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"Luck vs Skill", a video and some thoughts on it

#1

I stumbled upon this video and wanted to share it. The video is one hour long but the second half of it is mostly answering questions, so you only need to watch the first half.

Tl;Dr: adding luck to existing and “established” games turns away previously invested players. Luck in games can be a great way to broaden the audiance. Luck can protect egoes of “immature” players, they praise their skill when winning and curse luck when losing. Games have a tendency of luck reduction as the game becomes more competitive and the community “matures”.

Perhaps this video has the answers to why cards like Meltdown and Kron were introduced. Perhaps the developers introduce RNG cards to broaden the playerbase and keep it, and perhaps, luck factor will play less of a role in the future. Perhaps we as a community, are not yet mature enough to enjoy the true competitive potential this game has to offer. Also, this sort of aligns with what Hearthstone is doing, slowly retiering RNG heavy expansions now that they have a huge player base. What do you think?

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#2

No clue as to what to think.

Although I would like to believe in this, I really, really doubt it is.

Would they even think of that? If they did, would they really think it’d work?

I doubt so. But then I’m not in their minds and if I were, the game wouldn’t be like this.

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#3

Dewize!

You’re back!

#4

Not quite yet son.

#5

It’s hard to agree with you on this one, mainly because I believe that a company, which is likely trying to do everything it can to stay in buisness and expand, would here and then take their time to reaserch similar “products”, especially from a succesfull franchies. It’s simply hard for me to imagine that no one in CPG saw this video and brought it up.

#6

I’m sure they take inspiration from other games, not to be mean but everyone with half a brain can figure that much.

But… This in particular? This sounds quite improbable. Again, I’d be very happy if that was the case but even if it was it didn’t exactly work.

#7

Everyone has their own oppinions, but for now we don’t have any real evidence whether this is the case or not, so we can only hope it is.

#8

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