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Riot Games announces League of Legends card game Legends of Runeterra
- Thread starter SweetNicole
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All collective/trading card games are pay to win. It just how it works, and if you do it right, you give enough resources even for the F2P players to build one good deck.
Given that this is coming from Riot, I was expecting pretty much just a straight up Hearthstone clone, but it's nice to see this seems to have at least some interesting ideas of its own. Hopefully it does better than Artifact did.
I just hope the free-to-play monetization actually turns out to be good, since LoL is pretty stingy compared to its competitors.
I just hope the free-to-play monetization actually turns out to be good, since LoL is pretty stingy compared to its competitors.
I used to casually play MtG and always wanted to get more into Hearthstone. This is perfect for me and probably what I'm most interested in out of Riot out of these announcements.
I got up to Plat in TFT but kind of lost the meta after sitting out a few weeks and have also lost interest now.
I got up to Plat in TFT but kind of lost the meta after sitting out a few weeks and have also lost interest now.
Yes, until you have every card that matters of a season so you can make the meta decks. Like many other TCGs. If it's anything like Hearthstone you'll be fine if you spend a couple of hundred per card releases.
This looks pretty cool. Excited to try it out!
*sees that it is Windows and Android only*
... Welp.
*sees that it is Windows and Android only*
... Welp.
iOS link is on the site, just greyed out for now. no way they skip the mobile users who actually spend money.
Being $20 to start was the main killer because nobody really wanted to try it over Hearthstone/others. This game being free to start and probably having a decent way for F2P players to construct at least 1 good deck would put it leagues above Artifact.
Nah, Artifact's initial cost to fund the market economy are wayy different than this.
For those worried about someone jumping in and buying all the craziest decks right away; While you can purchase Wildcards (which can be exchanged for whatever card you want), there is a weekly limit to how many you can buy per week. This cap should heavily cut down on Pay-To-Win being an issue, leaving much of your collecting happening through just playing the game to get free drops (which also often contain wildcards!)
That aside, the hope is that even with fewer cards, decision making skills can often beat out seemingly crazy decks; One of the the goals was to prevent stale metas that had any few decks dominating the scene. Basically not just what you play, but how you play it. We will see how this works out initially though, since it's been less than a day since our preview began!
That aside, the hope is that even with fewer cards, decision making skills can often beat out seemingly crazy decks; One of the the goals was to prevent stale metas that had any few decks dominating the scene. Basically not just what you play, but how you play it. We will see how this works out initially though, since it's been less than a day since our preview began!
I appreciate that you guys try to tackle this "issue", but I take it as something inherent to TCGs.
Got my twitch drop, time to try what you guys are doing. I don't think I'll keep playing it because of whats discussed in your post and I have a personal aversion to that, but I promise I'll be fair if I post something about the game.
Welp, put in my Beta request and fingers crossed. I'm a CCG nut and I can't wait to try this. Hearthstone was a P2W disappointment and Gwent is currently scratching my itch. Hopefully this one will deliver a nice CCG experience, a good community, and continuous support from Riot.
This is looking like my favorite bits of MTG, HS, and YGO smashed together, sprinkled with the unique level up and mana floating mechanic. I don't really care about the IP, but it seems mechanically sound and rich. The monetization model is what's gonna pull me in though.
I presume that they'll modify the existing League of Legends launcher to accommodate multiple games.
They've been rolling users into their new game launcher for a while, it has spaces for other games and was a hint to people they'd be announcing new games at some point. I assume this would be part of that after everyone is rolled into using it.
How did you get a key? I linked my Twitch account and my Riot account and watched the event last night.
Super excited to play this. Love TCGs and League.
Really hope to get a beta key, couldn't really watch the stream last night since it began in the middle of the night here.
Really hope to get a beta key, couldn't really watch the stream last night since it began in the middle of the night here.
Not if evryone has access to the cards, think in it as less pay to win than TCGs.
A lot of streams are still doing drops. Just leave it open on your phone or PC and you'll get it after a couple hours.
Thank you for the tip, i actually managed to get a key while having a few streams open for a bit. Downloading it now!
i feel like you & i are going to float from CCG release thread to CCG release thread forever
#neverforgetartifact
Haha I've thought the same seeing you in these threads. Forever searching for a Magic competitor...
I'm trying to connect my Riot account with my Twitch account to try and snag a stream drop, but every time I attempt to connect them I get a "Bad Request" error. Anyone know what's causing this or how to resolve the issue?
Edit: Nvm it seems it was a Chrome issue, because I was able to get it working on a different browser.
Edit: Nvm it seems it was a Chrome issue, because I was able to get it working on a different browser.
Well they are allowing real money purchases already, so it would be pretty shady to wipe progress in light of that.
Many card games have done this. Magic Arena/Gwent/Hearthstone.
You won't get your cash refunded, but you'll get back all the "premium" currency you spent.
I just realized we posted a blog post detailing the progression system here:
Hopefully that answers alot of the questions around how to get cards/how fast, etc.
If you want to check out all the cards and art, or theorycraft some decks right now, Mobalytics is already using our API's so you can see pretty much everything here!
Hopefully that answers alot of the questions around how to get cards/how fast, etc.
If you want to check out all the cards and art, or theorycraft some decks right now, Mobalytics is already using our API's so you can see pretty much everything here!