if you are a brewer innovator at least your lists won't get copied quite so fast. Of course that means they won't get tuned by the community at large so fast either.
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Out of the blackness and stench of the engulfing swamp emerged a shimmering figure. Only the splattered armor and ichor-stained sword hinted at the unfathomable evil the knight had just laid waste.
This is seriously just one step forward to standard DEs eliminated completely.
DEs being gone would probably be a good thing for MTGO, assuming they replaced them with the rolling tournaments online-CCGs seem to be moving towards.
The Arena in Hearthstone and the Jackpot tournaments in Duels of the Champions spring to mind. You enter, play matches as you can throughout a set period (24 hours usually) and collect your prize at the end. No need to block off 4+ hours for a tournament in a row. This is online and digital, we don't need to have the same tournament structure restrictions as paper for every event.
Man before this announcement my collection was worth 370 tix, now I checked it's worth 130 tix, what do you guys suggest? Wait till it's back where it was or selling it now before it's worth nothing?
Man before this announcement my collection was worth 370 tix, now I checked it's worth 130 tix, what do you guys suggest? Wait till it's back where it was or selling it now before it's worth nothing?
I sold mine a few minutes after the announcement. But keeping an eye on the prices since then I've been wondering myself how long the 'crash' would last. Looks like its starting to stabilize as some of the cards in standard have started to rebound already.
So I'd suggest holding onto your stuff if your just someone whom enjoys a few random games.
Man before this announcement my collection was worth 370 tix, now I checked it's worth 130 tix, what do you guys suggest? Wait till it's back where it was or selling it now before it's worth nothing?
What are you talking about? Every standard or modern card has dropped only a fraction of what theyre worth. Youre most definitely exaggerating and bashing MTGO with this comment. I sold off my useless modern stuff for 200~ tix earleir this week and I bought up standard stuff because of the decline in prices. If you look at it again (right now) though the prices havent really changed at all (back to original prices). Dont exaggerate.
EDIT- Even during the 'crash' you did not lose more than 50% of value. 15-20% if anything. The chase cards will be worth more now for a little bit at least
What are you talking about? Every standard or modern card has dropped only a fraction of what theyre worth. Youre most definitely exaggerating and bashing MTGO with this comment. I sold off my useless modern stuff for 200~ tix earleir this week and I bought up standard stuff because of the decline in prices. If you look at it again (right now) though the prices havent really changed at all (back to original prices). Dont exaggerate.
EDIT- Even during the 'crash' you did not lose more than 50% of value. 15-20% if anything. The chase cards will be worth more now for a little bit at least
It depends what he had. Scalding Tarn/Misty rainforest are down from 22/21ish before to 15/16 now. Thats a 20 ticket loss per set of fetches there. On the other hand some cards barely dropped for whatever reason - bots keeping the price high mostly. Fact is the bots will start undercutting each other more and more to get rid of stock, since nobody is buying right now outside of speculators(and not many yet i would guess).
They would have only shut down dailies if there was a cumulative problem. We have all noticed that tournament stability has been getting worse and worse. If you wanted a textbook definition of a program not designed with scalability in mind the #1 entry would be MODO.
Each tournament was a drop of water and the bathtub is cresting, ready to overflow. And they only stumbled upon this after a magic pro told them stability was an issue.
What are you talking about? Every standard or modern card has dropped only a fraction of what theyre worth. Youre most definitely exaggerating and bashing MTGO with this comment. I sold off my useless modern stuff for 200~ tix earleir this week and I bought up standard stuff because of the decline in prices. If you look at it again (right now) though the prices havent really changed at all (back to original prices). Dont exaggerate.
EDIT- Even during the 'crash' you did not lose more than 50% of value. 15-20% if anything. The chase cards will be worth more now for a little bit at least
There must've been something wrong with the bot that I usually sell to. By the time I tried selling the bot was paying about 15tix to Jace, Architect of Thought, 2tix to Ashiok, 1tix for Desecration Demon and so on for the other cards that I have. Anyway checking again yesterday the same bot offered 287tix for the same cards, still lower then what I had quoted before the crash (about 370tix). I am hopeful that MTGO will get fixed soon therefore I'll be waiting a little while and maybe there will be no need to sell the cards.
Features (even little ones like that) take time to design/implement/test/verify, and someone in Loucks position doesn't get to determine task priority. I'm sure MTGO is in all hands on deck panic mode right now on the tournament stuff right now so there is legitimately no time to fix it.
I'm not trying to defend the MTGO software team here but yelling at a non-manager when it comes to task prioritization is pointless.
It bothers me to no end that a guy who ran everything he touched at WotC straight into the ground then failed upwards into the lead MTGO position - a flagship cashcow that's never worked well, constantly lags behind available technology, and has never fully been embraced by the player community. And then he proceeded to run that straight into the ground. Repeatedly. Over and over. You would think Hasbro or WotC's bigwigs would step in by now and say, "Take it easy, Champ. Why don't you sit this next one out."
/rant
( . . . I may have let my personal biases leak in there. Sorry.)
Modern: Storm, Jund, Ghast Blaster, Elf Warriors
Legacy: RUG Cascade, Imperial Painter, Affinity, Dredge, Elves, Merfolk, Pox, Dragon Stompie, Goblins, ANT, Belcher
Classic: Delver, Dredge, Jacerater
Draft: I will draft basically any format online (other than Masques)
Pauper: MTGO's #1 most handsome Pauper Storm player
Too generous to the people
https://twitter.com/Lee_Sharpe/status/401412319579627521
Due to #MTGO event changes, http://www.mtgo.com/ event coverage will now post top 4 of 2 random 8p single elim queues / const format / day
This is seriously just one step forward to standard DEs eliminated completely.
Standard:
RW Boros devotion/Purphoros combo
RGB Jund Midrange
Modern:
WB Martyr.proc
DEs being gone would probably be a good thing for MTGO, assuming they replaced them with the rolling tournaments online-CCGs seem to be moving towards.
The Arena in Hearthstone and the Jackpot tournaments in Duels of the Champions spring to mind. You enter, play matches as you can throughout a set period (24 hours usually) and collect your prize at the end. No need to block off 4+ hours for a tournament in a row. This is online and digital, we don't need to have the same tournament structure restrictions as paper for every event.
I sold mine a few minutes after the announcement. But keeping an eye on the prices since then I've been wondering myself how long the 'crash' would last. Looks like its starting to stabilize as some of the cards in standard have started to rebound already.
So I'd suggest holding onto your stuff if your just someone whom enjoys a few random games.
What are you talking about? Every standard or modern card has dropped only a fraction of what theyre worth. Youre most definitely exaggerating and bashing MTGO with this comment. I sold off my useless modern stuff for 200~ tix earleir this week and I bought up standard stuff because of the decline in prices. If you look at it again (right now) though the prices havent really changed at all (back to original prices). Dont exaggerate.
EDIT- Even during the 'crash' you did not lose more than 50% of value. 15-20% if anything. The chase cards will be worth more now for a little bit at least
It depends what he had. Scalding Tarn/Misty rainforest are down from 22/21ish before to 15/16 now. Thats a 20 ticket loss per set of fetches there. On the other hand some cards barely dropped for whatever reason - bots keeping the price high mostly. Fact is the bots will start undercutting each other more and more to get rid of stock, since nobody is buying right now outside of speculators(and not many yet i would guess).
Worthw : it seems abrupt, but there was definitely a reason we did what we did
Worthw : I cant really talk about that too much, which I know is not helpful to you all
link?
Each tournament was a drop of water and the bathtub is cresting, ready to overflow. And they only stumbled upon this after a magic pro told them stability was an issue.
There must've been something wrong with the bot that I usually sell to. By the time I tried selling the bot was paying about 15tix to Jace, Architect of Thought, 2tix to Ashiok, 1tix for Desecration Demon and so on for the other cards that I have. Anyway checking again yesterday the same bot offered 287tix for the same cards, still lower then what I had quoted before the crash (about 370tix). I am hopeful that MTGO will get fixed soon therefore I'll be waiting a little while and maybe there will be no need to sell the cards.
http://www.hipstersofthecoast.com/2013/11/what-we-learned-16/
It has a lot of facts, and no whiny opinions.
It's pretty sad that they keep repeating the same things. It looks like we're doomed for at least another 2 years on the current state of mtgo.
Although they did break their cycle, and actually hired outside consultants to help them with V4.
Edit, more discussion about this article on reddit
http://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/1qwamc/the_history_of_mtgo_and_its_future_article/
I can confirm, I was there as well.
Cheers
https://twitter.com/Michael_A_Jacob/status/402644633571708929
Yeah, to add to this, when you visit twitch.tv these days, it's pretty dramatic how many fewer people are streaming.
A comic about the world's most addictive game, Magic: The Gathering.
https://twitter.com/TheCardNexus/status/402636462874558464
Features (even little ones like that) take time to design/implement/test/verify, and someone in Loucks position doesn't get to determine task priority. I'm sure MTGO is in all hands on deck panic mode right now on the tournament stuff right now so there is legitimately no time to fix it.
I'm not trying to defend the MTGO software team here but yelling at a non-manager when it comes to task prioritization is pointless.
/rant
( . . . I may have let my personal biases leak in there. Sorry.)