Well, at least I didn’t ask what everyone thinks of me personally, God only knows how that would have gone.  OK, let’s be honest, we all know that would go poorly.  If ever there were a precursor to a suicide it would have to be an open survey to an anonymous public regarding overall acceptance levels.  Only the president or manically depressed should endeavor to do such research.  Next down on the list would be general market or community research.  Whenever a question such as, “how much do you like the thing I made,” is posed one must be prepared for an onslaught of potential disdain.

That said, I am fairly surprised, albeit, I likely should not be quite so surprised given the extent of the feedback, as to how much the community is unhappy with the meta and Vanar.  The vast majority of people think that Vanar is a problem and would like the majority of their core cards nerfed.  What a world to live in.  The game is in an awkward place at the moment, and the community seems to be struggling with it.

The entirety of this situation is very interesting to me.  I often consider how this game compares to Magic the Gathering as that is the community I left to play Duelyst, and I find myself viewing this game from a paper card game perspective.  When I played Magic Online, I was very frustrated at how limited my opportunity was to play due to the pay wall.  What I realize now is that the pay wall is in part what keeps the game so healthy.  Limiting the extent to which people can play reduces the rate that the game is able to become ‘stale’.  Perhaps that’s a topic for another day, until then let’s reflect on where we all are; here together wondering what in the world is going to happen next…

Also, we are featuring some sweet new music. The intro bumper is by RoccoW, and is a cut from his song Electric Donkey Muscles, and the outro is a cut from Alpha Brutal, Epic Song.

Click below for links to full versions of the songs:

Roccow

Alpha Brutal