The Poll Police are cracking down on an interesting bit of crime this week -- by crime we mean news and by interesting we mean surprising. Sony unleashed the PlayStation Eye this past week, bundled with the Eye of Judgment collectible card game. Much to our surprise, these cards face the music of mass duplication and loss of card-sales. Our poll this week has four parts so all witnesses can testify -- do you have EoJ? Would you copy cards to build a "better" deck? If you don't have the game, how would you play it? Don't worry, you're in no danger from answering this poll, so be honest.
To us, the only downside to this copying conundrum is the idea that profits will decline for Sony and Wizards of the Coast, which will decrease support for expansions and other card games on the PS3 in the future. To CCG players, this is devastating. See, copying the cards means nothing if you've played the game. There are so many limitations on the more "powerful" cards that stacking a deck is pointless. All you could do is build a decent one, which most players who purchased the PS Eye bundle package already have. That's just our two cents. Check out the results of last week's poll to see how many people actually hate games!
21. @EDGE (and @Tony): A guy at Circuit City and two dudes at Best Buy. (Actually, the guy at CC was shocked it wasn't even listed in the system until Oct. 27th... the dudes at BB never heard of the game, but were restocking the shelves for H3 at the time.) The thing is, both stores are new in my area and are supposed to be an experimental 'model' type run by the store's manager... which is like asking X360fanboy.com to stock PS3 games. Not a good sign for me - almost 250 retailers in my city, and not one of the electronics stores got it in. Not even Toys R' Us. Not even Wal-Mart, Tony... =/ Looks like I'll have to break down and get it online - kinda wish Newegg sold this kind of thing! Just got my new USB hub from them and it was... ON TIME! =D New experience for me! XD
@ShawnShady: You make a good point, except you're wrong about the strateg - even a deck without ANY rares can beat a 'power' deck, as long as the game itself is well structured. That's why I only played sealed deck tourneys. It's more about your ability to PLAY rather than the CARDS. =) Suffice it to say, I haven't played Magic since they took the ante out. Made it less fun to me if you can't play for anything other than kicks.
Posted at 1:19AM on Oct 30th 2007 by Consolcwby