What went wrong?

what went wrong?

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Idiots don't know what they want

The fact they did this in 2018 instead of several years earlier.

Idiots don't know what the public wants.

Garfield is a hack and Valve is garbage

It's a card game

What didn't go wrong?

everything went right

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Not fun. Not a fleshed-out client. First set was already solved by the time it was released because of their absurd closed beta + spoiler season durations. I love DotA, and even I have to admit that it's been completely obvious for many years at this point that they couldn't fucking care less about making good games. If they're not losing money, nothing gets attention.

>Monetized as if it were a physical CCG, but no trading
>Mechanics are far too involved/complex for the casual players who just want a lite, Hearthstone-esque timewaster
>Some legitimate balance issues that Valve struggled to fix in a timely manner because you can't just nerf a card that someone paid real money for without causing a huge shitstorm

I got Artifact for free from attending TI8 and put like 40 hours into it. The core gameplay is legitimately good, but everything else around it is a huge dumpster fire.

>First set was already solved by the time it was released because of their absurd closed beta + spoiler season durations

This was another issue for me, there just aren't enough cards. A few days after release people already started catching on and you'd see the same 3 decks over and over, with no variety.

everything went according to the keikaku

>it's a card game
in an already saturated marked
offered no advantages over its competition added a starting price for a game that should have been free to start with
had horrible monetization and reward system

>Garfield is a hack
This. The recent increase in negative reviews is because Garfield appeared on a podcast and blamed everything but his design for why the game failed while simultaneously arguing it didn't fail because it wasn't designed for everyone but a niche audience so if 12 people are playing it that's success because those people are who it was made for. If anything this whole situation adds credibility to the rumors that Garfield is an obnoxious cunt who was pushed away from Magic by smarter people who couldn't stand him anymore.

They didn't control the narrative and the bros didn't hold. Axecoin crashing was icing on top.

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>barely a CCG
>multiple boards
>buying items

Akshually
>monetized as if it weee a physical ccg, but it's a tcg, but you can't exchange/give cards (you can buy/sell), but it would work better as a ccg/deckbuilding game, meaning everyone gets everything
>no opinion
>they can but they wont

>rumors that Garfield is an obnoxious cunt who was pushed away from Magic by smarter people who couldn't stand him anymore.
Source? He doesn't work on Magic anymore?

>revealing a fucking card game instead of a actually interesting or new rendition of an existing IP, or a brand new one
I like Valve's pro consumer stance, but fuck they need to make a new fucking games. Did they ever say what become of source 2?

>not playing MTG Arena instead

it was unable to develop and foster an active long-term userbase because IT'S THE ONLY DIGITAL CARD GAME THAT COSTS FUCKING MONEY TO PLAY

Nigger, Garfield hasn't worked hardcore on MTG in over a decade. He just randomly contributes from time to time.

He hasn't in like a decade user
Appeared in one set randomly

I dunno, I only play Magic casually and digital

What does that steam strawman have to do with jews and deep silver?

why though

None of those are inherently bad by design

A lot of things
>Card game in an oversaturated market
>ENTRY POINT TO SAID CARD GAME
>Horrible monitization with no rewards (everytime someone said, but real card games cost more xd made me want to punch said person, just because it costs less it doesn't means it's still bad)
>Have an IP with over a hundred of lovable characters that people like, better add over a half of literally whos that added nothing to the universe.
>Have a "super secret teehee" alpha/beta with only personalities playing through it, none giving proper feedback about the game because they wanted Valve's cock down their throat
>Have said beta for two fucking years, not even making it a compendium goal to get access.
>Garfield being a hack, met someone who got access to the alpha (said person hosted Magic tournaments been told, that's how he got it) and he told me the game only had 2 balance changes during it's entire alpha/beta and that it was just number changes, because Garfield honestly thought it was a perfect game.
>They somehow made a card game be TERRIBLE to watch on stream.
>They didn't even bothered giving preorder bonuses of any kind, just a shitty meme subscription to dota for a month.

What was amazing was going to the subleddit and seeing them face the 7 stages of grief.

>What was amazing was going to the subleddit and seeing them face the 7 stages of grief.
This is a guilty pleasure of mine when games fail. Subreddits always have the biggest dicksuckers and I love watching them slowly realize they're all retarded and bought a shit game. The Anthem one was beautiful over the last few months. They went from "Everyone is being so unfair to Anthem it's gonna be great when it comes out" to "I want a refund".

BROOOOSSSS!!!!
HOW DO WE FIX THIS SHIT GAME!!!!!!!?????!?! WE KICKED GARFIELD, GOOD!!! WHAT NEXT BROOOOOOSOSSSSS!?!?!?!!!

Turn it into Valve Auto Chess

The best part of this shit game were the generals on /vg/ that became entirely doomposting and even got stickied when the game dropped below 3 digits

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update out in winter, i don't know what you're talking about OP

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