Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

WoW And EVE CCGs Debut This Week

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-your-collectors-hat-out dept.

Both World of Warcraft and EVE Online will be debuting collectible card games based on their online worlds this week at Gen Con. From the EVE announcement: "CCP will have a 128-person tournament at Gen Con in Hall G of the Indianapolis Convention Center on Saturday, August 12th with cash prizes totaling $10,000. The tournament will be open to everyone and since EVE: The Second Genesis will be launched at the show, those competing will have as equal a chance of winning as possible. The tournament will be a Swiss double elimination tournament with cash prizes for the top 32 players, with additional prizes for random players between rounds. A double elimination tournament is a competition where participants are eliminated from the tournament upon having lost two matches. All players will receive a starter deck free of charge when they come to the EVE booth for a demonstration."

8 of 44 comments (clear)

  1. Thank God! by walnutmon · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I will have something to do when not playing mmorpgs! My eating and sleeping habits have been really destructive to my ability to maintain a normal social life, in game, of course.

    --
    You take it, I don't want it...
  2. Re:Who will buy this? by Kesch · · Score: 1, Funny

    1. Make a succseful game.
    2. Make spin off products like roleplaying games, board games, CCGs, T-Shirts (Blizzard is guilty on all accounts)
    3. ?????
    4. MORE PROFIT!
    (Note, should steps 3 or 4 fail to occur, it is suggested that you discontinue that product line.)

    --
    If this signature is witty enough, maybe somebody will like me.
  3. Based on WoW, you say? by shigelojoe · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does this mean there'll be a "Server Crash" card where I get to throw all the cards off the playing area and demoralize my opponent to the point of forfeiting?

  4. Card game for WoW players by JavaLord · · Score: 3, Funny

    Here is a great card game for WoW players.

    1. Re:Card game for WoW players by servognome · · Score: 2, Funny

      I tried that game, the cards are way over powered. Play any of them and your average slashdot or WoW geek will be knocked down to zero life instantly.

      --
      D6 63 0D 70 89 81 BB 8E 7B 7C 5F 5D 54 EA AB 73
  5. EvE by I+Like+Pudding · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Eve one is great if you have a hundred or some friends to play it with, and even more fun when you are playng against another group of one hundred. Combat is resolved thus: The first 100 gang up and kick one guy from the other team in the groin simultaneously. The remaining 99 on the second team then kick the crotch of a single member of the first team. Play ends when either all crotches have been kicked or the entire game falls apart, restarts, and every player has his crotch refunded by the GM.

    The game gets markedly less interesting with less people. If you have only one guy to play against, for example, there are only 4 cards you can actually use.

  6. Obligatory PA link by MagicDude · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2005/20050826h. jpg

    Hail Satan

  7. The WoW CCG includes ultra-rare purple decks... by fake_name · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...but they wont sell them to you unless you show up with 39 friends.