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EMIYA
United States433 Posts
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DeltruS
Canada2214 Posts
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Zooper31
United States5710 Posts
On August 20 2013 09:38 DeltruS wrote: Anyone know where I could buy a beta key? Or some easy to enter beta key contests? Shh I don't want competition lol. | ||
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TheTenthDoc
United States9561 Posts
On August 20 2013 06:54 Earll wrote: People saying the game is simple compared to MTG etc, even though im sure magic was more a lot advanced when it first got released also, has it not continously become deeper\gotten new cards released all the time? So like a few years from now assuming blizzard keeps releasing new cards, it will have a lot more cards etc? Eh, Magic was pretty arcane (hardy-har-har) when it first came out compared to now. Legends was particularly bad about this, though a lot of the expert sets did some bizarre things. Feast your eyes on Takklemaggot, Ice Cauldron, Chains of Mephistopheles, Necropotence. They kinda went crazy. Biggest offenders in Alpha for wordy annoyingness is Animate Dead, but "protection" as a mechanic alone still has yet to be outclassed for complexity. Well, banding and phasing might have been, but those got retired in the early days. | ||
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faintz
United States47 Posts
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renlynn
United States276 Posts
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Irave
United States9965 Posts
On August 20 2013 09:38 DeltruS wrote: Anyone know where I could buy a beta key? Or some easy to enter beta key contests? http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/blog/10647180/hearthstone-community-fansites-and-beta-key-giveaways-8-16-2013#best | ||
NovemberstOrm
Canada16217 Posts
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RagequitBM
Canada2270 Posts
On August 20 2013 09:30 EMIYA wrote: Been watching streamers like the tastetosis and it looks like an awesome game. id kill for a beta key, and i've been asking my friends to trade for my FFXIV key but no cigar. That's pretty clever. Trying to trade a beta key for a game that will be in beta for a long time, for one which will have no more betas. This is seriously the most addicting game to watch on Twitch. I can't watch any other streams anymore. | ||
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NB
Netherlands12045 Posts
On August 20 2013 10:32 RagequitBM wrote: That's pretty clever. Trying to trade a beta key for a game that will be in beta for a long time, for one which will have no more betas. This is seriously the most addicting game to watch on Twitch. I can't watch any other streams anymore. you clearly havent heard of saltybet... but yeah as somebody who have decent CCG knowledge, the only streams that i could enjoyed so far are Robsimpson and day9. Their decks and their decision making process are pretty solid while others are learning from 0. | ||
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Pandain
United States12989 Posts
I hope it isn't' like Starcraft though and I'm in the last wave though | ||
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theking1
Romania658 Posts
 ))))))).Anyways a lot opf popular streamers play it like crazy.All the wow players play it and even a former lol pro chaox is playing it.hopefully it becomes more succesfullas time passes.I wouldn't be surprised to see some money tournaments for heartstone anytime soon.Day9 you reading this? | ||
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tauliss
United States15 Posts
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Godwrath
Spain10126 Posts
On August 20 2013 10:35 NB wrote: you clearly havent heard of saltybet... but yeah as somebody who have decent CCG knowledge, the only streams that i could enjoyed so far are Robsimpson and day9. Their decks and their decision making process are pretty solid while others are learning from 0. I hope day9 has changed, because he was doing a lot of day1 mistakes (pun non intended). Pretty much like when he streamed XCOM, i had to shut down the stream. The ones i had watched, only kripp is a good player, and i am not speaking about decks, but fast calculations and right decission making with whatever they are given. Most of the others are just horrible (djwheat is funny tho <3), even with much better decks/draws than their opponents you are just facepalming the whole game at all the mistakes, like forgetting to dagger up if you have points, or just basic math. Yeah i am enjoying a lot watching people play, and i rarely do it (the only stream i watch is when bomber's stream pops online). But to be honest, noone is streaming arenas right now, which is by far the funnier and more balanced choice for me, specially when many of the streamers had bought shitload of packages (the rogue i was speaking about, got trolled by twitch's chat and ended up like buying 80/120 booster packs lol). | ||
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NB
Netherlands12045 Posts
On August 20 2013 10:45 Godwrath wrote: I hope day9 has changed, because he was doing a lot of day1 mistakes (pun non intended). Pretty much like when he streamed XCOM, i had to shut down the stream. The ones i had watched, only kripp is a good player, and i am not speaking about decks, but fast calculations and right decission making with whatever they are given. Most of the others are just horrible (djwheat is funny tho <3), even with much better decks/draws than their opponents you are just facepalming the whole game at all the mistakes, like forgetting to dagger up if you have points, or just basic math. Yeah i am enjoying a lot watching people play, and i rarely do it (the only stream i watch is when bomber's stream pops online). But to be honest, noone is streaming arenas right now, which is by far the funnier and more balanced choice for me, specially when many of the streamers had bought shitload of packages (the rogue i was speaking about, got trolled by twitch's chat and ended up like buying 80/120 booster packs lol). Kripp decisions show that he is quite inexperienced. Yeah build and theory crafting is fine, but there come multiple concept such as saving card, mana curve, hand power that i dont think he get it. It is expected for everyone to behave like such though. The game is brand new, the cards are brand new so it takes time for them to learn shits. The thing is you can easily spot out streamers thinking process, how fast can they solve a given situation and how many variables they have taken into account to solve it. And in that field, day9 and rob were definitely the best of the whole. Man, i hope they not gona treat this like sc2 beta and drag it out for the entire quarter without ever giving me a beta key. | ||
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Daray
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bjwithbraces
United States549 Posts
On August 20 2013 11:07 NB wrote: Kripp decisions show that he is quite inexperienced. Yeah build and theory crafting is fine, but there come multiple concept such as saving card, mana curve, hand power that i dont think he get it. It is expected for everyone to behave like such though. The game is brand new, the cards are brand new so it takes time for them to learn shits. The thing is you can easily spot out streamers thinking process, how fast can they solve a given situation and how many variables they have taken into account to solve it. And in that field, day9 and rob were definitely the best of the whole. Man, i hope they not gona treat this like sc2 beta and drag it out for the entire quarter without ever giving me a beta key. I really love Rob's stream. On a similar note some other streamers I'd recommend of similar tier are Lokazi and Noxious_HS (and day9 but he "only" streams on Friday, even though I've seen him on other streams playing the game, I don't understand why he just doesn't stream just for the sake of streaming). Noxious usually streams in the morning, and Lokazi in the evening. At first, I was just watching a bunch of streams to see the game, but as my understanding and decision making surpassed the streamers, I became less entertained and less patient. Rob/Lok/Nox/day9(from what I hear when he's on skype with Rob) are all doing the right things, and when they're supposed to. I know it's nit picky and I shouldn't expect people to pick it up with no previous experience, but until I get a beta (read: if) I'd rather watch people that are picking up the game quickly. /rant | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
On August 20 2013 09:45 TheTenthDoc wrote: Eh, Magic was pretty arcane (hardy-har-har) when it first came out compared to now. Legends was particularly bad about this, though a lot of the expert sets did some bizarre things. Feast your eyes on Takklemaggot, Ice Cauldron, Chains of Mephistopheles, Necropotence. They kinda went crazy. Biggest offenders in Alpha for wordy annoyingness is Animate Dead, but "protection" as a mechanic alone still has yet to be outclassed for complexity. Well, banding and phasing might have been, but those got retired in the early days. such madness Yeah magic has the problem of trying to keep fresh and bring out new cards while interacting with other cards, Which is why I try not to touch anything older then Modern for competition but Modern can be silly but it's not legacy silly yet. Casual is fun as sometimes it's just fun to make a deck around an idea even if it's not a winner. I do wonder about how blizzard is going about developing cards and if they add mechanics or avoid doing so to keep things simple or what and the effects of power creep. On August 20 2013 11:37 Daray wrote: So US only beta again? welp US based company and a small side project. Plus great thing about the US only beta you get a huge audience of people to test from and you only need English which is perfect for a card game where words can matter. | ||
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Daray
6006 Posts
On August 20 2013 12:07 semantics wrote: US based company and a small side project. Plus great thing about the US only beta you get a huge audience of people to test from and you only need English which is perfect for a card game where words can matter. I understand why they always start US only but it stings a bit everytime | ||
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DeltruS
Canada2214 Posts
On August 20 2013 12:18 Daray wrote: I understand why they always start US only but it stings a bit everytime Can't you just make a US account. | ||
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