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World of Warcraft Card Game Coming Soon
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."
Finally! A reason to beat up the geeky kid next door and take his stuff (in real life).
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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They just announced that they will release card to people who attend their Blizzard Convention (http://www.blizzcon.com/swag.shtml). Not sure if they attend to sell them as well, or only give them out at special events.
Look out eBay!
To replicate the online experience, do they include a syringe of codeine with each pack?
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.
Note to mods: I'm probably being sarcastic.
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
I'm not surprised. There already exist a Warcraft pen and paper RPG based on the d20 system, so a card game is the next logical step. The paper RPG is actually very good though, so I wouldn't shout "sold out" just yet. I don't like the sound of the game affecting your play ingame though...
or wear this t-shirt while playing
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In other words they are try to combine two of the most effective ways of extracting money from punters (CCGs and on-line games)
My favorite MMORPG, a LARP, has had a card game for many years. Hail Eris!
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Doesn't this assume that players can drag themselves away from the computer to play the CCG in the first place?
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.
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What is it with these MMORPG's and their thirst for cash? I pay the 15 bucks a month already, along with the millions of other subscribers. I shouldn't have to see people with 'character alterations' or other goodies just because they have the money to go out and buy these retarded cards.
It's similiar to SOE releasing boring addons to everquest back in the day. Each cost around 40-60 dollars, and if you DIDNT buy it, you had to watch people around you gaining "cool" items. This sounds to me like the same kinda deal. Buy our stuff, or we will make the playing ground uneven for you, the monthly subscriber.
Anyone else feel what im saying?
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.
Because this is just another step towards The Visa Crucible.
So, some online content will only be available by purchasing packs of cards...
Genius, really. Sure beats multi-tiered memberships.
Blizzard could be doing a much better job of promoting itself as a marketing target.
I would hate to see in-game advertising for real-world products, but Blizzard could be capitalizing on its subscriber base more effectively.
So, when do we get WoW Happy Meals, with scratch-off extra game content?
Or a Pepsi under-the-lid promotion?
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
How much per month?
Which server is everyone going to play on?!?! lol
-Randy
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.
Wait... you mean generalizations aren't always 100% true for everyone they imply something about? I'd say it's a fair enough generalization considering the game has something like 3.5 million subscribers.
How the hell do they plan to implement lag and downtime into a card game? This game will be nothing like WoW.
Great, I've always wanted even _more_ antisocial, nerdy, squealy geeks to hardcore scream "YOU FUCKING ZERGED MY CLOUDSONG!"
+5, Truth
...is doing its part to promote abstinence.
Shark? Check
Ramp? Check
Fonz? Check
Rev that engine, WoW.
the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur - A.N. White
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.
There are 01 kinds of cars in the world. The General Lee, and everything else.
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.
Like a virus, they spread through my gaming community. Like a cancer, they grew to crowd out other, healthier pursuits like AD&D, Shadowrun, Starfleet Battles, Gamma World, etc. I stood against the tide only to watch friend after friend fall into the CCG trap. Steve Jackson stabbed me in the back after discontinuing the old hotness Illuminati for the new and busted INWO. And now they threaten WoW? In the immortal words of one of my greatest heroes, "Oh, my valve!"
Then again, an Arcanite Reaper lottery _would_ be sorta cool...
WoW isn't the same without someone coming along and ruining everything. That aspect will be totally lost (short of someone coming along and running of with you deck shouting "Time's Up! .."
I *am* the geeky kid next door.
"Capital punishment makes the state into a murderer. Imprisonment makes the state into a gay dungeon-master"
Player 1: Do you have any...Tauren?
Player 2: Go fish.