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World of Warcraft Card Game Coming Soon

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the still-more-addictive-than-crack dept.

Klytus writes "GamingReport.com reports that Upper Deck is working with Blizzard Entertainment to release a Collectible Card Game of everyone's favorite MMORPG, World of Warcraft. From the sound of it the cards may also have an impact on your online gameplay as well."

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  1. alright by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Finally! A reason to beat up the geeky kid next door and take his stuff (in real life).

    1. Re:alright by Cerdic · · Score: 3, Funny

      Finally! A reason to beat up the geeky kid next door and take his stuff (in real life).

      Since when do we need a reason to beat up the geeky kid next door?

      --
      Advice for my fellow geeks: before seeking out that threesome you dream of, you might see what a TWOsome is like first.
    2. Re:alright by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
      Finally! A reason to beat up the geeky kid next door and take his stuff (in real life).

      Which is probably what the geeky kid next door to you is thinking at this moment.

      I don't honestly know whether to laugh or cry at the vision of two geeks attempting to figure out how to throw a punch or swing a piece of sports equipment (cricket bat, baseball bat, hockey stick, lacrosse stick, etc.) at each other all the while berating each other "all your base are belong to us!", "y3r m0th3r i5 pwn3d!", etc. over cards.

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    3. Re:alright by zippthorne · · Score: 5, Funny

      You are the geeky kid next door.

      --
      Can you be Even More Awesome?!
    4. Re:alright by Meagermanx · · Score: 2, Funny

      Alright, alright, I'll give you my stuff! Just don't hit me!

    5. Re:alright by d34thm0nk3y · · Score: 4, Funny

      You can't tell me you never made swords out of PVC piping, pipe insulation and duct tape. I ended up breaking a friends nose that way...

      Turned out to be a pretty good physics lesson. Padding doesn't do much when the thing is 10 feet long and weighs 20 lbs.

  2. Gimmicky product by BlackCobra43 · · Score: 5, Funny

    2BBB, Enchantment Tap : Produce one 0/1 Gimmick token with ability "This creature cannot attack or block" and "Cannot be the target of spells or abilities". This creature dies after 3 turns and wasting a sizeable portion of the parent card's revenue in lost production, distribution andadvertising

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  3. Cards for Cash by Frastolator · · Score: 4, Funny

    Look out eBay!

  4. Lag? by n00dles · · Score: 4, Funny

    To replicate the online experience, do they include a syringe of codeine with each pack?

  5. "May have an impact on the online game as well" by Musteval · · Score: 5, Funny

    Night Elf: *walking along* Orc: I WILL SELL YOU CARDS Tauren: 700 GOLD UBERBOSS CARD Human: CHEAP CARDS CHEAP CARDS Another Orc: COME TO MY SHOP WWW.EB4Y.COM COME NOW Night Elf: *takes out sword* Disclaimer: I do not actually play WoW.

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    1. Re:"May have an impact on the online game as well" by BaudKarma · · Score: 3, Funny

      Sounds like you don't need to. You've got the in-game experience pretty well nailed.

      --
      It's the land of the brave, and the home of the free
      Where the less you know, the better off you'll be.
  6. Great news! by wfberg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great news! This mean my co-workers can now chat about WoW incessantly during work AND play a version of Wow during lunch break, so they won't run out of things to say to each other in the afternoon! They'll never have to leave their fantasy world at all!

    --
    SCO employee? Check out the bounty
  7. busted! by sewagemaster · · Score: 2, Funny
    just make sure you don't get busted by your mom!
    Brion is in trouble.
    Brion was in WoW till 2am.
    Brion's mom plays WoW.
    Brion's mom Grounded Brion.
    Haha Brion

    or wear this t-shirt while playing
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    my blog
  8. A Flaw In The Business Model? by msisden · · Score: 3, Funny

    Doesn't this assume that players can drag themselves away from the computer to play the CCG in the first place?

  9. You are too far away by Nick+of+NSTime · · Score: 5, Funny

    The CCG will need to implement some important WoW features to be successful. These include:

    Evade - Players will be able to hold a handmade sign over their head with the text "Evade" if another player plays a hardhitting card.

    Laggy spell failure - If Player A hits Player B with a freeze spell, player B must run up and down the room, ultimately stopping directly in front of Player A, rendering the spell's affects worthless.

    Facing the wrong way - If Player A is directly facing Player B while throwing down a card, Player A's spells will fail and Player B will get free hits while holding up a sign that says, "You are not facing your enemy."

    Lag - When Player A puts down his card, he must stop in midair. During this, Player B may repeatedly hit Player A for 10 seconds.

  10. The First Months of the WoW TCG by vjmurphy · · Score: 4, Funny
    • When you go to the store to buy the cards, you have to wait in a queue.
    • Sometimes, while waiting in the line, a guy from the store comes out and tells you the card game is down and you'll have to go home and come back in an hour. By "hour" they mean "day."
    • Playing the actual card game is great, once you buy the cards, but the cards burst into flames randomly.
    • You can play all the game strategies in about two months. Then you just throw the cards at your friends while they throw theirs at you.
    • Penny Arcade declares it the best card game ever.
    • A month later, Penny Arcade strips the game of the "best card game ever" title, citing the problems with queuing for buying cards and the aformentioned cards bursting into flames.
    • Penny Arcade and PvP Online form a card game rivalry, meeting each other in cities across the nation and throwing cards at each other.
    • Every time you play, some jerk starts yelling "Hey, anyone want to play with me?"
    • Cries of "Nerf the Card Draw Phase" become common.
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    Vincent J. Murphy
    Spandex Justice
  11. Not a flaw Brillian use of server maintenance time by AHumbleOpinion · · Score: 4, Funny

    Doesn't this assume that players can drag themselves away from the computer to play the CCG in the first place?

    You have to give players something to do during server maintenance, internet outages, power failures, etc.

  12. 2 Questions by ARRRLovin · · Score: 2, Funny

    How much per month?

    Which server is everyone going to play on?!?! lol

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    -Randy
  13. Next... World of Warcraft w/ heroin IV drip by leftie · · Score: 4, Funny

    The moment you log in, the software re-connects you to your prepaid supply of official World of Warcraft heroin which is supplied to you through a wrist shunt connected to your mouse. As long as you are logged in and keep your hand on the mouse, you are jones free.

  14. Make sure your mom doesn't end up playing it too by tangent3 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Or you will end up like this guy here:
    http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=w ow-realm-cenarioncircle&t=145812&p=1&tmp=1#post145 812

  15. Inconsistencies between card game and online by charlesbakerharris · · Score: 3, Funny

    How the hell do they plan to implement lag and downtime into a card game? This game will be nothing like WoW.

  16. Great... by utopianfiat · · Score: 3, Funny

    Great, I've always wanted even _more_ antisocial, nerdy, squealy geeks to hardcore scream "YOU FUCKING ZERGED MY CLOUDSONG!"

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    +5, Truth
  17. Good to see that Blizzard... by convex_mirror · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...is doing its part to promote abstinence.

    1. Re:Good to see that Blizzard... by convex_mirror · · Score: 3, Funny

      That would be so all the hot night-elf babes I meet would see my 1337 humor status and invite me to go skinny-dipping in their mana pool, right?

      ... so alone.

  18. Re:I'm sorry but ... by kukyfrope · · Score: 2, Funny
    I'm sorry, but I don't think of [WINDOWS] as my favorite [OS], as there are some out there, *cough*[LINUX]*cough*, which are so much more feature rich, entertaining and engaging for people that like to think ... Not to mention better looking and more geared towards the technological savvy too. Besides, I prefer [DOING TECH SUPPORT] with mature people, not whiny 13 and 14 year olds.
  19. Card games might as well go like this: by El_Smack · · Score: 2, Funny

    A: I play my Abe Lincoln, doing 5 damage to your Hamilton.
    B: My Hamilton does 10 damage to your Lincoln killing it.
    A: I draw *yes*,*yes*,*yes!* Ben Franklin! I defeat your Hamilton and add a +5 defense of Sacagawea.
    B: I'm going home.

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    There are 01 kinds of cars in the world. The General Lee, and everything else.
  20. Re:For all ages? by bano · · Score: 2, Funny

    I seen a middle aged white guy playing yughio(or whatever it is) with a middle aged foreigner at the game story one day.
    I bet the 10year old kids thought he was the coolest because he didnt have a bed time and could play said retarded cardgame all night w/o his mom telling him to goto bed because its a school night.
    Truth be told, he probably still lives with his mother, and she yells at him to goto bed.

  21. you insensitive clod by timster121 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I *am* the geeky kid next door.

  22. It was supposed to be a trading card game... by LabRat007 · · Score: 2, Funny



    ...but aparently the decks are bind on pick up.

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    "Capital punishment makes the state into a murderer. Imprisonment makes the state into a gay dungeon-master"
  23. Re:Addiction? by _Sharp'r_ · · Score: 2, Funny

    At some point they'll stop the subterfuge and just advertise special abilities, bonuses and in-game items if you send the company cash directly, instead of making people buy a bunch of playing cards to get them.

    --
    The party of stupid and the party of evil get together and do something both stupid and evil, then call it bipartisan.
  24. Sweet, a card game! by fanblade · · Score: 2, Funny

    Player 1: Do you have any...Tauren?
    Player 2: Go fish.