Tyrande, oh where oh where: Cont'd

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https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/950h65/is_tyrande_whisperwind_ever_coming_back/

Original topic: Tyrande, oh where oh where?




A Comprehensive Timeline (Click to Expand)

Late 2015*

  • Blizzard announced Tyrande as a new priest hero.

April 27th 2016

  • Year of the Kraken started, marking the debut of the Standard Year. Followed by the release of Whispers of the Old Gods expansion.

September 30th 2016 - November 5th 2016

  • Tyrande was made available in countries with Twitch Prime. Meanwhile Blizzard announced they will find more ways to unlock her for people who did not live in the aforementioned countries.*

November 17th 2016 - December 31st 2016

  • Tyrande was made available in China via WeChat account subscription.

January 25th 2017 - February 10th 2017

  • Tyrande was made available in Southeast Asia countries through a card pack purchase promotion.

April 6th 2017

  • The Year of the Kraken ended. Followed by the Year of the Mammoth and the release of Journey to Un’goro expansion.

June 2017*

  • Yong Woo confirmed that they will make her available again in the Year of the Mammoth (April 6th 2017 - April 12th 2018) in the form of a tweet reply.

July 14th 2017

  • Ben Brode confirmed that they were still working on this issue in a reddit AMA.

November 9th 2017

November 2017

  • Community Manager confirmed that this was still in the works.

January 2018 - February 2018

  • Twitch Prime promotion. No Tyrande.

April 12th 2018

  • The Year of the Mammoth ended. Followed by the Year of the Raven and the release of The Witchwood expansion. Tyrande was not made available in that year.

April 20th 2018

  • Shortly after the Hearthstone new year, Ben Brode left T5 and Blizzard.

July 2018*

  • T5 confirmed that Tyrande will return in the future in a Tavern Talk, but they could not announce a date because “it is not set in stone”. The reasoning behind this is still a myth to this day.

July 22nd 2018

August 2018*

  • Yong Woo left T5 and Blizzard.

November 2nd 2018 - November 3rd 2018

  • BlizzCon 2018. No news on Tyrande.

February 12th 2019

  • Layoffs at Activision-Blizzard. Community Managers were all let go.

April 9th 2019

  • The Year of the Raven ended. Followed by the Year of the Dragon and the release of Rise of Shadows expansion. Tyrande was not made available in that year.

April 22nd 2019

  • T5 confirmed that this was still in the works and promised an ETA “before the end of the year”.

November 1st 2019 - November 2nd 2019

  • BlizzCon 2019. No news on Tyrande.

November 2nd 2019

  • T5 confirmed again that Tyrande will be made for free by the end of the year.

November 5th 2019

  • T5 stated that Tyrande will be available by December.

December 5th 2019

  • Tyrande was announced to be obtainable by visiting the in-game shop starting from Dec 10th, 2019.

December 10th 2019

  • Tyrande was obtainable through visiting the in-game shop. A remarkable achievement in HS history!




    *Source may not be reliable.


Blizzard's Official Responses (Updated November 2019)

From Rise of Shadows Q&A - April 22, 2019 - #280 by MeanBob-1146
“We’d love to bring back the Tyrande alternate hero and things like missing Card backs. It’s one of the most asked for things from the community. It’s frustrating knowing you missed out on something while you were away or before you started playing Hearthstone. We’re working on the right way to get them in to your hands. :smiley:”- Liv Breeden

“We’re working on delivering it before the end of the year.” - Liv Breeden

From Any News of Tyrande? Promised at The End of the Year… - Nov 2019
“We are still planning on giving it away free this year.” - Mike Donais

From Yup I bet Tyrande is one of those rewards :heart_eyes:
“Tyranda is not till December :(” - Mike Donais



Useful Links

Any word of Tyrande? - Jan 17, 2017

Hearthstone Tavern Talk - Jul 5, 2018

Rise of Shadows Q&A - Apr 22, 2019

Any News of Tyrande? Promised at The End of the Year… - Nov 1, 2019

Yup I bet Tyrande is one of those rewards :heart_eyes: - Nov 5, 2019



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Epilogue


This thread was one of the longest running thread on the forums ever since November 2017. It finally came to an end on December 10th, 2019 as a result of Tyrande’s return.

It had been a long and rough journey with joy, anger, desperation and frustration. For many, it was the anger of the unfairness of the initial release. For others, it was the remorse of not playing during the right time. But nonetheless, our initial wish had all been the same: Let her make a return.

Through every Q&A, through media, through CS, through forums… we fought to attract Blizzard’s attention. We even got our reward: a promise given by Team 5.

But none seemed to have changed anything. The sweet promise turned to a heartbreaking lie. Controversies and arguments dominated the old thread: some even believed we are just pathetic whiners. At one point of time, hope seemingly started to fade away.

Yet people fought hard. During the Year of the Raven, we endured the darkest days on the forums, sharing our thoughts and ideas, hoping that one day our dream would become true. The top post of all time reminded Team 5 that they had a promise that had yet to deliver.

The ending seemed to be surprisingly trivial compared to all of these - almost too short. We got what we wanted for so long. But for me, the weight of the “claim your gift” button was almost overwhelming. (Maybe I was just too obsessed with it). Everyone here knew what it meant - and I understood it well.

To mark the end of this, I think it is very important to acknowledge what we had been doing over the past 3 years. My sincerest thanks to everyone who had cared, participated and aided this whole issue. A special shout-out to our former community manager Jesse Hill, who had been extremely caring and helped us get things settled. It was impossible to have the whole thread updated without our united will.

May Elune light your path!

“Azuremyst” - December 14th, 2019.

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It is fitting that this thread should be one of the three first threads on the Hearthstone forum. Bring Tyrande back.

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:100: Tyrande needs to be brought back. I’m sure blizz was hoping this would die with the new forums at this point :wink:

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Here’s hoping the new year will bring Tyrande back.

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if they can’t because of twitch, they can make another version of her (say a hots version) and put it in the shop

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Posting my response from another thread.

In the old mega-thread, someone had suggested a new version that could be distinguished from the original release. Those who were able to get theirs first can still have that feeling of having something unique, while satisfying those who weren’t able to get her in the beginning. Maybe something like a different colored border? I don’t know, but I like their idea and think they could do something simple like that.

Whaddya think?

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Why even go through the trouble of designing a new Tyrande… it’s literally a skin which most people already have (for free…). Not to mention this is another punishment for newer players. Don’t we already see that in order to keep this game alive we cant just rely on older players? (Game is already lenient enough towards older players since its TCG)

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If most people already had it, I don’t think we’d be having this conversation, lol

I’m not talking about designing a whole new hero, did you not read the entire post?

Incredible.

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Considering when other forums were “updated” they brought over the more recent threads (two or more weeks worth at least), it’s interesting that this and other hot topics got “forgotten.”

I’m sure it was just an “oversight” just like the radio silence we’re getting on the topic…

If it were that, they would have said by now. If it were NDA (Non Disclosure Agreements) they would have said by now. To give some perspective on this, we know more about next gen agreements and hanky panky between real life people that have NDAs than we do about a two year old hearthstone promotion.

A containment thread (this), and the radio silence on the subject, which is what they’ve done aside from the generic and vague reassurances and no real movement on the subject. I mean, two years worth of “discussions” they’re supposedly having behind the scenes on the subject (which of course they won’t give any details on) doesn’t actually move the ball forward on this.

So we sit here, spinning our wheels while nothing gets done.

The situation is completely unacceptable.

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Malfurion never said that! It was an illusion created by Xavius.

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I do not think this fixes one of the issues, with the fact that some country did not even get the chance to get her.
One of the big things about tyrande is its a few issues. one of the major ones was that its region exclusive.
Second she is a huge part of the story, and a iconic character that people would want over a new character they may have no connection with.
Blizzard has left the first so long, that the second has become a bigger issue.
Now if the regions missing her, get her now players who are newer to the game will be confused as to why they cannot get her at the same time.

It seems this is the new blizzard, just brush it under the rug until its a bigger problem than it would have been.
Work it out and give it as another twitch reward if they must, and send codes out for players that are in country that do not have access to that is the best option for players i think.

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I’d love for another chance to get this hero. I wasn’t around when she was and I really don’t like Anduin.

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Glad that the thread came back to life here! Sadly, we probably won’t get the blue support here.

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Well the year of the dragon is a good excuse for blizzard to launch TWO new heroes, Those users who got region locked for the twich promo can get tyrande via quest, also a new Warrior or hunter hero would seem fair for everyone else. since these are the classes that have less alt heroes, those who already have tyrande can USE THE NEW legendary reroll option

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I gave the same idea on the old Tyrande thread! :smiley:

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I belive we all fans of Tyrande want the light of elune so badly that we think alike… hahahaha <3

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I actually didnt knew about this, This is why I have become a more frecuent reader of the forums, So thanks for sharing those great news. It really lits my hope up!

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I was wondering few days ago. Why the Hearthstone promotions happen so rarely? Twitch Prime deals happen once per two months or something with games as popular as Hearthstone.

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Maybe Blizz is kinda out of ideas regarding hearthstone reward via twich, You know a new hero every month? free card packs? they need to think a lot. Also I herd around that the tyrande/twich thing was kind of a big mess, and theyre still trying to fix it up, due to the huge ammount of people who only suscribed to twich prime just solely for the reward, also lets remember all those guys who used VPNs and stole credit card data to achieve this

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Well, it was well known that you can cheat out the way to her but what kind of fair player would do that? I don’t want to basically do something illegal and get me banned.

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