Yep. Guarantee in about a year after release we'll be seeing new class types (Death Knight?), or maybe new heroes to be your avatar (Magni BronzeBeard for Warriors?).Eldritch Warlord said:
Hearthstone is Not Magic, But I Love It All the Same
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I'm already totally bored and sick of Hearthstone and I haven't even played it. TB, Jesse Cox, and Crendor uploaded an absurd amount of Hearthstone and I'm just totally burnt out on it.
I feel like by time the game actually comes out it will be so overplayed, over broadcast on twitch, and saturated to the brim in Youtube content no one will actually care. I'm having more fun with Duel of Champions right now, personally.
I feel like by time the game actually comes out it will be so overplayed, over broadcast on twitch, and saturated to the brim in Youtube content no one will actually care. I'm having more fun with Duel of Champions right now, personally.
Constructed Hearthstone players have access to a total of 381(?) cards. Less, if you only consider the card pool available to a single class.[email protected] said:
Type 2 (read: only the two most recently released blocks and the only fair comparison) constructed Magic the Gathering players have access to a total of 1346 cards plus the basic set of 200 odd cards. This does drop down by 400 cards when a new block is released and the old block fazes out of the tournament legal type 2, but that still leaves you with about triple the cards that Hearthstone has access to.
Even scarier is that MtG releases a new set every four months. With three sets in each block, that means a new block every year.
Don't get me wrong, I love Hearthstone. I watch streams very regularly of the lucky few who got invites and I think the rules are a lot more elegant than MtG's but well... blizzard's track record with new content is absolutely abysmal. If they keep the same rate of new content in Hearthstone as they do in their other games, which is a non-trivial "if", since card-games are not pc games, but if they keep their same, abysmally slow content schedule then the game will be fairly shortlived.
Basically, Blizzard will need to release a new hero four times a year to offer the same variety in options as MtG. I think it unlikely that they will, but I'm hoping they do.
Magic is a tad too expensive of a hobby for me. Hearthstone is something I enjoyed for a couple of weeks, but then I got to Masters 3 in ranked and I instantly lost all incentive to continue playing ranked and subsequently make gold to play arena, especially because if I want to keep a fast "grinding" pace and win a large percentage of my games, I'm pretty much forced to roll with my mage deck which counters a lot of bullshit rush decks that are very common at the highest brackets, and I find mage extremely boring. So the game just sits there gathering dust. I'm not even too keen on arena anymore, after the 3rd priest in a row that I tried to play and got 0 holy novas and mind controls, I'm kind of tired of arena's bullshit too.
Polymorph is exactly what it says on the tin. Shape Change with more interesting wording. 1st edition D&D (1976) had a spell named Polymorph and Mirror Image (which is close enough). It's a generic name for those spells. They tell you exactly what they do, nothing more nothing less. It's hardly name-dropping or stealing. Your line of reasoning is the exactly the same same as saying Frostbolt is name dropping. Magic only came out in 1993, they'd hardly got the drop on using "Polymorph" as a spell name.Mark D. Stroyer said:
Heck even Glacial Ray isn't exactly innovative or interesting. It's well... a ray of glacial nature. Now if there was a card called "Lord Fiddlewoob of the waddlewand mountains" in both games, you'd have a point, but otherwise it's a little pedantic. It's the same as that guy who tried to take umbrage with anything using the word "Edge" in the title.
Ehhh, their schedule is pretty quick these days, 3-4 months in between major content patches atm. I mean, Blizzard generally puts a /large/ amount of polished content at a time, compared to other MMOs. Where it's either naff, money gated, or a little bit often, rather than large not so often. That and you can't put it out too quick otherwise people just burn through it, unless you artificially gate it in game.PH3NOmenon said:
It's also a card game, there's a lot less work that needs to go into it. Draw some pics, then come up with balance and detail. I'm sure they can manage that. Designing a whole raid dungeon/new area with 16 bosses is rather time consuming for obvious reasons. To put it in perspective, the final boss of Mass Effect 2 took 6 months.