New Hearthstone expansion out, server is down, coin flip to decide a winner?

On Aug. 3, the brand new Hearthstone growth, United in Stormwind, launched. The primary day of a brand new growth is at all times probably the most thrilling. All the gamers get to play with the brand new playing cards, strive lots of completely different decks. The day one meta is a particular expertise as a result of gamers can check out attention-grabbing decks which might be unplayble as soon as the meta is solved.

Nevertheless, this chance was not open for gamers on the Asia server. For nearly every week, the Asia Battle.web server has been unstable. There have been disconnect points not solely in Hearthstone but in addition in different video games like Starcraft and Diablo 3.  Now with the brand new Hearthstone growth out, the server challenge has gotten even worse. Constructed Ranked mode queue constantly disconnects, which stops gamers from having fun with the brand new meta. These disconnects may final from a couple of minutes to a number of hours. For gamers who spent cash to preorder the brand new packs, day 1 has been a really disappointing expertise.

Server points or any game-breaking bugs usually are not uncommon points. Even when the developer group tries its finest, surprising points can undoubtedly pop up. The difficulty itself might be comprehensible. Nevertheless, the issue right here is that this challenge has been round for a number of days now. The Hearthstone dev group has not made any official bulletins concerning this. The one dependable messages got here by a short tweet from Celestalon, some days after the problem popped up. This message additionally did not promise any fixes coming quickly.

This “challenge” that has been happening for days is just not a small bug that we are able to go. If there’s a bug with a sure card or sure interplay, gamers can keep away from it. Nevertheless, this is a matter that forestalls gamers from enjoying the sport.

Final weekend, the server challenge affected qualifiers for Hearthstone Masters Tour Stormwind, which is a significant event that decides gamers who advance to the Grandmasters Circuit. In such an necessary event, admins had no different possibility however to coinflip(!) to determine the winner. On Aug. 1, DrBoom tweeted that he had needed to coin flip to exchange his match. He was solely considered one of many who had the identical undesirable expertise.

Once more, there are sudden points that Blizzard won’t anticipate. Nevertheless, not fixing such a significant challenge with none announcement is a unique downside. This was first a disturbing expertise to aggressive Hearthstone gamers and now it impacts each Hearthstone participant on Asia server. This isn’t only a “small bug”. It stops each constructed Hearthstone participant from enjoying the sport.