A real version of the online card game Hearthstone has now emerged in China. However, it is a fake and turns out to be quite impractical.
GamesinAsia has tracked down a “real” version of the online card game Hearthstone. It is a “knock-off”, an unauthorized copy of Blizzard’s digital game. While the reporter can indeed warm up to a real game and the allure of the new, he notices the drawbacks of this unusually analog version. The cards are now outdated, after numerous balance fixes in the live version, and the game proves to be significantly slower than on screen. Effects like a simple “silence” have to be awkwardly represented on the individual cards with markers.
A turn that takes thirty seconds online would quickly consume five minutes. It is particularly cumbersome to set up the board and gather the deck. Selecting the right cards from the various boxes is likely too tedious for digitally spoiled players of Hearthstone.
However, the game is – despite lacking a license from Blizzard – detailed and extensive: There are two of each class card, and four versions of the regular and legendary cards in the game – and even more of cards like the “Unleash the Hounds!” dog. With a price of almost $50, as venturebeat found out, one can probably expect that.
You can find images of the “real” fake Hearthstone at gamesinasia.
