Now that the new Standard year will be out soon, Blizzard has just shared some cool stats about the passing Year of the Phoenix.
Check them out in the official blog post below:
Together, in the Year of the Phoenix, we drove back the rusted legion in Ashes of Outland, graduated with top honors from Scholomance Academy, and conquered our fears of carnival rides (and ancient horrors of unspeakable evil) when Madness at the Darkmoon Faire set in.
We kicked off the year by overhauling our Ranked system, updating card packs to include duplicate protection, and introducing Hearthstone’s first new class since launch—the Demon Hunter.
Throughout the year we hosted several in-game events, including the Felfire Festival and Masquerade Ball. We released over a dozen balance updates between our major releases, and completely revamped our progression and rewards systems.
We brought Pirates, Elementals, and the Old Gods to Battlegrounds—along with multiplayer parties and Darkmoon Prizes! We told the origin stories for Jaina, Rexxar, Garrosh, Uther, and Anduin in Hearthstone Book of Heroes. We released Hearthstone’s first Mini-Set, the Darkmoon Races, and launched Duels, a new game mode for Dungeon Run fun against other players. Finally, we hosted four community Inn-vitationals and crowned a new world champion, Kenta “glory” Sato, on the Hearthstone Masters Tour!
It’s been a journey unlike any other. In a time when we’re a little more spread out than usual, seeing Hearthstone continue to bring people together online around the world has warmed our hearts in a way we never expected. Thank you for spending the Year of the Phoenix with us!
Learn What’s Next at BlizzConline – February 19
The great Hearthstone clock in the sky shifts forward yet again! Tune-in for BlizzConline on February 19-20 to learn about our plans for the next Hearthstone year. We’ll have more info on the Core Set, the Classic Format, our next expansion, the new game mode we’ve been working on, and more!
But that’s not all! Hang around for a Streamer Showdown, a Battlegrounds exhibition, a Q&A with the devs, impressions of the innkeeper submitted by Hearthstone creators, and an art lesson on drawing Reno Jackson from Senior Concept Artist Rafael Zanchetin! Oh yeah, and Bartender Bob will be making an appearance as well!
You’ll be able to watch the entirety of the show completely free through the BlizzCon website, and on the official Hearthstone Twitch and YouTube channels. We’ll see you there!
A Hearthstone player and writer from Poland, Stonekeep has been in a love-hate relationship with Hearthstone since Closed Beta. Over that time, he has achieved many high Legend climbs and infinite Arena runs. He's the current admin of Hearthstone Top Decks.
And do we have the total number of players from other CCG?
Just for the comparison. So I can finally see whether Hearthstone still popular or not.
(I’m pessimist tho)
The numbers vary heavily between months – expansion month right after Standard rotation is usually the most popular, with the numbers getting lower and lower as the year passes (with bumps during 2nd and 3rd expansion months).
And do we have the total number of players from other CCG?
Just for the comparison. So I can finally see whether Hearthstone still popular or not.
(I’m pessimist tho)
Maybe from some of them, but probably not all.
That said, I’m 100% sure that HS is the most popular online CCG. And by a huge margin.
They consider me an active player as well, if i log in once a month just to see the trash this game has become?
Why would you do that, though?
Your comment is so contradictive friend. If you hate the game so much, you wouldn’t want to go back at it.
But who am I to judge.
We would like to learn statistics every month about how many players hit legend in standard and wild in every region.
Agreed, I thought only 10-15k people made it this far on a given region.
There are no official stats, but some people are doing “unofficial” calculation by hitting Legend and then conceding all the way to the bottom.
The latest one is from November, though: https://twitter.com/glormagic/status/1333476058570518529
The numbers vary heavily between months – expansion month right after Standard rotation is usually the most popular, with the numbers getting lower and lower as the year passes (with bumps during 2nd and 3rd expansion months).