magic as esports ?
meh... i think there are many better titles, that are not only more entertaining, but also require more skill of the players.
in my eyes a strategic mistake, i guess its just something they want to happen but will not happen... but what do i know
Eh... You do know that Magic has been played at highly competitive levels for a while, and that it's wideky popular as it is, right? The game's suitedness for high level play can be discussed, but nothing about it changes now, except its vessel, and even that only for a portion of events.
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I absolutely hate that they're killing Nationals and WMC. Nationals was the #1 event I aimed for because it was very high level, yet I didn't need to travel for it. I hope there will be something similar.
Also, one of their usual bite sized info style pages here:
Not much to see there, but note how they are hammering it home: "MTG Arena and tabletop Magic" over and over, they have no plans to kill paper. No reason to believe that. People are predicting the death of paper magic here and on Twitter, but they have no reason to.
So much hyperbole, I'm literally laughing out loud here. They will not break into your house at night and rip your cards up. When did Rumor Mill become RudyLand?
I think this sounds okay. Arena is the future, MTGO already feels like it's on life support and the Modern format will only get worse with time, so it's not going to be around forever.
For the last ten years, they have shifted their focus away from high level competitive play with their core audience being wannabe pros (not meant as derogatory, I am one myself) to more casual players who shy away from overly spiky environments, which is a smart move for them from a financial standpoint since the latter group is far larger. This is them showing some love to the spikes, the aspiring high level players, the competitors. We don't know the details yet, so it's still tough to say how this will pan out, but I like that competitive play is something that they choose to pay attention to.
All that aside... For the last few years they have shown themselves completely unable to not give their new things horribly lame names. Mythic Championship? About as cringeworthy as MagicFest. Ultimate Masters? GRN Mythic Edition? I will be biting my nails until the day they announce their new Arena-friendly non-rotating format in fear that they give it some super lame name that we will have to use to refer to our new favourite constructed format for the next 15 years. The Guildpact format, anyone? Planeswalker? Multiverse? Mythic format? Or maybe something confusing like Eternal, or Arena (so that we will constantly be asking "Arena the format or Arena the client?").
Edit: I don't see anything in that newsletter that I think seems threatening to paper Magic, where are you picking that up? If anything's under the axe here, it's the Modern format.
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I absolutely hate that they're killing Nationals and WMC. Nationals was the #1 event I aimed for because it was very high level, yet I didn't need to travel for it. I hope there will be something similar.
Also, one of their usual bite sized info style pages here:
https://magic.wizards.com/en/competitive-magic
Not much to see there, but note how they are hammering it home: "MTG Arena and tabletop Magic" over and over, they have no plans to kill paper. No reason to believe that. People are predicting the death of paper magic here and on Twitter, but they have no reason to.
I can't wait to hear GerryT's reaction.
Stay reasonable, be mindful of your expectations and don't feed the trolls.
Doomsdayin'
Stay reasonable, be mindful of your expectations and don't feed the trolls.
Doomsdayin'
For the last ten years, they have shifted their focus away from high level competitive play with their core audience being wannabe pros (not meant as derogatory, I am one myself) to more casual players who shy away from overly spiky environments, which is a smart move for them from a financial standpoint since the latter group is far larger. This is them showing some love to the spikes, the aspiring high level players, the competitors. We don't know the details yet, so it's still tough to say how this will pan out, but I like that competitive play is something that they choose to pay attention to.
All that aside... For the last few years they have shown themselves completely unable to not give their new things horribly lame names. Mythic Championship? About as cringeworthy as MagicFest. Ultimate Masters? GRN Mythic Edition? I will be biting my nails until the day they announce their new Arena-friendly non-rotating format in fear that they give it some super lame name that we will have to use to refer to our new favourite constructed format for the next 15 years. The Guildpact format, anyone? Planeswalker? Multiverse? Mythic format? Or maybe something confusing like Eternal, or Arena (so that we will constantly be asking "Arena the format or Arena the client?").
Edit: I don't see anything in that newsletter that I think seems threatening to paper Magic, where are you picking that up? If anything's under the axe here, it's the Modern format.
Stay reasonable, be mindful of your expectations and don't feed the trolls.
Doomsdayin'