EPTNew Mode Introduced: Tavern Brawl - Page 2
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NewSunshine
United States5938 Posts
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Circumstance
United States11403 Posts
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Moriquenti
Greece0 Posts
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Liquid`Savjz
Finland22 Posts
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Caihead
Canada8550 Posts
Actually just make that a condition for every week. | ||
LastManProductions
United States252 Posts
On June 11 2015 07:17 Azuzu wrote: When you are playing something in a competitive environment, it's fun to have something on the line. Tournaments are a means to that end. Nearly every card game out there has a tournament as their primary playing mode for this reason. The ladder is a mediocre means of competitive play at best due to a number of issues that blizzard seems reluctant to address(no rewards, short seasons, no matchmaking leading to aggro meta). So why would tournament client integration be awesome? Playing in and running online tournaments is currently very difficult. There's no way to enforce many of the rules other than having a large admin staff to resolve disputes. This deters tournament organizers from ever wanting to run qualifying tournaments. Tournaments can take ages with hours in between rounds. Playing in a tournament right now is a really easy way to kill 8 hours even though you only get to play a handful of games. Dealing with random 3rd party websites of varying quality is annoying. I remember tournaments in warcraft 3 - they were awesome! I knew that I was never going to win, but "maybe this time I'll make it to 3 wins!". It was exciting! It felt like there was something on the line. Tournaments aren't just for the ultra competitive. I know tournaments aren't everyone's first choice, and I didn't realistically think the new mode would be tournaments, but I would still absolutely love to have them in the game. There is a large competitive scene for the game and support for it from Blizzard would be awesome! So why don't you play in the numerous tournaments that are going on? Along with the fireside gatherings? | ||
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Noidberg
United States17 Posts
On June 11 2015 10:19 LastManProductions wrote: So why don't you play in the numerous tournaments that are going on? Along with the fireside gatherings? Its explained why, they suck. A tourney mode would also give you cold hard rewards something that hearthstone lacks greatly. | ||
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Cricketer12
United States13990 Posts
This is why Nox and Forsen are the best HS personalities. Fuck you pessimists  Fun > lackofpashun | ||
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Cricketer12
United States13990 Posts
On June 11 2015 06:20 awesomoecalypse wrote: So apparently it will be free to play, and reward a classic pack for the first brawl you win each week. I really like that--in one swoop it helps solve the issues of new players having an incredibly hard time building their collections without spending a ton, of classic packs being unavailable except via purchase or the spectator quest, and of a metagame that many players feel doesn't change quickly enough to provide a varied ladder experience. Now everyone has incentive to log on and play once a week, and if they do the games are guaranteed to be different from what they've played before, and they'll get a free classic pack for their efforts. Sounds like a win for new players, a win for experienced players, and a win for Blizzard. Source for the free classic pack? Because that is brilliant. Makes me love this so much more, for the reasons you made mention of. Its hard to convince my friends to play when it is so p2w unless you have a ver old account like I do. | ||
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Malhavoc
Italy308 Posts
Tavern Brawls will have free admission when the new mode becomes available. As part of the launch celebration, you'll earn a free card pack when you win your first game of the week in the first several brawls! Notice the bolded parts.. it seems like the free pack won't be forever, but just for the first few weeks. That sucks, because after it, there won't be any reason to play this mode apart from trying it for fun. On the other hand, also the phrase "[..] will have free admission when the new mode becomes available" is unclear.. it may be that the pack may still be there in the future, but that the brawls will cost some after a whiel. BTW, it doesn't say the pack is a classic one.. IMHO, given the target audience for a non-competitive play mode like this, I suppose that after the promotion it will remain free, but without any sort of prize. Just a more flavored practice mode. | ||
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TAMinator
Australia2706 Posts
On June 11 2015 16:36 Malhavoc wrote: Quoting from Blizzard site: Notice the bolded parts.. it seems like the free pack won't be forever, but just for the first few weeks. That sucks, because after it, there won't be any reason to play this mode apart from trying it for fun. On the other hand, also the phrase "[..] will have free admission when the new mode becomes available" is unclear.. it may be that the pack may still be there in the future, but that the brawls will cost some after a whiel. BTW, it doesn't say the pack is a classic one.. IMHO, given the target audience for a non-competitive play mode like this, I suppose that after the promotion it will remain free, but without any sort of prize. Just a more flavored practice mode. Bad wording but from what Zeriyah (blizz employee) said on reddit, it's confirmed to be free, and the pack is classic. | ||
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FetTerBender
Germany1393 Posts
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Sejanus
Lithuania550 Posts
On June 11 2015 06:12 Bigbowlr1037 wrote: So we want tournament mode and instead we get Tempo Storm ChallengeStone Mode. Yippee I like this more than the tournament mode. Introducing more variety in game in one way or another is better than getting what we can do already. | ||
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Volband
Hungary6034 Posts
On June 11 2015 11:07 Noidberg wrote: Its explained why, they suck. A tourney mode would also give you cold hard rewards something that hearthstone lacks greatly. This game does not in need to reward the best players at all. What do you get if you are rank 1 in HotS or in a high tier in LoL? You play with better people, that's all, but you get the same [insert game currency]. (Yes, you get a unique skin and a border each year in LoL, but it's basically equal with the new card backs after every season in HS) Good players can get infinite gold+dust with Arena runs anyway, so it's not like being good is not rewarded in the game. I highly doubt a tournament mode is in such high demand that the currently existing way of playing tournaments (which apparently are quite tedious) would not be enough. Why would Blizz work hard and delay other content so that tournament organizers have an easier time / OR players who are starving for tournament play could get it more easily? Pretty much every casual player would abandon it after a month tops, because getting crushed by the same decks is NOT fun. And why would even the top few % HS players would want to play it so often? You better forget ANY rewards, you would be lucky to have 10 gold after three tournament game win, if any at all. Casual players not playing tournament mode is one thing, but them flipping out and abandoning the game is another. You can also forget real money rewards, because I doubt Blizz would dare to experiment with something like that after the huge failure of DIablo 3's AH. Tournament mode makes a lot of sense in a game like SC2. There is no currency, no dust, no collectible units, nothing. You just play because you like to complete. Maybe if you win, you get a nice icon or something, so you can show off with it. Who would flip out on that? | ||
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Shev
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xeliana
Austria60 Posts
but the thing is ... within 1-2 days there will be a new "meta" and people will play the 2-4 "best" decks that work under the current restrictions. also i believe that the brawl mode will get boring and stale rather quickly. i would have really really like a tournament mode where daily automated tournaments take place. but im not complaining ... ill wait and see how it turns out. | ||
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FetTerBender
Germany1393 Posts
On June 11 2015 20:58 Shev wrote: Yeah, what to do with that gold, also hoped for gold buy in tournaments, have 8k gold and nothing to spend it on:/ Buy packs? Make all your cards golden? Wait for the next expansion? As long as you have not hit the gold cap and have all cards in gold, there is no such thing as too much gold to spend :-P | ||
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Dreamer.T
United States3584 Posts
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Provocateur
Sweden1665 Posts
 definitely welcoming this over tournament mode, if you're that competitive about the game there's always the possibility to sign up for any of the weekly cups or whatever. | ||
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ethox
Finland57 Posts
I'm all for a more sensible ladder or matchmaking system, but please don't ask senseless decisions. Remember that more is more, more is fun, more makes sense. | ||
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