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Bad Video Games
Sep 17, 2017


Also my series 3 cards to look forward to are Dazzler and Ghost. And I only have a 1 in 3 of grabbing Knull, Master Mold or Negasonic before the next series drop. I'm actually looking forward to Master Mold. I like Ronan.

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Red
Apr 15, 2003

Yeah, great at getting us into Wawa.

CitizenKeen posted:

She just showed up in my list of cards.

It must be rolling, I don't have her.

BoldFace
Feb 28, 2011
Varying the difficulty of obtaining cards based on how strong they are is some bullshit and the devs should not get a free pass for doing this.

Umbra Dubium
Nov 23, 2007

The British Empire was built on cups of tea, and if you think I'm going into battle without one, you're sorely mistaken!



Yes, hello, it is me, the one person in the entire world mad about the nerf to Crystal.

Mierenneuker
Apr 28, 2010


We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

Snazzy Frocks posted:

Dan hipp loves the outstretched hand in your face pose

What are you talking ab--



Also, men with a gun in their right hand and at least one glowing eye.

Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 18:05 on May 16, 2023

GarudaPrime
May 19, 2006

THE PANTS ARE FANCY!
I genuinely wonder how well this game is doing. I guess there really is not a way to know.

I don't read malice or incompetence or even greed into the series drop changes. What I see is them probably seeing that people don't want to spend their tokens on cards that will be cheaper later when it's a reliable timeframe to have to wait.

GarudaPrime fucked around with this message at 18:13 on May 16, 2023

Hobo Clown
Oct 16, 2012

Here it is, Baby.
Your killer track.




GarudaPrime posted:

I genuinely wonder how well this game is doing. I guess there really is not a way to know.

I've seen a handful of players with that ugly-rear end Collector avatar, so they've made at least a few hundred bucks

Red
Apr 15, 2003

Yeah, great at getting us into Wawa.

GarudaPrime posted:

I genuinely wonder how well this game is doing. I guess there really is not a way to know.

I wish you could do something like pay 99 cents for a mystery bundle of a variant and gold/tokens/card backs/credits (I don't personally want any of the avatars or titles, because they're mostly awful). I've seen enough Nebulas to guess that plenty of people do the Season Pass, but I'd prefer to do the occasional small purchase to support the game - so I've only bought the Cap bundle.

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
Oh come the gently caress on, I could have gotten Darkhawk the other day but he was supposed to drop to 3 so I didn't pin him!

Quackles
Aug 11, 2018

Pixels of Light.


Regarding dedicated uses for Death, there's Death + Moon Girl, or decks that involve Venom and building a big Knull.


Push El Burrito posted:

Hmm Sauron or Ghost. Sauron seems obvious but Ghost seems like she could really go nuts with Sera.

Shadow King?

CitizenKeen
Nov 13, 2003

easygoing pedant

GarudaPrime posted:

I genuinely wonder how well this game is doing. I guess there really is not a way to know.

#6 on Apple store for Cards. (I, a naive Nerd, was trying to populate the list with games like "Hearthstone" and "Legends of Runeterra" and "Magic Arena", but it's actually being beaten by "Solitaire Cash" and "Uno".)

Yu-Gi-Oh's 47, Hearthstone is 90, and Magic is 53. Legends of Runeterra is classified as a Strategy game, so isn't ranked.

Snap's doing very well in iOS, along with a bevy of casino games.

Huh.

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



Yeah I was thinking that Moon Girl, Death, and also She Hulk could still work together. I used to run a deck like that which was Destroy-focused

New Leaf
Jul 24, 2013

Dragon Balls? Are they tasty?
Why is Sauron in my token shop as a Series 4/5 for 1000 tokens? And there's nothing in my Series 3 window to pick up, but Sauron was supposed to be dropping to 3 and I don't have him.

New Leaf fucked around with this message at 18:19 on May 16, 2023

KazigluBey
Oct 30, 2011

boner

GarudaPrime posted:

I genuinely wonder how well this game is doing. I guess there really is not a way to know.

I don't read malice or incompetence or even greed into the series drop changes. What I see is them probably seeing that people don't want to spend their tokens on cards that will be cheaper later when it's a reliable timeframe to have to wait.

Oh, I do read greed. Bad cards drop down, good cards stay put? Play patterns "affecting" future card drops? What, does anyone think the cool exciting cards with a big splash on the meta are going to drop faster now, rather than slower?

Snazzy Frocks
Mar 31, 2003

Scratchmo

New Leaf posted:

Oh come the gently caress on, I could have gotten Darkhawk the other day but he was supposed to drop to 3 so I didn't pin him!

To be fair the devs didn't promise anything. The websites got everyone hyped up

Fate Accomplice
Nov 30, 2006




CitizenKeen posted:

#6 on Apple store for Cards. (I, a naive Nerd, was trying to populate the list with games like "Hearthstone" and "Legends of Runeterra" and "Magic Arena", but it's actually being beaten by "Solitaire Cash" and "Uno".)

Yu-Gi-Oh's 47, Hearthstone is 90, and Magic is 53. Legends of Runeterra is classified as a Strategy game, so isn't ranked.

Snap's doing very well in iOS, along with a bevy of casino games.

Huh.

this is influenced cause Snap is featured in the App Store today.

that feature is worth a lot download->ranking wise

Sandwolf
Jan 23, 2007

i'll be harpo


New Leaf posted:

Why is Sauron in my token shop as a Series 4/5 for 1000 tokens? And there's nothing in my Series 3 window to pick up, but Sauron was supposed to be dropping to 3 and I don't have him.



Free token window needs another 8 hours to refresh

Sandwolf
Jan 23, 2007

i'll be harpo


Snazzy Frocks posted:

To be fair the devs didn't promise anything. The websites got everyone hyped up

It was folks assuming that SD would behave consistently with the last 5 months which apparently was foolish?

Push El Burrito
May 9, 2006

Soiled Meat

Quackles posted:

Regarding dedicated uses for Death, there's Death + Moon Girl, or decks that involve Venom and building a big Knull.

Shadow King?

I got him already and Surfer and Dazzler.

CitizenKeen
Nov 13, 2003

easygoing pedant
"We're going to change how we do drops"

and

"We're going to change how we do drops, starting with the drops you were expecting today"

are two very different things.

Chainclaw
Feb 14, 2009

More lovely cards into the Series 3 pool so it takes players longer to get the good Series 3 cards they actually want, lol

Nikumatic
Feb 13, 2012

a fantastic machine made of meat
drat I was looking forward to finally playing around with Knull but not enough to actually spend tokens on him.

KazigluBey
Oct 30, 2011

boner

Chainclaw posted:

More lovely cards into the Series 3 pool so it takes players longer to get the good Series 3 cards they actually want, lol

AND two cards that were slanted to drop to 3 that WEREN'T poo poo DIDN'T drop.

Once a Hearthstone dev, always a Hearthstone dev, I guess.

BoldFace
Feb 28, 2011
In a nutshell: "We want to make it easier for people to obtain new cards but only the lovely ones"

No Wave
Sep 18, 2005

HA! HA! NICE! WHAT A TOOL!
You guys really like Knull and Darkhawk, huh?

BoldFace
Feb 28, 2011
https://twitter.com/MarvelSnapBugle/status/1658519170546270230

KazigluBey
Oct 30, 2011

boner

I just really wanted Knull for my all-Symbiotes/Venomized Variants deck as a center-piece no matter how bad the deck is, so yes I really wanted Knull this month.

e.: Also admitting that they will now be using scarcity to "balance" (read: encourage whaling) the game is mega dogshit.

Push El Burrito
May 9, 2006

Soiled Meat

No Wave posted:

You guys really like Knull and Darkhawk, huh?

Darkhawk seems to be in every deck now.

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

KazigluBey posted:

Oh, I do read greed. Bad cards drop down, good cards stay put? Play patterns "affecting" future card drops? What, does anyone think the cool exciting cards with a big splash on the meta are going to drop faster now, rather than slower?

In the interest of fairness, they did also say that two of the June cards will launch directly into Series 4. That's a saving of 6k tokens and as everything in June was considered Pretty Good coming right after a month with two high tier cards and a Big Bad, it's well timed.

PlasticAutomaton
Nov 12, 2016

Artoria Pendonut


Darkhawk is one of the best finishers in the game and goes well in a bunch of decks so yeah the sudden changing of drop rates to keep the card everyone needs in S4? Yeah, that's a bad look.

Bottom Liner
Feb 15, 2006


a specific vein of lasagna
This game will die before they make the card acquisition not poo poo. Player retention via drip feeding content at the slowest possible rate to keep people playing.

Avasculous
Aug 30, 2008

Chainclaw posted:

More lovely cards into the Series 3 pool so it takes players longer to get the good Series 3 cards they actually want, lol

Yeah, this. I am maybe halfway through S3, and in the last month+ of playing daily, the hottest card I have unlocked (of 5) is Debrii.

I am not sure I have the patience to wade through another month of getting wrecked by meta decks I can't build so that I can unlock stuff like Sentry and Sauron.

KazigluBey
Oct 30, 2011

boner

Jedit posted:

In the interest of fairness, they did also say that two of the June cards will launch directly into Series 4. That's a saving of 6k tokens and as everything in June was considered Pretty Good coming right after a month with two high tier cards and a Big Bad, it's well timed.

That's saving 6K tokens IF you open-palm-slam stuff the second it shows up in S5, AND if it was even worth doing in the first place.

Again, does anyone think a bland Zzzz card will be S5 and a meta-deck defining will be S4 on first release? Like, what is the most likely scenario? Or sure: hey look everyone it's S4! Aaaaand it's staying S4 for... Who knows?

Kooriken
Dec 27, 2012

This thread is beneath my talent, but I....shall elevate it.
Not that I agree with the acquisition model or anything, but I feel like people were complaining about everything dropping into series 5 for months and now we have confirmation that at least a couple things are going to drop into series 4 and people are complaining about it. Like yeah the big wowzers card is probably gonna drop into series 5 but the entire point is that stuff like Howard/Snowguard probably shouldn't be starting in series 5 anyway and dropping stuff into series 4 makes it easier to pick up without blowing all your tokens on it.

As for the Darkhawk thing, I don't really have a strong opinion on it one way or the other but that's mostly because I already have him. Certainly not a great look.

Ninurta
Sep 19, 2007
What the HELL? That's my cutting board.

Ugh, I'm only missing Sentry, Dazzler and Ghost from the series 3 drops. That sucks, so of course I opened a collector's reserve and drew:



I think I'd still rather have Knull.

FlamingLiberal
Jan 18, 2009

Would you like to play a game?



So the ‘claim your free Series 3 card’ is live if you don’t have the ones that dropped today. It gave me Sentry and I have another 3 I need.

flatluigi
Apr 23, 2008

here come the planes
i think 'the best cards are going to be hard to get' has been a part of the game since they decided the flashiest cards were never going to leave series 5.

idk, i'm still surprised they did anything at all regarding card acquisition with stuff like the free series 3 card a month and the upcoming 'buy a series 3 card for 1000 tokens' but it really remains to be seen how long they keep loving with things until they say they're actually happy with how card acquisition rate is and whether it's anything close to what people actually want

sirtommygunn
Mar 7, 2013



Being able to buy a pool 3 cards with tokens is just returning something they took away. I don't see it as doing anything about the collection problem.

Youremother
Dec 26, 2011

MORT

I just learned if you move Nightcrawler and bounce him back to your hand with Beast, you don't get to move him again when you replay him! Fun little fact to remember :downs:

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Snazzy Frocks
Mar 31, 2003

Scratchmo

Youremother posted:

I just learned if you move Nightcrawler and bounce him back to your hand with Beast, you don't get to move him again when you replay him! Fun little fact to remember :downs:

Sounds like they just fixed the same issue with Jeff unless he wasn't able to move even if he hadn't moved before beast got him

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