In Blizzard’s free card game Hearthstone the second expansion is focused on plans. Could Goblin developers be behind it?
No one really knows yet if it’s a pun or if there’s more to it. In the past days, “invitations” reached various editorial teams that deal with Hearthstone. On one side of the invitation was a blue schematic of a Goblin construction: Polygon received a Harvest Golem, other sites received a Destroyer or other results of Goblin engineering.
Some well-known Hearthstone players also received these invitations:
OoOoh got this in the mail from @playhearthstone what could this mean!? pic.twitter.com/zY2N7pypb8
— Hafu (@itshafu) October 31, 2014
On the back was the sentence “Making Plans for BlizzCon – I hope you like my invitation.” That is a pun: The English word “plans” can refer to these construction schematics as well as “intentions.” “Making plans” also has its own meaning – one prepares something, makes plans, has already scheduled the time, has made preparations. It’s somewhat similar to a pun where you send someone a postcard with a printed basket and write, “I’ll give you a basket – I can’t go to the movies on Thursday.”
I got my @PlayHearthstone teaser postcard! Harvest Golem goes Kirikirikirik 🙂 #amazSounds pic.twitter.com/cOSq05wIDf
— Jason Chan (@LiquidAmaz) October 31, 2014
So it may be that the Goblin constructions have nothing to do at all with what is to be announced and that they were just looking for a clever way to draw attention to BlizzCon, and that Hearthstone will also be part of it.
That Hearthstone’s next expansion would be announced at BlizzCon is actually quite clear. At least that has been indirectly said multiple times.
Whether a “Goblin Engineering” expansion with over 100 cards is actually coming seems rather questionable. There are already some constructs in the game and there isn’t really that much material available. Speculations about the next expansion rather leaned towards taking a WoW expansion with over 100 cards – without raid instances. Such as the protagonists and mobs from “The Burning Crusade.” Raid instances – like Naxxramas – are more suitable for adventures like the Naxxramas of Hearthstone. Blizzard had mentioned possibly alternating between adventures and expansions.
