Hot off the presses, Sony Online Entertainment and Wizards of the Coast have announced that they'll be teaming up to create a new online turn-based strategy game called Magic: The Gathering - Tactics. Due out in early 2010, the game will feature both singleplayer scenarios and online PvP action, along with a "robust tournament environment, an achievement and rankings program, and original stories of the Planeswalkers of Magic: The Gathering." To help get whet our appetite, the developers have released a short teaser trailer. Check it out:
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Dibrom
2009-11-02#1
Well I'm at work browsing my favorite couple of magic sites trying to come up with a deck- then I see this topic. Honestly I can't be any less excitied. Does anyone see this as anything but a money grab?
killem2
2009-11-03#2
Its a money grab no doubt. They will never release anything good enough to endangered the paper version. I would gladly pay 15.00 for a online version with all access to cards. I hate magic online as it is though now.
Dibrom
2009-11-03#3
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Originally Posted by killem2
Its a money grab no doubt. They will never release anything good enough to endangered the paper version. I would gladly pay 15.00 for a online version with all access to cards. I hate magic online as it is though now.
Well, MWS and Apprentice are both free.
killem2
2009-11-03#4
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Originally Posted by Dibrom
Well, MWS and Apprentice are both free.
Yes but not near what Hasbro COULD do. With games like crysis, GRID, farcry, DOOM3 and just all these other unreal fps graphical milestones that have been done, a full functional 3d magic world could be done but never will because why buy paper if you can play everything for a billion times cheaper over time.
Jarnis
2009-11-03#5
I still think Hasbro-WOTC kinda failed by pricing electronic Magic (MTGO) so horribly. I mean in a way I can understand the logic - protecting the physical card game by pricing the digital at the same level.
On the other hand, if the digital one would use considerably cheaper "virtual packs", many more people would get (re)hooked on MTG. I know I would - used to play competitively back around 97-99 or thereabouts. Stopped playing only because of the amount of money you had to sink into cards per year (with older cardsets rotating out of the most played tournament format as new ones were released). You could pretty much upgrade a high end gaming PC every two years with the amount of money it would take to keep your card collection up to date for constructed deck play...
MTGO at current prices = fail
MTGO at something like 10-20% of the current price per pack = I would be *so* there. Then again I guess the current model is still making them plenty of money...
As for this new game - I remain wary as every earlier MTG-linked non-cardgame has always been pretty much fail.
