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Why Magic Online Will Suck

Posted by michael on Saturday June 29, 2002 @02:00AM from the hard-knocks dept.

An anonymous reader sends us a link to this funny dissection of online gaming. The writer obviously speaks from bitter experience. :)

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Yes, it will by ThousandStars · 2002-06-29 13:02 · Score: 0, Redundant

I think you missed part of the guy's article - the "l33t" cheaters WILL find a way to hack. It only takes a few people, or even one person, to totally wreck the economy of the game. Giving out the cards in real life makes this doubly true, because then people with cards obtained illictly can trade for an actual objects with actual value.
Yes, they can hire more coders, but even the best coders in the world sometimes make mistakes, especially on extremely complicated products like Online Magic. If this weren't the case, we wouldn't have the endless stream of /. articles decrying Outlook and IE.
Besides the above, the paragraphs on the social issues make sense. I've seen friends of mine in Diablo II and others act totally idiotic in a manner they never would in real life. Once you put a friendly game online, all the stigma that comes with being a jackass in real life disappears. MTG:OL is going to suck, and you'd have to be stupid, insane, rediculously optimistic, foolishly trusting, or free with your money to try it.