From my very limited experience it seems programming nowadays is very different than in the past. There are many more tools available but programmers learn less about the math/algorithmic side of...
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From my very limited experience it seems programming nowadays is very different than in the past. There are many more tools available but programmers learn less about the math/algorithmic side of...
Now that some good quality WotC stuff here.
Wasn't there a bug once on MTGO which only worked with the foil version of a card?
Just programming wise, no idea how it can be this bad.
Somehow...
The difference is that Magic is (was) designed around random draws but deterministic effects.
That is just the mechanics of how card games work.
Unless the game is designed for "play this card...
One could almost say that RNG in games that aren't designed around it are bad.
Who knew?
Is it me or has arena been even buggier since they introduced alchemy?
I did their stupid sealed event just to drop out because my Jadar refused to make tokens after it did in the first game.
Arena has already too many formats/versions of formats to clutter the ui and fracture the player base.
Given how much they don't care about the brawl formats I wonder why they are still in the...
The question is more why arena ever needed to be a 1:1 port of paper in the first place (which already existed) instead of something else with the IP that is more accessible to casuals.
That is...
One of WotC's biggest problem is that they continuously fail to identify and understand their audience.
The only time that worked is for commander.
For everything else, they fail so they just throw...
Somehow a discussion on pancakes is more positively engaging than anything wizzards has shat out the last decade.
I thought the audience for arena is people who want to play standard but can't or...
Yeah but that doesn't rely on the demand for very specific cards, as all cards have the same "value".
For paper busted cards are used to drive sales.
Win for WotC in both cases.
So it seems like this is the fix to "we can't be bothered to print balanced cards".
I suppose it makes sense since arena doesn't depend on the purchase of individual cards so much and they want...
Isn't that an even bigger failure?
There's a difference between "code without bugs" and "it at least compiles :cry:".
It's just industry standard now to release whatever is pushed at the end of the day without more than 5 min of...
That has been their sales policy for a long time now but arena really shows it.
If cards in paper are still cheap then you don't really care but in arena everything is essentially worth the same....
You can craft all commons and UCs of the most recent set to speed up your vault progress ;)
But yeah it sucks major ass.
I have had more mythic wildcards than rare ones for the longest time.
But you can just buy more packs :)
There's also "the vault" which is also a huge scam.
Realistically, if it were any other game without the brand, arena would be dead.
The know people are...
There are a million times more valid reasons to demand more wild cards for other things like:
Treating the same card as multiple cards in your collection because it's a different set/picture and...
Real production value here.
It's a real clown shoes development.
They push for mobile with a game that is not made for mobile (or even digital for that matter) while clogging up the client with...
5 gig has to be some real content, right? Right?
Low price for the banning of BS and Tibalt's Bullshit in Historic.
Also we really need the shitty hats and animations in the game otherwise it would be unplayable.
Half the decks in historic are mindless combo decks.
Since Historic isn't currently relevant for the "pro" circuit, WotC couldn't care less.
In classic WotC-style they have created a new cash cow...
The interface sucks major ass.
Somehow they manage to make it even worse as time goes by.
Like how half of the tabs on the top left were disabled when you were in certain parts of the interface....
Would be totally on board if Winota and Kinnan go to.
However, they didn't even ban Kennrith in regular Brawl until he rotated so my hopes are slim.
Even regular commander managed to ban Golos...
Little "exploit" I found for free wins:
Play something obviously counter heavy in Historic Brawl.
After being tired of losing to Golos all the time, I switched to Mono counters Baral.
Since...
I think in this case it's general incompetence.
It seems like at least the desktop version buffers almost everything on startup which takes forever and requires that you have everything on disk....