Developer Interview - Battlegrounds, No 10 Gold For 3 Wins, Next Patch & More
Hearthstone's famous game developer Dean "Iksar" Ayala had an interview yesterday with a Chinese website called iyingdi.
In their interview, they were discussing some national questions, how they should improve their communication with the rest of the non-English speaking community, some Battlegrounds questions, etc.
These are probably the more important parts of the interview:
Battlegrounds
- Junkbot will be moving to tier 4.
- Khadgar & Brann Bronzebeard will be changed to give you only one triple (at first, all tokens will be summoned, then you'll get the triple).
- The next Battlegrounds related patch should be in 1 or 1,5 weeks.
- They have multiple solutions for the reconnecting issue, but because they would have to change the whole system for Battlegrounds only (since Battlegrounds run on the same system as other parts of Hearthstone), It's really hard for them to resolve this issue.
- When someone reconnects, they think that you should be able to see the rest of the animations, which would prevent this whole reconnecting issue, but this solution turned out to be very hard to implement.
- They'll make a few adjustments to the progression system for battlegrounds - mainly to the experience gain throughout the game.
- They don't want to make significant changes to the core of Battlegrounds gameplay in order to maintain the accessibility for returning players.
- Darkmoon Prizes were well received, but the freshness has disappeared.
- They want to update Battlegrounds more frequently in the future.
- They're developing new races with new minions entering and leaving the card pool.
- We'll learn more about Battlegrounds updates soon (probably on Blizzconline).
Misc
- They don't plan on adding back the 10 gold bonus for 3 wins.
Communication
- Iksar wants to have a similar AMA as he's currently doing but for China-only.
China-region
- Bot problem is more serious in China than in any other region.
Iksar
- He learned how to wish a happy Chinese New Year in the Chinese language.
[SOURCE]
PS: Special thanks to ZelKnow once again for bringing this up to our attention + translating some important parts to English.
You are the best at twisting a message. Amazing how you comprehend that message. You must be the kinda people who complain about their government sending aid to other countries when you already have plenty for yourself.
Iksar
Uh, that's... good for him ?
Is it SAD that cliches are right ? x')
Mechs were trash tier because you litterally had nothing beside insane luck to win. And that's what i wanted to see ! I like it !
"No reward because I already have it at each game even when I lose ?! That's mischievous !"
I'd say it was much easier to get gold with the 10g/3w system than current xp system.
Except when you want to experiment with decks and get nothing if you keep losing. At least with XP you always get something.
It only benefits aggro decks but the current system is better for slow decks
It depends.
With a perfect 50% winrate, and 5 minutes per game, aggro decks would get 6 win / hour.
Which means 20 golds per hour.
Which means you'd need to play 5 hours a day each day to get a daily pack.
I do not feel it like a benefit. Especially when half the 5 hours I played litterally were useless with the old system.
5hours?! Wtf? 100g at each 2/3hours here xD Legend in no time and grinding the rest on casual.
Also , less roping bullshit, we had to actually use our brains to play.
Then you're wrong and haven't bothered even trying to compare them.
It is literally impossible to get 100g in 3 hours. That would be 30 games at 100% winrate and 5.5 minute matches for every single one.
Face Hunter is the highest winrate aggro deck rn and it averages 6 minute matches, at a 62% winrate. So assuming you have great net and get back to back matches, that's 30 seconds between games, at a 62% winrate, for about 50 gold in 3 hours, maybe 60 or at absolute maximum 70 gold.
In comparison, the same amount of play would get you the maximum 400 xp/hour for games, which would be a total of 1200 xp for 3 hours, and as 1500 xp = 100 gold, 1200 xp = 80 gold, meaning you're getting 10-30 more gold under the new system for the same amount of time.