If you can just buy cards with real money is this not just pay to win?
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.If you can just buy cards with real money is this not just pay to win?
Oh well thats fine then.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.
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.The ability to just buy cards outright is great, but that's sort of what led to Artifact dying, right?
The ability to just buy cards outright is great, but that's sort of what led to Artifact dying, right?
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!
Really hoping this just slays hearthstone and I can have a new TCG to play that wont die off, I expect this will do well, really love the description thus far.
what's the current limit slated to be?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!
I presume that they'll modify the existing League of Legends launcher to accommodate multiple games.Riot has a launcher? Where all these games will be?
I'm a sucker for TCG's so I'll try this.
I presume that they'll modify the existing League of Legends launcher to accommodate multiple games.
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.
I've just left a stream open all day at 160p and with the tab silenced.
You don't, afaik. As long as it's streaming the game.
Thanks!
Not if evryone has access to the cards, think in it as less pay to win than TCGs.If you can just buy cards with real money is this not just pay to win?
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.
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
Seems solid so far. Does anyone know if there will be any sort of wipe after this beta? Seems like they are handing out quite a lot of these wildcards for the testing period so I kinda got suspicious.
Well they are allowing real money purchases already, so it would be pretty shady to wipe progress in light of that.
Well they are allowing real money purchases already, so it would be pretty shady to wipe progress in light of that.