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What is the HS team's opinion on how regions are handled by the Battle.net client?
For me it's strange that each player account has an independent player profile and hence card collection for each region and it's very impractical. And it means I can't play against my friends on
I started playing while on exchange in the Americas and when I came back I couldn't use my card collection in Europe, nor play with my european friends with my american cards. That's not really user-friendly and imo contradicts the whole "play with your friends" theme that the devs tried to establish with Fireside Gatherings etc. Calling it "Global Play" seems like mockery to me because it's actually the opposite. And the reason behind it can't be technical limitations because in Overwatch each player account has only one player profile that's shared across regions (as it should be).
Any chance to merge card collections? (While still keep ranked play separate)
When Hearthstone was built originally the technology for world wide collections didn't exist so we built our game around that. The vast majority of players play only in one region so this works great for them.
I do feel for the players like you that play in multiple regions though. It is a lot of work to change this so we haven't prioritized it yet over card sets or current features.