Thawwing Light,Aug 28 2005, 04:44 PM Wrote:Eh. WoW is already an addiction. I felt almost burned by Magic, which I immensely enjoyed playing, so I'm going to ignore this and all future CCGs. You're quite right about this...
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I got heavily into Magic: The Gathering about a year after it came out. I don't regret the hobby - I won a couple of big tournaments in front of crowds of cheering people which is quite a buzz - but I estimate I spent about £4000 in that time
Now that's expensive but cheaper than my year of following Liverpool Football Club intensely would have been had I done that in 1995
Hence my attitude that WoW's £7.50 per month is rather cheap - some of my past hobbies were very expensive
As for WoW ccg as a game I expect it will be high quality, well thought out, absorbing and a total money pit. I recently revisited MTG, trying the online version, and having been quite good ten years ago I was awful last year. The reason being that I no longer know the cards. To be competitive at a ccg you need to know all the cards and most of the combos which requires a big investment of time and money
So basically it's a more expensive and less immersive way to play WoW with the additional downside that you have to pay for competitiveness. It's as if there were mandatory e-bay in the online game
Still I guess people will want to play it in lunch hours and breaks when PC gaming may not be available so I can't see it failing to be reasonably successful