An AMA by Blizzard for Hearthstone took place today on the Hearthstone sub-Reddit. In fact it finished just under an hour ago at time of writing.

AMA in case you’re not aware, stands for Ask Me Anything. It’s a popular way for game developers and other media persons to let their fans ask the questions on their minds, and lets some official information get out there without the hassle of arranging official interviews.

The main piece of information of course is the release of the game on Android tablets today. Community Manager Zeriyah was the one of the three Blizzard staff members involved to link to it stating “You have no idea how bad we wanted to talk about this during the AMA.” The game is already free to download on Google Play in Canada, Australia and New Zealand as the first step on the rollout of the game, with downloads coming to the Android app store and Google Play worldwide in the next few days. There will be a free pack of Classic cards waiting for players who try the game via their Android tablets and of course the collections will be shared across the platforms so if you’ve already built up a small collection you’ll have access on your android tablet too.

Other things that came up during the AMA included that Blizzard are still weighing up the pros and cons of adding new classes to the game (listing one con as making it harder for you to get specific class cards in packs with more classes) and that they’ve recognised that newer players are at a disadvantage with the way Matchmaking is currently working and are working on solutions to that (“We had taken steps to make sure brand new players were not matched against players who had already built massive collections, but we recently found some issues there and have been working to make it better”).

As far as what we can expect in future updates they are considering new types of daily quests to add to the random quest pool as well as trying to think up new ‘fun events’ for the community such as the GvG cards becoming available in Arena mode before the actual expansion’s release; as well as trying to find a good way to add additional deck slots to the game for players who have been with the game for a while.

If you want to read more of what was asked and answered, follow this link to read the entire AMA thread at the Hearthstone sub-Reddit: [x]