Hearthstone Battlegrounds Duos Q&A – Blizzard Talks About the Upcoming 2v2 Mode

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At BlizzCon 2023, Blizzard unveiled Hearthstone Battlegrounds Duos, a brand new way to play the popular digital collectible card game. In Duos, players can partner with a friend or matchmake with a new one to take on another team of two. In this mode, the life is shared and cards can be passed between teammates.

We joined a roundtable press interview with Lead Battlegrounds Designer Mitchell Loewen and Associate Game Designer Jia Dee to discover everything about this new way to play Hearthstone, which is due to be released early next year.

Tell us about the origin of the idea for battleground duos. I heard that it was something that stemmed from the streaming community.

Mitchell Loewen: The origin is actually kind of interesting. The team has repeatedly wanted to explore a duos mode, we really wanted to have a cooperative experience for players for a really long time. We kept trying but couldn't quite find something that resonated. One of the things that we do periodically is Free Your Mind, which is a hackathon that happens on the team where different people on the team are given the opportunity to explore things that they're interested and passionate about all around the theme of exploring new avenues for Hearthstone.

A couple of people on the team were like, we're going to make a duos prototype, so they spent their entire Free Your Mind building the initial prototype of it. People then played it and went, this is awesome and we really want this to be real; we really want to launch this. So, once everyone got a chance to try that demo, we decided to turn this into a real content update and give it to our players.

Jia Dee: I was one of the people who said this is awesome, just want to put that out there!

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