Hearthstone - WoW TCG Game Announced
Blizzard just announced Hearthstone, the online Free to Play WoW CCG Game! More details to come. You can start talking about it in our new Hearthstone forum!

  • Free to play online collectible card game.
  • Opt in to beta in your Battle.net account management!
  • Beta begins this summer, with release this year.
  • Playable on PC, Mac, and iPad.
  • The game will be easy to pick up, but have a good amount of depth and complexity.
  • The board is 3D, with lots of animations to make gameplay more exciting.
  • There will be over 300 cards with the initial launch
  • You can purchase more card packs for roughly $1 per five cards, or slowly earn them through gameplay.
  • There will be Basic and Expert cards, with Expert cards being broken down into categories like Common, Rare, Epic, and Legendary.
  • You’re guaranteed to receive at least one card of rare or better quality per pack.
  • Each card in the pack also has a chance to upgrade to a “Golden” version of the same card.
  • Disenchant cards that you don't want to receive dust, which is used to craft new cards.
  • There is a deck builder, which can build decks for you, or you can build your own.
  • The game will be a 1v1 game using Battle.net matchmaking.
  • Playing will allow you to earn medals every week.
  • You can also play against AI at different levels of difficulty.
  • Any purchases you made during the beta will be credited back to you in the form of new, unopened card packs at launch.
  • Read more in the Hearthstone FAQ.
  • Check out some of the screenshots, videos, artwork, and a wallpaper on the official site!










This article was originally published in forum thread: Heartstone - WoW TCG Game Announced started by Boubouille View original post
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  1. quras's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Jtbrig7390 View Post
    Loved it when only 10 people clapped......

    All I got to say is that I guess blizzard is doing April fools a couple weeks early or at lease I hope that is the case.
    I caught that myself and it was the more entertaining part of the announcement.
  1. Azrile's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by skitzy129 View Post
    Yea a tiny side project made by a dozen people on the team making a really sweet little idea for a game is clearly indicating that they're fading away.

    This is the dumbest fucking thread on MMO-C atm.
    What do you expect. If GC announces a 1% nerf to an ability, you get 10 pages of people calling him the B-team, or that he did it because he got beat by that class in a duel, or whatever. They add something like pet battles, and every pvper or hardcore raider writes a novel about the dev team wasting it´s time.. etc.

    If you play WOW, and you never played a card game.. then yeah, this is probably not an exciting announcement.... but only on these forums is it seen as an epic fail and the death of Blizzard.

    Kids like to stay dramatic things.
  1. MiLLeR's Avatar
    ROFL.. April Fool's is a while off Blizzard
  1. Mortal Strike's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by IIamaKing View Post
    I proly would gone with a genre with more mass apeal. A CCG has fairly limited range.
    I think that was kind of the point, though. It's a smaller game, with a smaller niche and a smaller development team. It's also a different game than what they're used to designing and a good experiment for them at using a free to play model.
  1. mmoc19ee780deb's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by pmgbro View Post
    so many people bringing up its free to play so stop complaining. News flash- F2P is more cash grabbing this day and age other than sub models. Bli$$ard in full effect
    So smart. Freemium cashes more $$$ than F2P, but they didn't decide to go down that road.
  1. ColbaneX's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by quras View Post
    I caught that myself and it was the more entertaining part of the announcement.
    False, the entertaining part was hearing the shoutcaster guy. God I wish I had his voice, I'd never shut up.
  1. Hoomin's Avatar
    Such a fucking stupid idea. Let's take resources that could be used to improve our game with failing replay ability and put it in to a game that panders to the 1% of people who actually play our horrible, shitty, fucking atrocious card game for more than just loot cards! YAY!
  1. Absintheminded's Avatar
    This isn't that bad of an announcement, it just seems silly to me that this is their "brand new idea" when they already have an existing TCG. It just seems to make more sense to me to just have an online version of the existing TCG. As for in-game rewards, that would be sweet, but I doubt that will happen.
  1. Gegan's Avatar
    Can't wait to get my hands on this. Looks like a good game to play when bored.
  1. Boogums's Avatar
    YOU GOTTA BUY CARDS? JUST LIKE A REGULAR FUCKlNG CARD GAME, NO FUCKING WAY, WHO WOULD'VE FUCKING THOUGHT
  1. TrollShaman's Avatar
    hrm I'm not sure what to say, considering that I can never buy the normal TCG in where I live... I'll just have to see how this game will unfold.

    edit:
    Quote Originally Posted by melk0rpt View Post
    make it for Android also plz ...
    And iPad, so I'll consider further :P
  1. mmocdc5c514529's Avatar
    make it for Android also plz ...
  1. Saphyron's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by FattyXP View Post
    I don't think it will be terrible, and in fact I'll probably play the shit out of it. But the fact remains they still lied right to our faces. They said it didn't have to do with their other games, and its set in the universe of one of their other games... which HAS TO DO WITH THEIR OTHER GAMES.

    The intro video had me going though, I thought for sure All-stars was what was getting announced, which also had me mad cause that also meant they were lying.
    Just gonna put this here go reread it

  1. mmocedbf46d113's Avatar
    Looks great, was always interested in the TCG, and was hoping they'd make an online game, since I don't want to invest that much money into buying packs.
  1. tnyswonger's Avatar
    This has to be an April Fool's joke. I'm not buying it (pun intended) Blizzard!
  1. mmoceeceb76e25's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by TommmyBoy View Post
    Its freee
    Developed by completly new team so there wont be any delays on new content in wow.
    Look pretty fun.

    I was hoping for something bigger but hey.. its free you just CANT complain over something that is free.

    Exactly.

    Maybe people are disappointed that it wasn't a bigger announcement (don't know why, it's fairly obvious any announcement of importance will be done at Blizzcon) but it's a free game, you can play or leave it, it's that simple really. I'm not into TCG but I will give it a go and play casually if its fun, will be quite interesting if there's WoW in-game incentives though.
  1. Wolfbear's Avatar
    It makes sense they are making games like this when there's such a massive boom in indie titles and free to play games. Honestly I think it looks great, and my doubt was shifted when the actual card battle was shown and the dude was commentating on what was happening. It wasn't over-hyped at all, I totally forgot about it until this morning. We already know they are making MOBA type game, so why would they announce that as a "new" title. This is nothing but a cool wee game in my opinion.
  1. LordKain's Avatar
    All the little kiddies raging is quite entertaining. Please continue! -popcorn-

    As for Hearthstone, was never much into card games, but watching the game in motion...I gotta say I'm quite interested now.
  1. mvaliz's Avatar
    Has a collectible card game EVER done well when translating it to a Video Game? I mean... ACTUALLY become more popular than its original physical card form? I'm not asking "was it translated well?

    ---------- Post added 2013-03-22 at 03:32 PM ----------

    Quote Originally Posted by UnifiedDivide View Post
    Considering the game is free, there is no pun...
    Freemium... no CCG is "free".
  1. mmocedbf46d113's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Jtbrig7390 View Post
    Loved it when only 10 people clapped......

    All I got to say is that I guess blizzard is doing April fools a couple weeks early or at lease I hope that is the case.
    You're not interested in TCGs? Well a lot of people are. Shame you can't see the fun in such games, but don't poop on everyones parade.

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