TheEyeDoctorsWife said: Chirus said: What I'm curious about is how difficult is it to win games without those "meta" characters? I'd feel less anxious about leveling 5 stars if I didn't hear so many horror stories about how PVP is "ruined" unless you play with Shang/Okoye/Apoc. That’s a myth. You can win with hundreds of combinations. The horror stories are from either A) speed fanboys who think the object of the game isn’t to win but to play as little as possible or B )players with no desire or imagination to experiment new combinations but just become a meta cloner.
Chirus said: What I'm curious about is how difficult is it to win games without those "meta" characters? I'd feel less anxious about leveling 5 stars if I didn't hear so many horror stories about how PVP is "ruined" unless you play with Shang/Okoye/Apoc.
bbigler said: TheEyeDoctorsWife said: Chirus said: What I'm curious about is how difficult is it to win games without those "meta" characters? I'd feel less anxious about leveling 5 stars if I didn't hear so many horror stories about how PVP is "ruined" unless you play with Shang/Okoye/Apoc. That’s a myth. You can win with hundreds of combinations. The horror stories are from either A) speed fanboys who think the object of the game isn’t to win but to play as little as possible or B )players with no desire or imagination to experiment new combinations but just become a meta cloner. Also, that’s the thing I despise about Magic the Gathering players, because most of them are “meta cloners” who have no sense of originality or even fun. The fun of the game is to design, acquire and play your own decks. Copying and winning with someone else’s deck isn’t very satisfying. I’ve won events both ways, but winning with your own original idea is 100 times better. Since this is a trend I’ve seen in many areas, I suppose the flaw in human nature is a desire to feed your ego by being on top no matter how you got there. Why do people cheat? It’s not satisfying because they don’t deserve it, but I think they are simply trying to feed their ego. Which reveals their own insecurities.
Beefhammer69 said: bbigler said: TheEyeDoctorsWife said: Chirus said: What I'm curious about is how difficult is it to win games without those "meta" characters? I'd feel less anxious about leveling 5 stars if I didn't hear so many horror stories about how PVP is "ruined" unless you play with Shang/Okoye/Apoc. That’s a myth. You can win with hundreds of combinations. The horror stories are from either A) speed fanboys who think the object of the game isn’t to win but to play as little as possible or B )players with no desire or imagination to experiment new combinations but just become a meta cloner. Also, that’s the thing I despise about Magic the Gathering players, because most of them are “meta cloners” who have no sense of originality or even fun. The fun of the game is to design, acquire and play your own decks. Copying and winning with someone else’s deck isn’t very satisfying. I’ve won events both ways, but winning with your own original idea is 100 times better. Since this is a trend I’ve seen in many areas, I suppose the flaw in human nature is a desire to feed your ego by being on top no matter how you got there. Why do people cheat? It’s not satisfying because they don’t deserve it, but I think they are simply trying to feed their ego. Which reveals their own insecurities. Wow, it’s almost like different people have different ideas of what fun is? You don’t like to play the way I play so you’re a *insert string of demeaning insults*. I guess you’re simply trying to feed your ego by saying your way is the best way though, which reveals your own insecurities. (See how ridiculous I sound?)
DAZ0273 said: I don't know anything about Magic:The Gathering, not even what a "net decker" is although I can take a stab at it but how easy is it to get meta cards in the game? Is there a regular turnover of what decks rule? One of the things about MPQ is that sometimes we have long spells of teams being on top and then we get two meta releases one after the other and these things can shape the game. A lot of that depends on the Devs and how often they either shake things up on purpose or create characters that players adapt into being meta. Is it like that in M:TG or does it flow differently? Also does M:TG have a similar sort of hoarding strategy to it?Sorry - back to your regularly scheduled Moon Knight updates: Moon Knight has NOT appeared in his Moonjet...yet.
MegaBee said: DAZ0273 said: I don't know anything about Magic:The Gathering, not even what a "net decker" is although I can take a stab at it but how easy is it to get meta cards in the game? Is there a regular turnover of what decks rule? One of the things about MPQ is that sometimes we have long spells of teams being on top and then we get two meta releases one after the other and these things can shape the game. A lot of that depends on the Devs and how often they either shake things up on purpose or create characters that players adapt into being meta. Is it like that in M:TG or does it flow differently? Also does M:TG have a similar sort of hoarding strategy to it?Sorry - back to your regularly scheduled Moon Knight updates: Moon Knight has NOT appeared in his Moonjet...yet. It's been a while since I played MTG, and I was never particularly competitive, but my experience was that any meta card was available if you had enough money to throw at it. There was always a Jace, the Mind Sculptor available on eBay if you were willing to pay for it.
bbigler said: Beefhammer69 said: bbigler said: TheEyeDoctorsWife said: Chirus said: What I'm curious about is how difficult is it to win games without those "meta" characters? I'd feel less anxious about leveling 5 stars if I didn't hear so many horror stories about how PVP is "ruined" unless you play with Shang/Okoye/Apoc. That’s a myth. You can win with hundreds of combinations. The horror stories are from either A) speed fanboys who think the object of the game isn’t to win but to play as little as possible or B )players with no desire or imagination to experiment new combinations but just become a meta cloner. Also, that’s the thing I despise about Magic the Gathering players, because most of them are “meta cloners” who have no sense of originality or even fun. The fun of the game is to design, acquire and play your own decks. Copying and winning with someone else’s deck isn’t very satisfying. I’ve won events both ways, but winning with your own original idea is 100 times better. Since this is a trend I’ve seen in many areas, I suppose the flaw in human nature is a desire to feed your ego by being on top no matter how you got there. Why do people cheat? It’s not satisfying because they don’t deserve it, but I think they are simply trying to feed their ego. Which reveals their own insecurities. Wow, it’s almost like different people have different ideas of what fun is? You don’t like to play the way I play so you’re a *insert string of demeaning insults*. I guess you’re simply trying to feed your ego by saying your way is the best way though, which reveals your own insecurities. (See how ridiculous I sound?) Are you actually defending being a meta cloner? It takes no skill or intelligence to copy someone else. If you think that’s fun, then I guess your standards are lower than mine.
TheEyeDoctorsWife said: I don’t know what MTG is , but my husband said it was what nerds did before I was born , prior to the internet . Guys still living in their parents’ basement would invite other players over for face to face PvP with card decks. Was this the Stone Age ? ( He also said Dungeon and Dragons was even worse and you usually were on lithium to get into that)
UNC_Samurai said: You kids and your “net decking”. In my day, we had to wait for the latest issue of Scrye or Inquest to publish tournament winning decks and hope the local shop had copies of the Ice Age cards we needed to build Necro or Ernham & BurnEm.
bbigler said:Cadaverous Bloom-Prosperity deck
UNC_Samurai said: bbigler said:Cadaverous Bloom-Prosperity deck Prosper-Bloom. Now that is a deck I have not heard of, in a long time. A long time./That decklist is old enough to rent a car this summer.
KGB said: TheEyeDoctorsWife said: I don’t know what MTG is , but my husband said it was what nerds did before I was born , prior to the internet . Guys still living in their parents’ basement would invite other players over for face to face PvP with card decks. Was this the Stone Age ? ( He also said Dungeon and Dragons was even worse and you usually were on lithium to get into that) Was your husband alive during these times and participating in these things he's speaking to you about?To be fair, getting together in person was the *only* way to socialize in those days (positively stone age I'm sure). I never played MTG, but I fondly remember having friends over for drinks and playing Risk or Axis and Allies or card games like Euchre before heading out to the bars later that night (and no, I was not living in my parents basement, I was a college student or a young 20 something in my 1st job back then living with roommates).KGB