There has been a lot of discussion regarding the recent art changes. It’s time to put these to rest. Here’s why.
- Blizzard is a company focused first and foremost on profit. As China is where the money is, it’s pandering to the Chinese government, like any good company would do.
- We’ve seen a shift in several Bliz games from serious gamers to casual gamers and children. It’s a money thing, again.
- We all know about the satanic influence that blood and female nudity have on innocent children. Male nudity is, of course, not an issue: it wasn’t Adam who listened to the snake and took that forbidden apple.
To summarize: Hearthstone is a commercial product. Perhaps we should ignore the silly art changes and focus on the quality of the game, and the impact that recent card changes and new cards have.
(I want my Vanish back…)
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Orrr perhaps we shouldn’t? How about that one
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well the cards have still the same effect so …
why should we?
I understand that its part of the enjoyment when you get good art but in generell we should be able to play the game without art at all (god forbid that shall never happen ofc)
And while we are on the whiteknighting train
LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!!1!!
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Can we get a full refund for our “nerfed” cards though? Some people have golden Headcrack just for the animation, it was a very beautiful design, Deadly Shot too, easily one of the best looking cards in the game.
It’s not as if it was fair towards us, they should at least give us some compensation or at least have an “adult mode” as Azra once said
EDIT: Imagine I craft 2 golden copies of Headcrack just for the animation right before they announce the changes, I should sue them …really
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In short, no…the artwork is owned and trademarked by Blizzard and therefore they have a legal prerogative to do whatever they want with it. The cards still function as intended and therefore has not impacted your ability to play them in any way shape or form so you would have no legal grounds by which to build a law suit…which would probably be laughed out of court anyway ![:stuck_out_tongue:](https://d30yn6ctwpaot1.cloudfront.net/en/hearthstone/images/emoji/twitter/stuck_out_tongue.png?v=6" ":stuck_out_tongue:")
It’s still owned by Blizzard but if you buy something you can expect it having those qualities and not to be changed at least not without a refund.
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did you buy the art?
did you buy the game?
none of us even bought the cards. we bought a licence that we are allowed to use their product if we agree with the terms and conditions.
At least its with all the other games out there.
There was a huge debate when bliz banned a great number of accounts for cheating in overwatch (aimbot and triggerbots for example) and most of those people complained that they bought the game so its their property and this is just wildy wrong
i do realize we dont talk about cheating or using those products differently then in the terms and condition and im aware that the comparison isnt perfect but still it is their art and their choice what they are doing with it …
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I know we aren’t owed anything, not even for the actual nerfs, but defending them for those changes is idiocy, they made a change to the game we play without caring for the community’s opinion, let the community be enraged at least, it’s our opportunity to get our favorite card arts back.
This whole post feels for me like “Hitler did nothing wrong, we all know the world is over populated”
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Gameplay changes are done according to the vision of devs (doesnt inspire confidence but still) and nobody has any problems with that.
However at least ask the community about the art changes, do some poll or something. Art is only as good as the people who appreciate it.
Over the years we have all seen how good the art team in Blizzard. Cinematics, wallpapers etc, all of them has been brilliant while the gameplay across all their games is rapidly going for the worse. And yet their art has always been appreciated by fans or anyone who never even played any of their games. However, after seeing these changes i get the feeling that it has been done only to appease someone upstairs with a certain political agenda.
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Are you serious?
Is this in response to me?
This is a VERY bad joke isnt It?
If so pls explain
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Nope, it’s been done so that the artwork falls in line with cultural laws of other countries in which the game is marketed. Are you suggesting that Blizzard should cut themselves off from these markets just because you don’t agree with the art changes? Would you go to one of these countries and intentionally wear a t-shirt sporting imagery that you knew breached their cultural laws…or would you wear something that was more appropriate in respect of them?
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Fine let them cut themselves off from normal people, from the culture that created this game in the first place.
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Ha ha really? You think the entire western world is going to quit the game because they’ve changed a few pictures? And do you think it’s acceptable to refuse to adjust to respect other cultures? Your naivety is staggering
Hmm, mods should really merge all the posts about that into one megapost.
I agree with you, I really do. But I fear what’s next in this line of changes:
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deliberately repainting white taurens into brown taurens, so they have ppl of colour represantation.
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J.K. Rowling anounces that Wizzbang was homosexual from the star, so they have LGBTQ rep. ALso some of the other cards get random rainbows and drag queen makeup.
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Change all lore, so now Night Elves Males are actually trans ppl, for some more inclusivness.
SJW toxicity hurts gaming industry. it did it before, it certainly keeps doing it. It always starts with something like those changes, and keeps snowballing, untill some bad proffesionals abuse it to gain something. See gamergate, the controversies around BF5, the new Baldur’s Gate, what happened in Riot. Each time gamers suffer, studios suffer. The “get woke - go broke” from a joke catchphrase became sad reality. Thats what grinds my gears.
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Yes, when it doesn’t work both ways. Thread very carefully in this subject because our “openness” is not a shared ideal across cultures.
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Personally, whilst in my eyes the changes seem silly, if it means the game I enjoy playing can reach more players across the globe, then I’m all for changing the art of a select few problem cards or even renaming them.
The only one that even catches my eye is Headcrack and I will admit after 5+ years of seeing it as a dark card, to see it replaced with a light replacement is actually pretty jarring. My brain keeps telling me it’s one of the new cards ![:grin:](https://d30yn6ctwpaot1.cloudfront.net/en/hearthstone/images/emoji/twitter/grin.png?v=6" ":grin:")
The thing is that the new art is worse thematically in each and every way.
- The eviscerate looks like the guy dodged it.
- Bite art could also be for jump, pounce, growl, paw… Will the druid even bite?
- Iconic succubus replaced with a generic demon we got loads of already.
- Deadly shot is not deadly because it hasn’t hit anything.
- Headcrack: does he have a slingshot? Why does it return to him according to the new art?
- An armored up magic spear wielding queen of pain has the same power as a baby murloc?
- Secretkeeper got a more generic pose.
- Harpy: eh, less focus on boobs and whatnot, I don’t care.
The changes made the art worse. Normally, game companies don’t change the entire game for certain countries though, but instead released country specific versions. So it’s a bit odd that Blizzard is forcing this on everybody. But I guess that is to pretend that it’s not because of China. If they’d change the cards only for a chinese version, they wouldn’t have that silly excuse.
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