It also involved adding the backend to the server-client relationship to allow for Reno to indicate that his effect will activate. I'd like to add that this was the complaint of the week right after he was released for those that forgot.

Also, some people seem to be missing that they have added a new button above your character portrait while you are about to queue up for a game, which means that the infrastructure to run the two different ladders was added as well in this patch. Along with the collection manager changes, there are far more things changed on the server side that we aren't seeing.

Even if the final result ended up being something that didn't take long to implement, juggling several different ideas around for how to present them in a way that prevents them from needing to go back in and redesign it shortly after takes time. What takes even more time is when there are probably several different designers with many opinions on possible solutions, and each of these things has to be passed through all levels of management before they can even begin to add them to the game.

All this while still coming up with new ideas for changes to the game itself and adding new content that still needs to be balanced around everything that is done.

I just think it's important for everyone to take a step back and think about why things happened a certain way instead of immediately jumping to a conclusion on how they operate.

/rant It's just a little stressful seeing how every little thing that they decide on gets criticized no matter which decision they make in a situation. Everyone suddenly becomes a one-person design team that is also capable of balancing the game around every card, foreseeing all complications of a particular interaction, and is also able to design decks that are amazing (I totally swear!) if only secret paladin wasn't stopping their deck from getting to legend #1.

Like, I'm not trying to suck Blizzard's dick, but c'mon now. Can we at least agree as a community to just chill the fuck out a bit and try to stop having such knee-jerk reactions to everything?

Ah, forgot something in my post: I'm also sure that there are a few designers on the team that are frustrated that they can't think of how to teach people how to create new and interesting deck ideas and experiment more, since it clearly seems that there are lots of cards that have interesting effects or interactions, but just don't work in the way the meta turned out.

At this point I don't even remember if I replied to the person I intended to, and I only did so because it was a relatively recent post, but last time some things happened that the community didn't like, it seemed like the game itself was starting to completely collapse from the drama and outrage. And apparently my adderall has kicked in. Good to know.