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I managed to only miss a weeks worth of dailies on my vacation, but I am still salty about the pass even with the changes.

The new b01 meta is fun though pretty unique decks popping up and haven't seen a lot of mirrors though I hate how slow everyone is piloting them.
 
pharmakos

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And the game is still technically in beta hahaha. Man they're gonna make a lot of money.
 
Mist

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And it's only on 1 platform so far.

It took them over 17 years but they finally made a digital product that isn't shit, and then somehow lucked into a F2P+microtransaction economy that people actually think isn't ripping them off.
 
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pharmakos

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Yeah they really need to get it on Mobile. Theres a whole huge subset of consumers that they can tap in to who find microtransactions agreeable but don't play PC games.
 
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Kiroy

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pharmakos said:
Yeah they really need to get it on Mobile. Theres a whole huge subset of consumers that they can tap in to who find microtransactions agreeable but don't play PC games.
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it can maybe fit on a pad, or when foldout phones double the screen size, no way it goes on even the largest phone right now though
 
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Kiroy said:
it can maybe fit on a pad, or when foldout phones double the screen size, no way it goes on even the largest phone right now though
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They'd have to do a new UI just for mobile I think. I mean, other card games pull it off, y'know? But yeah, no way the current setup works okay for mobile. I have seen people try, doing screen mirroring / streaming from their desktop to their cell phone, but that takes a LOT of data and there were definitely issues translating the UI to mobile touchscreen.
 
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pharmakos said:
They'd have to do a new UI just for mobile I think. I mean, other card games pull it off, y'know? But yeah, no way the current setup works okay for mobile. I have seen people try, doing screen mirroring / streaming from their desktop to their cell phone, but that takes a LOT of data and there were definitely issues translating the UI to mobile touchscreen.
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I don't really see how to do it w/o making it an incredibly frustrating experience. The board states on mtg just get way to complicated, and often. If they can pull it off on a phone screen i'll be impressed.
 
Mist

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pharmakos said:
They'd have to do a new UI just for mobile I think. I mean, other card games pull it off, y'know? But yeah, no way the current setup works okay for mobile. I have seen people try, doing screen mirroring / streaming from their desktop to their cell phone, but that takes a LOT of data and there were definitely issues translating the UI to mobile touchscreen.
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Other card games are simple and shitty. MTG has shit like infinite combos and huge board states.

They should restrict it to 9inch devices and higher if they ever do a mobile release.
 
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Kiroy

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Mist said:
Other card games are simple and shitty. MTG has shit like infinite combos and huge board states.

They should restrict it to 9inch devices and higher if they ever do a mobile release.
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the more I think about it even 9inch+ doesn't seem possible, they'd likely have to split the board in half and you go back and forth with a swipe or something. hmm
 
pharmakos

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Lands could just be a number in the corner instead of a full card on the board. Your hand could be another element that you have to swipe or tap to see^ in the same sort of idea as that. There's other little things like these you can do. Maybe if they figure out enough of them they can get it working.
 
Deathwing

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Just think of all the faggots that rope on PC currently, then multiply that amount by 10 due to inherent UI clunkiness slowing down turns.
 
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Kiroy

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Deathwing said:
Just think of all the faggots that rope on PC currently, then multiply that amount by 10 due to inherent UI clunkiness slowing down turns.
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god this, plus it would for sure be cross platform so.... ooof, very good point, I don't want to be playing some fuck on his shit phone while trying to look busy at work
 
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Chris

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Kiroy said:
the more I think about it even 9inch+ doesn't seem possible, they'd likely have to split the board in half and you go back and forth with a swipe or something. hmm
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Worked for Artifact! Oh... wait...
 
ronne

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Holy shit ranked constructed has the chess clock now? Arena is saved.
 
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ronne

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Ah fucking nevermind the retarded rope system still exists, they just added a 30 minute match timer on top of it.
 
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