on the Hearthstone team as a lead artist and he was responsible for developing and maintaining the style of the game throughout the production.
- Throughout the years, Ben created a lot of familiar cards, expansion logos, game-boards, card backs, and many more.
- Some of them being -> Leeching Poison; Eydis Darkbane; Light's Sorrow; The Coin; Gallywix's Coin; Band of Bees; Shut up, Priest; The Hunted
- Ben also created our favorite SMOrc hero -> Rexxar
- If you want to see his portfolio, where he's talking more about each piece of his work, you can do just that by clicking HERE.
There is also Ben's tweet about his departure from the Hearthstone team:
Quote from Ben ThompsonI actually left the company two weeks after BlizzCon last year and just didn’t make a big exit of it. I miss the team and of course the game as I saw it as my child after 11 years, but it was time to hand the reins to others and try something new again.
Thank you so much for your passionate work on our favorite card game Ben, you will be missed!
I kind of knew he left when I stopped seeing him in the videos, people really don't need to be surprised
Ummm this is discouraging....
A long time creator left the works his liked.... without much sign on what he does next
If he has left already last year after Buzzcon, this may mean a dropping profit, and some changes are brewing underneath since then. May be too much speculations....
so... hearthstone team is disBen-ded?
Why is the Ben always gone?
Joke’s on him. I left hearthstone before him.
So ?
And who was him?
Has created such cards as The Coin; Gallywix's Coin
That right there is some solid work.
Recolor is a rare talent!
I Dont know him and i don’t care
That's sad... every member of a development team needs appreciation too!
They make the game appealing and fun!
Bye Ben Brode!
At this point you can just compare Blizzard to the Titanic.
That's what merging with Activision turns you into, a gigantic sinking ship.
That explains the slight change in general style of the content they produce. A bit more polished characters which almost look like made out of sugar dough, vivid colour schemes and such. I'm more than fine with that.
The complexity of game boards are recently declining tho. That will be surely missed.... :/
It's amazing. All they do is complain. And when the expansion gets revealed, they're the first ones to get hyped. And of course, when it finally releases, they're the first ones to complain because "iTz Br0kEn" and they can't rank from gold...
You people are relentless.
True money isn't everything but its part of living and sometimes people get bored of working at the same place for a while.
I wonder, there is so many important people that left HS team past few years, but there is absolutely no information about new ones.. So, are there any new team members?