I’ve been hearing twist will be inactive in January? Is this true and if so, why?
It’s a fun format and allows me to actually enjoy the massive old card collections without having to deal with paying or obtaining all the new nonsense.
I find the format super enjoyable and much prefer it over the others at the moment.
It was always inactive by how boring it was after few weeks in the expansion.
What’s your definition of boring, because in my opinion, standard and it’s constantly nonsense expansions are boring.
Stale and non-changing. Twist is definitely just one of those modes that focuses on nostalgia days.
Boring is when Streamers don’t play Twist because of 5 minutes queue times.
The queue times are 5 minutes because the mode is boring and no one is playing it.
Which is why there are 5 minute queue times for streamers who want to play Twist.
But no one is playing Twist, because it is boring.
This knowledge breaks the space-time continuum because the effect and the cause are the same.
Because the mode is not profitable enough for Blizzard to continue it. You have to wait until they come up with another brilliant idea to milk customers.
Hoping that they’ll roll out XL or something similar for Jamuary as a surprise - Twist is by far the most enjoyable mode in the game for me - mostly because I can play games consistently in the style I most enjoy, board centric chess matches as opposed to the “I have Odyn on turn 8 i guess i win now!” Or “let me play through my entire deck in a turn and kill you while you watch!” That plagues so much of standard and wild.
Its a shame that the Hearthstone crew hasn’t been allowed to try a different business model with Twist as a test to explore and see if they could do things completely differently if it could be a model for the rest of the game to follow - aka, give players incentive to play the mode, provide more goodies to the players and see if that brings more in… idk, twist up their approach and see if it brings in a net increase of money. Not much to lose at this point.
yep they told us it would be months ago
would be nice if they announce february rules too
streamers are top 20 legend most players arent
Its a rotating format. They disable tavern brawl sometimes too.
I hope the rules in february have less sets, tho. Combine some fun stuff.
and this isnt the first time they do it
they did it after twist first month ( we were told in advance back then too )
Well… yeah… duh.
What, other than nostalgia, did you expect a format entirely dependent on already having older cards was going to offer?
As for “stale and non-changing”, how so? There has been an extra set added (except that one month where it was a wacky rule change, re: 40 cards/life) each month, instead of having to wait 4-6 months like when those sets were new. EDIT: I guess December repeated November, but I was having too much fun enjoying the revisit to my favorite meta to notice.
I’m sorry that you don’t find this sufficiently entertaining, but I’m also fairly sure trolling your dislike for the format wasn’t what the OP was after either.
Sadly, this is probably what’s going on. (EDIT: Nope. They’re just taking a planned-moths-ago break to come up with some whacky changes to keep it fresh.) However, I am curious how the profitability stacks against the format it replaced (Classic).
With only one set to invest in (and most of that set included in Core), not several sets, I feel like there was more of an incentive for new players to take the gamble buying packs.
Whereas a lot of players dusted their old cards when the Standard/Wild split happened, so Twist seemingly only appeals to those of us that didn’t, and why should we invest in the format-specific set when we can dust a few duplicates from other packs to get the cards we need from it?
One of the announcements @Boreas mentioned earlier…
What you talking about??? I’m sorry that comment triggered you.