Blizzard’s card game Hearthstone is now also available on smartphones. The player count has broken through the next million threshold.
Perhaps it was the last expansion Blackrock, but more likely it was the port to smartphones that gave Hearthstone the final boost. Now there are about 30 million players across all platforms: that means so many have downloaded Hearthstone. Written out, that looks like this: 30,000,000. For comparison: to deal that much damage, a leper gnome must die 15,000,000 times.
With Free2Play games, the player count should always be treated with caution; of course, there are also some inactive accounts among them, but everything suggests that Blizzard’s “little side project,” which hardly anyone believed in at the beginning, has become a real hit.
BY THE POWER OF RAGNAROS, 30 million players have joined us by the hearth! Thanks for pulling up a chair! pic.twitter.com/3EiULtqJcb
— Hearthstone (@PlayHearthstone) May 5, 2015
