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It's a little bit jerky on an iPad 3 but playable.
Free card pack for playing your first game on an iPad though!


ZOMG how damn good is this game on an iPad!

Installed it on Mrs AE's iPad Air and obviously played my game out for a free pack, it's absolutely perfect! All of a sudden sitting in front of a PC playing this game, or in bed with a laptop on my knees seems a bit prehistoric.

I can see me buying an Air for myself just to play this game, I really can. I could play it at lunch at work using my phone as a WiFi hotspot :D

It was obviously designed as a touch game from the off, but I'm still a bit surprised at just how 'right' it feels with a little tablet in your hand and simply swiping around to do everything.

One thing I did notice though is that even on the Air it runs in what would be the 'low' setting for the PC version (no shadows or lighting effects going on, and there are no graphics options), and even then it's not 100% totally smooth. Entirely playable of course, but I'm a bit surprised that the Air defaults to what would be 'low' with no choices.

Would be interested to see it running on an iPad2.


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Apparently the performance on anything but an iPad Air and 4th gen iPads is very variable - those two apparently run it just great, but all other iPads have various problems: slowdown, dropped frames, assorted graphics corruption, etc.

Have also read a lot of reports from people having problems with selecting cards and minions and some of that being awkward and counter-intuitive. Must admit that I largely despise touch-screens, particularly for gaming (fingers and hands get in the way, no tactile feedback, etc) but that's a discussion for another thread. :) Give me a keyboard and mouse any day. :)


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Apparently the performance on anything but an iPad Air and 4th gen iPads is very variable - those two apparently run it just great, but all other iPads have various problems: slowdown, dropped frames, assorted graphics corruption, etc.


That'll be interesting then as I've recommended it to a couple of friends that have iPad2s, TBH I was surprised at how it ran on the Air in that whilst it was a perfect touch game and was great to play, they'd clearly knocked all the graphics options down to low and it still wasn't exactly the silky smooth experience I was used to.

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Have also read a lot of reports from people having problems with selecting cards and minions and some of that being awkward and counter-intuitive. Must admit that I largely despise touch-screens, particularly for gaming (fingers and hands get in the way, no tactile feedback, etc) but that's a discussion for another thread. :) Give me a keyboard and mouse any day. :)


I found it all very intuitive after a quick acclimatisation phase as to how it'd gone 100% touch as opposed to keyboard and mouse, I'd definitely prefer to be sat in bed playing it on iPad than with a laptop warming my bollocks :D


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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread (title changed ... again!)
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Curse of Naxxramas is on its way...soon... maybe...

Looking forward to that - lots of new cards that will no doubt form every deck for a while from sheer novelty.

Saving up my gold now I can unlock everything for free - I'm still not spending a penny on this!

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Looking forward to that - lots of new cards that will no doubt form every deck for a while from sheer novelty.

Saving up my gold now I can unlock everything for free - I'm still not spending a penny on this!


Yeah I'll be all over this, don't mind spending some real money for each wing of the expansion either, even though it's sort of buying cards with the guaranteed legendaries, but if they're doing a proper single player campaign element then that seems fair enough.

I can understand some people wearing their 'haven't spent a penny' badges with pride, but it's a non-issue for me given how damn good the game is, and how amazingly fairly Blizz have implemented the F2P model compared to, oohhhh, just about every other games company in the world.


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There are a couple of reasons not to pay. One is the fact that getting this amount of gameplay for nothing is great, but also the fact I haven't just bought 30 card packs to fill my collection gives me something left to do.

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ElephantBanjoGnome wrote:
There are a couple of reasons not to pay. One is the fact that getting this amount of gameplay for nothing is great, but also the fact I haven't just bought 30 card packs to fill my collection gives me something left to do.


Oh for sure, like I said I'm not criticising, and indeed I've only spent £1.99 myself (in the beta to get the legendary which turned out to be awful anyway, albeit quite comical :D), buying Arena entries or packs of cards doesn't sit right with me somehow.

However if they're moving onto a proper single player campaign type of deal then it seems perfectly appropriate to pay for that rather than grind out the gold for it, as that's paying for 'game' rather than 'cards' which for me at least is a big difference.

For packs of cards and Arena entries I'm happy to stick to spending the gold that I earn for quests/cheevos/victories.


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Really nasty variation on the Hunter Cunter Unleash The Hounds play seems to be gaining traction.

Even if you limit yourself to two minions in play, they chuck down a Leroy Jenkins which gives you two whelps on your side, to make a total of four minions, they then get four hounds with charge AND the Leroy with charge.

I hate playing against gimmick decks, there's just no fun to the game as you know they're all about looking for one single play.


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WHY I FUCKING HATE FUCKING PRIESTS CHAPTER ONE FUCKING MILLION:

Typical twat priest play to start with, we're all aware of that.

He's also done a Thoughtsteal thing to steal two cards from my deck.

Then at two ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL junctures in the game he plays two of the situationally best mage cards in the game against me.

#1 - He's got a polymorph out of my deck. I have two of them in my deck, I have zero of them to play (and I've really been wanting one to take out his giant). He's stolen one and he plays it against a key minion.

#2 - With Plan A scuppered I need to go all out, so I get a decent number of minions out, take down his giant (he appears to be playing some kind of weird priest control giant deck). The ABSOLUTE WORST POSSIBLE CARD IN THE WORLD he could have to play against me at that moment in time is a Flamestrike. Guess what the second card he stole out of my deck was.....

Fucking hate priests.


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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread (title changed ... again!)
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Run from hell last night, back down to Rank 14.

I kept playing 'one more game' thinking that surely I'd start to have a better time of it, but if anything things just went from bad to worse, then I started getting reckless with my mulligans at the start of the game and also more reckless in the game as well, going for 'lethal' plays when I knew it wouldn't win me the game and that sort of thing.

It can't be any coincidence that since getting somewhat addicted to Hearthstone I've basically stopped playing online slots, there's something about it that appeals to a gambler's psyche I think.


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PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2014 10:42 
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That Leeroy > Hounds combo is properly starting to get on my tits.

You can't get too many minions out against a hunter for obvious reasons, which means you get off to a slow start damage wise until you can get some bigger minions out. (I basically limit myself to two minions with a hunter.)

Problem is that they've got that flat 2 damage output against your hero every turn which always chips away, and can usually trade minions with you on the board as well.

Then on Turn 6/7 then can Leeroy you which gets them 4 chargers minimum, which they can buff to 2 attack for a 1 mana card, and they get the 6 charge from Leeroy as well.

Not sure I can see much of a way to control that play down with the Trump Mage deck.


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PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2014 10:45 
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I just came back to the game after a months absence and with the only goal of having fun in the Arena.

That means not playing with boring classes like the Paladin and doing it with some of the weakest, but most fun classes like Warlock and Hunter. And i usually go for 5-6 wins, which is much better than i thought.


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PostPosted: Sat Apr 19, 2014 16:53 
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1/3 in Arena despite me getting to pick a mage which is the class I'm best with :(

#1 - Nothing I could do, total fuck off of a game but don't feel too bad about it, he got great card draw, I got shit draw. Clusterfuck.

#2 - The way I'd envisaged the deck working actually happened, wasn't a pushover but a nice win for me.

#3 - Really good game against a druid, right down to the wire and I then overplayed a move that wasn't quite lethal, from which point he rallied incredibly impressively. Great win for him, gave him a richly deserved 'well played' at the end. No complaints.

#4 - Utter bullshit game against a warrior, he seemed to have perfect aggro draw all the way, and then top-drew a Ragnaros on Turn 8 which then went straight for my face to end it, whilst I was drawing an utter pile of crap out of my deck knowing there were loads of cards I wanted in there. Total horseshit.

Very frustrating. The mere concept that I'd actually pay £1.49 for that sort of experience is borderline nonsensical.

I was so annoyed I punched myself in the leg until it really, really hurt. At least my PC survived though.


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Yay back to Rank 11 in Constructed - hard work to maintain the wins and concentration though.

My addicted circuits have properly kicked in with this game, but I shall draw myself away from it for Saturday night Battlefield with the chaps.


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One win away from Rank 10, what's the betting I either fuck it up or get a BASTARD DECK FROM HELL to play against.....

Just had a really right game against a paladin, but managed to keep him locked down with a Water Elemental and then a Frostbolt when he finally managed to get rid of the Elemental, they really are such powerful cards against the classes that can wield a weapon.


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Oh goody.

The Leeroy Jenkins > Hounds play. (Leeroy is underneath the hounds card.)

HOW ORIGINAL.

Managed to survive a few more turns after this but you're so limited against these decks as you can never have more than two minions out, so you just can't get enough DPS out, and they're nipping away at you every turn with their hero power too.

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ARRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

One game away from Rank 10 again, and in all fairness it was an awesome game but I still lost, against a seriously hardcore warrior control deck.

TBH it was never looking like my game, he was running with a lot of good cards and played two legendaries, plus there were a few epics in there too. At one point he had 10 armour and nearly all his health left. (I think the critical point was probably when he played brawl, I had three minions up and he had one, but his one minion was the legendary Sylvanas Windrunner, so the one minion that survived the brawl was immediately taken over by him thanks to Windrunner's deathrattle, and it was a water elemental with taunt....)

Rather cross to have missed out on Rank 10 again, but no complaints about the game itself, very challenging and tactical - just a shame I lost :(

I know I've said this before but seriously, there are no easy games at this rank. You've really got to be prepared to commit yourself to a genuine period of concentration, and some of the games can go on for quite a while.


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I've swapped out an Argent Squire for a Pyroblast, as I've often been left wanting to draw something big towards the end of a game. (Other than that the deck is the Mage Trump deck that he was playing at Rank 1 and then to Legend.)

Just had a game against a hunter who was playing pretty well in all honesty, not sure if he was waiting for a hounds opportunity but I sure as hell wasn't going to give it to him (where possible I now play spells against hunters and trade down on the board so there are 1 or even zero minions on my side, because even then they can Leeroy > Hounds you, so even two minions on your side can be dangerous).

On Turn 9 I had a Fireball ready to go and drew the Pyroblast, he had 17 health left. (I also had other cards in my hand and one on the board, but at this point it was all academic.) Needless to say I played Fireball that turn and nipped him with a Fireblast to make 7 damage, and he got a 10 damage Pyroblast to the face next turn. Game over.

The thing that annoys me about hunters (and why it was so satisfying to Pyroblast his face off), is they nearly all run with secrets. So not only have they got that shit hounds thing going on, they're often playing secrets against you which I flat out don't like because they're sneaky, although I know all the hunter ones inside out now so can work around them.

Mages and pallies have secrets too of course, but far fewer mages seem to run with them, and hardly any pallies.

Still Rank 11 though, was one game away from dropping down to Rank 12.....


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I've just unisntalled it (again!) - was starting to rage at not only the utter boredom and predictability of playing against more aggro Warlock and Hunter decks in Ranked (I rarely play Arena, the deck building annoys me) but also raging at myself whenever I lost. It's just sapping my self-confidence.

I'm at rank 10.

Have been using this anti-aggro Mage deck:

http://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/com ... mage_deck/

It works really well (and it would work even better for me if I was a better player!).

So no more serious HS for me for quite some time, although I may have a faff around on a few home computers and various accounts this weekend and try for that extra card back:

http://www.hearthpwn.com/news/448-intro ... a-new-card

Have already installed the game on another PC - will also set it up on my wife's PC, create a 'temporary' account for her and a 'spare' for me to get the card back.


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I installed it on my gf's iPad for the free card pack. It was really nice to play, I can't deny it, but I have no other use for a tablet so it still won't make me buy one.

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I installed it on AE Jnr's iPad2 earlier today and it runs 'passably', definitely a bit lurchy and jerky and wouldn't be my preferred way to play the game, but certainly usable in a pinch I'd say.

Also, I'm back down to Rank 13.

Fucking game.

I think I'm going to hit the point soon whereby I'll either:

1) Bin the fucking thing off until the new single player content comes out.

or

2) Drop £70 on 80 packs of cards in the hope it gets me the legendaries required to put together the anti-cunt deck that Four_Candles linked to above.

I'm at a loss to explain the foul fucking mood this game is capable of putting me in and also the highs it can deliver, but it definitely hits the same centres in my brain that drugs and gambling used to. Really odd.


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Often when I lose badly, it's because my cunty opponent drops 3-4 legendaries in a row that my hand can't handle. I still retain my F2P smugness, and sometimes I have what I need to smash it all and beat the fucker.

I'm middling around rank 13/14, but my priest is almost level 51. C'mon 60!

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I've just unisntalled it (again!) - was starting to rage at not only the utter boredom and predictability of playing against more aggro Warlock and Hunter decks in Ranked (I rarely play Arena, the deck building annoys me) but also raging at myself whenever I lost. It's just sapping my self-confidence.

I'm at rank 10.

Have been using this anti-aggro Mage deck:

http://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/com ... mage_deck/

It works really well (and it would work even better for me if I was a better player!).

So no more serious HS for me for quite some time, although I may have a faff around on a few home computers and various accounts this weekend and try for that extra card back:

http://www.hearthpwn.com/news/448-intro ... a-new-card

Have already installed the game on another PC - will also set it up on my wife's PC, create a 'temporary' account for her and a 'spare' for me to get the card back.


Interesting mage deck, my last three games have been against Hunters, so i'll give that a go. :)

<Three games later, all against mages>

Fucking game.

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Well I'm one loss away from dropping down to Rank 14, and yet I've been one win away from hitting Rank 10 twice today, but my mood is so fucking bad with it at the moment I'm practically chucking the games away, playing incredibly recklessly.

Gahhh, time to put a film on instead I think, and I'll maintain my total spend on the game thus far of £1.99.

Arse game.

Still, if the biggest problem I have in the world is a bad losing streak playing an online collectible card game, then I guess things aren't too bad.


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Interesting mage deck, my last three games have been against Hunters, so i'll give that a go. :)

<Three games later, all against mages>

Fucking game.

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Have you got all the legendaries for that deck?


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Interesting mage deck, my last three games have been against Hunters, so i'll give that a go. :)

<Three games later, all against mages>

Fucking game.

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Have you got all the legendaries for that deck?


Nope, but i've got Antonidas which is what it revolves around. I swapped in my Black Knight and a Pyroblast for the others.


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Re that Mage deck - I don't have Cairne so I popped in a Boulderfist Ogre instead (I could have used my Ysera but after trying it the Ogre seemed more useful).

The Reddit post has some suggestions as to alternatives to the Legendaries, also tells you how to play the deck, etc.


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Cheers I might look into it at some point, but on balance I'll stick with the Trump Mage deck for the rest of this season, it's a bit late in the day to try and get my head around a new deck.

I'm also thinking it's time to have a go at another class, I'll see where I can finish this season with my mage but I'm also working on getting a second class ready to go for next season and see how I get on with that. Currently drawn towards a shammy as I find them interesting and challenging to play against, so I'm hoping they're an involving class to play.


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The only way to obtain all soulbound golden cards is to hit 60 with all characters. So, erm, after Priest gets there (give it another week I reckon), I might switch out to Rogue, but I'm also very fond of the Paladin (my preference for Arena).

Of course, getting them all to 60 is a bonkers task. I think I'm at 150 ranked wins with Priest, and I wager it'll take at least another 50 to get there, but I started at quite a high level when the win totals were introduced.

So, I'd be interested to see what you hit first as a low-rank character - 500 wins or level 60? Probably level 60 I should think.

Golden cards are quite pointless, but provide for a long term goal for mental completionists. I have swapped out as much of my Priest deck with gold cards as possible. I'm probably 70% gold at this point.

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My Mage as been at level 60 for ages now - maybe I'll try and level up the others once my patience and sanity returns. :)


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Rank 14 now..... However, I do at least appear to have mastered the art of not giving a fuck, so I'm not getting stressy about it now.

There are so many shitass gimmick and aggro decks out there it's just not worth getting aerated about, if you hit a bad run with them you're gonna lose stars and ranks, and that's basically all there is to it. (Not that they're the only decks I lose to of course, it's not like I'd have hit legend status with those players removed from the game, but I'd certainly have hit Rank 10 or better.)

If Rank 11 is my peak this season then so be it, at least I'm not a cunty Hunter playing Leeroy > Hounds all the fucking time, and I'm satisfied that I've managed to play some solid games with a reasonably balanced 'fair' deck containing precisely zero legendaries.

Time to chill a bit and enjoy the game for what it is, plus I have enough gold for an arena entry so I'll do that later on too.


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Ha.

Case in point I just had what was, in all fairness, a bloody good game against a druid but he played THREE high value legendaries and fuck knows how many epics - and I still very, very nearly beat him with the basic Trump Mage deck (it doesn't even have the Pyro in it any more). It was actually fatigue that killed me ONE TURN AWAY from finally finishing him off, which is a measure of how well I'd controlled him down.

Yesterday it would have pissed me off, today I'm just like, 'Yeah, whatever'. The game was fun, and I've stopped paying too much attention to my rank. (I'm playing ranked instead of casual because you tend to get a better game in ranked, otherwise I'd probably just switch to casual.)

If I drop down to Rank 15, so be it.


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Game appears to be on its arse today, I suspect Easter Monday is proving rather busy for the servers.

I'm not going to risk starting an Arena run at the moment.


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Game appears to be on its arse today, I suspect Easter Monday is proving rather busy for the servers.

I'm not going to risk starting an Arena run at the moment.


Just Blizzard's shitty servers not being able to cope with the demand. As usual. No idea how they put up with this - after all, it must be losing them money as it's been affecting all of their online games for months now. Or perhaps it's not losing them ENOUGH money to make them sit up and take notice? It's certainly losing them any good will that their customers may have had.


As an aside, and as proof (if it were needed) of the OP'ness of aggro Hunter - see how Trump is struggling at the higher ranks:

http://www.twitch.tv/trumpsc/b/521589593

First game starts at about 23:30 mins. Then watch ........


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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread (title changed ... again!)
PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 20:19 
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Laggy as fuck with disconnects galore tonight, I'm just doing the daily quest in casual mode as I daren't invest in an arena run (even though I'm sat on 260 gold) as disconnects/broken games are really infuriating in arena, and buying packs of cards to potentially improve my deck for Ranked seems a bit pointless when (1) The game isn't working properly and (2) Ranked is shagged to fuck with the gimmick and aggro decks anyway.

I'm a bit gobsmacked Blizzard rolled this out worldwide when they didn't have it stable on PC/Mac, but they still proceeded to a limited iPad release and then a worldwide iPad release. TBH they brought it out of beta before it was ready in the first place - and they're already bigging up the upcoming new content before they've got the game working as it is both technically and balance wise.

Thing is, surely they're shooting themselves in the foot anyway? Because I'm just thinking to myself, 'Oh well, at least it's free', and less inclined to spend any real money with each passing day.


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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread (title changed ... again!)
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Just keeps timing out for me - i cant even join a match

I think the Mac / PC side seemed stable but the word of mouth for the ipad version has been incredible and I really think its just the volume of new players thats doing this


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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread (title changed ... again!)
PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 20:50 
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Just keeps timing out for me - i cant even join a match

I think the Mac / PC side seemed stable but the word of mouth for the ipad version has been incredible and I really think its just the volume of new players thats doing this


Because no one could have predicted that an F2P game based on the most successful MMORPG ever would be hugely popular once rolled out onto the most ubiquitous mobile gaming device ever created by mankind :D

I also wonder if Blizzard have been a victim of their own, for want of a better word, 'morality' when it comes to F2P game design, whereby you really do get a full, proper game for exactly zero investment?

There are so many gouging horror shows of F2P games out there that are clearly just built around blatant paywalls that maybe Blizzard's approach of, 'No really guys, it's a full game for nothing!' has caught on very quickly with huge numbers of people, beyond even what they were expecting?

Sorry I just completely disagreed with my original point in this post there.


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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread (title changed ... again!)
PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 21:07 
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I think your original point is right - the game has been out and available for PC and Mac for ages and i never touched it - it came out on the iPad and i lost a lot of my weekend to it


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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread (title changed ... again!)
PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 21:33 
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I think your original point is right - the game has been out and available for PC and Mac for ages and i never touched it - it came out on the iPad and i lost a lot of my weekend to it


I think it's maybe a combination of the two things.

Personally I don't have much to do with mobile gaming because I think the F2P model has basically fucked everything up, and instead of buying and playing a complete game experience, we get given a free 'pseudo-game' that is nothing more than a crude procession of paywalls designed to gouge money out of people.

(Mrs AE and AE Jnr both have iPads, and they've installed loads of free 'games' on both of them, and the breathtakingly cynical money-grabbing construction of them really is fucking evil.)

So along come Blizzard with an actual, complete, genuinely good GAME that is F2P, whereby you're given a pretty damn generous supply of everything required to play the game. Cards, gold, dust - just playing the game in free mode delivers enough of these for most people, yes you can buy your way to a full set of cards but even then it's down to the skill of playing them correctly.

Maybe there's been a pent-up demand all along for a really good game like this on the iPad, and a whole horde of people who were offended by the likes of the Dungeon Keeper mobile abomination have latched onto Hearthstone like a lifebelt in an ocean.

Either way Blizzard must have known it was going to be popular, but maybe even they've been caught off-guard by just how popular it's proving to be.

Still think they could have staggered the iPad release a lot better though.


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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread (title changed ... again!)
PostPosted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 22:20 
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zaphod79 wrote:
Just keeps timing out for me - i cant even join a match

I think the Mac / PC side seemed stable but the word of mouth for the ipad version has been incredible and I really think its just the volume of new players thats doing this


The problems aren't specific to certain platforms - they are caused by server issues, and these issues affect all of Blizzard's online games. The strange thing is that this has been ongoing for a number of months (and is getting even worse) yet the server issues remain unresolved. Says a LOT about Blizzard's lack of competence (or perhaps they feel like they have so much of a captive audience that they really don't need to give a shit?).


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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread (title changed ... again!)
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8/3 in arena, not too bad at all :)


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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread (title changed ... again!)
PostPosted: Wed Apr 23, 2014 16:25 
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Why is it, that the only time my bluetooth mouse runs out of battery, is when i'm playing a round of Hearthstone?


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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread (title changed ... again!)
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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread (title changed ... again!)
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I did, I even bought better than that, I have an induction charging pad and rechargeable battery in it, all I need to do is to put it on the pad every so often.

Do I ever remember? Or course not.


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Why is the pad not a mouse mat?

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Grim... wrote:
Why is the pad not a mouse mat?

It's only the size of the mouse...


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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread (title changed ... again!)
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Yay got enough gold for two arena entries and the game appears to be working properly tonight so I'll have a punt with my new DON'T GET ANNOYED ABOUT HEARTHSTONE demeanour about me.

Coming up, two 1/3 clusterfucks, probably......


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 Post subject: Re: Hearthstone thread (title changed ... again!)
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Why is the pad not a mouse mat?

It's only the size of the mouse...

Clearly this is an issue - although it's fine for Craster.

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