Tyrande, oh where oh where: Cont'd

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I hope the question about Tyrande won’t be avoided like in last year’s AMA.

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Without CMs, keeping this thread on the main page in nearly impossible.

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HJQ, Thanks for mentioning this here. I went and got my Twitch Prime loot (which I nearly never check!). Much appreciated!!

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I’m a relatively new player and I’ve been wondering if they will ever bring Tyrande back. I’d be GLAD to throw some RLM at getting the portrait. Seems like there are really only 2 or 3 you can purchase.

Doesn’t need to be a NEW skin…the existing one is just perfect. I not to sound whiny, but I don’ think it’s fair (I know…life’s not fair…just give me this one :smile: ) not to be able to take advantage of the “freely” offered swag. I’m not asking for a handout, just that she be made available in some way again (purchase, gold, dust, quests, solo quest, etc.)

Thanks for reading Blizzard. We appreciate all you do.

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It will only be avoided if we aren’t persistent. I don’t think this is a hard thing. It’s a portrait. I’m fine with hearing “Sorry, it will NEVER be offered again”, but I just don’t want to be strung along with the “it may be available one day”.

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Thanks for this. Like so many others, I have stopped by weekly for years: old posts, new posts, new forums, old promises, new promises. It’s hard not to be negative, but some of the changes in the YOTD do show that the crowd does have a voice. May we replace the fears with hope, and represent the light we strive to obtain.

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We’ll just do what we’ve been doing since they went radio silent months ago: keep bumping it ourselves. All that front page on the old thread after a certain point was all us. Let’s not give them more credit than they deserve, especially considering they never kept up on the attack posts, downvote manipulators, and attack posts as promised.

I had to laugh at the “listen to the community” and “promise” part, considering how terrible they are at both.

I mean, was it supposed to be ironic, given their track record? It would have had 1000% more creditability if that had been announced with the long awaited year of the mammoth’s promise fulfillment. As is, it just sounds like a politician’s election year pitch.

“I promise to do more for my constituents!”

“More” “what” exactly?!

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It is empirical evidence of Blizzards hubris that we hear nothing about Tyrande or ways to get older card backs.

Like a monthly card back quest that you could do to get a random card back from that same month from a previous year in your season chest…

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Waiting for the AMA post in order to ask the century-long question.

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I dreamed … I was playing with her portrait these days ago, I guess it doesn’t mean anything.

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Kind off sad that the current community manager responds to a post which contained just a joke but shows no interest in other posts.

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I hope that you didn’t forget about posting a question about her in the AMA post!

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Just another dismissive answer. The fact that they let people go all year thinking they would honor the yearly hero ritual, and then they sneak this semi important announcement into a Reddit AMA and let people find out that way.

Classy.

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Well, we were “shocked” they let the year of the mammoth promise go without a single word on why they didn’t return so much as a single card back to the game for us…but here we are. The fact the answer was as vague an evasive as ever only shows they aren’t giving this the attention they deserves…especially considering that not even one question related to Tyande got picked.

…total coincidence, I’m sure.

Like the old saying goes: show, don’t tell.

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There were questions about Tyrande but they did not answer them. I’m guessing we probably won’t see her this year.

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They obviously aren’t worried about it and Think that they have all the time in the world to release this stuff but that might not be the case forever.

I like hearthstone but I don’t like their customer service, and hearthstone has been quite successful and yet they haven’t really updated the infrastructure of it to reflect that success… the success that we who support hearthstone with money have paid for.

People who have played this game since the beginning and have bought into it with time and money are really upset that they have financially supported this game for so long and none of that money goes back into truly improving the game… just the appearance of improvement.

They say this next year will be about upgrading, but we will see if they make any real progress or just more empty gestures designed to make the player base FEEL like real progress is taking place, when in reality there is no actual progress taking place.

If you read their answers in this last Reddit AMA though, it unfortunately just looks like more of the same.

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Exactly!

I mean the whole tournament mode debacle is one among many examples of this, among others (the Tyrande issue isn’t the only overhyped train wreck we hearthstone players have had to endure). They claim it wasn’t up to snuff, but rather than taking the time to make it right…they just scrap the whole thing and claim it’s done. Without so much as a single screenshot, or a peep about what was so “terrible” about it (aside from the usual vague excuses) and then it’s the usual change of subject.

They pivot faster than a politician caught in a scandal. All the obfuscation, distraction, and non answers are getting old.

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Yeah, the big “ask us anything” was more like “ask us anything that doesn’t require us to give any real answers, or anything that requires us to commit to actually following through on our long standing promises we haven’t bothered to keep yet.”

…but they’ll still high five each other on how “great” they “communicated” with the playerbase.

…and yet, can’t figure out why the metrics keep falling.

/facepalm

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Pretty sure this topic will also outlive the most recent CM on these forums.

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I was lucky enough to have a friend from USA gift me the code. As a priest main I’d be pretty sad with only anduin hero.

p.s Tyrande owns.

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