Are trading card games dead as a genre of video games?

Are trading card games dead as a genre of video games?

  1. 1 week ago
    Anonymous

    they morphed into a gacha like millennial whale milking product instead of children's game

    • 1 week ago
      Anonymous

      Manchildren have had a disturbingly destructive impact on children's media. Everything we grew up with that still gets made is still being made for and marketed towards us instead of new generations of kids. It's fucked up.

      • 1 week ago
        Anonymous

        This happens with everything. Look at Batman, Star Trek, The Flintstones.

  2. 1 week ago
    Anonymous

    yugioh has cuter dinos

    • 1 week ago
      Anonymous

      Something's really rocking, one planet number 3.
      Gay sex has pre-historic company.

  3. 1 week ago
    Anonymous

    quick, post your EDHfu

    • 1 week ago
      Anonymous

      >edh
      Sorry but I have no intention of chopping off my genitals.

  4. 1 week ago
    Anonymous

    I make daily Shadowverse Champion's Battle threads on this board and ya'll still playing Magic the Happening.

  5. 1 week ago
    Anonymous

    I've played/heard of a couple digital tcgs. But what are some more interesting ones? I usually play yugioh and I'm kinda just waiting to see how that rush duel mode works later in duel links later this month. Other than that, there's some card games I just don't understand/don't have a digital offshoot available.

    • 1 week ago
      Anonymous

      You play YGO so you already play the most bullshit one. Hearthstone is probably the easiest digital-only one to play, but I've heard a lot of people like Legends of Runeterra just for how it's generally more creative with how you actually play it, it's still clearly Magic-derived but it's doing a lot of its own stuff too whereas HS is more simplified Magic + RNG bullshit.

  6. 1 week ago
    sage

    Marvel Snap is pretty popular nowadays but I think their big indie moment has just been lived through. A couple of card games will still pop up, especially Slay the Spire clones.

  7. 1 week ago
    Anonymous

    Trading card games? Absolutely dead.
    Collectible card games? They're "okay" but they're kinda range from dogshit to mediocre.
    The best one right now is Legends of Runeterra and only because it's PvE is just a ghetto slay the spire.

  8. 1 week ago
    Anonymous

    Is Ganker smart enough to beat the almost unbeatable board state? (Hint: it takes only 1 card to beat it)

    • 1 week ago
      Anonymous

      not reading all that shit, i just use physical violence until you forfeit

    • 1 week ago
      Anonymous

      Farewell

    • 1 week ago
      Anonymous

      And here's the REALLY unbeatable board state. Can YOU find the solution?
      Answer: There isn't any, the two previous solutions of "Genesis Hydra for X = 4, put Perilous Vault into play, next turn activate Perilous Vault to exile your board" and "Perilous Vault, Channel Mirrorshell Crab to counter Erayo Trigger" were both shut off by the person that made it.

      • 1 week ago
        Anonymous

        i cast farewell again

        • 1 week ago
          Anonymous

          countered

      • 1 week ago
        Anonymous

        I start with conspiracy double stroke and cast farewell

      • 1 week ago
        Anonymous

        Arcane Lighthouse + Otawara Soaring City to Angel of Jubilation + Boseiju Who Shelters All to cast Farewell

  9. 1 week ago
    Anonymous

    Why has every card game been dead on arrival since the 90s?

    MTG, Pokemon and YGO came out in the 90s and I suppose they just had all the clout and mind space so nothing new could sell.

    • 1 week ago
      Anonymous

      No one wants to invest in a game with no playerbase, when you could just play magic or pokemon or ygo and know that theres players and you arent just throwing money away.

    • 1 week ago
      Anonymous

      Because card games are physical, collectible MMOs.
      They require you learning the game in-depth, learning the meta-game in-depth, competing at physical locations, buying the video games, practicing in the video games, buying the physical cards, searching for singles, reading daily articles, looking daily at /tg/, Reddit, YouTube.

      This is why everyone has a "main game" and all the new games fail after 2 years. It takes such a time and financial investment into a TCG.

      • 1 week ago
        Anonymous

        sounds like the only solution is to nationalise the card game industry so competition can thrive

    • 1 week ago
      Anonymous

      A couple made it, digimon, duel masters, cardfight but a lot of them just make poor decisions and the prices for cards are too high for a lot of players to enter into a card game that might not even have enough players. Most new card games get designed for single player play instead of conventionally competitive play.

      • 1 week ago
        Anonymous

        >A couple made it, digimon, duel masters, cardfight

        It's hard to analyse because all three of those games have really good mechanics and Vanguard and Duel Masters are very influential, however they're all part of larger properties/marketing.

        Would Cardfight have succeeded without season 1 of the anime?
        Would Digimon have succeeded if it was called Digital Macho Fighters?

        Is it the killer mechanics like Counter Blast and Shield Triggers that pushed these games forward? Or is it really just anime.

    • 1 week ago
      Anonymous

      They were the ones to get established first, kind of like MMOs, which means whenever anything new comes out you have to compare it to the old ones still around.
      Ultimately, a new card game or MMO needs a player base and it needs to be large enough to be able to convince someone to abandon old card game / MMO to try the new one which doesn't really happen. People are invested in these old card games or MMOs they spent hundreds to thousands of hours and money on. All their friends play this old game, can you convince even one to try a new game instead of just playing the one they're so invested in?
      The One Piece TCG is doing well because its based on the most popular manga of all time so it had a massive untapped player base. You'd need to be an insanely massive IP that already has an established player base to even have a chance to survive.

    • 1 week ago
      Anonymous

      Funny enough, most people just buy the cards because it's Pokémon. Actually ask them how to play and they wouldn't know.

    • 1 week ago
      Anonymous

      Flesh and Blood is very popular and doing well for a game just under 5 years old.

      • 1 week ago
        Anonymous

        Because Flesh and Blood is actually very unique from MTG, YGO, and Pokemon
        Most new card games aren't they're just kind of watered down versions of the big 3
        But honestly most of them are still fun anyway and if they had decent digital clients more people would probably play them

  10. 1 week ago
    Anonymous

    only the ones owned by publicly traded companies

  11. 1 week ago
    Anonymous

    It was always a gimmick.

  12. 1 week ago
    Anonymous

    Pleb just getting into EDH, I have the knight precon with some upgrades but am looking around to getting another deck, what do you guys play? I’ve been looking into making an insect or phoenix tribal cause I enjoy the themes. The mind flayarrrs precon looked decent but mill seems like a pretty gay ‘strat’ that wouldn’t be fun for either party

  13. 1 week ago
    Anonymous

    >game has hidden mechanics

  14. 1 week ago
    Anonymous

    Around what set did MtG become pozzed? God I miss this game.

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