@FaylenSol
To be fair, I think the shuffling would also make selling cards for real money much harder.There’s no real point in buying extremely powerful cards if there’s a 50% chance that you adversary will get it and wreck you.
In fact, I think the deck building in this game would probably be more about knowing the cards you bring and how to counter them as well as predicting the cards that your adversary brought and how to use them to your advantage.
Overall, I think the card game could be interesting but we don’t know much about it yet. The decision to implement a card game is also pretty weird too but i think it probably has to do with ressources being put on big deep rooted problems with the game or maybe even for training purposes.
I think they already had a designed card game, why not plug it in to ESO for a cash grab. We are all such fan boys and girls that we drink this Koolaid down and ask for more. I bought the Chapter, I buy crowns, I sub 3 accounts in my house - I am part of the problem.
Part of me doesn’t even blame them - they are a business - their first order of business is to make money. I’m sure they were like hey, we don’t even have to pay a team to design a new feature this year, plug this card game in, they’ll drink it down. Might I have another sir?
In addition to all the valid reasons posted previously about why a 90's era card game is an utter disappointment, another problem I have with is is the massive bait-and-switch ZOS pulled with the previews (Yes, I know it wasn't technically a bait-and-switch but that's the first thing that came to mind).
When many of us saw those amazing warships sailing on rough seas and the pirate theme, we bit. We fell for it. Many of us truly believed ESO was getting ships in some form or another. On one extreme, I thought we could be getting a complete ship system where you could buy a small boat, learn to sail it, and gain "XP" to upgrade it into, eventually, a full galleon . We could start with a solo craft and eventually add a crew, weapons, etc. THAT got me excited.
Realistically, I knew that was probably not going to happen but some form of a player-controlled, upgradable ship and crew seemed like the central feature based on the trailers.
So imagine going from THAT to a digital card game. I felt like Clark Grizzwold getting a year long subscription to the Jelly of the Month club when he was expecting a cash bonus to buy a swimming pool.
So a card game, as a minor feature of some mid-year update would have been "meh...ok...but meh," having that as the key feature when they teased Assassin's Creed Black Flag was crushing.
Does cards help us in Cyrodiil? No? Didn't think so.
New class?
New weapons?
Third morphs?
New mechanics within the combat system?
New skill lines for each of the current classes?
It’s not that the card game is bad, but rather that we have not received ANY true addition to ESO’s combat since 2019 with the release of the Necromancer class. We will now need to wait until at least 2023 to get something. Anyway more Vet players will leave Was there anyone asking for a card game??
wenchmore420b14_ESO wrote: »New class?
New weapons?
Third morphs?
New mechanics within the combat system?
New skill lines for each of the current classes?
It’s not that the card game is bad, but rather that we have not received ANY true addition to ESO’s combat since 2019 with the release of the Necromancer class. We will now need to wait until at least 2023 to get something. Anyway more Vet players will leave Was there anyone asking for a card game??
Matt and Rich said this was a "much asked for feature".
As I have been on forums since 2013, I only remember it coming up just here and there.
So I searched mini games and here is the link:
https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/search?Page=&Search=mini+games
Yes, mini games have been requested, but, they were things like in-game games like "Snip & Tails", "Pin the Tail on the Khajiit",
Tavern games that bet with gold, Chess, Horse Races, Frog Races, etc.
A rehashed "Legends" was no where in the requests.
I myself have no problems with the new card game as I played MTG for years.
BUT! The fact the are implementing AwA and use "saving data space" as an excuse, then add this with it's achievements and leader boards and MORE data at the expense of all my alt's history is unacceptable.
And the fact that this card game is a "Major Feature" in a full price Chapter?
ZoS missed the bus totally this time...
EdmondDontes wrote: »I can't stop thinking about all the things ZOS should be prioritizing before a card game.
They really are just phoning it in now with ESO. They aren't even trying anymore I don't think. What exactly is the "it" in the phrase "We're working on it" anyway? ....because they sure as hell don't seem to be working on any actual game improvements despite nearly 5 years of promises with no results.
I think they already had a designed card game, why not plug it in to ESO for a cash grab. We are all such fan boys and girls that we drink this Koolaid down and ask for more. I bought the Chapter, I buy crowns, I sub 3 accounts in my house - I am part of the problem.
Part of me doesn’t even blame them - they are a business - their first order of business is to make money. I’m sure they were like hey, we don’t even have to pay a team to design a new feature this year, plug this card game in, they’ll drink it down. Might I have another sir?