This could be something new besides pet battle. It doesnt need to feature the newest cards. Player who want that can play t he OG game.
Collecting cards by playing open world content. battling npcs and vs players in the heartstone inn. World Quests, Hearstone dungeons wher you need to win vs multiple npcs or play vs old raid boss or iconic npcs. Challanging fights vs the capital leaders in orgrimmar, stormwind, undercity, boralus, zudazar and more.
And they could add a open world event which is like a tournament you can sign up and then you play and the winner gets a gold price or a special card or a golden card whatever.
For real how cool would that be? so much potential and fun collecting cards (without paying money in the og game) and interacting with the whole wow world and with players.
forgot to say you play as your class (no evokers atm in hs but maybe they can add it in the future then ^^). So you can farm decks with your class.
Blizzard would never do this
At the moment you have to pay to play Hearstone
And you have to pay to play Warcraft
Money talks
Why would they shoot themselves in the leg by combining the two to only pay once?
Of course it should be optional. I quit HS because after they introduced the standard mode it became too expensive to keep up without paying. And like in yugioh the cards became too op and gameplay too fast. key could stick to og heartstone in wow, which was one of the best games they ever made imo.
Atm i think cool openworld single player and small group content is lacking. The events are only for big 40man raid groups. with heartstone tthis could change. just introduce a item like a book where you can put your cards in like in the real world and how it is in the game. so you can browse your cards and see which one is missing. sorry am dreaming to much …
Can’t say I care for it. Seen it in Elder Scrolls Online where they added a card game. Didn’t enjoy it and also took development away from other features.
On the other hand more evergreen content is good for the game.
I don’t agree that HS in WoW is the answer though; but I will admit I’m biased. I just don’t like the game (and that’s coming from someone who played M:TG competitively for a while).
But if it wouldn’t take away from other solo content and it’s optional, then I’m all for them adding it.
You should able to challenge someone to a game of hearthstone in WoW with a slash command. If you do, and the other poster accepts, it instantly launches a Hearthstone game, matches the two players via their battle.net accounts, and starts an unranked game.
I think WoW should have Hearthstone integrated as a minigame indeed. But I think it should contain only 2 modes.
Training and Duel mode. Also tie it exclusively to Inns, so people have to actually be there in Cities/etc. And give players the ability to allow others to spectate their game and still be able to use all chat channels.
Imagine on a Roleplaying Realm like Argent Dawn, you go into an Inn and a small crowd is gathered around a table where 2 players (with roleplay potentially) have a duel with each other and it feels like an actual tavern event instead of just a minigame.
Could be kinda cool, go to an inn, sit down and challenge someone to heartstone. Heartstone launches and the two players get into a duel game. The result gets announced ingame after the fact.
Having the heartstone match be shown in-game sounds a bit too clunky to work, but, in theory they could have a floating screen above the table that shows the game in spectator mode. It just sounds technically challenging to get going.
Then they could also open the use of WoW to host online Heartstone inn-keepers events.
Yet, doesn’t sound cost efficient or worth it for the company. Just some very niche fun that would be ‘neat to have’
UNLESS, it is just a simplified minigame like the Candy Crush toy. That one already works perfectly ingame. As others have said, the 1.0 version of HS would be enough already. Classic rules in the classic world.
I still think it would be more gain for blizz to tie the two games together. While the two playerbases still interconnect and overlap, pushing for more of it would probably just be good for both the games. A few players get to do their little niche thing, more players join both games and participation numbers rise on blizzard metrics, so they get more founding.
(no evokers atm in hs but maybe they can add it in the future then ^^). So you can farm decks with your class.
