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    Llanowar & Steel Leaf would never be a problem if the counters & removal would not suck ass. I have the impression that the misbalance between threats and solutions gets worse every Standard season
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    I disagree with the sentiment that energy was a great idea (even though I'm a sucker for alternate resource systems). Energy was flawed by design due to being extremely parasitic. While most cards also provided energy while using it, that fact doesn't change. Energy being counters on players, making it nigh impossible to interact with it, is a design flaw. Development's main faults are a) not properly costing the mechanic and b) not recognising the need of answers.
    I don't agree with this. You claim that it's a design flaw that it's "nigh impossible" to interact with, but the whole reason it was so hard to interact with was development not including answers to it. All development had to do to fix energy, really, was to make Solemnity into an artifact so anyone could play it, have it remove all counters from players when it enters the battlefield, and cantrip. Done. This would also have the benefit of giving us a long-overdue way of removing poison counters that isn't awful (Leeches).

    I'll concede it is parasitic, but I don't think that's a problem in and of itself, particularly because, as you note, the cards that provided it generally used it.

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    I don't know if any of you are in the Beta, but the beta-only boards are fucking hilarious right now. Like, before the NDA wipe and changes to progression, like 90-95% of the posts were about how the economy sucked and suggestions on how to improve it.

    WotC made the economy worse with the NDA wipe (like, significantly worse) and now 100% of the posts are flame wars about how much the economy sucks and how stupid WotC is for making it worse. It's honestly impressive that they managed to form a circular firing squad out of a single company.

    It's also pretty funny that the beta players, who are the most likely to be super-pro magic, have turned against Arena already.

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    I don't know if any of you are in the Beta, but the beta-only boards are fucking hilarious right now. Like, before the NDA wipe and changes to progression, like 90-95% of the posts were about how the economy sucked and suggestions on how to improve it.

    WotC made the economy worse with the NDA wipe (like, significantly worse) and now 100% of the posts are flame wars about how much the economy sucks and how stupid WotC is for making it worse. It's honestly impressive that they managed to form a circular firing squad out of a single company.

    It's also pretty funny that the beta players, who are the most likely to be super-pro magic, have turned against Arena already.
    This sounds hilarious. To gauge how bad shit really is, even Reddit (who loves to kiss WotC's ass and beg for more) are currently breathing fire and brimstone regarding Arena. Meanwhile, Hearthstone makes its quests better.

    What really puzzles me is how anyone with half a brain could think that copying Hearthstone's economy (which was already critizied for being too expensive) was good idea. Hearthstone requires less epics and legendaries are limited to 1 card per deck, while MtG often requires multiple mythics of the same card and tons of rares. And then WotC went and double downed by making an already bad system significantly worse - twice.

    Guess who's in charge of the economy of Arena, and to no suprise, it's Lee Sharpe (who's also responsible for MTGO). He has ZERO economical background (his qualifictions are some kind of math degree and one Top 8 in a PT ages ago), so the economy being a clusterfuck of incompetence and greed isn't all that suprising.

    This makes me wonder how Papa Hasbro is going to react if Arena bombs since they've invested millions into its development and they expect big returns from it according to shareholder reports.

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    This sounds hilarious. To gauge how bad shit really is, even Reddit (who loves to kiss WotC's ass and beg for more) are currently breathing fire and brimstone regarding Arena. Meanwhile, Hearthstone makes its quests better.

    What really puzzles me is how anyone with half a brain could think that copying Hearthstone's economy (which was already critizied for being too expensive) was good idea. Hearthstone requires less epics and legendaries are limited to 1 card per deck, while MtG often requires multiple mythics of the same card and tons of rares. And then WotC went and double downed by making an already bad system significantly worse - twice.

    Guess who's in charge of the economy of Arena, and to no suprise, it's Lee Sharpe (who's also responsible for MTGO). He has ZERO economical background (his qualifictions are some kind of math degree and one Top 8 in a PT ages ago), so the economy being a clusterfuck of incompetence and greed isn't all that suprising.

    This makes me wonder how Papa Hasbro is going to react if Arena bombs since they've invested millions into its development and they expect big returns from it according to shareholder reports.
    I'd guess by cleaning house. But who knows. Fucking up the launch of Arena is a MASSIVE risk for them. There's plenty of competition, and once it gets set in people's heads that it's bad, it becomes an incredibly hard impression to reverse. Devoting only 1/5th of the total screen space to the play area (I measured) doesn't help them either.

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    Arena will bomb in the Asian market...

    Blizzard has the Asian market in it's pocket, then can put out a Farmville game with World of Warcraft characters in it and have it be a best seller overnight. WOTC does not have that kind of pull. The majority of Asia will choose Hearthstone over Arena or invest in both games...which I doubt.

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    Did my Arena "chores" today, realized how much I hated them, logged into the Beta Forums to write an "I'm quitting this bullshit until the economy gets fixed" post, and discovered that's like, more than half the front page of the gameplay feedback forum.

    Jesus, they really are trying to stillbirth this thing. I mean, the clock is absolutely ticking on how much longer they can go without some kind of announcement to address this garbage.

    Oh, and apparently they're trying to cover by giving the biggest streamers extra packs, which just "magically" contain all great stuff. Fucking incredible.

    EDIT: this is what I wrote there, it's not dissimilar from what many others have posted.

    "Thread title pretty much says it all. I don't need to log in and do chores every day for nothing.

    Look, I have, several times, bought into MTG and spent thousands of dollars doing so. Every time, I ended up selling out years later when I needed a break. I can't sell out of Arena. There is no way on god's green earth I will pay the kind of money into this game the current system requires me to pay to even field a moderately competitive standard deck.

    This beta is frankly a waste of everyone's time. The game is dead at launch if it has anything like this kind of setup. Either the economy gets radically, by several orders of magnitude improved, or this game will be DoA and it won't matter how many bugs are running rampant in it.

    You know, it really sucks, as great as the front page redesign was, we can't even talk to the devs about all the problems with the gameplay interface because we're stuck repeating the exact same thing we have been for the last several months about how utterly garbage the economy is. Except they've gone and actively made the economy worse.

    If you're going to hear a unanimous complaint from your players about a huge problem with the game, why even have a Beta if your response to that is to make that exact problem significantly worse? The Beta testers are providing WotC a valuable service, we're supposed to get paid back in "fun". There is no fun here right now, and I don't work for free.

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    Quote Originally Posted by morgan_coke View Post
    The Beta testers are providing WotC a valuable service, we're supposed to get paid back in "fun". [/I]
    Nah. They gave you a streamer pack. You're getting paid in exposure!
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    You don't get to play the most powerful cards in the format and then bitch when someone finally says no. You also don't get to bitch that it's not fun when someone finally tells you no instead of voyeuristicly watching you masturbate with Cantrips.

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    I’m not well informed about magic in general, so my thinking could be completely wrong here, BUT… I can’t begin to comprehend that a company like Hasbro can’t offer a contemporary online experience for all levels of play (including eternal formats), and why it did not do so years ago? Especially, because of the large sums of money mtg fans around the world are willing (and some already do) spend on “worthless” online cardboard. If a couple of rogue mages can make xmage playable, why can’t Hasbro make a product that’s 1000x better? I’d be happy to pay to play, but I would expect such an expensive digital card game (mtgo) to at least run on my mac without having to do workarounds not mentioning other very disappointing issues I heard/read about mtgo. Wouldn’t they make shitloads of money if they offered such a product, wouldn’t it more than cover the development costs? I would buy into it ASAP. As it stands now, I can’t buy their product even if I want to because mtgo currently looks like a huge scam and arena looks like something that’s being developed for children, and besides, why would a legacy only player like myself buy arena in the first place? It’s such a disappointment that the game we all love (or hate and can’t divorce it ) doesn’t have the online support it deserves it’s Anno Domini MMXVIII for Christ's sake!

    Anyways, my question regarding the “economy” is why not simply transfer all mtgo collections into their new program/product that would support all levels of play and all world regions equally?

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    I’m not well informed about magic in general, so my thinking could be completely wrong here, BUT… I can’t begin to comprehend that a company like Hasbro can’t offer a contemporary online experience for all levels of play (including eternal formats), and why it did not do so years ago? Especially, because of the large sums of money mtg fans around the world are willing (and some already do) spend on “worthless” online cardboard. If a couple of rogue mages can make xmage playable, why can’t Hasbro make a product that’s 1000x better? I’d be happy to pay to play, but I would expect such an expensive digital card game (mtgo) to at least run on my mac without having to do workarounds not mentioning other very disappointing issues I heard/read about mtgo. Wouldn’t they make shitloads of money if they offered such a product, wouldn’t it more than cover the development costs? I would buy into it ASAP. As it stands now, I can’t buy their product even if I want to because mtgo currently looks like a huge scam and arena looks like something that’s being developed for children, and besides, why would a legacy only player like myself buy arena in the first place? It’s such a disappointment that the game we all love (or hate and can’t divorce it ) doesn’t have the online support it deserves it’s Anno Domini MMXVIII for Christ's sake!

    Anyways, my question regarding the “economy” is why not simply transfer all mtgo collections into their new program/product that would support all levels of play and all world regions equally?
    I think Hasbro has always believed that paper Magic was their money maker, thats why all the Duels games were put out to lure you into playing paper Magic. This them in panic mode after seeing the huge success of Hearthstone which probably ate up a chunk of the pop (including pros like Brian Kiebler) and having Artifact on the way. I feel like Arena is so rushed the it will take alot of work to make it actually appealing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MechTactical View Post
    I’m not well informed about magic in general, so my thinking could be completely wrong here, BUT… I can’t begin to comprehend that a company like Hasbro can’t offer a contemporary online experience for all levels of play (including eternal formats), and why it did not do so years ago? Especially, because of the large sums of money mtg fans around the world are willing (and some already do) spend on “worthless” online cardboard. If a couple of rogue mages can make xmage playable, why can’t Hasbro make a product that’s 1000x better? I’d be happy to pay to play, but I would expect such an expensive digital card game (mtgo) to at least run on my mac without having to do workarounds not mentioning other very disappointing issues I heard/read about mtgo. Wouldn’t they make shitloads of money if they offered such a product, wouldn’t it more than cover the development costs? I would buy into it ASAP. As it stands now, I can’t buy their product even if I want to because mtgo currently looks like a huge scam and arena looks like something that’s being developed for children, and besides, why would a legacy only player like myself buy arena in the first place? It’s such a disappointment that the game we all love (or hate and can’t divorce it ) doesn’t have the online support it deserves it’s Anno Domini MMXVIII for Christ's sake!

    Anyways, my question regarding the “economy” is why not simply transfer all mtgo collections into their new program/product that would support all levels of play and all world regions equally?
    - As far as I know, Hasbro is just as technically impaired as WotC when it comes to online things. Hasbro Suits were probably happy that MTGO printed money until Hearthstone came along and showed them how much more could be possible (e.g. 250 million revenue from Paper + Online combined vs Hearthstones 440 million revenue out of nowhere). That's why Arena is so heavily copied from Hearthstone - greed and no idea what the fuck they're doing.

    - Why can't WotC make a good online experience? Well, if you pay significantly less than the industry standard, you can only attract below average talent. And even then, you have massive mismanagement from the higher ups and many people get fired after a year to avoid further obligations. That's the reason why sometimes the same card works differently between sets because they were programmed differently by different people. tl;dr: They're cheap bastards and it shows.

    - WotC/Hasbro are chasing the Hearthstone money. Programming 15k+ cards with all kind of weird interactions is counterproductive to that. They also assume that people are willing to buy in multiple times.

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    Hasbro has to do just one thing. Replace non competent people with competent.
    Most of the time you have to replace 30% to 50% of the staff, most of them with a senior position in the company.
    This is the only way to secure grow in the incoming decade.

    With Artifact and the growing influence of the internet. Paper Magic will become a relic of the pass.
    With the community becoming old and having less and less time.

    I personally dropped MtG for a year to play Hearthstone, because it was free to play and I could do this after I put the kids in to bed.
    MTGO was an option, but I did not want to spend my money twice for the same cards and the software is not user friendly.

    This is just strange that people in the same company do not talk and cooperate. This is another signal the management is doing something wrong. Pokemon TCG Online is a thing and I heard it is working pretty well. You can buy a physical packs and have the same cards online, because there is a redeemed code inside the booster pack.
    The same company produce both games in the same building. Just different people.

    Can someone clarify Pokemon Online, maybe I do not understand it properly?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matsu View Post
    The same company produce both games in the same building. Just different people.

    Can someone clarify Pokemon Online, maybe I do not understand it properly?
    The Pokemon TCG hasn't been handled by WotC since 2003 because Nintendo didn't renew their license. By doing it in-house, they keep more for themselves.

    MTGO also has an option for promo codes - which has been used for like two free promos and completely forgotten afterwards.

    Given how they dropped Duels out of the blue, I'm not going to put money into MTGO again. The risk is just too high that they're going to nuke collections again. I wouldn't put it past Wizards to stop supporting MTGO if Arena was failing, simply to promote Arena. It wouldn't be the first stupid business decision they've made.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matsu View Post
    Hasbro has to do just one thing. Replace non competent people with competent.
    Most of the time you have to replace 30% to 50% of the staff, most of them with a senior position in the company.
    This is the only way to secure grow in the incoming decade.

    With Artifact and the growing influence of the internet. Paper Magic will become a relic of the pass.
    With the community becoming old and having less and less time.

    I personally dropped MtG for a year to play Hearthstone, because it was free to play and I could do this after I put the kids in to bed.
    MTGO was an option, but I did not want to spend my money twice for the same cards and the software is not user friendly.

    This is just strange that people in the same company do not talk and cooperate. This is another signal the management is doing something wrong. Pokemon TCG Online is a thing and I heard it is working pretty well. You can buy a physical packs and have the same cards online, because there is a redeemed code inside the booster pack.
    The same company produce both games in the same building. Just different people.

    Can someone clarify Pokemon Online, maybe I do not understand it properly?
    I don't believe Pokemon was ever produced by Wizards of the Coast. They simply published the already-existing game in the US (possibly some other countries as well); the cards themselves were designed and developed back in Japan.

    However, Wizards of the Coast no longer publishes it either, as Nintendo took back the license some time ago. Nowadays it's published in Europe and the United States by The Pokemon Company International. Wizards of the Coast has nothing to do with the Pokemon TCG.

    You're slightly off in regards to the redeemed codes, however. You don't get the same cards as were in the booster pack. What happens if you get the same kind of booster pack, but the cards inside it will be random (as is generally the case for booster packs) and thus not necessarily the exact same cards you opened in the physical booster pack. Note that you aren't obligated to open it once redeemed, you can keep it in your account and try to trade it for something else.

    Actually, booster packs are basically the currently in the Pokemon TCG Online, because you can't use money to make trades. But you can trade booster packs, so you can offer those up in trade for cards. You can actually buy unredeemed booster pack codes from various sources online like Cool Stuff Inc. or Troll and Toad.

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    Oh, and apparently they're trying to cover by giving the biggest streamers extra packs, which just "magically" contain all great stuff. Fucking incredible.
    Is that shit even legal? Not only it's blatant false advertising in regards to odds (topic: lootbox, gambling, etc) but also would mean they manipulate the whole thing at will and for certain accounts.
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    Is that shit even legal? Not only it's blatant false advertising in regards to odds (topic: lootbox, gambling, etc) but also would mean they manipulate the whole thing at will and for certain accounts.
    That's literally how WotC has always operated in regards to the pros and the bigger stores. It's not illegal, and it's far, far, far, far, far, far from new. And yes, of course they can manually manipulate specific accounts. Would be a complete shit system if they couldn't.

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    Quote Originally Posted by morgan_coke View Post
    That's literally how WotC has always operated in regards to the pros and the bigger stores. It's not illegal, and it's far, far, far, far, far, far from new. And yes, of course they can manually manipulate specific accounts. Would be a complete shit system if they couldn't.
    For me it's a predictable meltdown in the making if WotC is rising odds for youtubers, stores, pros & co, while slaps abyssmal rates onto packs for average joe, just to blame RNG later like its industry standard for lootbox games and their devs. Imo it would be a ticking bomb to mess with odds and players thst way
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    New MTG logo - I don't get why they have to shove their ugly Planeswalker logo everywhere.

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    Is that shit even legal? Not only it's blatant false advertising in regards to odds (topic: lootbox, gambling, etc) but also would mean they manipulate the whole thing at will and for certain accounts.
    Who cares? It can and will be mathed out regardless. Pretty much everybody is shitting on them for their abyssal economy and social media spread the word rather effectively. It might have the opposite effect, actually - people are pissed that they have to play against streamers that got a headstart by getting free shit. If people concede to lower their rankings to avoid Scarab God decks, you should probably revisit your system as a dev. Chances are that it isn't going to happen because WotC is going to do WotC things as usual. Dropping the NDA with the shitshow they call an economy is a clear indication for that. I'm keeping the popcorn ready since this is going to be one hell of an amazing trainwreck in the making.

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    New MTG logo - I don't get why they have to shove their ugly Planeswalker logo everywhere.
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