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."

Comments

alright

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:alright

[ackthpt]

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.

Re:alright

[zippthorne]

You are the geeky kid next door.

Re:alright

[d34thm0nk3y]

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.

Gimmicky product

[BlackCobra43]

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

Cards for Cash

[Frastolator]

Look out eBay!

Lag?

[n00dles]

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

"May have an impact on the online game as well"

[Musteval]

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.

Great news!

[wfberg]

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!

Re:BlizzCon

[PhilippeT]

At least try to read...

Another souvenir item you'll find in your special BlizzCon goody bag is a full deck of BlizzCon playing cards, encased in a uniquely decorated box and decked out with Blizzard artwork from the Warcraft, Diablo, and StarCraft series.

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.

You are too far away

[Nick of NSTime]

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.

The First Months of the WoW TCG

[vjmurphy]

• 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.

Not a flaw Brillian use of server maintenance time

[AHumbleOpinion]

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.

Next... World of Warcraft w/ heroin IV drip

[leftie]

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.

Good to see that Blizzard...

[convex_mirror]

...is doing its part to promote abstinence.