Suddenly Hearthstone’s appeal isn’t just outmaneuvering your opponents, but exploring the World of Warcraft itself.– Warcraft III The Frozen Throne any version.
The next expansion could well introduce a whole new race. But it’s not hard to imagine that Hearthstone’s next adventure could be set in an entirely original location that we’ve yet to visit in any other game set in Azeroth.
For now, it’s new characters like Snowchugger. That reluctance to not leach from other franchises only enforces Blizzard’s commitment to grow the Warcraft universe through Hearthstone. We really want to keep it feeling like an actual world you can imagine these people walking around in.” If you start mixing in different things then you feel like there’s not a consistent story there. “Sometimes we’ll see a post on Reddit, here’s the Diablo board or whatever, but we really wanted it to have a cohesive world. Like Heroes of the Storm, couldn’t Hearthstone be a cross-universe game? So everybody got a flavour and brought different ideas to the table: what should be brought into Hearthstone, and how we could best portray it.”īut with Hearthstone growing and the design team being confident enough to create new ideas purely for the card game, where do they go next? It’s not difficult to imagine extending the tendrils into Blizzard’s other franchises. Others are more casual or not WoW players at all. “Some players are better in WoW on the Hearthstone team than others. “We all jumped into Blackrock Mountain and played through the dungeons,” says Davis. To get the feel of Blackrock right, the whole Hearthstone team went to the mountain in World of Warcraft. We wanted something for our next adventure that would be in direct contrast with that,” says Rachelle Davis, one of Hearthstone’s software engineers. “With our last adventure, the Curse of Naxxramas, we had a lot of fun in this dark and sinister but kind of charming place that was very well known. Based on the landmark that’s so familiar to World of Warcraft players, the adventure tries to replicate the area for card play. But those Warcraft roots will never die, and that’s never been more apparent than in Hearthstone’s latest adventure expansion: Blackrock Mountain.
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