Yesterday, Blizzard posted a teaser story on the Hearthstone website that hinted at the arrival of a new hero in the game. Maybe it was a case of the Internet taking a vague (though intentionally so) message and running with it, but the predominant theory was that we’d get a new warrior hero with a different hero power than Garrosh.
Fast-forward to today and the true reveal is, to a lot of people, less than satisfying. The new hero is Magni Bronzebeard, who offers new emotes, visual effects on his hero power, and a new card back, but no gameplay that’s any different from Garrosh. He’s the first in what will probably be a number of alternate hero skins, and will sell for $9.99 each in the Hearthstone store.
I don’t think most people have an issue with Blizzard selling alternate, non-gameplay-affecting skins for heroes, especially so soon after releasing a decent chunk of content in Blackrock Mountain. But I think this is a case where they tried to get a little too “cute” with their marketing. If the Magni reveal came out of the blue today, without the lead-in story from yesterday, it would have been fine. Instead, even though it was only one day, Blizzard allowed player expectations to be whipped up into a frenzy over something that wasn’t nearly as interesting as what players dreamed up. Goes to show that even the big boys can slip up from time to time.
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Join discussion,,Hello” said the truth. Blizzard is a shit company. They just add random things to get more money… Im not talking about Hearthstone, WoW is free till level 20 then you must pay, Diablo 3 is a Pay-to-play game… Sorry for my bad english.
How is diablo 3 a pay to play game? O.o
brother is that you?
People still confuse Blizzard North with Activision Blizzard. One was an awesome developer that brought us some of the all time classics. Other one is an abomination that just milks their player base and gets off any criticism just because of sharing a name with a legend.
True. It is like Dice and EA. Blizzard no longer exist, it is activision scam machine
scam pay to win game made by worse company of all time = activision/blizzard
im confused, have you ever played a blizzard game? Other than hearthstone, I can’t see anything in the other games that makes it pay-to-win. Plus even with hearthstone, if you had all the cards from spending hundreds if not thousands on game packs from the random drop, that doesn’t mean you’ll ever win a game. Noobs will be noobs I guess.
You are not confused, you are retarded. Sorry.
Seems like your mother is the worst one since it made you.
Your mother is a retarded stinky w h o r e and should have aborted you fgt. Now chill
You are the one who need to chill here, getting all mad just because people don’t agree with you.
They said they were going to do this quite a while ago, releasing essentially reskins of old heroes
They even said that they don’t even plan to release new heroes or alternative hero powers…At least yet