Bored Druid Thread: The Next GenerationFollow

Kate Bishop, did you forget your Avengers cred?

SpoilerOh how I love you.

Random post is random, but... Not that I have any experience with other credit card companies, but Capital One has pretty reliably given me some of the better customer service of all the big companies I have to deal with.

It'll definitely stay simple relative to magic, but it'll get more complex with time. But the nature of the game means that they can make retroactive changes Magic can't quite do.

So if they decide, down the road, to implement bigger mechanics, they can actually remove old ones, or change the way they work, so you don't end up with exponentially more complicated systems.

To use a WoW example, they can add in Cleave, but remove Hit and Expertise.

Ultimately, how complex it'll become will be a factor of how they expect boosters to sell. A game that's easily played casually, but that gets complex at the high skill tiers, is the ideal. That way there's always room to improve for most players, keeping them playing, but it's not intimidating like getting into Magic is. You can easily paly and have fun at any skill level.

But if they expect the casual gamers aren't going to bring in money AND they judge that the game's branding impact wouldn't take a hit, they'll move it to be more complex, to drive up revenue from hardcore players.

On the other hand, they're going to err on the side of being casual in general, since they probably stand to gain more money that way.

The bigger issue is that you can't just jump right in like that. If you have your dad's old deck (using Joph as a mental example right now), it's going to be quite confusing. Particularly if you have cards that don't do what they say they do anymore.

The digital format makes that less of an issue and lets developers make more wide scale changes more easily without alienating casual players.

Which could ABSOLUTELY be a bad thing, too. I totally get that. I'm just saying that the ideal game will be popular with both audiences, and be somewhat linear in the path downwards into the complexity.

Dominion is the one with the gold and the properties one, right? That was fun.

The flavor text on M:tG cards was the best part.

Really, we all win, because a new game means more concept art.

I think my favorite was:
Goblin Offensive.
"They certainly are."

I didn't know it that was extensive, but I became aware of it with the planewalkers books. Haven't read 'em, but I spend enough time in fantasy sections of book stores to have noticed them.

I haven't read the books either but I've heard enough about them to know that it adds depth to the game, for example Squee traveled with the planeswalkers and when they arrived on Mercadia he was crowned king/emperor/general/leader guy for a reason I can't quite remember anymore, might've been his immortality which he got from Ertai and Crovax who used him as torture doll for entertainment, killing him over and over. His abilities come directly from the lore behind the game.

Pretty awful kind of immortality though.

Aeth, look up Trump on YouTube. He does a lot of Hearthstone plays (heavily edited to reduce waiting time). He was a pro MTG player and he's now a pro Hearthstone player. He basically said that while Hearthstone is more simplistic than MTG, it allows you to focus on the "precognitive" play - predicting your opponent's play three or four turns ahead. It's basically chess, but more awesome.

Anyway, I'm drunk as hell. I'm pretty impressed with my own keyboard control right now, because I can't focus properly.

His F2P streak on YouTube is pretty great, in my opinion. There was a lot of talk about how the game was P2W, so he made a new account and ran it to legendary without spending a dime on the game. He's smart. Like, really smart. It's why I find the games interesting, because he's thinking 4-5 turns ahead every move.

Me, I personally just throw down cards at random and pray. I went 9 wins in my first Arena run, so I guess my method is somewhat effective.