They claim to be a public benefit corporation, so while they obviously need to get income to run servers and fund development, their objective as a company isn’t just to maximize shareholder value.
I don’t know where/how to find their actual foundation documents to see what those actually say for their balance of profit vs mission.
I am also wondering who is going to actually handle ranking the tens of thousands of existing cards(gatherer says 28712 legal in commander at this moment), plus hundreds more from each set as they release. Might need to be crowdsourced to be done in a reasonable time. Every deckbuilding website is also going to want to implement that info in their database.
Would be some nice karma if wotc taking over caused prices of some of the most expensive stuff to drop due to the uncertainty of the future of the format.
I get the idea, but I don’t see how that works effectively in practice. There are a lot of cards that are not good on their own, and only good in the context of a combo. Does having one of those cards in your deck make it better? No, it probably makes it worse. You need the entire combo for one of those cards to matter.
It works for those 1 off value piece cards like Dockside, Tomb, Sol Ring, etc. But multi card combos is where I think it will fail(or at least over score a deck that doesn’t include a full combo).
In every place I have been to that use this, they will still take order by person. Maybe I’m just lucky, though.
Mostly Birds(UW) (promo was Kastral) with a splash of green for the first two matches, then dropped the green and put in some of the white rabbit stuff. 3-0
Sadly there is only one creature snail printed so far. No snail commander deck outside of changelings.
There are a few sources of damage that disable indestructible or bypass it, like Wither/Infect.
Diplomacy is settling disputes without violence.
For anyone who was confused about the May as he was. The reason it is May is because you can only take the action once per turn, you don’t need to take it on the first spell you cast.
You can bolt something, decline the action, then cast a 5 color spell after and take the action on that.
Scrolling through what is there currently, only 1 tarot related meme. Overall good lulz
That was part of HD1, wasn’t it? So probably not that, right?
I’ve seen some discussion that selling the platform is a way to get a more pro-isreal/anti-palestine owner that will censor certain content or viewpoints.
I put some hours into it a few months ago and had a good time, but one of the things that I hope they add is better conditions for routes. Maybe I was missing something, but I was having a hard time getting my workers to actually get in the trains I wanted them to.
Kinda neat to create a way to experience an older expansion that many newer players missed, outside of the Classic method.
Shane it is time limited and not a permanent thing, though.
I think the switch to sing large sets instead of blocks plays a lot into the failure to really dive into the stories of the planes. Can’t do something like the Tarkir block with a single set and not a series of three that are narratively connected and sequential.
A get where you are coming from, but my perspective when I was younger was that I could spend $15 a month to play this basically limitless game or spend $50-60 per game that would be a 40-50 hour experience. So for me, the value of that subscription was huge.
I think if modern games stuck with subscriptions without other mtx, that puts the most incentive on making a good game that is worth playing for a long time. But all the sub based games also have mtx these days, and there is also the incentive to make things just a little worse by default and offer a paid item to ease that a bit, the whole “pay for convenience” thing.
Mem stomps are the worst. At least nowadays we have address sanitizer to find em. We recently had one where the same 4 byte pattern was being written randomly in different places in memory, would happen all over the place. Always the same 4 byte pattern, just different places. Eventually, it would write to a spot that was being used and cause a crash. Different callstacks almost every time, but the same memory footprint wherever the crash happened. An array size, a memory address, a string mangled, etc. Eventually we got our ASan build working after about a month of trying to track it down, digging through callstacks and core dumps. We found that it was a dangling pointer in our AI system, when an AI was removed, there was a situation where the pointer wouldn’t always be cleaned up, then later when another AI was removed, a boolean and an enum were written to the address of the dangling pointer, always the same format/value. which had haunted us for so long.
Link? I don’t use Twitter.
Edit: https://lemmy.world/post/10447290 was posted here with a screen cap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI3tsmFsrOg
There are beneficial bacteriophages for humans and other animals and plants.