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Who said anything about discontinuing Mage Wars product? There will still be more Arena sets in the future besides just the academy ones. We haven't lost the net majority of players. If anything a significant number of online players have returned in the past month or two. Right now the community feels the most active its been since 2013 if I recall correctly.I'm just going to chime in here and say that gamers come in all different varieties. Some players will get bored after a few months of no new content others take longer. That said I am and always will be a gamer who enjoys new content but does not need a steady stream of new stuff for me to enjoy the game.
I do agree with others that no news or updates does look bad for the company and the brand of Mage wars.
I do know they are winding down or finishing up a very busy convention season and as others noted the company is small. I don't want to give them excuses or speak for them but I do believe it would be nice to hear the happenings and inner workings of what the future of Mage wars is.
Some gamers here play video games, where dev diaries are common; it helps give insight as to what the developers are planning in terms of content for their games as well as providing a link between the developers and the community. While the board gaming industry does not follow the same guidelines and the computer industry, a little bit of interaction helps create a bond between consumer and company. Laddinfance did a good job of keeping us interested in the Paladin Vs. Siren process with the card reveals, and I would love it if Arcane Wonders would try to keep a similar interest in between their products and their costumers.
No matter what the size of the company is, it is essential for AW to maintain its consumer base. Wizards of the Coast and Fantasy Flight Games are popular because they have a great variety of games at their disposal encompassing various themes, whereas Arcane Wonders has released a very good mage fighting game, with not much else on their roster; and if money is an obstacle, there have been great games out there that have been funded via Kickstarter, games that are created by companies with little to no reputation and are suddenly they are some of the most popular companies around. Mage Wars and Sheriff of Nottingham were great Arcane Wonder releases, but they cannot be the flagship of the entire company forever.
I like Mage Wars as much as anyone here on this forum, but Arcane Wonders really needs to 'step up its game'. Sheriff Of Nottingham and Royals are interesting enough to catch people's attention, but a game such as "Speechless" is just so similar to another popular game (charades), and there is therefore little market appeal for the product. The future of Arcane Wonders is not on Mage Wars, but whether or not it can release innovative games that feel fresh and innovative in today's board game market; at the same time however, discontinuing Mage Wars content means that Arcane Wonders will lose the majority of their player base.
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If you read the "signs" correctly, MW seems to be on its way out imo.Did you miss the sudden large resurgence of the online OCTGN Mage Wars community in the past month or so? Mage Wars might not be as popular as it was when it first came out, but it's hardly "on its way out". And Academy sets are still Arena sets too you know, just without new mages. There are still plenty of new spells for you to try which impact the meta significantly.
No Arena expansion this year, meaning the same old books and same old mages to play.
MW suffers from not having enough variety and every mage using the same utility spells.
I quit playing roughly six months ago and haven't missed it for a second.
I hope I can feel the itch to play this game again some time but it looks bleak at this point.
I might have the full attack with all 3 attacks, roll 1 die less per attack. A 9 die-piercing two, 5+ rot, 7+ rot/bleed is a bit much. Making it 6 die makes sense to me.^This works too. But I was also thinking that 2 armor 15 life with that 9 dice total attack was definitely too much for a 17 mana level 4 creature. Darkfenne Hydra is level 4 and costs 16 mana and has a 3 dice triplestrike attack with no effects, and only 1 armor instead of 2. It does have regen 2 though. So for only 1 more mana and 2 more spell points (if playing wizard), you're trading regen 2 for +1 armor, charge +2, piercing +1, and rot chance. Lowering the dice of the attack would be a viable solution, or increase the casting cost and level. One notes that enchanting it will make it even more survivable than it already is. While 2 armor and 15 life might not be enough for a high level high casting cost creature to stick around long enough to pay itself back, you can obviously still enchant it, or attack and destroy things that threaten it, which it seems designed to do at any rate. Cast eagle wings on it and it will be a beast.
That only works if there is someone to teach them. What about players who pick up the game offline without there already being a local mage wars community in their area? If anything I would recommend block formats for local tournaments for relatively new mage wars communities. Also, the particular blocks i recommended would likely be the easiest for transferring from Academy to Arena.And if we want to make Arena approachable to newer players, realistically speaking, we probably can't do it without block formats.
I disagree with this piece here. Block formats are just more things for people to memorize. If a relatively small cardpool causes them trouble, then knowing different formats and navigating which cards are legal in what tournament won't help either. Instead of using tournaments to grow the community, they should start by playing casually.
Teaching most new players in a casual environment makes sense most of the time. There are times you'll find a newer person ready to jump into the deepend, but you can restrict away to your hearts desire as you are teaching people. No need for any officially supported format. All you need is someone willing to teach the new person in incremental steps. Once they have the basic game down, let them expand the cardpool they want to use at their own pace. The core set alone is enough to still play games that aren't lopsided against the entire card pool, especially in the process of learning the fundamentals of the game. I'd also suggest keeping some of the weirder interactions to a minimum for the first few games, but at some point they'll have to learn the interesting interactions if there is any interest in a tournament setting.
