Hearthstone Open Beta is Here!

[Brewhan]

hearthstone had potential but serious I've outplayed people on every turn and then they freaking get EXODIOS or some crap rng god cards and all my HP in a few turns.

[Ovacor]

Who's dick do I have to suck for us to get rid of Ragnaros?

[vlad]

Boring. Played the closed beta for about 10 minutes before I got fed up. what a stupid concept for a game! card fantasy games just aren't my thang.

[Zyranthian]

Avoid this unfair, pay-to-win game. Save your time.

Its a collectible card game, of course you have to pay for the cards, thats the core business model of those types of games. The fact you can earn cards at all by playing/grinding instead of spending money is quite the bonus.

[Tziva]

Hmmm I thought this was a site for MMO games.
Please post stuff like this on Tradingcard-Champion next time.

I don't give a rats ass about some trading card game. Why do I have to read about this on an MMO site?

MMOC, which is actually specifically a WoW fansite, has posted news about games including other Blizzard IPs and other MMOs for a very long time. We have a pretty active Hearthstone forum, so it's safe to say that many of the users here are interested in hearing this announcement. Not everyone will care about 100% of the news 100% of the time; those that don't care about particular bits of information will just have to learn to scroll past it.

[Mormolyce]

I want to actually have that Open Beta card. Even if it's not playable. In fact vanity cards would be a great idea in general...

[Mortai2]

Boring. Played the closed beta for about 10 minutes before I got fed up. what a stupid concept for a game! card fantasy games just aren't my thang.

Party pooper!

The game is a ton of fun, adding to the fact that it's free. I've been in closed beta since November and haven't spent a dime, but I still can hold my own and occasionally beat decks that are much better than mine in terms of cards. It's not quite pay-to-win, it's more like pay-to-advantage.

To Hearthstone!

[Tokas]

sure fuck europe, who cares

[Deleted]

Trumps decks are sure FUCKIN DOGSHIT

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people still play hearthstone?

how much more retarded murican can u be u fuckwit?

[imabanana]

Boring. Played the closed beta for about 10 minutes before I got fed up. what a stupid concept for a game! card fantasy games just aren't my thang.

Been in beta also, but I love CCG, and often fantasy CCG. Yet Hearthstone is one of the worst CCG game I've ever played . It feels really empty, dull, boring, and void of content.

From something out of Warcraft universe, I'd expected a lot from it, when some flash CCG includes content such as hundreds of solo missions, raids, guilds, gvg, faction reputations, guild fighting over territories, achievements with card rewards (ALL of these are in Tyrant for example), I thought Blizzard would take ideas from these and make a wonderful game in the Warcraft universe. But no, there's just... nothing in there, just most basic pvp you can think about, an incredibly expensive arena, and a single player mode so dull you'll drop it and forget about it after the tutorial.

Not to mention how incredibly slow it is, don't understand how their UX team let all these pointless long animations make it so far in beta (and most likely to release). Also wondering how their ("equal strength", haha) opponent matching system works, I've seen so many legendary / rare cards while I was just trying to unlock the first basic cards of some characters with their incomplete standard deck...

Only good points I've seen to it were the Warcraft universe and the graphics. Spent like 4-5 hours on it, don't think I'll get back to it (also having serious concerns about balance).

The game is a ton of fun, adding to the fact that it's free. I've been in closed beta since November and haven't spent a dime, but I still can hold my own and occasionally beat decks that are much better than mine in terms of cards. It's not quite pay-to-win, it's more like pay-to-advantage.

Which is actually what pay to win is. Out of two players with same strength spending the same amount of time in the game, the paying one will win (unless very unlucky). p2w don't make you suddenly invincible, they just make you way stronger. Yes, under specific circumstances or with bad luck, you'll be killed by non paying player, that doesn't make it not p2w.

[TeeZed]

FINALLY! I get to fight more people with the exact same cards as everyone else. Harvest swamp ooze fight

[Moradim]

blizzard is pretty smart to be honest. all the closed beta people get to crush the new people with their paid for decks, prompting new players to spend money themselves to be competitive.

p2w at its finest.

[Irisel]

LAWLs Haters gonna hate!

Congrats to everyone who can FINALLY play.

Newb advice: Watch a TON of streams, you can get better literally over night this way. Second, don't underestimate the value of card advantage. Each card played should be for a reason, and not to just blow your load - board clears are far too easy. YAY more players!

[Deleted]

Did somebody already post how this will affect WoD release?



... haha

[Deleted]

Avoid this unfair, pay-to-win game. Save your time.

All i see in that quote you posted is whining. And it seems it's not his/yours kind of game, if you think about it you would know the idea of having to chat with other people who you're competing against(people you don't know) there's a lot of times you will see a lot of whining and bitching about how good that player is and how much you suck at it(this is an example) that would ruin the fun for some or even a lot of players in such a casual, relaxing kind of game where a chat isn't even required. Who cares if it isn't competing? Not every game have to be competing, Hearthstone feels more like a game you will play for now and then, and i didn't spend more than 2 euros in it and i'm winning pretty much right now by playing the game quite active, no need to "pay to win" you decide to not be bothered with grinding and want the best cards as fast as possible(most likely).

As i said, if these things bother you, this isn't just your kind of game.

[Deathknight1700]

Sweet easy games for me now with the rush of noobs into the game

[vizzle]

Sorry, But it is still far from an mmo game...
I haven't seen the news about Football manager or Civilization on the frontpage either.

Are you special or dense? This is a Blizzard game, obviously the #1 WoW fansite will cover it.

[Wishblade]

Nice, glad people can finally get in, other regions later this week (I'd hope).

[Deleted]

Hmmm I thought this was a site for MMO games.
Please post stuff like this on Tradingcard-Champion next time.

I don't give a rats ass about some trading card game. Why do I have to read about this on an MMO site?

Sorry to burst your bubble, but MMO-champion is in NO WAY related to MMORPGs.
Even though the name says MMO-champion, the fitting name would be BLIZZARD-champion and EVERYONE knows I'm right.

[Lilitheria]

Hearthstone is still alive ? I thought they scrapped that game months ago.

Heh, such cluelessness... :P