News Thread

[Vontre]

The introduction of our powerful card crafting system, which allows players to focus on creating any card they desire, necessitates some changes to card point acquisition. These changes are mostly aimed at preventing our most hardcore players from crafting too many cards and creating a wide spread of advantage, and our casual users should be mostly unaffected. We are also taking this opportunity to close up some loopholes. Changes are as follows:

- To prevent users from exploiting the system, players can no longer earn points from defeat.

- To prevent users from exploiting the system, players can no longer earn points from matches against a specific player. Points can only be earned from games made in random matchmaking.

- To prevent players from exploiting the system, quest credit can only be earned in games found using random matchmaking.

- Quests now accumulate at a rate of one per day, up to a maximum of three quests. Quest rewards are unchanged.

- As an increase to obtaining card points and to account for the previous changes, diminishing points from fast matches has been removed. You now always earn the standard 10 points.

We understand that some players may need to adjust their card collection strategy in light of these changes. To compensate for this alteration, we will be awarding all players 500 CP and 20 BP over the next several minutes (and just a reminder, we made BP more valuable in this morning's patch too!) You may need to restart your client to see the update to your points.

Ultimately we believe these changes will increase player activity and improve matchmaking, make card collection more fair and create a more even playing field between players. This combined with our upcoming crafting system, allowing players to create specific cards they want, should make for a great card collection system!

P.S. We also wanted to mention from the last post, daily deal prices have been greatly reduced! Both card point and bit point costs have been reduced or will be reduced in the near future. You can now get rare cards from the daily deal for only 5 BP! That's a great way to spend the BP gift that was just awarded.

[Vontre]

Doorway to Madness Early Access has just been released, along with the major mechanics revamp! Everyone who logs in between now and January 8th will receive a free pack of Doorway to Madness expansion cards! You can find more packs in the store, and be sure to check out our expansion guide here: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1428

Keep in mind that Doorway to Madness cards will not be available in normal boosters (without unlock) until after the holidays, on January 8th. If you would like to unlock Doorway to Madness for your normal boosters before January 8th, you may purchase a Full Unlock from the store as of today.

[Vontre]

Morrolan has begun posting his series of deck building guides! If you're looking to get a leg up on understanding the game and the new mechanics, be sure to check out these deck building guides as they are posted! The first one is available now: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1442

[Vontre]

Due to the major nature of Thursday's patch and many players having queues caught between the two versions, we are going to be ending our December ranking season today, including point awards, and FULLY resetting all player ranks for a brand new season! We are also going to clear out the asynchronous matchmaking queue to ensure that no matches are started using the old version of the game. We will also be improving our matching algorithms in an effort to greatly improve queue times; as part of this effort, the max rank for the new season and all seasons going forward will be RANK 20. Titles and required stars have been shuffled around accordingly!

[Vontre]

In order to address some issues left over from the ranking system reset, the queue for all RANKED async matches has been cleared. This does not in any way affect games in progress; async matchmaking games have simply been removed from the queue without any match outcome. Users can re-queue for their games immediately and should experience no issues. Thank you for your understanding!

[Vontre]

We're giving out presents! Anyone who logs in over between now and the end of Christmas Day will receive a free normal card pack! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!

[Morrolan]

We've just recovered from an issue which caused the game servers to be down for the last 15 minutes or so. We believe we have resolved the issue, but we'll be monitoring the situation carefully to ensure stability. We apologize for the downtime!

[digitalrob]

Due to popular demand, we are going to release a $5 unlock option for Doorway to Madness in 2 days! This will include a "special" unlock pack when you make the purchase. Thank you to those who already purchased a major unlock and enjoyed the first two weeks of early access. To everyone else, this is your last chance to get a head start before the full Doorway to Madness release!

Cheers!

[Morrolan]

It looks like our servers have gone down just in time for the patch! Great timing, huh?

We're in the process of contacting our host. We'll post any updates to News (here) or the forums at this thread: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1621

[Morrolan]

Servers are back up! The full Doorway to Madness release is on the way. Stay tuned for patch notes.