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There is nothing for the PvE at this point save for the rotating planet that just got placed into the UI system. PvE is a good 6 months out. The 1st set is still incomplete. Draft has not been implemented. No Auction House system or proper animations for a lot of the UI. This game is trudging along at a slower rate than Blizzard makes games.
 
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Mahes_sl said:
There is nothing for the PvE at this point save for the rotating planet that just got placed into the UI system. PvE is a good 6 months out. The 1st set is still incomplete. Draft has not been implemented. No Auction House system or proper animations for a lot of the UI. This game is trudging along at a slower rate than Blizzard makes games.
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Yea, but it is going the right way. The changes from day 1 to today are impressive and if this continues then they will have a better client than MTGO by the time they hit beta. I really think they are hurt by the fact that they released the alpha to the backers and it was truly in an alpha stage instead of the playable nearly done alpha/beta stages some other games release.
 
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Only thing they did wrong was vastly underestimate the time it would take for them to program such a complicated system. I wonder if the KS would have made as much if they had just stated that Beta would start a year later. If they had not opened Alpha, I think at this point, many would have asked for a refund. They had to do Alpha to compensate for the miscalculated time frame.
 
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PvP is shaping up nicely and just needs lots of polish. PvE is the big question now.
 
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Some really, REALLY good stuff in Cory's latest blog post. Covers just about every topic and question we have had including some I never would have thought would be asked or answered. Here are just some tidbits...

BLOG POST NUMBER 2!!! | Cory Hudson Jones

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How have the retention and activity rates been in the closed Alpha?

VERY good, shockingly good, we still have about 80% of the number of players logging in each day as we did at the very end of the year. Pretty amazing considering we have not invited anyone during that type except the new Slacker Backers.

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How many refunds have been processed?

Roughly 75 slacker backers and about 150 Kickstarter backers, not bad with over 20,000 people in our community of backers! Seems like the vast majority of our HEX community are enjoying the alpha and are looking forward to the game's full release.

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When will you be moving to more permanent and powerful hosting hardware?

Roughly 30 days before we begin the Closed PVP BETA, we will move everything over the more permanent and powerful hosting hardware for a final testing push before the Open PVP BETA.

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We are coming up on 50 members for the HEX team. The largest group would be the engineers, but game designers are a close second. Its funny, I know we will have to grow once HEX comes out and becomes a massive success, but I am really enjoying the size of our team right now. Everyone is very close, and we have an amazing vibe in the work place. I consider each of these people my friend and it's incredibly gratifying to do something as amazing as this with your friends.
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That art at the bottom looks really good.
 
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Just in case some are not paying attention to progress or their forums, Draft has been implemented today. Also 98% of the first set is now in the game. Servers should get a work out given how many players have been looking forward to trying out the Draft system.

Also, Wow at this being 5 pages back.
 
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What's their draft format like? MTG style with boosters being passed around, or "in a vacuum" like Hearthstone?

Is there a launch/open beta timing for this yet?
 
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FYI - This doesn't matter to me as I am happy with my pledge but it may matter to some people.

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Update: We're quickly approaching closed beta where you'll be able to receive all your packs, promos, and more! We were happy to be able to provide refunds for our players and put our fans first. In order to properly prepare and distribute Kickstarter rewards for well over 20,000 backers, we are closing refunds on April 1st.
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HEX Refund Policy - Updated 3/14
 
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PvE stuff expected in 2014 in any form or should I be hopping over to Hearthstone for that for the time being?
 
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late Summer to Fall might see some PvE come out. The PvP is almost ready now so it is just a matter of the UI and the last few bugs so they can start Beta. They really have kept pretty quiet about any kind of PvE time line. I stopped playing because I drafted enough and Diablo's expansion came out.
 
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They have announced April 23rd for closed Beta. The system will transition to the "real" deal shortly after if not on that date. I am a little apprehensive about them taking it to the monetized system in its current form but I guess they have to go that route. I plan on waiting a bit before I jump right in save of course for the free draft I get every week. Also it appears that trading will be implemented shortly after it goes real, which I find a little bit strange.
 
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Anyone have an extra beta key(pm me) or know where they are giving them away? If so please post the site, thanks.
 
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Anybody who backed at squire or higher has 3 free drafts that need to be used within 7 days if I read that article correctly. All Pro-players and above need to use their one free draft within 7 days after they get the ticket. There is no holding onto tickets and waiting which is kind of a bummer.

They are on the new servers and so the down load takes no time and the patch process works much better now.
 
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