Howdy whoever is reading this! I had a question hopefully someone can shed some light on. Is there another website or form of communication that the Developers use to communicate to the players? For example, one of the other games that I play is Clash of Clans and whenever there’s an issue or a bug the Supercell team is good about either sending a message in game to the players about what’s going on or direct you to a site where they explain either in text or video. I am aware that occasionally there will be posts in the forums about patch notes or addressing some issues, but that communication doesn’t happen often.
I was hoping there was something else that I could read or keep track with what’s going on with the game bc the amount of differences between Blizzard vs Supercell communication is staggering, and Clash of Clans is free vs Hearthstone. Again, all I know of now is just watching for Blue Posts so hopefully I’m missing something here.
I love Hearthstone, I just see a lot of common problems that should receive some acknowledgment or something. I personally posted on the Bug Forums for a year about Hearthstone continuing to crash on my iPad every game and never heard a peep. I just want to see Hearthstone continue to grow and flourish and great communication and feedback from the Developers would at least let the players know that their concerns/issues were being addressed. Of course everything takes time and nothing happens overnight, but personally speaking as someone who spends money in Hearthstone it sucks not hearing anything about constant problems. Makes me hesitant to spend anymore money bc I don’t want Hearthstone to be the next Heroes of the Storm and get kicked to the curb.
Thank you for taking time to read and any feedback is greatly appreciated! Have a great morning/day/evening!
DIRECT communication with the actual Programmers and Artists is not easy. The closest you can get as a common player is Blizzard’s marketing guy RidiculousHat who appears in the subreddit and twitter and discord; there’s also a “secret” streamers discord that Blizzard made but I doubt that has direct involvement of the Devs either (it’s most probably also mainly for Marketing and advertisement).
There’s also streamers or content creators like Vicious Syndicate that talk as if they have direct access to the Devs; in most cases they’re just peripheral businesses without a lot of access or understanding of Blizzard (but they want their subscribers to think otherwise); but generally if you have a big impact you’ll be noticed (also try Celestalon’s twitter (but you have to be noticed … to be noticed)).
Ok I’m going to have to check all that out. I have been reading through older posts this year on the forums and just feel like what one of the big guys said was a lie about being more transparent and talking about everything. Just really hard for me to feel comfortable with the game when they didn’t release a new board with this latest expansion, I know this upset a ton of people, and the overall game right now. I have been playing for about 6 hours today and 95% of my games end by turn 5 with no skill or strategy involved whatsoever. In the article I read “other projects” kept being mentioned and he reassured the community that Hearthstone will be around for decades to come but it feels like 0 effort is being spent keeping players happy. I have always been one of the players to spend money on the game for expansions, special cards, etc but I honestly just don’t trust them anymore. What are your thoughts/opinions on it Carnivore?
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You won’t see that from Blizzard…The only communication you will see from the developers from Blizzard is from the youtube/google scandals. That’s the only real communication you will have with them. I bet that even the news section on every page is redacted by someone else and employees at blizzard only send an e-mail
You can check how they communicate by searching “blizzard employees stealing boob juice from female employees”, that’s how productive the blizzard employees are at both game design , fun and communication.
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I knew people thought Cash Cow is a lackluster card, but that takes it to another level.
that community manager is really good
hes constanly helping in reddit ive seen often on bug posts usually explaining when it isnt a bug or letting people know if the devs know about a bug or not
They certainly didn’t just put vanilla creatures in there deck and win so some deck build skill or deck build strategy was at least involved(even if the user took a netdeck SOMEONE designed it)
I’m not Carnivore but I have always believed that if you like something spending money on it is reasonable, I have cut back on spending and only do the Tavern Pass nowadays, but when I made more money and hand more free income I was buying both prelease bundles(I’ve bought every Tavern pass since it was introduced as well)
Thanks Lznad for your input! I really appreciate it and I do agree with you 100% on showing support for a game when you love it. I just enjoy Hearthstone so much and want to see it grow and prosper, just get worried when I see just negative post after negative post in the community discussion.
WARNING: Minor use of strong language in this comic strip I’m linking to:
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/green-blackboards-and-other-anomalies
Basically this 
Regarding “communication” it’s a long standing “open secret” that blizzard doesn’t deign to interact with us plebs on their forums. This is unofficially just a place for us to hang out and interact with each other. You’ll be hard pressed to find this stated officially, but the empirical proof is overwhelming. We get announcement posts like the one about the most recent patch, but it’s just a link to the website page that everyone already knew about from twitter or reddit. Nothing special for the official forums, unfortunately.
My advice? Don’t drink the haterade. I’ve been known to spew it from time to time, but if I TRULY were P/O’d about this game, I’d just stop playing. I’d stop playing and I’d stop posting. Apathy is the true death of things. So, let people talk if they want to talk, and you just keep walking if you want to walk. That’s all there is to it.
Game on, friend.