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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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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
That means regular cards... you know so you can play solitaire while waiting for a 40 man raid to organize it self. Or like myself while you keep conjuring water and watching everyone else kill stuff during the raid.
A psychopath can't tell the difference between right and wrong. A sociopath knows the difference - he just doesn't care.
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.
Vincent J. Murphy
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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?
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.
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.
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.
Not only is there already an RPG version of Warcraft, but there are 2 boardgames: A warcraft game based on warcraft 3 which has been out for around a year now, and an upcoming world of warcraft game board game, which is still in development, but looks absolutely insane.
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! .."