What's really bizarre to me is putting Aganhim's Sanctum and Incarnation of Selemne in the core set. Out of all the interesting synergistic effects the designers could have chosen, they went with mana cheating in the card drawing color.
I know. I don't want to criticize maybe the only interesting card in the entire starting set, but it's a pretty risky card to start off with. Did they have no other interesting ideas or what?
Sometimes they need to make the game we want so that we'll put up with making the games we don't want.
Yeah I was definitely scratching my head at that sentence in the article.
For interesting ideas they could use for the second set, I think it'd be nice if they emphasized cards that are based on and affect position (both within and between lanes) more. It's strange that in a game defined by having 3 lanes, there aren't many cards that allow you to mess with that aspect, and two of the most important are shop items.
Buying packs of random cards to play certain deck-building games has always been bullshit, and it's even worse when it's a digital game.
This was the rub for me as well. Would I have tried Artifact if it was its own completely new property and not branded as a Dota offshoot? Maybe! I haven't been burned out on digital card games, so I'm receptive to playing a new one. I simply don't like Dota, and any association to it already brings on a disinterest, and the way the game tries to emulate the lanes and tower defense/offense of Dota was already a turnoff. It makes sense why they would go with it though, given its playerbase among Valve's properties.
They are large enough and make enough money that they could develop all of them at once if they really wanted to.... Or let a developer use the IP to get it done... But they obviously don't care about the opinion of the core valve fanbase because now we have a card game nobody wants
All their games that could have the number '3' died for this.
The absolute high tier player in Artifact have around 70% winrate. Thats incredible number for card game. I believe fundamental in Magic wont allow the highest tier of player achieve that kind of winrate.
It's because games need variance to remain interesting. Random elements insure that the outcome at most points is not entirely deterministic.
All these hot takes just show how bad the marketing and communication has been from Valve during the release of Artifact. People still think it's somehow P2W but on the other hand the same people are totally fine with Blizzard nickel and diming in Hearthstone because it's F2P.
Expert Constructed is the most competitive mode, and unless something changed the last 3 weeks(which is possible as I unistalled in late dec) is 100% p2w.
Quality gaslighting. Hearthstone being a p2w crapshoot isn't a justification for Artifact to be one. Artifact is inexcusably abusive with its microtransations. Requiring event tickets to play the most competitive mode was beyond stupid. The game is designed to eat your money and does a horrible job hiding it.
Nice non-arguement. Shall i post pictures of my Magic decks, to prove my cred?
I can't really see Valve adopting the Dota model to Artifact. That would just throw their whole design philosophy of it being like a phyiscal CCG out of the window.
I do actually like the event tickets system. Having some sort of stakes make the games more exciting to me but I understand that it's not for everyone. Maybe I'm just the gambler type because Poker without stakes bores me to death. But as soon everyone is throwing just a dollar into the pot it suddenly makes me really excited to play. That's also why I liked Arena in Hearthstone.
You don't have a clue what you're talking about, but I'll give you one thing: it was stupid for Valve to call ticked play the 'competitive' mode. It isn't. They changed the name of it to 'Prize Play' recently to better reflect what it is. There's no difference between Standard and Prize play except using the ticket to add boosters as prizes. You can play as much constructed and draft as you want, earn competitive ranks and account levels and all without paying for anything.
Magic is worse for randomization than Artifact. Artifact has more random elements but they have much less impact than Magic's one card per turn and land. Mana screw is why I can't play Magic seriously.
Your views on this game are so bizarre. Draw two makes the game a hell of a lot more consistent. It's a good thing. You might not have anything on turn one, but turn one deaths are largely not game deciding unless they get a lot of them with gold acceleration. And if you don't have anything to play on turn 4, your deck building is bad.
