Hearthstone Legend that the national service has just experienced the best and worst moments in his ten-year career.
On September 25, 2024, after 610 days of suspension, the legendary tavern of Hearthstone was once again open to Chinese players.
The game has changed many times in the nearly two years of leaving the national service -including the classic mode, some past models haveThe tavern battle flag ushered in a double -doctrine and new mechanism.All of this is familiar and unfamiliar to players.
During this period, the national service player missed 5 expansion package updates. As a compensation, the game presented all the three versions of the 2023 versions when returning.
The enthusiasm of the return of players makes the tavern particularly lively and crowded.However, after a brief excitement, the players opening experience is a disaster.
It takes more than 15 minutes to open the game. After squeezing into the game, if you want to match the battle, you have to go through a long wait.The waiting end may not be a rather opponent, which is more likely to be a drop, register, and lining up an endless cycle again.
Some players also found that modifying the local time can simultaneously reduce the queuing waiting time displayed in the interface, which makes the server problem more humorous.Essence
The problem of queuing and matching continues for more than a week, and it did not gradually improve until early October.In addition, players may also receive duplicate or wrong cards, and the reward content of the pass is not the right board, and it is often dropped in the game.
For the fuel to get the matter, there is a public relations crisis triggered by the Weibo official number back to the player.Players express their dissatisfaction with the game operation team all places.A series of accidents make the opening of "Hearthstone Legends".
After the NetEase and Blizzard issued a lot of apologies, they explained in the announcement: "After the national service restarted, we saw that we sawIn the game, players in the game at the same time far exceed the record of any server in the history of Hearthstone.Firestone publishes all game time data for players using firestone plugins on X (formerly Twitter).During the period after the return of the national service on September 25, the statistics of the players of Europe, the United States, and Asians were merged. The standard ladder game time was about 20,000 hours per day."Its more than 22 to 280,000 hours a day.
It is a bit antimicipated-accompanied by this unprecedented service accident, the number of players in the national service continues to refresh historical records.
This may be due to the free full card attraction of 2023 to attract a large number of mild players and even new players.Because the data of the national service is not prominent in the tavern fighting mode that does not need to set up a card.
The main is the traditional battle mode. In fact, the number of core players willing to impact the legend has also reached its peak.
On October 10, the standard ladder of the national service standard has reached 100,000 players. In the past, even at the end of the month, the game rarely exceeded this number.On October 14, the number of legends reached 150,000.Two days later, the number reached 200,000.On the 28th, the number of people over 400,000.In the end, on the last day of October, this number was set at about 460,000.
In the month of returning, "Hearthstone" has not fallen out of the App Store game in the App Store gameRush to the fourth.It is the best performance in the game of NetEase involved in mobile phones.
From this perspective, the national service of "Hearthstone" obviously ushered in a successful return.
At the same time, the seniors and juniors who are jealous of Hearthstone, most of the imitators and competitors, are mostly facing difficulties.
The national service is also the potential opponent of Hearthstone, which is also regarded as the legend of Hearthstone.A certain influence.However, with the extension of the dumper of the sequel, this card game that has operated 8 years has actually fallen into a stop.
And CDPR launched "Quinte" derived from "Witcher 3".Its international service has also stopped updating cards from 2024, leaving only a few personnel to continue to maintain basic operations, balanced adjustment and organizational competitions are managed by the player community themselves.
"After the last batch of new cards was released in 2023, we did not intend to add more cards to Quinte."
In a more hidden corner, after Blizzard withdrew from China, NetEases self -developed card game" Secret Duel ", which had been stopped, restarted operations in January 2022.EssenceBut today, this game has not been updated for nearly half a year, and the situation is quite subtle.
In other words, in this vacuum period of the lack of national service, the opponents of "Hearthstone" have not really taken it awayUsers.This sounds strange, but the reason is not difficult to understand.As many players have long said, they dont like card games, they just like to play "Hearthstone".
Of course, there is a short-term heat brought by free card delivery in such optimistic data, but more importantly, behind the start operations of the soldiers,"The Legend of Hearthstone" is still a fun game.
In fact, it is not just Hearthstone. After returning to the National Service 8 of "World of Warcraft", the official account also announced that its maximum number of online people has exceeded 1 million consecutive days, reaching a approach, and it has reached approach.The best results in ten years.
The stop service in the past two years, but finally it seems to be a "hunger marketing" of Blizzard Games in China.
Just as "Hearthstone Legend" is about to be updated, it will usher in another retreat after a few months -all this has been attributed to "Hearthstone Legend" battleThe reason why the model is becoming increasingly sluggish, and this free card will no longer be used in the standard mode.
After the end of the honeymoon, will new and old players continue to invest in real gold and silver to support these games?The answer can only be known by then.
