Hearthstone open beta begins

Blizzard has finally opened the doors on Hearthstone's open beta. You can stop asking your friends for beta codes now.

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After a brief delay, Hearthstone has begun its open beta period in North America. So you can stop asking your friends for beta codes now.

Battle.net explains how to get in on the action. Players can simple download or play the beta directly from Hearthstone home page.

"As open beta is still a beta phase, we will be closely monitoring many aspects of the game to ensure a positive play experience for everyone," adds the Battle.net post. "Please be aware that if smoke starts curling out of our servers due to unexpectedly high demand to play Hearthstone, we may have to temporarily disable open beta account activations for a time until we’re ready to take on more players."

Blizzard plans to roll out Hearthstone's open beta to other regions in the coming days. The final version of Hearthstone is slated to release later in 2014, alongside iOS and Android versions.

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    January 21, 2014 2:05 PM

    Ozzie Mejia posted a new article, Hearthstone open beta begins.

    Blizzard has finally opened the doors on Hearthstone's open beta. You can stop asking your friends for beta codes now.

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      January 21, 2014 3:18 PM

      Cool might check it out, this isn't on mobile right?

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      January 21, 2014 3:20 PM

      Nice! Can't wait for iOS version

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      January 21, 2014 3:39 PM

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      January 21, 2014 4:50 PM

      Been digging through the files looking for a way to see my cards outside the client and noticed they built this thing in Unity.. crazy sauce.

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      January 21, 2014 5:03 PM

      Oh good, right before I start studying for boards again. :P

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      January 21, 2014 9:00 PM

      Wow I was expecting something more casual than this. I don't even know how to open all the classes, rexxar just fucking stomps me.

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        January 21, 2014 9:01 PM

        is that in the tutorial still? my wife rolled right through that. maybe you just got a bad hand.

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        January 22, 2014 12:07 AM

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        January 22, 2014 12:27 AM

        It is confusing/harder at first in some of the tutorials because you don't get many basic cards even at all right at the start.

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      January 22, 2014 12:09 AM

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