[PAX East] Blizzard Announces Hearthstone TCG

[Kelimbror]

omfg...that jaraxxus move. I'm sold. Totally playing this game.

Damn them for knowing how to make something so ridiculous or simple into something elaborate and intriguing.

[unholytestament]

Would have been nice if we could see the druid's hand...

[vizzle]

That one game took like 15 minutes. Eh. There's too much fluff and the fluff takes too long, speed it up and it'd be 3x better imo.

[unholytestament]

Well I'm definitely going to give it a try.

I still wish it had been something else though... But it could have been worse.

*snicker* Jyhad. That brings back memories.

[Razael]

Might try this at some point, looks interesting as i used to play those Yu-Gi-Oh games ahah, got like thousands of cards IRL.

[Fencers]

Oh, it's a TCG. I'm in.

[unholytestament]

I wonder if they're going to do loot cards with this thing just like with the real TCG...

[Kelimbror]

I wonder if they're going to do loot cards with this thing just like with the real TCG...

I don't see why not. Though with card crafting, idk. I wonder if they just wanted tocut out the middle man on their TCG profits and have them all in house. Much easier to create new card packs when you don't need to build up designs and send them off to be printed, packaged, distributed, etc.

[Soulstrike]

Damn you Blizzard! The more he talks about it the more interested I get. What is this evil power they have over us?

pretty much this....
at first i was like wat are they thinking then after ACTUALLY seeing the game play im like "go on......" and then i actually want to try this game since its free to play

[unholytestament]

I don't see why not. Though with card crafting, idk. I wonder if they just wanted tocut out the middle man on their TCG profits and have them all in house. Much easier to create new card packs when you don't need to build up designs and send them off to be printed, packaged, distributed, etc.

I have to wonder what the dudes at WoW insider are going to say about this, since some of them actually work on the real TCG...

[Fencers]

I suspect it will be like the MTG: Duels of the Planewalkers series. Where new cards are introduced as DLC.

I saw a woman playing on an iPad. There is gonna be DLC out the ears for this thing.

Blizzard = smart.

[Derishi]

omfg...that jaraxxus move. I'm sold. Totally playing this game.

Damn them for knowing how to make something so ridiculous or simple into something elaborate and intriguing.

I'm not really a TCG person, but that move convinced me to at least try this; it was really cool watching that!

[Kelimbror]

I suspect it will be like the MTG: Duels of the Planewalkers series. Where new cards are introduced as DLC.

I saw a woman playing on an iPad. There is gonna be DLC out the ears for this thing.

Blizzard = smart.

Well it's nice to see that they are taking the high road and letting you earn cards by playing and also craft cards by destroying your duplicates. They could have done several F2P models but they chose one of the best designs. I completely approve. Maybe their old soul is still in there somewhere.

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I'm not really a TCG person, but that move convinced me to at least try this; it was really cool watching that!

Yes! The audience reaction was clearly pretty enthused for that move as well.

[Bahska]

I'm not really a TCG person, but that move convinced me to at least try this; it was really cool watching that!

Yeah im not huge into card games either but it's free and i'll probably check it out.

[Soulstrike]

I suspect it will be like the MTG: Duels of the Planewalkers series. Where new cards are introduced as DLC.

I saw a woman playing on an iPad. There is gonna be DLC out the ears for this thing.

Blizzard = smart.

yea pretty much and really nice move by blizz to introduce a F2P game for once and introduce wow universe

[Howard Moon]

The game looks like fun. I don't know what people's problem is.

My only complaint is that it won't come out for Android :P

[Kelimbror]

The game looks like fun. I don't know what people's problem is.

My only complaint is that it won't come out for Android :P

They're just dipping their toes in this water. I expect them to move into the future with a full team dedicated to gaming like this. At that time I'm sure everything they have will translate to android. It's a much larger support net to develop for the ipad as the first dabbling in that market.

[unholytestament]

Don't forget to opt in to the beta on your battle.net profile!

[Orby]

A few years ago I was saying to myself why hasn't blizzard released a TCG on the PC... Well now I have it... And I am very excited...

[SirRobin]

Okay, I was really turned off by the Blizzard card game but then I started getting interested. But what was up with the life story afterwards? Hooray, you have a hot wife. Uh... So are you going to announce a new game or not? First time I've bothered running a stream so, is this normal?

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Gabe and Tycho are on!