Okay but your experience of making money will not apply to most people, and even if it did most people will balk at the idea of investing $1000 in digital cards as an upfront cost.
I play MtG because I enjoy it and MtGA is a way to do that in the comfort of my own home for very little cost, I don't need to make money out of it and I suspect that applies to most people.
But it's not really free if you want to play competitive decks.
I'm a good player and I've found that even though I was playing pretty frequently on ranked ladder, to stay competitive and build the best decks I'd have to buy packs with real money when new sets rotated in. There was no way around that that I could see, barring playing alot more which is not very feasible if you have a full-time job and other responsibilities. And then if certain decks were no longer good, there was no way for me to trade unused Mythics and Rares in for new ones - they just rotted in my collection when I had to move to a better standard deck. Whereas with MTGO I can play as little or as much as I want and I still get a return on my investment and stay competitive in Eternal formats with the decks I've built, and if I no longer like a deck I can sell off the pieces and invest in a different deck with the tickets I received, or just keep it as cash.
- 'Pathy' on MTGO
- Eastern PA player
with xmage and cockatrice even modo around i see zero reason to invest a single penny in arena. besides all formats are crap with all those planeswalker around.
its not player vs player anymore, its just handling planeswalker now.
Got tired of Legacy and you like drafts? Try my Paupercube What?
To play a 'friendly , 'non-competitive' format, you will pay more than to play a competitive one. Yup. Makes total sense.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MagicArena/...rds_costing_2/
Further to this, I asked redditors what old cards they'd like to see added to historic and loads of them said "nothing, I don't want anything that hasn't been in Arena standard" so it seems many of them only want to play super linear magic with no interesting interactions.
This seems reasonable, since the few matches I've played online, opponents concede when the first creature removal gets played, guess they've crunched the data to find it's a better use of their time to shop for low hanging fruit then to slog out a game. Since there's no penalty for it (and no reward for winning really) it does make some sense I guess.
I haven't put any money into the game and hardly any time, so I've yet to experience the events behind the paywall, but I imagine once you pay to enter, you take your time inside a bit less callously.
wow, so legendary and artifact craftin prices have doubled? or what it historic? nvm googled it. pretty confusing name though.
Got tired of Legacy and you like drafts? Try my Paupercube What?
why do ppl get upset. if you play a cashgrab expect your cash grabbed.
Got tired of Legacy and you like drafts? Try my Paupercube What?
I think the bigger issue is they are creating a new format and, in the same breath, killing it off by making it excessively expensive to take part in.
But then, the fact people still play Legacy despite lack of interest from WotC and huge costs involved indicates that people will probably enjoy the format despite WotC.
Pretty sure the thought process is let's give them something to do with their MTGA cards that rotated out of Standard as opposed to let's give them a whole new format so they can ignore Standard. MTGA is built to draft Standard sets and play Standard constructive. This is just a nice side format to play with your older cards. I'm sure if it catches on it will be made more accessible.
People are taking it really well:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MagicArena/...breaking_them/
How about this one:
https://forums.mtgarena.com/forums/threads/59603
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