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Apr 6, 2012 -- 7:12AM, Brodo wrote:

Apr 6, 2012 -- 5:38AM, whitephantasmo wrote:

Hmmm...after reading the actual announcement it seems a little underwhelming.  They also don't say if they have added something that I think is essential to make the next game viable...the END STEP!  It is ridiculous having people play sorceries or creatures after they have passed their turn.

While I suppose we can still be worried it might not be included, but I think I would be embarrassed to "market" that Magic (DotP) now has a proper End Step. Both automatic tapping and lack of real upkeep/end phases were design decisions, but automatic tapping can pretty much get it right most of the time. The lack of the End Step just brought about flaws in game flow/design due to the nature of sorcery and instant speed spells. There is a reason it exists in "real" Magic and it shouldn't have been missing in the first place.

Yeah, I suppose they could just be embarrassed by the lack of it up until now.  They need to implement it anyhow, so hopefully they had the foresight to design the new game with that in place from the start.

No love for Android?

Considering the time it takes the AI to calculate outcomes with 10+ cards on the table on consoles, I fear a bit what will happen on inferior hardware. Perhaps D2013 will be run from a cloud. No matter what, I hope for some iPad succes, because that could lead to an Android version as well (the casual player market is just as big as on Apple).

Manual mana tapping was long overdue. 

I wonder what the promo cards will be this time? The Titans last year were really cool, and picking one up basically payed for the game.

Okay so the inevitable announcement has occurred, yippie.....

Now that that has happened though, it's time for Microbless and Wizards/Stainless to follow through with their promised communication.  As a start, here are some of the things I and many others want to hear about.

Release timeframe? Not asking for a date, just when you hope to release. Early summer? Late summer? When it's ready? (My personal choice tbh)

Card interactions. Do cards work together and against each other like they are supposed to? Specifically sacrifice and protection/hexproof or shroud.
That does NOT mean just take those types of cards out of the game because they are too hard to program. That is a copout. If you can't program the cards to work like they are supposed to, maybe Wizards should find a new developer.

Game rules. Does "may" mean "may" or "must"? Do we have ALL the proper steps and do they work like they should?

UI. Is it easy to use? One of the gripes I had was with targetting a specific card on a creature with multiple enchantments or equipment. How have you made that easier to do? I'm on a PC, so I don't know it that applies to targetting on a console or not. The other thing is clutter on the battlefield.
When there are tons of creatures and tokens and artifacts/enchantments, it sometimes is difficult to say, attack with everything, or sometimes just specific creatures. What are you doing to make this easier?

Multiplayer. Synching issues squashed for all time to come? This is a total dealbreaker for me. If this isn't fixed don't expect my money, plain and simple.


That is just some of the issues we would like to see addressed. I'm sure other posters have more.  Since you've said TWICE that you were going to have more open communication with us, it's time to put up or shut up.

Apr 6, 2012 -- 2:24PM, Splattercat wrote:

Apr 6, 2012 -- 1:48PM, Victarion wrote:

That is just some of the issues we would like to see addressed. I'm sure other posters have more.  Since you've said TWICE that you were going to have more open communication with us, it's time to put up or shut up.

I wouldn't bet on it personally. We don't know that Microbless was even authorized to make any sort of promises of communication. Even if he was, based on how Wizards and Stainless can't even decide who is supposed to provide support for the game (they both denied responsibility for '12), the most likely scenario is he won't have any useful information to pass along.

If that is the case, I guess we as customers need to force them to respond by taking our issues outside of just these forums, just like when the twitter campaign forced what obviously turned out to be a lie of a response just to get the tweets to stop.