/v/ - Video Games

>MTG-like

Too bad that game was wonderful and has good depth, but then got killed by power creep, pozzed developers for the last decade, and secondary market jewing

OP, you're saying that you plan to play this and are upset by their decision to add randomness? I think you get whatever you deserve when you choose to play a DotA virtual card game. I don't care if they add bad mechanics (which they almost certainly will) because I won't be wasting my time with it.

>>14506886

>but then got killed by power creep, pozzed developers for the last decade, and secondary market jewing

What card game doesn't suffer from power creep?

>>14509533

The power creep isn't so bad because it comes and goes (Alpha, Urza's, Mirrodin, etc). The problem is that when coupled with the secondary market, it becomes very difficult to keep up with the physical game, and you're better off to just playing Cockatrice or TTS instead of the paper game

>>14509543

That only matters if you're going competitive, there is a fan original Commander format which allows for cards that isn't tournament worthy a chance to shine there is even official formats based on Commander. On top of that there is some other less popular fan formats which are also alright to play for casual games.

The bigger problem with the game from OP's image is that, if I'm remembering this correctly, they violated one of the number one rules of introducing power creep. Never make every single card the player's collected useless. It might have been another card game but I remember that when a brand spanking new host of cards was introduced once they came with abilities that basically said "I Win" when used against old cards, then the game's audience crashed hard for violating this simple rule.

>>14509561

Commander/EDH is still a shitshow, because even if you play with others, there's always one guy that takes it too seriously and drops $30 cards for his whole meme deck and does a combo kill on Turn 5 or something, or has a 16/16 double striking Uril that kills people in one shot. Not fun.

>>14509533

There are some that just give you all the cards from the start.

>>14509533

Pokemon? Game was broken as fuck at the start with multiple ways to exploit the game to death and the most effective strategy was to ignore half the mechanics and make a deck focused on pounding your opponent to death in the first few turns before the game even starts. Now (I'm) it's completely playable.

>>14506844

>What do you think?

I think you care too much about a shitty card game that most people will reject once it launches. The only way they could possibly draw more people to it would be to bribe Dota 2 players with cosmetics for playing the game, and that would probably just lead to people playing for their free shit and leaving.

>>14514613

Thanks for opening the thread and posting, great contribution!

>>14509533

MTG has been surprisingly consistent actually.

>>14506844

The fake parody one was much better than this fucking clone, and come on Valve, always late to the party but there's always shekels to be made.

>>"Hooray! Valve's going to start shipping games again."

>>its a fucking card game

Valve is dead

>what are creeps

>what are lanes

>what are cards

>how is this hardcore?

>how are cards vidya?

>>14521645

It's card dota in fact.

>(((valve)))

>shartifact

>ccg

>mobileshit

just how many words for garbage are there?

>>14506844

You can see how the rng ends up, plan and react accordingly nigger. Mechanics such as these are not even remotely comparable to the create shitfest that is HS.

>>14522704

No.

>>14521768

Who are you quoting?

>>14522724

Dear god I hope not.

>>14522712

I never imagined that Valve actually making a video game would be worse than them not doing it.

>>14525107

>Who are you quoting?

>>>/a/

>>14531579

He said, quoting someone.