HEX Update – Rewards!

Hi HEXers! Take a break from watching the World Cup for a moment and take a look at the HEX Friday Update!

For those of you interested, we have a wide spread of teams we’re cheering for in the office—USA, Germany, Portugal (Ronaldo T_T), Korea Republic, and Argentina. We typically fire up Chromecast at lunch and watch one of the three group stage matches.

When we’re not researching the offsides rule for the third time that day in order to understand the beautiful game, we’re working on HEX! Here’s where we are with this past week of work:

Next Patch

Last week, we informed the players that a few features needed additional work and we pushed the patch release date. On Wednesday, Chark posted this in our forums.

Here is what happened and where we are with the AH

On Friday, June 13th we were clear on all bugs that would stop this feature from going live on June 18th. However during some additional testing we realized that there were some issues with the way we presented sorted information in the AH. They impacted usability enough that we wanted to spend additional time reworking the way we deliver AH search result information from the server to the client.

Engineers spent the 13th and the weekend to try work through this issue. Unfortunately, when you start fixing something like this so late in the development cycle, you sometimes end up introducing other bugs. We are still cleaning up a few of them. As a result, we are looking at patching on the 24th, but may end up delaying the Auction House if we are not satisfied with the changes we are making.

So, we plan to patch next week, likely the 24th or 25th. We continue to test these three big features for our patch: Auction House, Starter Deck Trials, and large scheduled tournaments. We’ll post specific dates, times on HEXTCG.com in the General forums and on Twitter.

New Rewards

We do have some exciting things that we’re releasing today, the first of which is the Alpha Tester sleeve. If you logged in during alpha, you’ll find this in your account right now.

Also, Slacker Backers have been waiting for their second Starter Deck for some time. We appreciate your patience. In recognition of that and to make this as simple as possible, we’re going to grant every Slacker Backer account 1,000 platinum. For unredeemed codes, Slacker Backers will receive the platinum upon redemption. So, you can go ahead and purchase that Starter Deck in the HEX Store. Like the sleeves, you’ll find that reward in your account right now. If you don’t see it, close your client and log back in.

The Best Four Days in Gaming

For those of you who attended Gen Con 2013, you’ll be able to redeem your codes with the next patch. That includes Ozawa Alternate Art, Portensio, Gax, and Jadiim sleeves. If you’re attending this year, our events went up this week in the Gen Con system. You can sign up for our all-you-can-play league (Gen Con account required). Gen Con also pushed our Booster Draft events live and we sold out within hours. We’re looking at expanding our planned LAN hours and adding more Booster Drafts. We’ll announce any additions to the schedule, along with the specific Gen Con prizes, in a future update. We promise you’ll love them!

That’s all from us this week. Thanks again for your continued support of HEX and patience while we work on the game. Please leave any questions or comments in the forums linked below, and don’t forget to Like us on Facebook, Follow us on Twitch, register on our forums, and Follow us on Twitter.

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