Magic the Gathering's Final Fantasy crossover set made $200 million in a single day
Magic the Gathering's Final Fantasy crossover set made $200m in a single day
200 million in a SINGLE DAY?? Holy fuck...
Well, that's going to be the pre-release events, and they have multiple per game store on the first day. People also tend to preorder booster boxes and pick them up on that first day, and since everything was 20% more than normal, it makes sense. It was a highly anticipated set so tons of people played that don't normally play.
But remember, MTG is a worldwide thing and has millions of active users on Magic Arena, which should give an idea of the paper popularity.
So, anyone got any better card games? Preferably digital tbh, they can do things that physical can't. I used to play a game called infinity wars that really took advantage of being digital with the potential to have way more going on at once. Zenonzard was also really cool, but died right after i tried it.
Pokemon TCG Pocket is a decent, light weight version of Pokemon TCG, shrunk down to fit mobile units and shorter battles (i.e. only 20-card deck, 3 points to win, no prize cards, energy gets generated 1 per turn instead of using cards).
As a previously big MTG-player, PTCGP feels pretty good, though it's nowhere near the complexity and deep game which MTG is.
i play the shitty Live, BUT Its beginning to enshittify, rather than dealing with the IRL scalping and pokevesters, they are locking alt-art content behind a 6month wait, plus i ehard they were getting rid of code cards from most packs, so they are trying to entice more purchases, rather than play for free.
OG Infinity Wars was awesome, too bad they completely ruined it.
How'd they change it to ruin it? I only played for a few months after it released
I really like Magic Arena, but if you want something a bit different, try Eternal. It feels like MtG, but designed for digital and largely fixes the management screw issue. Here are some differences:
I think the meta is a little unfortunate, so I don't play competitively, but I do like the limited formats. The same is also true of MTG, so I mostly play limited there too.
lack of Original UB
What does this mean? Universes Beyond are explicitly borrowed IPs, as in, they're outside the normal MTG universe.
They do have original IPs too. So far this year, they had:
And their next set is Edge of Eternities, which is yet another new MTG IP, their first space-themed set.
So, 4 MTG sets, 3 of them with mostly new cards, and two completely new planes. That's pretty rad IMO.
For the rest of the year, there are two more UB sets, so altogether there will be 3 UB and 4 MTG sets.
In the past, they had something like 4 sets each year, so we're basically seeing UB being added w/o anything being taken away.
My main complaint is that they have too many sets, and I'd be fine with them switching one or two MTG sets for UB. I found the FF set really fun, especially in draft, and I'm excited for EoE, though I wish there was more time between sets. I'm also not happy w/ the price of FF, but it looks like prices will come down a bit for EoE (at least their pre-release prices are more or less normal again).
jesus fucking christ, the original lootbox, raking it in still.
EDIT : RIP Android Netrunner. Yeah, I know null signal games is carrying the torch, but I left when unconditional tagging and board wipes got introduced