World of Warcraft CCG no longer an Upper Decker venture

[CeeKay]

but they say don't worry.  perhaps they've printed enough money to start their own printing company for the cards.

[Harkonis]

I used to play WoW CCG professionally, but never heard of Worlf of Warcraft....

[Razgon]

oh come on! Its a spelling error...why the Snarkiness?

Its Worf, okay?

;-)

[CeeKay]

I'm debating whether or not to worfle on taking the blame for that.

[Harkonis]

oh come on! Its a spelling error...why the Snarkiness?

Its Worf, okay?

;-)

I only give trouble to the people who post so often that slowing down to read what they typed is too much of a hassle.   You're getting close to that point Raz...

[Razgon]

dont you like me anymore, Hark? :-(

I'll do better, I promise! I'll be good! You'll see!

[Harkonis]

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too similar for my tastes!

[Graham]

Maybe Upper Deck already has the rare cards printed and will be giving them out as promos like they did with the Yu-Gi-Oh! cards.

[Dreamshadow]

I'm sad.  I didn't play in any of the official stuff, and just enjoyed the raid decks w friends etc.  I liked UDE's support okay for the game.  I fear that Blizz might convert the game to something similar to Legends of Norrath.

[Larraque]

Not sad to see it leave the hands of Upper Deck. As an avid Magic; The Gathering player, I tried the CCG when it first came out, and liked it. It was particularly nice that you never had to worry about not being able to play a spell due to not drawing lands. It definitely took the worst part of the luck factor of Magic: The Gathering out of the game (drawing too many / drawing too few lands).

However, the game quite quickly had a lot of power-creep. All the cards from the original core set, save a few, were obsoleted by better cards in the next few expansions, meaning that the small amount of cards I invested in (Maybe $50 worth - three starters and a raid deck) were not worth much. Additionally, with so much product published, the few cards that were really good were not worth much. Leeroy Jenkins, which I believe was a $20 card when the set came out, is now worth closer to $3. That's probably the most expensive card in the original set at this point. Interest in the game quickly waned in Saint Louis, and within a year you could no longer find anyone playing despite the massive start that the loot cards provided. The game was definitely good, but they screwed up.

In truth, I think the rarity of the loot cards hurt the game. Thousands of packs were bought and cracked for the sole purpose of getting a loot card and with some loot cards being worth a substantial amount of money ($150 for a turtle mount; $800 for a spectral tiger mount; etc) it shifted interest in the cards away from playing the game. Unfortunately, the game has been pretty close to dead for a while now.

There was also a fairly major problem when it comes to playing limited in this game. I was talking to someone who was drafting it, and they ended up being completely unable to make a deck after they finished drafting. That's impossible to do with Magic, so it makes playing this game in limited impossible.

Honestly, I don't see there really being a way to save this game. The game's image is tarnished and it's unlikely that anyone will give it another chance at this point.