Dean Ayala’s Hearthstone Community Q&A #21 - New Minion Types Coming to Constructed, Possible New Adventure Next Year
United in Stormwind
- No hints!
Design & Future
- The biggest missed opportunity with Hearthstone was launching without social systems.
- Dean would love to see more user-generated-content in the game.
- If they were to start with UGC, Dean thinks they would start with cards.
- There are new minion types in development in the next 2 years of sets. No guarantees when they will arrive.
- We have new minion types in the sets we have in test, which are about 4-5 sets currently.
- No guarantees on which will have a minion type and which won’t though sorry! (Source)
- They have talked about removing Legendary cards from Discover and other random effects.
- Dean thinks the real answer is to make less random generation and discover cards.
- We could see a new adventure next year - they are considering it as a part of what the live-content team will be working on.
- There has been some discussion about „deep sea“ themes for an expansion. Maybe one day.
- If showcasing matchmaking ratings for constructed would give people more enjoyment, they’d consider adding it.
Classic
- They have talked about the possibility of doing additional sets in Classic mode.
- Dean could see adding more sets to Classic with the new yearly rotation or the last expansion of a year - no promises though.
Achievements
- Celestalon says they don’t want to add achievements for casual but could see a small quote one, like 10 or 25.
- Doing a small quota achievement for casual would let players see their total games played in the mode.
- Doing achievements for old expansions would likely happen if they came back into the game via Classic mode.
- The team knows claiming achievements is a pain point. Dean suspects the answer is to have completed achieves at the top.
Cosmetics
- Purchasable game boards is currently being investigated only for Battlegrounds.
- Dean could see doing purchasable game boards for constructed as well, but there are complications involved.
- There are loose plans for cosmetics in Mercenaries. They are focused on gameplay and out-of-game systems now though.
- Heroes from duels and solo adventures could become rewards for related achievements. Downside is those heroes lack full voiceovers and frames.
Full Transcript of Iksar’s Q&A #21
PS: Ich werde keinen verklagen der mal vor mir die Q&As hier postet …
