July Q&A Session - Question Submission (7/11/18)

Brigby

Hi Everyone,

It's that time again, where we ask the community for questions you'd like to ask Oktagon, but we're switching up the process a bit this time.

In order to make it easy to collate and compile all questions, we would like to kindly ask all players limit themselves to only one comment with just their top 3 questions they'd like to submit. (Brief explanations are fine, but please no novels) We will then compile a list of the top 10 questions asked by the community, and Oktagon will answer as many of them as they are able to.

We will be closing the submission thread this Friday 7/13 at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm UTC. We will then compile the questions, and send it over to Oktagon for review and answering. Once they have done that, we will format it and prepare it for posting in the forum.

wereotter

Can you give us any insight on how you intend to handle reprints of cards of paper magic? There are several cards that have been reprinted in sets then ignored in their Puzzle Quest release because they already exist. For example, Tormenting Voice will be on its second reprint since it was introduced in Puzzle Quest come the launch of Core 2019, but the card was not make legal when it was reprinted in Amonkhet.

To follow up on this, even if the cards are not actually moved to new sets, will legacy cards that get reprinted be considered for legality in standard events?

Jonster78

This is a bold question but, with the release of core set 2019, will you be looking to roll Origins?

gogol666

I appreciate the shorter duration of the new events. Do you have plans to shorten/tweak the duration of older events (e.g., BoFT)?
Do you have plan to have a redistribution of the charges given during events so that everybody over the world can complete them (the ideal solution is giving all charges upfront to me)?
Do you have plans to speed up/remove animations? They are very long and heavy for older phones and the gameplay suffers from that.

Brakkis

A few months back, there was word of a plan to speed up animations. Since then, the animations have actually gotten slower. Is the sped up (possibly skipped) animations still on the to-do list or are we stuck with the slower animations?

Gabrosin

I often see a lot of the same names in the battlegrounds, as well as on the event leaderboards, but what I'd really like to know is: who are they playing for?

Can we get some sort of coalition badging system to let us show our team spirit?  Perhaps allow coalition leaders to submit small images that (pending review) will be displayed on the team page as well as next to the player name on various screens?

Froggy

One question remains unanswered - what about Tier rebalancing?

Is there any plan to help newer players get better rewards so they have an easier time of coming up to speed with the veteran community?

I think that’s vital to getting and keeping new blood in this game.

Mark_Tedin

1- Legacy Boostercraft per set (oath,innistrad...) because the legacy block is too big. Legacy elite pack in the vault.
2- Disable card viewer during gameplay (This causes many bugs and wrong play)
3- The daily rewards is very outdated. It could be updated to 1- Orbs 2- Crystal 3- Runes 4- Jewels 5- Booster
Thanks !!!

Laeuftbeidir

What lead to the change in the behavior of blue (steal and bounce) effects, making them stronger by taking away the restrictions (less than 6 cards /three creatures), leading to a total dominance of blue (best card draw, best gem converter, cheapest kill options, bounce, most effective board wipe,... )? Wasn't blue already strong enough? If not, white is still better at disabling..

GrizzoMtGPQ

1. What is the the plan for Core? Is it augmenting Origins or replacing it? How will it change Standard?
2. How is the work coming along on making some legacy events with deck restrictions? It's fun to use ALL the cards but restrictions are super fun and make us think! Please consider restricting legacy events to the sets where they were released (ex: TS limiting to Origins, SOI, EMN).
3. Who sets the schedule of events D3Go or Oktagon? Who do we need to lobby to get more stuff to do?

asm0deus

Would you consider adding a "daily objective" and "achievements" feature? Providing additional ways for earning currency would really help. And having something other than events to look forward to in the game would be nice. Maybe even a "challenges" feature for specific currency or packs depending on the day and all playable during sunday.

Brigby

Thanks for submitting your questions everyone! We'll begin compiling and sending them over to the development team for answering