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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by jrockway on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @09:23AM (#29979531)
Wait, did they start putting effort into Hearthstone? I stopped playing a couple of years ago. To me, the bellwether is whether the game still locks up for a second right before a match starts as it synchronously produces a megabyte of logs or something.

The game never really felt that great after Ben Brode left. Battlegrounds was pretty OK though.

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by ryanbrunner on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @09:36AM (#29979729)
They put a lot of effort into their new game mode (which might as well be an entirely separate game from Hearthstone), but by all indications it flopped pretty hard.

There has been more activity than normal on the core game mode and Battlegrounds, although mostly focused on content (whether actual cards or cosmetics) than actual technology changes or new features.

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