Hearthstone is soon to receive its March of the Lich King expansion, but in the meantime, there was supposed to be a fun event centered around Rattlegore, a big skeletal beasty that’ll set the tone for a Hero class that’s all about summoning skeletons (and blood and ice, but we’ll focus on the necromancy for now). With Rattlegore on the loose, players had to complete ten tasks to capture him and also get two random Golden Rattlegore Portraits and 700 Mercenaries Coins.
In the most recent patch notes, the Rattlegore Mercenaries event was supposed to last until November 29, but that was recently updated to read November 22. This came about because players noticed that the Rattlegore event had suddenly disappeared yesterday and reached out to Nicholas "DeckTech" Weiss, associate writer on Hearthstone, for an explanation.
"Patch notes do say 29th. Not sure if that’s my mistake or something went wrong," Weiss responded. He eventually returned to explain that November 22 was the "intended" date and he was updating the blogs to reflect this. For players caught out in the cold, he could only offer a one-word apology: "sorry."
One Twitter user suggested that changing the date on the blog retroactively wasn't the "correct way to fix this issue." Weiss sympathized, writing that he too "hadn’t finished the event on my personal account either. Unfortunately, that’s the only option this time."
One could argue that the appropriate response is to extend the event another week as the patch notes first indicated, but apparently Blizzard doesn't have the manpower to make the change. That must mean all hands are on deck for the release of March of the Lich King, which arrives December 6 and brings the Death Knight hero class as well as the new Undead typing for all its ghoulish minions.