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Blizzard Announces Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft Digital Card Game
UgLyPuNk writes "Blizzard has revealed its 'something new' at PAX East 2013: Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft — a 'charming collectible strategy game set in the Warcraft universe.'"
Blizzard says this game is a departure from their normal development process: it was made with a team of just 15, will release this year, and it's free-to-play. Hearthstone is built for Mac OS, Windows, and iPads. There's a deck builder, a match-finder, and AI for those who don't want to play against other people. While it's free to play, and players will earn new packs of cards by playing, there will also be an option to purchase new packs.
So I heard you like games, so I made a game within a game
I wonder how Cryptozoic feels about Blizzard firing off a "digital trading card game" when they already have a "non-digital TCG" license? There's nothing quite so sucktacular as directly competing with your licensor.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
I'm waiting for the Warcraft-branded groceries myself. The soda is not a great diet on its own, I need food! From Pandaria!
Cause I still got a shitload of those cards to unload, man.
Your political party doesn't care about your rights and only represents corporate interests.
everyone is angry when blizzard doesn't let people buy digital bits and a black market developes around buying and selling weapons and gold, because blizzard isn't catering to what they want.
and then people are equally angry when blizzard gives them what they want and provides an avenue for them to buy/sell their weapons and gold
I was worried until I saw that it would be free-to-play. Now I'm really worried. In my experiences, the F2P model never improved the experience of those who would have normally paid for it. I do understand that the F2P model is more profitable, but, in my opinion, it ruins the game. More of a risk.
Recently, I've tried Simraceway and I don't see how spending hundreds of dollars on cars is better than ~$20 for Gran Turismo. A more well known example, FarmVille eventually only benefited kids with their parents credit cards and no concept of the value of a dollar.
If we colonize Mars, it won't be the World Wide Web anymore. UWW?
I'll never play this, but I'm sure some people will enjoy it very much. I continue to wait for Titan.
I do not respond to cowards. Especially anonymous ones.
As soon as the company making the game get their share from selling and buying gold and items for real money, selling and buying gold and items for real money will become a necessity to win a game. Simply because now it is in the game maker's interest that you sell and buy money and items.
THAT is what people are pissed about with those "real money auction" crap. As long as some black market dealer is buying and selling gold, it may actually work in the interest of the player because the game company making the game has no interest that this black market dealer makes money. They will go out of their way to ensure that you do NOT need to buy and sell your gold. Once they get a cut, it flips around.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Lemme guess: You get a pack of "starter pack" cards for free that makes you pretty much a target dummy for anyone who actually shelled out some dough and bought enough "booster packs" to actually create a deck that can win?
I.e. how it works in traditional TCGs, just that they did away with the costly process of printing cards?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.