Scholar Jaina & Horseman Uther Will Receive Unique Voice Lines In A Future Patch
Blizzard announced that Scholar Jaina and Horseman Uther will receive new unique voice lines in a future patch.
Quote from blizzardWe wanted to update everyone regarding our new hero skins, particularly Scholar Jaina and Horseman Uther. We are planning to add unique voice lines, start of game voice lines, and a couple of other special voice lines to both Scholar Jaina and Horseman Uther in a future patch. We’ve taken feedback on board regarding emotes for those and upcoming hero skins. The next skin, which will be released shortly, has new emotes for all 6 regular board interactions and a few other commonly played lines as well. There will be hero skins in the next expansions associated with their corresponding Book of Heroes chapters that will not have unique lines at launch, but we plan to add them as soon as VO recording allows. Stay tuned for updates here.
Adding context as to how we got here: We started out with the idea of adding skins for our classic heroes that allowed us to get more options for visual customization into the hands of our players at a much quicker than normal pace. We’re confident in the idea behind these skins and they’re already seeing a lot of use within the game. However, we missed here on painting a clear picture of the difference between these skins and the alternate heroes we’ve done in the past, that include all sorts of unique audio and visual effects. That’s something we should have gotten across better and want to ensure that we address in the future.
That's a whole lot of thought and drama over paying 10 dollar for a drawing that's quite mediocre in the first place.
We as a community have won this battle once again. I love you guys, you are the best!
Yes, they should’ve had unique voice lines in the first place. Sure it was them being lazy and they took a while to respond to the criticism. But the fact that they actively listened to us is something I was not expecting.
They had the power to just ignore it all and keep half-assing it since people still bought the skins, but they chose to give us what we actually wanted. I’m sure people will still be mad at Blizzard, but I’m glad to know that they’re willing to fix their mistakes when we make ourselves heard.
Another Activision moment. It's sickening they tried to get away with this.
They only get away with it, if people are stupid enough to buy it.
I'd pay 10$ for the unnerfed Jaina back, I won't be buying these new skins. If new voicelines are the deciding factor for some of you guys, thats cool, have fun with them, but I simply do not care. The last skin that really made me happy was Arthas from beating the Lich King.
It doesn't even need to be called Uther. I mean he wears the helm, you cannot tell if it is Uther or the Headless Horseman. Then just use the Voice lines from WoW
Blizzard treats us like drug addicts. They sell some good "stuff" first like Hazelbark or Aranna and then they lower the quality of their "stuff" (Jaina and Uther) and rely on our "fear of missing out" thingee to continue to buy and keep our collection complete.
Sales were probably low if they decided to update the heroes. They could have done this in the first place if they really cared about their players.
Honesty tho this stuff ain't rocket science with the Uther Horseman skin that's all they literally need to do is have his head twirling in at the start of matches doing his iconic AHHHHAHAHAHA, and it would make a killing in sales.
I've actually kinda thought about that. If they put more effort into Headless Uther, they probably could have increased the price of the pack bundle by like $5, and I think they might have sold even more. Feels like a missed opportunity on their part.
Having said that, I might buy the bundle now that I know headless Uther will be slightly unique haha. Even though I already have Arthas, and I don't even play paladin much these days haha.
That's nice to hear. They are making this change based only on feedback, or it was already planned?
I'm still not a fan of the pre-badass Jaina look, but I'm glad they are going to address it when they can. Unique heroes deserve unique emotes and animations.
Looking forward to seeing what the remaining heroes will look/sound like.
Well, I am glad I got the Jaina skin then. I was disappointed when others mentioned that they reuse the same lines as the original hero but picked it up anyway. Glad that risk worked out for me.
I might as well get the Uther skin too.
Wow a wealthy Company like Blizzard isn't able to release full fledged Content. Letting us pay for a Hero picture. I mean how much effort does it take to record a voiceline and to create an entrance animation for a new hero. now that the people who bought this crap are complaining about it, for a good reason, blizzard is moving his greedy a$$.
I hope that its animations aswell.
Good news. Justice!