Blizzard on new Cards and Heroes for Hearthstone

After the news that Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft will be going into open beta as early as next month, Blizzard speaks about adding new heroes, card expansion, and non-Warcraft cards into the game.

Speaking at BlizzCon 2013, Hearthstone production director Jason Chayes said that the developer would shortly start thinking about where it takes its nine heroes already featured in the game.

"We feel pretty good with the nine heroes we have right now," said Chayes. "In terms of expanding beyond that, that's definitely feedback we've gotten from the beta. People have given us a lot of feedback, like 'yeah, it would be awesome if I had a different hero I could pick from, a different Warrior, a different Priest.' In terms of how we actually go and add that in as a separate feature, it's still a little too early to say. We're focused on making the nine core heroes that we have right now feel awesome, but that's definitely something that we'll be thinking about as we move into the next phase of our roadmap."

Chayes explained how Blizzard is looking to bring the first expansion soon. "We are excited about doing expansions," he said. "We definitely will be releasing additional card sets in the future for Hearthstone, but we don't really know the cadence yet and that's a delicate balance. We want to make sure that players have a chance to experience all their cards without getting overwhelmed with new cards being released too frequently."

"We're targeting at getting our first expansion out by next year," he added.

Blizzard also confirmed that it will be bringing Hearthstone to iOS and Android in the second half of 2014.