Lafiel said: As always people focus on FUD ,if there is Sony involved in something, instead of informing themselves accurately (I'm looking at you twesterm because you don't seem to get how the online system works) and based on that trying to formulate some points they want to see integrated. Alot of you guys always make it seem like there is a 1000% possibility none of the devs ever considered your worries and therefore there can't be a countermeasurement.
Contrary to what many people here seem to believe I do see no reason why Sony would make money from the cards, for the mechanics of the game have been developed by Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro and the cards will surely be designed and printed by those who have the know-how and methods to do this. I think Wizards/Hasbro wouldn't have been involved in this project ,if there wasn't a good way to profit from that for them.
I don't see this being a millionseller either , but maybe it doesn't even have to break even , for I believe it's a testrun for the big titles ,but not to evaluate ,if consumers want it or not , but rather to work out a system that is fun and manages to bring online multiplayer to card games. After it has been completed I see a good chance of the big titles (namely yu-gi-oh , Magic ,..) comming aswell no matter how successful or unsuccessful the test run was , for trading card makers have to expand their game to not suffer from being too backward like the music and film industry is at the moment (they get eaten alive by the video games industry).
Now please lynch me for I'm a blind Sony follower who will waste all his money on this game (that's not a joke). |
I understand how the online system works, I just don't see any good ways of doing it.
For registering your deck, you're either going to have to input number or just place the cards under the camera up to 9 at a time. Hopefully it will be something like the 2nd option which won't be a huge hassle. I actually believe it will be one at a time just because it won't want to read 9 cards and then tell you 4 of them are misplaced.
The guy in the video had a little trouble getting the card lined up correctly. In general gameplay, that might not be as annoying but it can get annoying when just registering 30 cards and nothing else.
Like I said, you're always going to modifying your deck because nobody gets it right the first time. You're likely to modify your deck between each match because you get some brilliant idea between each match. If not done well, this process could get very tedious.
I'm just simply wondering how they show you what card to draw. No matter what this is going to take people a long time to find the card they want and you're going to have to have a wait at the beginning of every game, turn, and from what it looked like on the video, even attacks and spells that make you draw cards. I knew people that lived and breathed Magic but they still took forever to search through their deck.
I'm still wondering how they're going to combat printing cards. Each card can have a unique ID that the eye can read in, but I have the funny feeling sites will pop up that supply those unique ID's.