Commander 4 player

[Don Pino]

Hey guys is there any news on when and if this is happening ?

[Red Bishop]

Oh God, I don't know if I have 8 hours per game lol. For real though, this would be sick

[Free Palestine]

Originally posted by Brother Tacticus:

Hey guys is there any news on when and if this is happening ?

it's not going to happen.

[Argstein]

has been said that it'd require a redesign of the entire client so probably never happening on mtga

[PJ]

You will never get more than 1v1 on arena because holy crap how annoying would it be to be playing 2 headed giant and your teammate rage quits, or commander and 3 people rope you.

[Keith]

We'll never get it because it would require WoTC to provide Arena with more than the absolute bare minimum skeleton staff to make happen.

[Legs0fSteel]

I read somewhere that iit is planned for 2025 but i'm not sure where so take that with a pile of salt.

I do think we're closer than ever now that WotC has taken over the banlist it wouldn't suprise if having to work with third parties just to implement a banlist was one of the reason they were holding off.

[Free Palestine]

Originally posted by Legs0fSteel:

I read somewhere that iit is planned for 2025 but i'm not sure where so take that with a pile of salt.

I do think we're closer than ever now that WotC has taken over the banlist it wouldn't suprise if having to work with third parties just to implement a banlist was one of the reason they were holding off.

It's not going to happen. You don't have a source for it, either. The ban list has nothing to do with Arena.

[ʍolɟ ǝɥʇ ǝsɹǝʌǝɹ]

I like 2 headed giant

[Traumaturgy]

I never played this mode with 4 people, I would gladly try. But I dont know about the implementation, what if someone scoop in the beginning? Will the others play without that person? Replay match? Or maybe not let people to scoop at all?
Or roping- now is problem for 3 people, not 1.

[anaris]

Originally posted by Traumaturgy:

I never played this mode with 4 people, I would gladly try. But I dont know about the implementation, what if someone scoop in the beginning? Will the others play without that person? Replay match? Or maybe not let people to scoop at all?
Or roping- now is problem for 3 people, not 1.

imagine this problem, only a hundred times and you have to solve it in binary using an imaginary language as the intermediary. That's the coding challenge here.

I doubt it'll happen.

[nul]

Originally posted by Traumaturgy:

I never played this mode with 4 people, I would gladly try. But I dont know about the implementation, what if someone scoop in the beginning? Will the others play without that person? Replay match? Or maybe not let people to scoop at all?
Or roping- now is problem for 3 people, not 1.

It's typically played with friends rather than strangers, or at local/convention events.

Conceding is a "you lose the game" effect. So it wouldn't affect the other 3 players unless they controlled a permanent the conceding player owned.

[ANDS!]

Originally posted by Keith:

We'll never get it because it would require WoTC to provide Arena with more than the absolute bare minimum skeleton staff to make happen.

Right answer right here. The consumer base isn't making enough noise about ANY kind of 3+ Player formats so why waste financial resources on building one out?

. . .I do love the arguments from apologists where they go "Oh it's just so complicated to implement!" Yeah, no kidding - that's called game development.

[Fox]

it will probably happen in the next 2 years or so. I give it a 70% chance of happening, just look at the alchemy cards coming out that deal with 4 player logic. the chat system and report system will probably change at the same time, in game chat is going to be the thing I am most looking forward to.

[Free Palestine]

Originally posted by Fox:

it will probably happen in the next 2 years or so. I give it a 70% chance of happening, just look at the alchemy cards coming out that deal with 4 player logic. the chat system and report system will probably change at the same time, in game chat is going to be the thing I am most looking forward to.

Nope. It's not going to happen.

[anaris]

Originally posted by ANDS!:

Originally posted by Keith:

We'll never get it because it would require WoTC to provide Arena with more than the absolute bare minimum skeleton staff to make happen.

Right answer right here. The consumer base isn't making enough noise about ANY kind of 3+ Player formats so why waste financial resources on building one out?

. . .I do love the arguments from apologists where they go "Oh it's just so complicated to implement!" Yeah, no kidding - that's called game development.

lol you've misunderstood. It's not "coding is hard" it's "whether a set of netcode deals with two or four players is a decision made before you write any of it". You're talking about rewriting the whole client from the ground up, including every card published in the modern templating style one by one, like it's a weekly patch.