Happy 4th Birthday, HEX!

Today we have a special message from Cory to celebrate HEX’s fourth birthday!

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Well Hello HEX players…

I would say it’s hard to believe another birthday is here (and in the sense that time seems to be moving incredibly fast, it’s hard to believe it’s been another year already), but in the sense that we MADE it to four years is not hard to believe at all. Everyone here at HEX HQ has a singular vision of what HEX could be, and every step we take to make HEX into the best digital TCG ever is another affirmation that we are on the right track. HEX will celebrate 100 birthdays, or maybe 1000 birthdays… as a matter of fact we are relatively certain that in the war torn post-apocalyptic wasteland of 3017 HEX will be one of the 50 major religions. And, as the Necromancer Corps summon the time-ravaged corpses of 1980’s “bad dudes” to karate chop on the battlefield, it will be the HEX banner they hold high.

It’s fitting that today we also launched the first article about Set 7, Frostheart—fitting as it does an incredible job of illustrating what is so great about HEX. With a full digital presence, the number of new and innovative things we can do in the TCG genre is just starting to be explored. I read a comment on Reddit the other day from a user hoping we won’t eat up all our design space too quickly, and the community response was that, as a digital game, we have unlimited and unparalleled opportunity to innovate. And nothing could be more true! HEX has so much still in store that it’s a bit dizzying on our side. The only limit to our imagination is the time it takes to get it into the game, and luckily we have been building tools that make it easier and easier to deliver this amazing content. I am positive Set 77 will have the same big wow moment that Set 7 is having… maybe more thanks to virtual reality pheromone flavor splicing.

The future of HEX is looking great, and it’s been a tradition each year for me to rattle off a few things we are working on. Sadly, this year I will not be spoiling the next big thing, but rest assured it’s coming. As a matter of fact, in a couple of weeks we will be making a pretty significant announcement. Clearly I haven’t learned my lesson on announcing an announcement, but I think it’s something that will help build our base of players and give us a great addition to that which makes HEX the go to digital TCG. (Before you speculate, it’s not PVE content)

Let me finish this by saying I love you all deeply. Not a day goes by where I don’t remember the trust and belief that I was given when you backed the Kickstarter or downloaded HEX for that first time. After 4 years, it still feels like a dream. I can hardly believe it. I said it before, but I want to say it again—everyone here at HEX HQ comes into work every day with one goal… to make HEX amazing. Every decision we make, every risk we take, is about giving you the game you want and making you happy playing the game you have. We make mistakes (clearly), but I hope you’ve seen that we listen to our community, are quick to correct mistakes when they happen, and not above admitting when we’re wrong. We REALLY do have the best community in gaming, and as time goes on it becomes more and more clear that claim is the real deal.

AND as usual, today we continue the story of poor Princess Cory simply trying to celebrate the birthday of his favorite game. The nefarious Pinatoos King has enlisted the help of the Infernal Bal-Loons. What’s next in their now combined plotting to take down the Princess?!?

Enjoy the comic and sleeve. Again, I love and treasure you and your support of HEX.

-Princess Cory

This year’s comic begins on page 18 and is the theme for the 4th Birthday sleeve (pictured above). Each player will receive this commemorative sleeve as long as they had an active account before June 5th, 2017.

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