Well, for some reason the game just locked up hard during card selection during a draft. Yeurgh. Hope I don't lose the cards I'd already drafted. edit: yup, looks like I lost the cards I'd already drafted (a legendary and several rares I needed >_<). The free draft token was consumed also. Ticket submitted to support so we'll see what happens. Seems like now may be a great time to not draft. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 17:26 on Apr 26, 2014 |
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Seems like now may be a great time to not draft. Yeah, they're saying in chat not to start new tournaments for now.
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# ? Apr 26, 2014 18:04 |
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Their main competition is Magic Online which is wildly lovely, but very generous with their reimbursement policy. It's very cheap to give people digital goods to keep them happy, so hopefully CZ takes that bit from WotC. I almost quit hearthstone over a paid draft losing to a bug early on. I don't know how Blizz get's away with it.
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# ? Apr 26, 2014 18:39 |
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And tournaments are locked now till they fix the problem.
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# ? Apr 26, 2014 18:54 |
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Did they mention anything about people not getting all their rewards when redeeming codes? The only thing I got out of my slacker code was the 25 booster packs and their forum appears to be down whenever I try to go there.
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# ? Apr 26, 2014 19:28 |
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DrManiac posted:Did they mention anything about people not getting all their rewards when redeeming codes? The only thing I got out of my slacker code was the 25 booster packs and their forum appears to be down whenever I try to go there. Most of the slacker backer bonuses either aren't in game at all or aren't in game yet. VIP program isn't active, the two promos are both PvE cards which aren't in yet, the digital art book is an out of game thing with a link in the email you were sent, and you already got your beta invite. I don't know how slacker backer handles the free starter deck; with my dungeon crawler tier I just got the three starters I didn't select added straight to my collection.
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# ? Apr 26, 2014 19:41 |
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DrManiac posted:Did they mention anything about people not getting all their rewards when redeeming codes? The only thing I got out of my slacker code was the 25 booster packs and their forum appears to be down whenever I try to go there. https://hextcg.com/hex-backer-rewards/ Zurai posted:Most of the slacker backer bonuses either aren't in game at all or aren't in game yet. VIP program isn't active, the two promos are both PvE cards which aren't in yet, the digital art book is an out of game thing with a link in the email you were sent, and you already got your beta invite. I don't know how slacker backer handles the free starter deck; with my dungeon crawler tier I just got the three starters I didn't select added straight to my collection. You actually got all four, so you got doubles of everything in the one you chose.
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Go RV! posted:You actually got all four, so you got doubles of everything in the one you chose. That's strange, it showed I only had 1 Tel'taca, etc, until I deleted all the starter decks. Now I have 2. No idea what went on there (no, it isn't the relogging thing, I'd already done that several times). Zurai fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Apr 26, 2014 |
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Zurai posted:
Was your selected deck the Orc one? Because one of them would have been in your deck, the other would have been in the rest of your cards.
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# ? Apr 26, 2014 20:35 |
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Go RV! posted:Was your selected deck the Orc one? Because one of them would have been in your deck, the other would have been in the rest of your cards. Now I feel like an idiot. Of course that's why.
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# ? Apr 27, 2014 00:40 |
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So with trading / auction-house about a month away my dream scenario would be guilds within a month after that, open beta with some PvE elements within a month after that, then Set 2 followed closely with full launch and PvE (which would time perfectly with GenCon 2014) Right now though I would settle for being able to use my remaining free drafts before the weekend is over
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# ? Apr 27, 2014 00:45 |
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Grim posted:So with trading / auction-house about a month away my dream scenario would be guilds within a month after that, open beta with some PvE elements within a month after that, then Set 2 followed closely with full launch and PvE (which would time perfectly with GenCon 2014) Yeah, I had planned to draft all dat, but onlt got in one before the crash while I was rolling my second one because people suck and I got 12th pick removal regularly in that pod.
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# ? Apr 27, 2014 00:56 |
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I'd been fairly firm about not selling my KS rewards, but I'm kind of staring down a big set of bills. I am pondering selling my pro player code - are these still highly desired, or would I just be looking to recoup the 250 investment? I also have a King tier, I'll probably keep that.
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Vincent Valentine posted:Also as in addition to packs, or do you mean Also as in gold with no pack reward like 5th through 8th? Also in addition to packs. I got 5 packs and 20,000 gold.
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# ? Apr 27, 2014 01:19 |
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Go RV! posted:Was your selected deck the Orc one? Because one of them would have been in your deck, the other would have been in the rest of your cards. I selected the human deck and actually had 2x of that deck in my decklists after; pretty sure deleting the extra then had the "cards not in any decks" counter go up some Also seem to have all my rewards (King tier) sans 3-4 of the sleeve arts - only have, iirc, the champion & king sleeves, but the million dollar one + the lower backer tier specific sleeves are missing. Not something I need to worry about right away, though.
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DarkFact posted:I'd been fairly firm about not selling my KS rewards, but I'm kind of staring down a big set of bills. I am pondering selling my pro player code - are these still highly desired, or would I just be looking to recoup the 250 investment? I also have a King tier, I'll probably keep that. If I had pro player codes to sell I wouldn't sell them at cost. That's $364 dollars in drafts each year not counting all of the other extras.
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# ? Apr 27, 2014 01:42 |
Its been months since Alpha and I still cant play a single game to completion, tournaments still offline. Why is this in beta?
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Mugaaz posted:Its been months since Alpha and I still cant play a single game to completion, tournaments still offline. Why is this in beta? It was working fine last week, I hadn't had a game crash for a while. It's just the shift to new hardware and the returning rush as people get their rewards. It's in beta. That actually does mean something.
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Yeah I don't know why people think it going into beta somehow means there aren't still going to be issues. You have to deal with the stress testing at SOME point, and it's not something that was really feasible during alpha because of how the game was at that point and the amount of people that were playing. Load issues at launch have been a problem for nearly every MMO like, ever. The simple act of things being monetized and "for keeps" is what generates the rush that causes the issues in the first place, so it doesn't really matter what you call it. If it didn't happen now it'd just happen at open beta or release and we'd have the same conversation then. I mean it sucks that tournaments are down, I wanted to play some too. But I did at least get in a number of AI and casual games today without any issues. I expect them to get it sorted out within the week and then we won't have to worry about it again (until open beta/release anyway ).
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cathead posted:
The big question now is how good a job they'll do dealing with the crashed tournaments today. It seems like the first real 'rubber meets the road" test of their customer service. Now that things are monetized and "real" there's a lot less room for excuses.
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cathead posted:Yeah I don't know why people think it going into beta somehow means there aren't still going to be issues. You have to deal with the stress testing at SOME point, and it's not something that was really feasible during alpha because of how the game was at that point and the amount of people that were playing. Load issues at launch have been a problem for nearly every MMO like, ever. The simple act of things being monetized and "for keeps" is what generates the rush that causes the issues in the first place, so it doesn't really matter what you call it. If it didn't happen now it'd just happen at open beta or release and we'd have the same conversation then. Pretty much this. It's not economically sound to spend a ton of money making uber servers that can handle the out of the gate rush. You make something reasonable and then build it up as necessary. As long as they do the right thing with refunds, I don't really care that much. I'm sure that I won't remember these first missed drafts once I'm further through the nearly 400 packs I've got for drafting.
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Karnegal posted:Pretty much this. It's not economically sound to spend a ton of money making uber servers that can handle the out of the gate rush. You make something reasonable and then build it up as necessary. As long as they do the right thing with refunds, I don't really care that much. I'm sure that I won't remember these first missed drafts once I'm further through the nearly 400 packs I've got for drafting. All I know I tried to play for couple weeks in Alpha, 90% of my games hanged due to error. Not any different now. I see a lot of improvements in the UI though.
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# ? Apr 27, 2014 04:20 |
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It would shock me if Cryptozoic didn't automatically approve all reimbursement requests that aren't blatant fraud. In order to get to the level of popularity that they want Hex to be at, they absolutely need a solid base of early adopters. Being stingy with refunds during an early beta would piss off people who are prepared to spend money on Hex for years to come, as well as be the main advocates that attract other users to the game.
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# ? Apr 27, 2014 04:52 |
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Konstantin posted:It would shock me if Cryptozoic didn't automatically approve all reimbursement requests that aren't blatant fraud. In order to get to the level of popularity that they want Hex to be at, they absolutely need a solid base of early adopters. Being stingy with refunds during an early beta would piss off people who are prepared to spend money on Hex for years to come, as well as be the main advocates that attract other users to the game.
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# ? Apr 27, 2014 04:59 |
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Mugaaz posted:All I know I tried to play for couple weeks in Alpha, 90% of my games hanged due to error. Not any different now. I see a lot of improvements in the UI though. I was playing during the late alpha a bit, and I had no issues. I would guess that the current issues are 90% severload issues since they're getting throttled with people who haven't touched the game in months/ever
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# ? Apr 27, 2014 05:19 |
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Karnegal posted:I was playing during the late alpha a bit, and I had no issues. I would guess that the current issues are 90% severload issues since they're getting throttled with people who haven't touched the game in months/ever Late alpha was a dream come true. Every game worked, I never had trouble with tournaments. Every card, free. I kind of miss it. Beta seems to be working ok though. I kind of expected them to run into hiccups. I'm really surprised how many new faces there are. At times where I usually only saw one or two folks, now I see like forty. It's a good feeling.
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# ? Apr 27, 2014 06:02 |
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I'm an rear end in a top hat control player in Magic, so I built my best approximation for that in Hex. http://hex.tcgbrowser.com/#!/deck=5992 Thoughts? Also, is there a better site for sharing decks? This one seems unwieldy.
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What a Judas posted:I'm an rear end in a top hat control player in Magic, so I built my best approximation for that in Hex. http://www.hex-datamine.com/deck.php ? There aren't any great sites yet As to the deck, is there anything better than Relentless Corruption?
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What a Judas posted:I'm an rear end in a top hat control player in Magic, so I built my best approximation for that in Hex. Here are some decklists from a recent tournament, they're all pretty solid: http://hextcgpro.proboards.com/thread/377/april-cs-top-deck-lists edit: your deck seems kinda all over the board. I'd either add in more things like Xentoth's Inquisitor or Bone Warrior if you're going to keep the extinctions, or add in more stuff like Buccanneer or Menacing Gralk if you want more control. Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 14:06 on Apr 27, 2014 |
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# ? Apr 27, 2014 13:09 |
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How do you add gems to your socketable cards? And where do you get those gems? EDIT: found it, turns out I'm blind or something? shut up blegum fucked around with this message at 14:05 on Apr 27, 2014 |
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beedeebee posted:How do you add gems to your socketable cards? And where do you get those gems? click the socket in the card. You have infinite gems of all types
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# ? Apr 27, 2014 14:03 |
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Remember that you need to add the gem to every copy of the card you have separately.
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I am afraid to log in. Every time I log in, I see that I have very few cards. A little voice in my head says, "Psst. Just open a few boosters. You'll have enough cards to make a good deck then." The sweet, honeyed words of temptation lure me into the store, where I see the pool of water and hear the siren's soft humming. If I just dropped in some packs then-- But no! Packs are for drafting! Drafting turns those packs into many more packs! "But the primals" the voice says "They're not useful. You can't draft with those. Why not open some primals?" My mouse slides over to the orange packs, and hovers there ominously. But Grim correctly said that opening packs during special events gives chests capable of getting extra rare and valuable items! I can't open those! I urge my mouse down, away from the primals. Fighting my animalistic urge to tear open packs like a puppy on Christmas paper. Then, I accidentally bring my pointer to the chests below. The chests that came with my VIP membership. "Oh, but those chests are already generated. You can spend your gold re-rolling them! Maybe you'll even get a card!" But one of the roll rewards is a PvE card. How can I even win that? It is a bug waiting to happen. Besides, there could be much better uses of gold once PvE comes out. Do we really know how valuable gold is? Finally, before the whispering begins again, I rip my mouse to the corner and close the window, all at once like an extra-sticky band-aid. Every time... They need to get tournaments working fast.
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# ? Apr 27, 2014 16:15 |
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You can't open chests right now anyway.
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# ? Apr 27, 2014 16:36 |
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If it makes you feel any better, but HexRex said that they have people in working on tournaments right now. e: General update from Hexrex Go RV! fucked around with this message at 17:34 on Apr 27, 2014 |
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I’m not sure if this is the best place to ask, but is anyone trying to sell their Kickstater reward codes? I didn’t find out about this game until it was too late to donate and it would be pretty sweet if I could snag a code.
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# ? Apr 27, 2014 19:02 |
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Somebody was musing about selling a pro, but they were wondering if anyone would pay over-cost for it. A couple people have successfully sold already.
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# ? Apr 27, 2014 19:18 |
Trying to sell them just seems like scamapalooza to me. The codes are worthless once redeemed, theres no seller protection for digital objects on paypal, and not to mention people doing bank/cc chargebacks. Is some guy gonna send you Western Union first? Probably not.
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# ? Apr 27, 2014 19:54 |
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According to the Hex twitter accounts/codes are not transferable. I know people have sold accounts but it is just something to be aware of. https://twitter.com/HexTCG/status/459771830106996736 quote:accounts/codes are not transferrable. our T&C is as friendly as possible, but that should be clear. They do go on to say gifting codes and using them for giveaways is fine.
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Which basically means they're covering their asses and you can do what you want as long as you don't flaunt it and don't blame them if you get screwed.
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