Hearthstone is getting a new expansion, but some are already losing interest in “Saviors of Uldum”. The blame lies with the Twitch streamers.
With “Saviors of Uldum,” a new expansion for Hearthstone is coming tomorrow, August 6, 2019. With 135 new cards, players can once again unleash their creativity and try out new deck ideas.
At least that’s how it should be. However, some fans are accusing Blizzard of ruining the wonderful first weeks filled with experimentation. And the blame lies with the streamers who can play in advance.
What’s the problem? For many players, the first two weeks after the release of an expansion are the best. No dominant deck has emerged yet, and many players just experiment.
Here, one experiences all sorts of new things and can try out many different strategies, while a large part of the community does the same. However, this has changed in recent expansions. Because even before the release, streamers get to play the new expansion against each other at a special event. They test decks before everyone else.
What are the consequences? Streamers have a large reach and thus can reach hundreds of thousands of players even before the release of an expansion. These players then orient themselves to the experiences of the streamers and replicate their decks.
This leads to numerous players being seen with the same decks on the first day, and a “fixed meta” often forms within just a few hours. In the past, it took several days for the first favorites to emerge.
Streamers ruin the hype: Instead of boosting the hype for an expansion, these “pre-release events” tend to make players lose interest – even before an expansion is accessible at all. The hype built over weeks from the slow release of individual cards is thus completely stifled right before the release.
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