På et preview event for Kobolds & Catacombs i London nylig, fikk vi muligheten til å slå av en prat med med både 'senior game designer' Peter Whalen og 'lead art director' Ben Thompson, og stille dem noen spørsmål om den nye utvidelsen og spillet generelt.
Et av temaene vi snakket om var en eventuell turneringsmodus; et etterlengtet tillegg til Hearthstone-klienten, som har blitt etterspurt av fansen ganske lenge. Vi spurte utviklerne om det og her er det de svarte:
"We've got teams that work on both things," sa Whalen.
"There's a Features team that works on additions to the client, additions to ease of use, all of that stuff. There's Content teams as well, the Final Design and Initial Design teams work on our set releases, expansion releases. There's an Engineering team that supports the Content teams, both on new content and fixing old bugs and supporting those features."
"Not at this point," la Thompson til.
"Certainly it's something that we know the community has talked about in the past, and it's something that certainly sounds like it would make a great addition to a game like Hearthstone, but it's also one that's going to make for a lot of challenges to implement just right and do the right thing. So at this point, we're looking into what that would mean and just talking more about that behind the scenes."
Whalen sa videre at det er noe Systems-gjengen ville jobbet med, i tillegg til andre forbedringer på rangert spilling, og generelle kvalitetsforbedringer på spillet.
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