Hearthstone Open Beta Delayed to Early Next Year

Blizzard has announced it's delaying the open beta of card-battling game Hearthstone to January 2014.

The news comes courtesy of a Battle.net post, in which production director Jason Chayes reveals the team want more feedback from the closed beta, especially in view of a recent patch that pretty heavily nerfed the mage's freeze abilities.

"We believe the right thing to do for the game is to not rush it out into open beta, but to instead hold onto it a little longer to make sure it’s ready for wider testing," he explained. "At BlizzCon, we mentioned that we hoped to get the game into a state where it’s ready for open beta this month, but we’re just not quite there yet.

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