If you completed your collection, would you stop playing?

BigMao

This is sort of a philosophical question. There are cards I want that I'm not likely to get in the near future (Thopter Spy Network for example). However, the desire to get new cards is what keeps me coming back to the game. If I completed my collection, then I'd lose most of my motivation to play.

So what do you think? I think it's actually a good thing to have an incomplete collection so that we have motivation to play, but you may see things differently.

ChrisTot

Not being able to complete my collection or get anywhere near it is why a lot of us have already stopped playing.

Morphis

If I complete my collection I would stop playing after a little time.
I would maybe keep playing a little only to stack crystals for future content release.
With no real pvp there is no reason to keep playing.
This is not a critic, is something that all games share.

A game that is TRULY funny to play in itself for long time is really hard to make.
Usually games need some sort of "unpredictable" things to keep it fresh or rewards/new content.
Random generated games(like mine craft) achieve the first point.
Expansion based ganes(like world of Warcraft) achieve the second point.

madwren

I enjoy playing because I like to try different combinations of decks, cards, and strategies.

Not being able to acquire desired cards detracts from that enjoyment, and makes me more likely to stop playing.

majincob

madwren wrote:

I enjoy playing because I like to try different combinations of decks, cards, and strategies.

Not being able to acquire desired cards detracts from that enjoyment, and makes me more likely to stop playing.

This is kinda how I feel. If I got ALL the cards I wanted I would still play as much, but even if you got all the cards they should release new cards at least twice a year.

VladG0015

majincob wrote:

madwren wrote:

I enjoy playing because I like to try different combinations of decks, cards, and strategies.

Not being able to acquire desired cards detracts from that enjoyment, and makes me more likely to stop playing.

This is kinda how I feel. If I got ALL the cards I wanted I would still play as much, but even if you got all the cards they should release new cards at least twice a year.

Same here. There are good rares and mythics that I've stoped using just to try a different build. Sometimes I get "that one card" in the deck that everyone thinks is garbage just to see what'll do.

+ with new content you'll never have it complete.

Plastic

I kinda stopped because of this and mainly because there isn't real PvP.

EDHdad

There are nearly 20,000 different cards in paper Magic, and over 80 unique planeswalkers. Over 600 new cards are printed every year. Having a complete collection isn't ever going to be anyone's problem.

I agree with others that the inability to complete a particular set or to obtain a specific card is more likely to kill this game than cards actually being available.

I'll admit that I'm disappointed that, over 6 months after the game launched, there is no way to convert duplicate cards into non-duplicate cards, no way to obtain specific cards, and that the cash prices they've chosen to charge for the few items they've offered for sale are about 10 times as much as I would consider to be reasonable.

Fun game, but after 6 months of playing every day, I have less than 25% of available Mythics and less than 50% of available rares. And the rate at which I'm acquiring new cards has slowed to a crawl, thanks to all of my available crystals going to new Planeswalkers, rather than opening packs.

ShawnP1

I would play more if I could build the decks I'd like to, I do find some things in this game more enjoyable then paper mtg but at least in paper I can easily attain anything at the right price.

I agree very much, obtaining a specific card should not be drastically beneath 1%. Yet it is sadly. I don't mind if it is difficult but we have like a .0008% chance of getting specific mythics. And even in paper magic I could just buy a single card, (I do quite often actually) and I believe others would agree with me we would rather buy specific cards, then buy the "this week only special". It is quite a bit more difficult to enjoy a creativity driven game when our creativity is forcibly narrowed to "Have fun with your duplicate commons.".

shteev

I'm not sure I see my cards as being 'My Collection'. They're digital objects which will cease to exist when the servers eventually go offline, they're not actual things!!

I'll keep playing so long as I don't get bored, and if gaining some new cards or a new planeswalker gives me a brand new deck to build or way to play, then that will stop that happening for a while. It's working so far, I've just built my first really successful Liliana deck after finally getting hold of a Despoiler of Souls, and I'm having fun with it. Maybe I'll play Nissa again when I get Animist's Awakening. Maybe Kiora will be fun to play with, or maybe I'll find her a little dull as she's clearly overpowered. Who knows?

It's nice that so many new planeswalkers are being released, although it's a bit of a shame that I never get to play against any of them in QuickBattle because no-one wants to pay for them!