While I think most people understood that Hearthstone cards weren’t canon or meant to be taken seriously as such, this is just another step in that direction to differentiate it. Remember how upset some people were because of the Ragnaros Lightlord card? By dropping the Heroes of Warcraft moniker they can move the game toward making it’s own little Warcraft-like universe without stepping on the toes of the Warcraft team. Not only does this make sense from a marketing standpoint to just refer to the game as Hearthstone, but the design team since League of Explorers has done a very good job at making their own lore and stories within the Warcraft universe that aren’t necessarily canon. Ben Thompson Left the Hearthstone Team Last Year - His Final Logo Was Descent of Dragons. Not so fast on that front, I think the change is relatively simple to explain. Several people are wondering, what does this mean? Is it possible we might be seeing other Blizzard franchises finding it’s way into Hearthstone?

The subreddit made the change about 4 days ago, so it appears this has been something Blizzard has been changing in the last week. So this is a very intentional decision by Blizzard to start referring to the game as just Hearthstone instead of Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. Hearthstone subreddit moderator /u/deviouskat89 even explained that Blizzard sent them the new logo asking if it could be changed on the subreddit.

Sure enough, if you go to the official pages you will see the new logo below: The subtitle of “Heroes of Warcraft” was being removed. Weve gathered more than 5 Million Images uploaded by our users and sorted them by the most popular ones. An alert redditor /u/VdeVenancio noticed that the Hearthstone official logo was being changed on the official website, on the app, and was even changed on the Hearthstone subreddit. Explore a curated colection of Hearthstone Wallpaper Images for your Desktop, Mobile and Tablet screens.

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