Might and Magic The Card Game

Incredible so far… 9/10 I can’t believe how awesome this TCG is. Bravo!! **Pros:** - Crypto integration - Fun, beautiful sound FX - Daily quests are nice - Great gameplay - Can duel my friends **Cons:** - No in-game chat or social features - No “My Leaderboard” position available - Missing 2v2 or 1v1v1v1 modes - Hard to ramp from CB to TroveToken Looking forward to more cards and game features.

TLDR - good or even great card game system, BUT used for nefarious purposes, to abuse, extract, enslave. Also, possibly worst part is - you can't even play the game vs players even if you wanted to, there's a facade of healthy player base "wait time for an opponent less than 30sec" BUT they never tell you that if no player is found you will face a bot and crucially - THERE IS NO WAY TO OPT OUT [Review WiP] When the game was announced I stayed away on purpose, because of the reputation most of us are familiar with, associated with this company. But when I eventually tried the game, I fell in love, where was a void for a good card game and here it was, but.. We have to decouple the game itself, it's system, away from the way that it's being used. The game system itself is great, innovative, truly this is good stuff from the people that came up/assembled it. Let's look at the mechanics: * Alternating activations - (the combat system is same as in HS) Instead of "u go, I go" (whole turn), it's a shared round and "I do move, you do move, etc." [It's a direct improvement of the system, that has happened in the wargaming scene in the last couple of decades as well] * "right into the meat of it" - there is no gradual buildup of resources and thus boardstate (it might seem). Every turn you get back up to 5cards and get 5-10resources [up next] . So from the beginning of the game you get to make meaningful plays, instead of the typical "1drop pass, 2drop pass" . And the buildup is actually still there, the board state will evolve and escalate, depending on the current situation (ex. who has board control, what units are on the board). Now you might think "oh so I just dump my hand/ play as much as I can, because I will get a refill" . Again surprisingly no, you need to make interesting decisions like "do I use this removal now (basically for free) but on a poor target OR risk it by keeping it and predicting a better payoff in upcoming turn or so. To clarify, the cards don't get discarded if you don't play them, you keep them and then you can mulligan any of them before drawing back to 5 at the start of the shared round. [this system might be from the new Yugioh (Blitz or smth)] [Review WiP] * Dynamic Resource System - * "Heroes fight back!" - * "mix and match" factions - [Review WiP] So all of this is great, why the negative review? It's the way this good if not great game is being used. - Enter Corruption. Scarcity conditioning It's set up to extract money from you, not to have a great game and the financial success being a byproduct, but to have a good enough game, so that the scarcity conditioning could take hold. You are conditioned by design to feel bad for playing the game after 2 matches [that's the way quests are set-up] If you don't want to feel bad, pay up for a subscription (what I mean is NOT a one time purchase), and for 1-1,5 months that will be alleviated, but it will cost something outrageous (I will not look it up) , but atleast 20euros . So in this story Ubisoft is your abusive spouse/lover and a vampire. and your choices are: either be a slave and jump thru hoops for scraps, and feel bad for playing or become a bloodbag, pay your monthly tribute and now your allowed to enjoy yourself (just don't forget next months tribute) Now would I recommend this? Yes and No. Go, try it out, enjoy it , see it's potential. And then walk away. Before you get sucked in, and if enough people walk away, maybe they will try to compromise, a bit atleast. I think this is the greediest game I have encountered. The most recent update pushes it even more. I expect it to die, and hopefully some-one else will be inspired by the game system and do it justice, not a tool for evil. Personal anecdote Have a bad day > go play game > conditioning kicks in (instead of playing for fun, jump thru hoops, to get pack, to get good stuff, make mind go brr and feel better) > get crap > feel worse > go to sleep > have nightmares > next day, rope in your kids to do the hoop jumping for you [the slave has become the slaver..] (happy ending) - realized what have I become and quit. So yeah this story is about vampire drug dealers and their prey :I TLDR - Very good game, used in a very bad way. This is my post when I found out that you are secretly put to face bots [without the option to toggle it off] "Damn.. so here I thought it was just some bad apples ruining the game for other people.. but well what do you know it's actually a "feature" a disingenuous one, the impression the game falsely gives, always 30s wait time, never mentioned anything about bots.. really upsetting, did my best to enjoy the game, recommended it to friends. But this is a critical thing to address for the long term health of the game. . Either make it possible to opt out playing vs bots or some other form of that, if you still want to keep the facade, make it that you don't lose rank when conceding IF it was a bot. . For now sadly this has soured the game for me personally and I'll be moving to WylderNook (which has an opt out toggle for bots) (and complete opposite in terms of player rewards than M&M Fates), give it a look, hope to return when things are better ❤️ " TLDR - good or even great card game system, BUT used for nefarious purposes, to abuse, extract, enslave. AVOID and Go check out Wyldernook ❤️