"Evil" Blizzard what will they think of next!?

Appearantly not only do they want you to be addicted to WoW. They want you to get the Warcraft Collector Card Game too...

from wowinsder: you get in game rewards for some of the cards that you can collect.

The snap turtle mount and the Hippogryph pet looks interesting enough. So any goodgers plan on collecting and share

Wow. If I played, I'd totally want the turtle. Turtles WTF. Turtles rule. Turtles... all the way down!

I'd like the cool ingame trinkets and crap.. but I wouldnt want the stigma of being identified that easily as a sucker...

If I played WoW, I'd play the card game for these things. However, card games are a huge money sink.

Embarrassed people will be going to the tram to show each other their turtle pets.

I'm with Guru on this one. Might be cool but I sure as hell don't want to be that easily identified as some lame sucker who bought a bunch of cards just so he could mount a turtle that only moves at a characters normal running speed.

Out of Context Theatre wrote:

I sure as hell don't want to be that easily identified as some lame sucker who bought a bunch of cards just so he could mount a turtle

tee hee! I didn't even have to edit much!

what would be interesting to see is how the farming community react to this. I mean would there be a profit in spending real money to "farm" cards to sell in game?

See.. this is why I play M:TG....

... Doh!

I read the title and thought, "how about Starcraft 2?"

I'm sooo in!
Not too worried about people pretending to be elves, cows, trolls, orcs, midgets,and whatever the hell Dranei are mocking me in an online game.

Plus if the CCG is fun..bonus for me!

Not a chance, no matter how awesome the turtle mount is.

LobsterMobster wrote:

Wow. If I played, I'd totally want the turtle. Turtles WTF. Turtles rule. Turtles... all the way down!

Duh everyone knows it's turtles all the way down! Caverns of Socrates was a pretty good blend of scifantasy. I think it was caverns of socrates?

I think it is pretty cool since all of the stuff is cosmetic. I don't play wow, and even if I did I would pass. Still a pretty cool idea. I'm skeptical it will be as fun as mtg. I've tried a few ccg and always fall back to mtg.

I hate things where getting stuff ingame cost you money. I'm still waiting for that online shooter where you can buy a better weapon then all of the other for real life money. I think this kind of thing will eventually de-balance all games.

Not a fps, but Autoassault, and Guildwars gave you an in game weapon for preordering. The weapons were better than what you would normally start out with, and I think they scaled with you as you level. I don't think they imbalanced the game imho cause there was better stuff out there.

Brizahd wrote:

Not a fps, but Autoassault, and Guildwars gave you an in game weapon for preordering. The weapons were better than what you would normally start out with, and I think they scaled with you as you level. I don't think they imbalanced the game imho cause there was better stuff out there.

The pre-order weapons are very good, on par with mid-high end unique items. Thing is, in Guild Wars a weapon's level requirement is tied directly to its stats. If I recall correctly, all of the pre-order weapons require an attribute level of 9 or they suffer huge penalties. When attributes get progressively more expensive and only go up to 12, getting 9 is a very significant investment, especially since Guild Wars relies so heavily on such point allocation and just about every skill in the game is far more useful at higher levels than at lower ones. While this isn't a big consideration for combat classes that are likely to max their main attack attributes anyway, it does require a big commitment for spellcasters. I think the Ritualist's pre-order item requires level 9 Communing, and it's perfectly possible to play an effective Ritualist with no points in communing at all.

I got the preorder bow with my guildwar game, and it was good for a while but I came across a drago bow of some sort that seemed better. At least I though so anyway. I never played any spellcasters in GW so I guess I under valued the preorder items.

No. There's no chance in hell I'd spend money on these cards. If y'all want to, I won't look down on you, but that's just not something I can blow money on. I guess you can say it's just a moral limit that Blizzard has reached for me.

One thing I'd like to point out though:

And then there's the one you really want: the loot version of "Saltwater Snapjaw" will grant players their very own big-eyed turtle mount. That's right, the rumors were true. If you find this card, you can ride around on the back of a freaking turtle (Upper Deck is quick to point out that it goes regular speed, even though it's a turtle). Also, the mount is usable by players of all levels, which means you can finally ride out to Hogger. Because of that, I'd assume it's a 60% mount, not 100%, but they don't say specifically.

I don't think the person who wrote this knows much about WoW. All mounts are ownable by players of any level. You can be a lvl 1 now and own a mount. Problem is you have to be level 40 for the riding skill (which is now standard for all mounts, instead of having horse riding or turtle riding), and will still cost you 72g.

Edit: A reply to that article could work, though I doubt Blizzard would do it. If the mount were +0% movement speed, there wouldn't be any harm in it. Otherwise, yeah, not happenin'.

LobsterMobster wrote:
Wow. If I played, I'd totally want the turtle. Turtles WTF. Turtles rule. Turtles... all the way down!
Duh everyone knows it's turtles all the way down! Caverns of Socrates was a pretty good blend of scifantasy. I think it was caverns of socrates?

You guys aren't talking about constitutional law, are you?

Alien13z wrote:
LobsterMobster wrote:
Wow. If I played, I'd totally want the turtle. Turtles WTF. Turtles rule. Turtles... all the way down!
Duh everyone knows it's turtles all the way down! Caverns of Socrates was a pretty good blend of scifantasy. I think it was caverns of socrates?

You guys aren't talking about constitutional law, are you?

I was referring to this Caverns of Socrates

PurEvil wrote:

No. There's no chance in hell I'd spend money on these cards. If y'all want to, I won't look down on you, but that's just not something I can blow money on. I guess you can say it's just a moral limit that Blizzard has reached for me.

One thing I'd like to point out though:

And then there's the one you really want: the loot version of "Saltwater Snapjaw" will grant players their very own big-eyed turtle mount. That's right, the rumors were true. If you find this card, you can ride around on the back of a freaking turtle (Upper Deck is quick to point out that it goes regular speed, even though it's a turtle). Also, the mount is usable by players of all levels, which means you can finally ride out to Hogger. Because of that, I'd assume it's a 60% mount, not 100%, but they don't say specifically.

So what do they mean by riding out to Hogger? I use to play WoW but that draws a blank. Well I must say if the turtle is just a cooler way of walking around it is not going to be all that wanted and wouldn't sell packs of cards. Now if it was like a regular mount usable by any level well then I could see people buying packs like hotcakes instead of saving up the gold ingame.

Brizahd wrote:

So what do they mean by riding out to Hogger? I use to play WoW but that draws a blank. Well I must say if the turtle is just a cooler way of walking around it is not going to be all that wanted and wouldn't sell packs of cards. Now if it was like a regular mount usable by any level well then I could see people buying packs like hotcakes instead of saving up the gold ingame.

Hogger is the first alliance elite mob killing quest. Hogger is just north of westfall on an island in EF. He's the first quest that you either need to be WAY over leveled for or join a group for. He's there to teach you 2 things... Look out for elites and you suck... don't get cocky - team up.

Man, this is old news.

Actually, the night elves have a level 9 elite swamp thing named Oakenscowl. He would be the first alliance elite although nobody ever does that quest because he istucked out of the way and most people are off to westfall or auberdine at that point.

Koning_Floris wrote:

I hate things where getting stuff ingame cost you money. I'm still waiting for that online shooter where you can buy a better weapon then all of the other for real life money. I think this kind of thing will eventually de-balance all games.

actually it might rebalance, then all of us workign stiffs can buy better gear while the youngsters who got time to play CS 14 hours a day 'cause they don't have a job will be at a slight equipment disadvantage.

1) This is indeed really old news - sorry, Machine

2) I play Magic, and I'm interested in at least trying this, because it might be like two great tastes that go great together. One of the 2 main guys behind it, Brian Kibler, is/was a professional-caliber Magic player, btw.