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Blizzard Announces 'Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft' for Mac and iPad
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Grand Theft Auto III was released just a few years later than that and was release for iOS. Just because it was released in 98 does not mean anything to me. That makes no sense coming from a person that's been an active member on a forum for over 10 years.
Just saying some people like things that have been around for a while..
I used to love Blizzard, own all their games up to Warcraft III but after Diablo III and it's requieriment to always be online to play (and their constant server crashes which prevented me to play even while connected) I just gave up. I also was planning to buy Starcraft II but got dicouraged with the whole thing about different regions.
Activision ruined Blizzard imo.
Activision ruined Blizzard imo.
Grand Theft Auto III was released just a few years later than that and was release for iOS. Just because it was released in 98 does not mean anything to me. That makes no sense coming from a person that's been an active member on a forum for over 10 years.
It's still a good game, i get that. but what I'm saying is that you can't expect a for-profit company to continue to do active development on a 15 year old product which it hasn't sold in years and from which it derives no profit anymore. It makes no economic sense for them, especially when they have a 3 year old sequel game that they'd love to sell you. GTA3 on iOS is different because they can sell the game to the same buyer a second time on the new platform.
It had as much to do with WoW as a t-shirt with WoW on it. It will share the names of characters, spells, and such but will not play much at all like WoW. It is purely a card game like Magic: The Gathering, Pokemon, etc, etc. It will use Battle.net to facilitate finding other players but you won't play this game against anybody in the World of Warcraft MMO. They are completely separate products.
That's how pretty much every CCG is. You can always just play with your friends. I used to play MTG online and we all agreed to only buy a certain number of starter decks and booster packs and we played amongst ourselves. None of us had optimal decks but we all were at similar disadvantages.
I didn't see this trend in 1996, but it's clear as day now: nerdy dumb ideas go in WC, good cool ideas go in SC. WC2 was great, WC3 wasn't bad, and its been all downhill since. SC was great, and its just gotten better and better since (I think... Haven't gotten HotS, yet. I wonder when that's going to drop in price a bit...)
That's exactly what I was thinking. It looks like the Magic the Gathering game, but Blizzard'd.
I don't think wow will ever die. Whole new generations of people are being born all the time to pick up where those of us who left the game left off. So many new lives to ruin.
You can play on any region's server now. I was playing Arcade games with a friend in California on the US server last night.
Well even with online only play, item dupers are running wild in Diablo 3. And Blizzard isn't doing much to combat that.
ARRRrrrrrGH... I already got Two Towers... but good thing that was a long way back.
Can't.... resist... Blizzard..... game...
I also just purchased Heart of the Swarm (after spoiling myself with all the cutscenes on YouTube... darn if only I had know they put in those pre-rendered cutscenes a lot more often than they appeared in WoL).
I still hate World of Warcraft though -- got two expansions which I NEVER payed or ever got to play because they upped the specs, which made it unplayable on my mac at the time. Now that I have a mac that can play it however -- I'm not forking over money for 'game time'.
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REALLY???? I gotta check that out... ~!!
Can't.... resist... Blizzard..... game...
I also just purchased Heart of the Swarm (after spoiling myself with all the cutscenes on YouTube... darn if only I had know they put in those pre-rendered cutscenes a lot more often than they appeared in WoL).
I still hate World of Warcraft though -- got two expansions which I NEVER payed or ever got to play because they upped the specs, which made it unplayable on my mac at the time. Now that I have a mac that can play it however -- I'm not forking over money for 'game time'.
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Barcraft (the SC2 arcade game) > This Hearthstone.
And gotta love the MacAdvertising forums
REALLY???? I gotta check that out... ~!!
not wasting any more time on blizzard games. they've demonstrated that they lost their way ever since they released diablo 3.
this is just another magic the gathering online ripoff. should have made a dota clone instead.
this is just another magic the gathering online ripoff. should have made a dota clone instead.
They are working on it and it's already announced. It's called Blizzard All-Stars.
Yes you should. If you own StarCraft 2. It's surprisingly fun. And it's also how a card game can be very simple but also addictively fun. It is multi-universe though. Ie it has cards and heroes from SC, Diablo and WC universes.
Seriously it's worth a look.
You need to have the application updated in 10.6.x from the PowerPc/ Rosetta binaries to the Intel. Then you can play on 10.7 and beyond.