Pre-Release New Cards on the AI

[plastiqe]

It's very exciting when zanz announces new cards and you get to try them out in the trainer, and then there is a 15 page discussion in the In Development section building anticipation until... the card is released and you buy it in the bazaar.  Meh.

My suggestion is that new cards should be released into the game through the spins from the AI.  I don't mean to add every new card to every deck like in the Trainer, I mean tweaking the spins so that every once in a while you win a new card.  It would work like a wild card, you don't need to match all three but if the new card comes up once - you win one for your collection.  This would happen every 20 or so wins, and once you had the card it would be like normal so they could then be spread via the current T50 and PvP1/2.

Also, different cards would be released on different levels.  To parallel current events, in patch 1.27 Ghost of the Past would be in AI3 spins, Acceleration would be in Half Bloods spins and Mitosis would only be in FG spins.  And then finally when patch 1.28 comes out, Ghost, Accel and Mitosis would be added to the bazaar and the next batch of cards would be pre-released on the AI.

[Dragoon1140]

In the previous patch, Zanzarino wanted to try out releasing the cards in the AI before the bazaar to build anticipation, which actually worked quite well.  I remember, in chat, people were bragging about who earned the first Crusader or Sky Blitz.  After a day or so, they were released in the bazaar and everybody enjoyed the process.

I don't see why it can't happen again, it was quite fun.

[ZephyrPhantom]

I like it, it'd allow players to use cards sooner, and it actually might even help with PvP balance.   On top of that, we'd get new cards sooner, and who doesn't love balanced new cards?

[wizelsnarf]

I like it, it'd allow players to use cards sooner, and it actually might even help with PvP balance.   On top of that, we'd get new cards sooner, and who doesn't love balanced new cards?

I think plastique is suggesting the opposite.


Instead of making the cards available in the bazaar, they would be semi rares that you would have to win. Meaning you couldn't just buy them right away.


I think it's a good idea in terms of keeping the older players active.