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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."

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  1. Who will buy this? by aafiske · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm kind of curious... I've never played a card game like this, but I have played both Eve and WoW. Is there really a market for this? Blizzard seems to be hedging its bets by giving in-game items for certain cards, thus pulling in potential customers who just want a pretty hat. (Which frankly, I see as a bigger market, but I'm not exactly an expert.) But that could conceivably backfire; I wouldn't be happy that I had to go pay even more money to access parts of a game I'm already shelling out for.

    Seems to me that if you really like these games, you'd rather be playing the real thing than the card game. And if you don't, these wouldn't appeal at all.

    Are you going to buy one of these? Why?

    1. Re:Who will buy this? by PMAvers · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It really depends on if the game sucks or not.

      If the game's actually good (the WoW one actually sounds this way), then I'll give it a shot. At least the whole "raid" dungeon decks will be interesting, with the co-op focus.

      If the game's horrible, then the only people who'll be buying it will be the obsessive collectors who gotta have the "phattest" cosmetic character upgrades in game.

      Of course, a CCG being crap doesn't necessarily mean people will not buy it. See: Yu-Gi-Oh.