Lead Designer Alec Dawson Leaves Hearthstone Team
Alec Dawson, Lead Designer Final Design, is joining a new Unannounced Project at Blizzard and leaving the Hearthstone team. His timely updates on upcoming Balance changes will be missed!
✨Career Update✨: Today is my last day on Hearthstone. Working on Hearthstone was a dream but I’ve decided to chase after some new dreams. I’ll be joining an Unannounced Project at Blizzard and reuniting with some of my favorite people. Incredibly excited, so much to learn!
— Alec Dawson (@GW_Alec) October 1, 2021
Lookout for future final comms from @Chakki_HS and @GallonHS. And lastly, just want to say thank you to the Hearthstone community. Working on this game was an absolute joy ❤️.
— Alec Dawson (@GW_Alec) October 1, 2021
Health is not the problem. The problem is infinite value at a cheap price. As soon as the quest is complete you have to close the game because you cant win a value or resource war anymore and because thats how control wins games control is dead. Me with my quest paladin: create 2 4/3 with devine shield for 2 mana (most of the times). How are going to deal with that? Or Priest "win the game" or how about mage "burn you face down" or warrior "minion+weapon+2xping". They are cool but completely bused and the few that are not bused are trash like DH.
Two addons ago already, but UiS was definetly the worst that far.
Does some of you have switched from Standard/Wild to Battlegrounds thanks to UiS ?
It's interesting how people love Ben Brode and hate Alec Dawson when all we really know is Ben Brode is good on camera and Alec Dawson is not. Promote Chakki! :D
Both of them are/were rubbish. I have zero sympathy for them.
One of them literally created the game. Why are u still here?
since the quest thingy start, i haven't touch the standard mode, hearthstone is not it use to be... "fun"
This is the beginning of an end. If the game dies, i hope we get some of our money refunded
We will not. This is stated when u accept the terms.
Agree with this. I won't probably be playing that Unannounced Project when it comes out, considering how the balance and design has gone in Hearthstone over the years...
I think old guys leaving is more concerning than relieving for your argument. As you say the game has come down to a point where it overall feels less fun. The last set of nerfs made the meta a lot better but still there are games where you lose and you feel miserable. And that trend started to happen as more pro players and general hs personalities like Cora, Galon, Chakki and BoarControl joined the team.
Hiring shit kids with no experience instead of real developers that studied a lot in university and other courses in their lives, really shows how much Blizzard is going to shit nowadays and doesn't care about quality staff, games or behaviour as stated in previous scandal. Savaging anything they can before die. Real Zerglings.
You act like it was something bad or done against his will. It's just a transfer. From his point of view, not much will change, he's still working for the same company, just on a different project.
That said hopefully it's good news and we can get some better card balances again in future sets.
Maybe this is for the best. I think a question blizzard stopped asking over the last year is "Is this card fun to play against?" Sure it's fun killing your opponent by turn 6 with quests or dumping a board full of carnival clowns, but it's not fun to have that done to you. I remember in FitB, the only deck that felt fair to play against was rush warrior.
I hope the new guy understands BOARD INTERACTION
He's probably working on that HS spin-off game from rumours...
HS is a WoW spin off. They dont make HS spin offs. Does not make sense. More likely is OW2 because they need people there to get it ready for next summer and D4 in general.
Then you surely don't know the rumours that clearly say about HS spin-off.
So they make a spinoff... of a spinoff... and thats the rumor... ah yes makes sense.
Fun Fact: The Unannounced Project is Starcraft Ghost