Blizzard politely tells Hearthstone players their game isn’t dead just because it’s not getting a new cosmetic board this expansion

Earlier this month Hearthstone players were surprised, and some were more than a little upset, to discover that upcoming expansion Perils in Paradise would not have its own custom game board, the background on which a Hearthstone match is played. It quickly led to many doom-and-gloom predictions that this was the beginning of the end for Hearthstone, the start of a degradation of service t hat would lead to its cancellation—like Blizzard’s Heroes of the Storm before it.

Blizzard’s development team has now responded by pretty much saying “We’re not dying, honest.” Instead Blizzard wants Hearthstone players to know that it’s pivoting a bit on how Hearthstone updates are made while shifting some resources to other parts of Hearthstone, like player personalization—not to other projects entirely.