ITT: Post widely misunderstood games

auto chess isn't pretending to be a card game where you can influence the outcome

everything behaving randomly is what you expect, rather than horribly disorienting

Artifact is demonstrably more skill-based than most any other trading card game. It is more skill-based than Magic; it has a greater delta in winrate between the best and worst players.

There are more inherent RNG aspects in Artifact but few of them are ever singularly decisive unless you are simply playing badly and not managing risk properly. Good card game players think of everything in terms of probabilities, and Artifact gives you more of those to consider and more decision paths to take. It is a more complex game.

Bravo, well said user.

Is it shut down yet?

>Well my creeps went to lanes where I didn't need them, I lose
>Well the shop didn't give me the items I need, I lose
>Well my units decided not to attack the targets they needed to, I lose
>Well my squishy hero got put up against an Axe, I lose
Yes, plenty of RNG that doesn't dradtically affect how a game turns out.

>have to buy game
>have to buy cards
>have to buy tickets
I feels like valve didn't want to make a game but "monetization system" again
But for people to sell cards there has to be anyone playing to buy them

DU is free though

>give people what they don't want
>dies immediately
big shock

*audible disappointment from the crowd*

Get a job! Hippie

>Well my squishy hero got put up against an Axe, I lose

Anyone who complains about the flop does not understand how to play the game at all. If you're playing a monoblue deck you can expect all your heroes to die on the flop, and it barely matters. You can reposition them. Your deck should account for the weakness of your heroes. All the other aspects, again, are never singularly decisive unless you let them be, in which case you are bad at managing risk.

The better players win consistently more often than the worse players. I guarantee you I will win at least 70% of the time against any trash retard who doesn't understand risk management and ignores the probabilities of every event to just blow out all their mana in the most linear way possible.

They made an excellent card game for people who like card games, but they went full retard and marketed it to clicker MOBA players and people saving their virginity for Half-Life 3.

Nobody who plays Magic IRL, who would be most predisposed to appreciate this game, had even heard of Artifact.

is there a way to play casually against other people whitout spending tickets?

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>whole point of Dota was a simplification of the RTS by letting you only control 1 hero
>make the card game complex as fuck
Of course it failed.

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Yeah, the tickets are basically irrelevant now, everyone only plays the free modes. Prize play only made sense when the prizes had value, but now you can get a full collection for fairly cheap (~$40). As for all the cards you'd actually want or need, much much cheaper. And you can play Phantom Draft without spending an extra cent, and that's the most fun mode in the game anyway.

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Dota is still a rather complex game with much to learn and much to account for while playing; I don't think Artifact is beyond the reach of Dota players. It's just beyond their wallets.

>>whole point of Dota was a simplification of the RTS by letting you only control 1 hero
>Meepo, Naga Siren, Lone Druid, Arc Warden, Lycan, Chen, Visage, Brewmaster and Beastmaster still exist
And no. The point of Dota was to have an action based 5v5 brawler instead of what Warcraft is, nothing about simplification.

>a million years later dotards are still seething
it's okay, dota is all grown up now, you dont need to pretend anymore

Artifact is a legitimate good card game and has several really cool backend features that no other card video game would put the effort in to include.

It literally got memed to death by people mad that it wasn't HL3 and it's admittedly shitty monetization.

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