Hearthstone Whispers of the Old Gods Released

Blizzard announces the release of the Whispers of the Old Gods expansion for Hearthstone, adding 134 cards to the strategy game, and offering players free card packs for a limited time following the launch. This comes along with word that the game has surpassed 50 million players:
On the heels of Hearthstone®: Heroes of Warcraft™ surpassing 50 million registered players,† Whispers of the Old Gods™, the third expansion for Blizzard Entertainment’s award-winning online strategy card game, is now live. Starting today, players around the world are invited to collect and do battle with 134 new twisted, tentacle-packed cards—including the legendary Old Gods themselves: C’Thun, N’Zoth, Yogg-Saron, and Y’Shaarj.

This spine-tingling expansion turns everything players know about Hearthstone inside out. Familiar allies have been corrupted, new monstrosities have appeared, and the Old Gods of Azeroth have resurfaced—spreading their sinister influence and game-changing powers throughout the tavern.

“Whispers of the Old Gods adds an exciting new set of creepy, corrupted cards to Hearthstone,” said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. “We can’t wait to see how creative players are with the ancient evil of the Old Gods in their hands.”

C’Thun is especially eager to lend its awesome power to denizens of the tavern—players will receive this legendary Old God and two Beckoner of Evil cards when they open their first Whispers of the Old Gods card pack. Also, in celebration of the launch, everyone who logs in to Hearthstone will receive three Whispers of the Old Gods card packs free (for a limited time).
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El Pit wrote on Apr 27, 2016, 11:50:
MattyC wrote on Apr 27, 2016, 02:14:
El Pit wrote on Apr 26, 2016, 23:44:
Blizzard looting the tomb of H. P. Lovecraft for a dime - how the mighty have fallen.

You do remember C'Thun being in vanilla WoW right? Like the over 10 year old version of WoW?

I see it more as a homage. Like with Cthulhu Saves the World.

Well, it is an homage but also the profitable use of Lovecraft's work. This is coming from a company that just took down a beloved vanilla WoW server because of copyright infringement/unallowed use of ActiBlizz's work. I know there is no copyright anymore on Lovecraft's work, but I still find it part amusing, part annoying. Whatever. I never played WoW because of the monthly fees, so I did not know about C'thulhu/C'Thun being a part of it. Nevertheless, what are 10 years compared to the 80 to 90 years since Lovecraft invented his mythology.

Ok, but this is Blizzard, who defined themselves by looting the tomb of Tolkein, who invented things like orcs. So, yeah.
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Apr 28, 2016, 09:43
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J wrote on Apr 28, 2016, 04:14:
Dev wrote on Apr 27, 2016, 22:50:
I'm giving this a try, first time playing the game. How do I get the 3 free packs from expansion? I'm playing some of the practice stuff and tutorial
You should get it as a daily quest, in which you have to win a number of games in the new standard format.

Actually you get 3 packs right from the start. It'll just tell you that you have them. Then you get the daily quest that lets you get 5 more if you win 2 matches in Standard. After you do that, you get another daily that gives you 5 more packs if you win 7 matches in Standard.
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Dev wrote on Apr 27, 2016, 22:50:
I'm giving this a try, first time playing the game. How do I get the 3 free packs from expansion? I'm playing some of the practice stuff and tutorial
You should get it as a daily quest, in which you have to win a number of games in the new standard format.
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I'm giving this a try, first time playing the game. How do I get the 3 free packs from expansion? I'm playing some of the practice stuff and tutorial
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Apr 27, 2016, 17:48
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El Pit wrote on Apr 27, 2016, 11:50:
Whatever.

You had it right there

Hearthstone's a great game - who cares where some of the inspiration comes from?
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MattyC wrote on Apr 27, 2016, 02:14:
El Pit wrote on Apr 26, 2016, 23:44:
Blizzard looting the tomb of H. P. Lovecraft for a dime - how the mighty have fallen.

You do remember C'Thun being in vanilla WoW right? Like the over 10 year old version of WoW?

I see it more as a homage. Like with Cthulhu Saves the World.

Well, it is an homage but also the profitable use of Lovecraft's work. This is coming from a company that just took down a beloved vanilla WoW server because of copyright infringement/unallowed use of ActiBlizz's work. I know there is no copyright anymore on Lovecraft's work, but I still find it part amusing, part annoying. Whatever. I never played WoW because of the monthly fees, so I did not know about C'thulhu/C'Thun being a part of it. Nevertheless, what are 10 years compared to the 80 to 90 years since Lovecraft invented his mythology.
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Keilun wrote on Apr 27, 2016, 09:14:
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Or you know free if you just play the game. In between expansion releases I always manage to accumulate north of 6k gold (6880 this release) playing quite casually. I even took a 2 month break in there and didn't play at all. Add to that the amount of dust I accumulate and it's not really that bad. For people new to the game, yes the hill is steep but with Standard out it's at least a bit more manageable now (though still a long way).

This. I never spent a dime on it and I don't think I ever will. Still have plenty of cards and all the adventures finished except for one more round of League of Explorers.

Just play and enjoy the game while learning and you don't have much to worry about.
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loomy wrote on Apr 26, 2016, 23:27:
card game with a yearly subscription if you want to compete

Or you know free if you just play the game. In between expansion releases I always manage to accumulate north of 6k gold (6880 this release) playing quite casually. I even took a 2 month break in there and didn't play at all. Add to that the amount of dust I accumulate and it's not really that bad. For people new to the game, yes the hill is steep but with Standard out it's at least a bit more manageable now (though still a long way).
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MattyC wrote on Apr 27, 2016, 02:14:
El Pit wrote on Apr 26, 2016, 23:44:
Blizzard looting the tomb of H. P. Lovecraft for a dime - how the mighty have fallen.

You do remember C'Thun being in vanilla WoW right? Like the over 10 year old version of WoW?

I see it more as a homage. Like with Cthulhu Saves the World.

Yogg Saron as well...


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El Pit wrote on Apr 26, 2016, 23:44:
Blizzard looting the tomb of H. P. Lovecraft for a dime - how the mighty have fallen.

You do remember C'Thun being in vanilla WoW right? Like the over 10 year old version of WoW?

I see it more as a homage. Like with Cthulhu Saves the World.
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"...134 new twisted, tentacle-packed cards..."

Couldn't tell with all the duplicates I've been getting. I literally have 20 possessed villagers.
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Apr 27, 2016, 00:25
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El Pit wrote on Apr 26, 2016, 23:44:
Blizzard looting the tomb of H. P. Lovecraft for a dime - how the mighty have fallen.

As opposed to looting the Games Workshop braintrust? How can you fall when you never really were above it?
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Blizzard looting the tomb of H. P. Lovecraft for a dime - how the mighty have fallen.
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card game with a yearly subscription if you want to compete
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