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[box art ryu]

have they ever said anything about adding something like drafting? it would help people who are sick of the top decks and let pool 1-3 cards shine more

[Zlehtnoba]

We brought it up a few times on these boards, no response. But they don't read them anyway.

[Taonath]

There are some websites, which let you create different kind of drafted decks. I doubt it would be in SD's best interest to create such a mode, as it probably has a negative effect on their revenue.

[ryu600RR]

what's drafting?

[Taonath]

Originally posted by ryu600RR:

what's drafting?

Two examples:

Dera's Version (not up to date with current cards)[derajn.com]
another drafting website[www.marvelsnapdraft.com]

There are more, that's just what I knew and what a quick search came up with.

[Lady MacBeth]

We know they are developing a new mode its on the road map. So its always possible they are doing a limited mode. Time will tell.

[Taonath]

As long as they make it so you can only draft cards from your own collection this might actually be a possibility. But I highly doubt they'd allow players to use cards they don't own, as this, like mentioned before, would hurt their sales, making it undesirable from a business standpoint.

[Lady MacBeth]

Originally posted by Taonath:

As long as they make it so you can only draft cards from your own collection this might actually be a possibility. But I highly doubt they'd allow players to use cards they don't own, as this, like mentioned before, would hurt their sales, making it undesirable from a business standpoint.

This is assuming its free. I would expect a limited format to have a charge like in hearthstone. Though I havent played that in years, so if its changed I am unaware.

[Taonath]

Originally posted by Lady Ming:

Originally posted by Taonath:

As long as they make it so you can only draft cards from your own collection this might actually be a possibility. But I highly doubt they'd allow players to use cards they don't own, as this, like mentioned before, would hurt their sales, making it undesirable from a business standpoint.

This is assuming its free. I would expect a limited format to have a charge like in hearthstone. Though I havent played that in years, so if its changed I am unaware.

True, they could monetize it directly, but I don't think that'd be a wise move. Another option I could see is making it not generate any resources and not solve quests, but then the whole format would probably not be worth the effort of developing it.

Another approach could be to limit the available cards to S3, so newer players could grow their collection in Ladder/Conquest, while having access to more cards, until they reach S3 complete status.

There are some ways to actually make this work, but it has to provide a ROI and I don't see that goal being met with an approach, that is mostly tailored towards F2P, encouraging not paying for the product/service, quite the opposite actually. And we have to keep in mind SD is, first and foremost, a business and not a charity, so they will act accordingly.

[Dr.Gloom]

If they ever make draft mode, it won't be free. I am sure 100%. The question is, how much they would charge, and what are the prizes? For the mode to be successful, they need to make a perfect balance between the two. The draft mode in HS is dead. People don't play it, and they even give free tickets. For content creators, the draft mode is great. For casuals like me, not so much.

[Blind Reverend]

It would hurt their sales, if you don't need to own a card to play it in a draft mode.

And I don't think a free "proving ground draft" mode will come, because again, if you can play all cards for free, they won't sell their bundles/gold.

[Tray]

Originally posted by Zlehtnoba:

We brought it up a few times on these boards, no response. But they don't read them anyway.

They have directly answered this question on the discord a few times.

Their response has been that draft modes in other similar games is not a very popular game mode in comparison to others available, so they don't plan to release one.

[Bonsai]

Originally posted by Dr.Gloom:

If they ever make draft mode, it won't be free. I am sure 100%. The question is, how much they would charge, and what are the prizes? For the mode to be successful, they need to make a perfect balance between the two. The draft mode in HS is dead. People don't play it, and they even give free tickets. For content creators, the draft mode is great. For casuals like me, not so much.

Why not? Conquest is free too.

[Taonath]

Originally posted by Bonsai:

Originally posted by Dr.Gloom:

If they ever make draft mode, it won't be free. I am sure 100%. The question is, how much they would charge, and what are the prizes? For the mode to be successful, they need to make a perfect balance between the two. The draft mode in HS is dead. People don't play it, and they even give free tickets. For content creators, the draft mode is great. For casuals like me, not so much.

Why not? Conquest is free too.

Conquest is a way to promote competition, thus increase the demand for the new and/or powerful cards. A draft mode would not have that benefit, so it would have to be monetized in another way to make the work put into it worthwhile.

[webmetalreese]

The roadmap talks of social implements, namely something along the lines of 'clans' and with that coming into the game, something called 'League' or along those lines that no one really knows about, so we can only speculate as some sort of MMR/MMR competition in game.
That might be fun for new players as the MMR would limit the cards that both players have collected, so might make for some good matches.
If you are collection complete - I would assume it's Infinity Tier type matchups which is just more of the same with a different label.

[Dodon]

Originally posted by Blind Reverend:

It would hurt their sales, if you don't need to own a card to play it in a draft mode.

Don't other, incredibly well-to-do card games have draft modes and do well?

Hearthstone has a draft mode, and an entirely solo set of campaigns that don't require any of your existing cards either, and I thought those were fairly popular.