It's been 24 hours since we released the new story DLC "The Wolf Wars", after seeing your reactions and feedback, we wanted to communicate why we made several decisions and what was our intention with this DLC.
First of all, we would like to thank all of you who participated in our DLC giveaway on the discord. Reading your stories is really encouraging and we are truly grateful.
About the Wolf Wars DLC
We wanted to make this DLC and tell the Wolf Wars story. Not only giving skins but "something" more, and in this case it is the new hero Yogger (making a new hero is not as simple as it may seem, also a new hero includes his 3 skins, animations for every skin, cardbacks, emotes, and some interactions over the campaign), the pet, the new monsters and the bosses that work for the random combats of all the game modes. Also in Acts 2 and 3, you will find a random event that adds a new path never possible before and the last minute cardback.
About the new zone, we made it to explain a story that we wanted to tell. The story takes place in the past (and that's why the result of the event choices doesn't change because without spoilers... those things happened) and the idea was to show that Magnus and Yogger had different opinions, sometimes Yogger got his way and sometimes Magnus prevailed. That's why at the end of Wolf Wars what happens is what happens and that's how it ends for the main story of the game.
Besides explaining the story, the idea is that the zone serves as means to unlock the new skins and the new Hero (a bigger and more detailed quest event to unlock Yogger). We decided to scrap deckbuilding and card rewards within the zone because what's the point of spending 1-2 minutes deciding whether to take a card for a hero, if in the next fight one of the heroes is changed for another, plus the story consists of 3-4 fights per route and then your deck and heroes are the same as before. Being aware that it's a content that you wouldn't want to repeat every time during every run, we didn't put any "boon" or reward at the end so that players wouldn't feel "forced" to repeat it every time.
We consider this a small-medium DLC, and we call it Story-DLC. Keep in mind that it has taken us a long time (we are still a team of 3) because it comes with a very big 1.1 patch, which does have new game content, expected features, and many more things. And this 1.1 patch is free for everyone.
After seeing the initial feedback of the DLC we have seen and learned several things, like that it is not clear how to start the content, that maybe it should have been a separated mode on the menu, that maybe it should have had some deckbuilding part within the zone or that maybe people expected more from the zone. But it gives us the impression that maybe without the zone (or less focus on it) and just saying, "hey here's a new hero, skins, cardback and misc stuff" the DLC impression would have been different... Or even if we had put half of what comes for free in the big patch 1.1 inside the DLC the general opinion would have changed too... but we belived that the other new zones and content included in the 1.1 coming standard and for free was a much better option...
In conclusion, now that 1.1 is complete and released, we'll fix any bugs we may find and improve controller support.
Then our intention is to fully dedicate ourselves to doing a big content DLC, which will be the next one. It will be a completely new zone that you can choose for Act 2/3, with its enemies, events, new items, bosses, and more. In addition to including 1 or 2 new heroes.
As always, thanks to all of you for your support and feedback.