{"id":971845,"date":"2026-01-04T15:31:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jbNdAQvxG2DAuqPtDruYLF"},"modified":"2026-01-04T15:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T15:31:20","slug":"blizzard-has-apparently-decided-the-best-way-to-combat-the-hearthstone-is-dying-narrative-is-by-releasing-a-60-ragnaros-hero-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/blizzard-has-apparently-decided-the-best-way-to-combat-the-hearthstone-is-dying-narrative-is-by-releasing-a-60-ragnaros-hero-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard has apparently decided the best way to combat the Hearthstone-is-dying narrative is by releasing a $60 Ragnaros hero skin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hearthstone's been around for a decade now, which is an awfully long time for a videogame. It's understandably not the behemoth it was back in its prime, although Blizzard reassured players in July that despite some less-than-ideal impressions, the game is not dying<\/a>. And to prove it, Blizzard has done an absolutely normal thing for a game that's not dying and added a wee little fire-faced man who sits at the bottom of your screen, which you can have for your very own for just $60.<\/p>\n

This is in fact Ragnaros the Firelord, the powerful Elemental Lord of Fire\u2014a big deal (and a big problem) in World of Warcraft. He's somewhat more diminutive in Hearthstone, although he's still rocking an unnecessarily aggressive attitude. But at the end of the day, he's still just a little face sitting at the bottom of your Hearthstone screen, occasionally yelling at you and bonking or getting bonked, depending on how things are going.<\/p>\n

You can see the Hearthstone version of Ragnaros in action courtesy of this gameplay video posted by Hearthstone caster and content creator Brian Kibler:<\/p>\n

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