Hearthstone Budget Cuts Moment

[Armhulen]

How do you go from this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMhpHgqIQdQ (2019)

To THIS?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZM85A9hIzQ (2024)

[Armhulen]

It's like I just watched one of those weird youtube kid videos where elsa gets gregnant from spiderman

[Cheshify]

I know nothing about hearthstone and that second video caused me physical pain

[TheRex9001]

Its so fucking over oh my god that expansion trailer hurts

[Tegun]

Not even One Night in Karazhan...

[nianjiilical]

i thought cinematics were like the one thing blizzard still had left

[Jacquerel]

This is so sad

[Timonk]

Hearthstone is out of its prime and so is blizzard. thats all there is.

[TheRex9001]

This is for the 10 year anniversary of Hearthstone expansion btw

[Nabski]

I'm so glad I swapped to magic arena with mercenaries came out.

[Timonk]

This is for the 10 year anniversary of Hearthstone expansion btw

tf lmao bozos

[Armhulen]

This is for the 10 year anniversary of Hearthstone expansion btw

hehehehehe i'm almost excited to see if it gets worse with the following 2 expansions this year

[conrad]

I'm so glad I swapped to magic arena with mercenaries came out.

I tried that and it was balls cos every breath I took Wizards wanted another dollar.

[Nabski]

I'm so glad I swapped to magic arena with mercenaries came out.

I tried that and it was balls cos every breath I took Wizards wanted another dollar.

I play every day, just getting my 4 wins. That brings me to about 90% set completion with enough wildcards to make whatever deck I want.

I've ignored the non-standard legal sets, which they seem to have 1 a year.

[TheLoLSwat]

they need to just give hearthstone to riot games ill never forgive blizzard for what they did to overwatch

[Jacquerel]

Why Riot? Weren't they also subject to a huge employee harassment and discrimination suit, and just closed their spinoff studio?

[datorangebottle]

when is blizzard finally folding?

[TheLoLSwat]

Why Riot?

I can respect what they've done for League and especially valorant

[mrmelbert]

As someone who has played League of Legends I cannot respect what they have done for League of Legends

[NecromancerAnne]

Riot also like, massively downsized every single department that isn't working on League of Legends, so that League of Legends can continue to be a fucking dreadful game with some pretty baller character designs wasted by being in a shit MOBA.

Oh, and Riot has Legends of Runeterra, so that's like, a direct competitor (and IMHO not very good either). I'm so glad that Riot Games just up and lost my account on me forever so that I never have to subject myself to that shit ever again. I only found out when I was asked to show someone how to play (despite my warnings).

I'm not joking, they can't recover it, It just up and disappeared when they moved to Riot Accounts.

[conrad]

tbh every tech company under the sun massively downsized recently

[NecromancerAnne]

I know, but it may be a sign that any of their products that aren't the shit MOBA could soon be experiencing a decline in quality. Which is not great if you happen to give a shit about those things. (I know more people who have enjoyed Arcane than people who have actually played League of Legends, as an example)

[nianjiilical]

im bummed that riot closed their spinoff program but also i never bought any of them so maybe im the problem

apparently legends of runeterra has basically never been profitable despite everyone saying it was way more generous and less money hungry than the competition so maybe we're the problem

[TheLoLSwat]

Ok ok ok they have valorant and they are cooking with it

[NecromancerAnne]

im bummed that riot closed their spinoff program but also i never bought any of them so maybe im the problem

apparently legends of runeterra has basically never been profitable despite everyone saying it was way more generous and less money hungry than the competition so maybe we're the problem

With Runeterra, it gives you enough of a leg-up when you join and the means to acquire a decent deck without much problem as a F2P player pretty easily. You can certainly be playing the game and have fun without spending a dime. I do think you'd need to spend some money to get a competitive deck, but probably not nearly as much as Hearthstone. When I played Hearthstone it quickly became apparent by like several seasons in that I'm falling massively behind the people dropping 300 dollars on the game every expansion to get every card possible and I'd have no chance F2P. And you will have to deal with those people regardless of what content you're playing because of resets. Time was working against me. And all my friends, who were also F2P, pretty much unanimously stopped playing by the time we all worked out this fact. The longest running player in my group, when she realized she would have to start spending a ton of money she didn't have to remain playing at the level she really should have been for longer (she's an insane M:TG player too), she just kind of quit.

I think Riot expected to make money off skins and cosmetics, and less the actual game component of Runeterra, since that is what largely holds League of Legends afloat as well. And I think that just didn't really work out since it's....a 2D board with not much going on? Most people really don't care about cosmetics, but they do care about playing the game. Hence why Hearthstone nickels and dimes you via the cards first and foremost.

[RedBaronFlyer]

tbh every tech company under the sun massively downsized recently

IIRC Nintendo announced they weren't doing layoffs.

[dendydoom]

back in MY day we would just use this program called cockatrice which lets you play any card game by applying a database of cards, which any tcg has readily available online.

[nianjiilical]

As someone who has played League of Legends I cannot respect what they have done for League of Legends

i decided to go for gold this split for the first time since like 2014-2015 and friends told me i actually became a more toxic individual in daily conversation because the ranked playerbase is *that* bad, but maybe thats less about the game and more about the community

if they're going to add valorant's kernel-level anticheat i think it would be cool and good if they started hardware banning people from ranked for being shitheads (and then from every mode if they dont stop)

I know, but it may be a sign that any of their products that aren't the shit MOBA could soon be experiencing a decline in quality. Which is not great if you happen to give a shit about those things. (I know more people who have enjoyed Arcane than people who have actually played League of Legends, as an example)

league of legends has a lot of incredibly fantastic characters and locations and settings and as someone who doesnt even play fighting games im hoping project L is going to be a success just so all that worldbuilding can live outside the moba for the people who understandably do not want to play the moba

[Nabski]

back in MY day we would just use this program called cockatrice which lets you play any card game by applying a database of cards, which any tcg has readily available online.

I have friends that play it all via tabletop simulator which seems painful.

[MrStonedOne]

not as painful as having to do a real time draft with 7 other people over the internet and then wait for players from your draft group to finish games to have more than one match, all on best of 3, all while disconnections have a chance to kill the draft group and than you have to restart

[Arcanemusic]

The funny thing is, this probably took MORE money to make than the 2019 video

You have: More image stills, lipsyncing, and limb articulation in the animation

The 2019 video has a total of 24 pieces of independent animation frames. Total. I counted. That, combined with basic motion tweening, a 1 minute long piece of music, and bam, solid quality advertisement

Fuck I wonder if they made the 2024 video with AI? I know that's kinda passe to say at the moment but that really does feel like it lacks ANY kind of human charm

[TheRex9001]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPtkLcaW5Wk Still better than whatever the fuck the titans cinematic was

[Nabski]

not as painful as having to do a real time draft with 7 other people over the internet and then wait for players from your draft group to finish games to have more than one match, all on best of 3, all while disconnections have a chance to kill the draft group and than you have to restart

Arena moved from playing in your pool to based on record/rating. You have the option to do best of 3's still but best of 1 is the more common choice which makes "sideboard" cards pointless tragically. I also miss having an idea what people were playing if they were sitting right next to you.

Not having to wait for matches to finish is the best.

[MrStonedOne]

I was never talking about arena

[NecromancerAnne]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPtkLcaW5Wk Still better than whatever the fuck the titans cinematic was

The top comment is gold

Great work on this cinematic! It's truly impressive how you gave three teenagers an afternoon to learn Adobe After Effects and then let them make the flagship marketing piece for the new expansion.

[TheRex9001]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58KHn4H6F5Q
3 years ago this was made for a solo adventure not even an expansion

[Featherfield]

How do you go from this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMhpHgqIQdQ (2019)

To THIS?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZM85A9hIzQ (2024)

I hope you get banned for life

[Timonk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58KHn4H6F5Q
3 years ago this was made for a solo adventure not even an expansion

honestly liked this one more than both of the ones armhulen posted

[iansdoor]

I don't think I have seen enough of this.

This is just the work of a SMALL INDIE COMPANY

[carshalash]

Have they fired celestalon yet?

Every time he opens his mouth, he humiliates himself.

[oranges]

The funny thing is, this probably took MORE money to make than the 2019 video

You have: More image stills, lipsyncing, and limb articulation in the animation

The 2019 video has a total of 24 pieces of independent animation frames. Total. I counted. That, combined with basic motion tweening, a 1 minute long piece of music, and bam, solid quality advertisement

Fuck I wonder if they made the 2024 video with AI? I know that's kinda passe to say at the moment but that really does feel like it lacks ANY kind of human charm

probably the difference between someone who was an animator either making the advertisement inhouse, or contracting out to a shop, vs an ad exec who has no idea contracting out to a third party shop.

Ironically sometimes as a company grows it wastes more on things that were cheaper in the past due to the loss of in house talent to guide the scope of the changes.

[Timonk]

:siren: NEW ARMHULEN POST DETECTED :siren:

[TheRex9001]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58KHn4H6F5Q
3 years ago this was made for a solo adventure not even an expansion

honestly liked this one more than both of the ones armhulen posted

Its really good

[Armhulen]

I don't think I have seen enough of this.

This is just the work of a SMALL INDIE COMPANY

AMEN!

As someone who has played League of Legends I cannot respect what they have done for League of Legends

that feel when you are one of the poor souls who took the "half a decade of my life and now my internet name is armpit" tax by playing league of legends once

[DaBoss]

they were the first to joke about the shit wonka event before it even happened whoa

[Armhulen]

they were the first to joke about the shit wonka event before it even happened whoa

1. It had a higher budget than the hearthstone expansion

2. This is priceless:

[RedBaronFlyer]

they were the first to joke about the shit wonka event before it even happened whoa

1. It had a higher budget than the hearthstone expansion

2. This is priceless:

Me in cargo when someone is screaming about an order not arriving yet (they ordered it fifteen seconds ago)

Part of the reason I stopped playing cargo, that and the stock market

[Timonk]

they were the first to joke about the shit wonka event before it even happened whoa

1. It had a higher budget than the hearthstone expansion

2. This is priceless:

smh i didnt think armhulen would fall for the twitter bait
here are actual pictures of her

[Armhulen]

they were the first to joke about the shit wonka event before it even happened whoa

1. It had a higher budget than the hearthstone expansion

2. This is priceless:

smh i didnt think armhulen would fall for the twitter bait
here are actual pictures of her

All the actors were definitely victims of the AI garble that was going on, yeah. She was doing her job got dangit!!

[Timonk]

fun fact the event host of the experience released 17 AI generated novels on amazon in 2023