Hibernum_Will said:Importantly, Booster Crafting will provide a way to guarantee getting new cards! Looking for a new Mythic? Not a problem with Booster Crafting!
This sounds nice, but as usual when Hibernum/D3 says new cards, people read it to mean non-dupe cards when it is really an ambiguous statement. What it sounds like to me is you purchase a "pack" of one (or more) cards of a guaranteed rarity for some unspecified amount of duplicates you open, it will contain some random card(s) from the associated blocks. As it is, that could by any number of cards you may or may not want, including potentially more dupes. The conversion rate at this juncture is extremely important because if you need 100 dupe rares to make 1 dupe rare, I'd rather convert all my dupes into runes before the "feature" hits.
Are there talks of increasing rune payout for completing games? With the removal of QB, the "fast & fun" way of accruing massive amounts of runes, and now runes from dupes (admittedly a minor source of runes) coupled with the new deck slot rune sinks, runes are now a more scarce resource especially for newer players who can't grind heroic encounters.
Once again "guaranteed new cards" sounds an awful lot like "non-dupe cards" but doesn't necessarily mean that.
The Dev teams response to cries of unfairness is to take everyone's dupe hoard and only make it pay out in sets that aren't coalition event legal. I suppose I can live with that even though it is really disappointing that all my Origins dupes will not convert to Origins packs. As it is, you have the dupes from 7 sets converting into cards from 4 sets, and dupes from only 1 set (the one no-one has much of) converting into the 4 sets competitive players really care about.
I implore the Dev team to release working drafts of "booster crafting" for comment from the community well before it goes live. At the very least players should have a week of full knowledge of the new system before it is implemented so that they can make an informed decision about whether they want to convert to runes or funnel all their dupes into the new system.
Can we assume that [no forced conversion of dupes for runes] will not be one of the details that "may change" along the way? If so, I will start cracking my massive stash of KLD packs this Sunday with videos to YouTube in case anyone is interested.
I will also continue to hoard my AKH packs until the specifics of how the conversion system works is revealed so that I can make a more informed choice on whether hoarding is still warranted.
madwren said: It's a bit ridiculous that Kaladesh and Aether Revolt dupes will not be converted into Standard.