This real-life Hearthstone card game from China shows why Blizzard chose digital

Hearthstone is a great digital card game, and now it’s also a less-than-great real-life card game in China.

A physical set of Hearthstone cards, game board, and counters, based on Blizzard Entertainment’s extremely popular title for PC, Mac, and iOS, is for sale on Chinese website Taobao, an online marketplace like eBay or Amazon, reports Games in Asia. Costing 300 Chinese Yuan (around $50), the set has nothing to do with Blizzard and shows that while the Chinese gaming market is potentially lucrative — it was worth around $14 billion last year — it’s still very much like the Wild West.