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
Hearthstone Remastered, incoming?
Could the people who come up with HS lore move to the Warcraft team and show them how it's done?
that would be silly, warcraft lore needs to be less meaningless and throwaway
I'd recommend actually reading the article, and his tweets - Alex isn't burned out, and isn't undervalued as a member of his team. He's moving on to a more senior position at another project at Blizzard - likely with Mike Donais, Peter Whalen, and a few other relatively high-profile former members of the HS team. Good luck to each of them.
Well that was sudden, but I'm glad that he's excited for what he's about to work on! Take care and thank you for your work!
Is this good? Is this bad? Does it matter?
Blizzard: "Please enjoy our new expansion, completely free of charge because we love you!"
Community: "tHe gReEEEeeEeeEEEEEdddd!!!"
lol, the downvotes only prove me right. The vast majority of you here are just shit disturbing gremlins that will never be happy with anything.
You said it, not me. With ya man
Every expansion makes them money. They dont do that because they love us. Simple as that.
I also highly doubt that they would release an expansion for free, I was just making a commentary about how the community is never happy.
I honestly believe that since Ben bride left hearthstone has been going in the wrong direction…he is missed for sure!!
Another flees the sinking ship that they themselves helped sink. If only Iksar had gone with him.
I knew it already, by the last expansion it can be seen that he was already burned out and didn't was valued as a staff in this shit company.
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I miss the control deck days.... I hope they come back with the mini-set...
As long as quests are a thing control will be useless. So dont get your hopes up.
Ironically Quest Warrior is supposed to be a "control" deck, but you lose as soon as the Quest is completed. That applys to all Quests. They just mean Insta Loss for the opponent, promoting nothing else than Solitairestone. Just get rid of them altogether, since they are so bad designed.
When the quests first was announced I thought the Quests would almost all be control-oriented. Like... A questline with 3 steps would take "quite awhile" to complete... But nope... Super aggro and face decks it is majority.
Your 30 start health should be able to sustain a few cannon balls. You have at least a handful of turns before you crush them ;)
Except for quest Rogue or quest Druid, whose quests just generate some 1-time value. Only quest warlock, hunter, shaman and maybe mage get significant whole game bonuses that can snowball, quest paladin is similar to old quest rogue and more than manageable by control (because just summoning dudes wont get you the win if your whole deck is cheap weak minions), same with quest warrior. Quest DH basically has no reason to ever complete his final quest stage, so he gets no lasting reward anyway.
For the most part, quests could have been manageable by control decks, but Hunter and Warlock ruined everything, especially warlock whose quest should have never gotten past draft stage, one of the worst cards ever created for hearthstone, and second "banned in wild" card for warlock in a row. Hunter quest comes close second because it just breaks hunter in wild (who knew giving face-quest to a face-class with twinspell face-spells could break the game, wew).
I think they will nerf hunter quest next, changing it to "hero power costs 1" and "deal damage with DIFFERENT spells" to fix twinspell issue, because its basically a much faster raza priest except he does not need to draw 2 specific expensive cards and has much more very cheap direct damage spells.