Deck Merchant is a cheat option, really..

[PC GAMER]

I beat 20 normal games and so the DM opened. I go visit it to see what it is, and realize it's custom games made by other users. Okay. I start one, the first listed, and the deck is a joke. Every draw gives a 30 gold card and enemies are 1 health. It's obviously made super easy to farm gold. I stopped playing because I consider that cheating. I assume most public decks will be like this in some way. I'm done with DM as it stands, and that's fine.

Can Steam friends share decks? If that's possible or will be, that would be one way to keep DM games fair, for those who want that.

Nifty little game. The gfx are cuteish, though not spectacular. They have their own charm, for sure. Arnold, what is to stop you from hiring an artist that does really nice/cute cartoony graphics really well, a la Hearthstone, and maybe make a few million? If this exact same game had those kind of graphics, I guarantee you'd sell hundreds of thousands of copies. You don't wish to be a millionaire?

[Arnold Rauers]

Hey, thanks glad you like it so far.

The Deck Merchant decks are hit or miss like any user created content, take a look at the other tabs there played and liked, first tab is just recent ones. There are decks that are actually very well designed.
As for the Gold: You can't collect the gold from Merchant decks or complete quests there, so there is no way to cheat gold really.

Well i like Hearthstone but our game has a very unique style on it's own, which i actually prefer.

[PC GAMER]

Originally posted by Arnold Rauers:

take a look at the other tabs there played and liked, first tab is just recent ones.

I know, I did. The names of them were scary too. One was called something like; "This isn't cheating, no." ..and had long numbers. Looked very suspicious.

Originally posted by Arnold Rauers:

As for the Gold: You can't collect the gold from Merchant decks or complete quests there

Oh! ..that's interesting. Why even allow those cards? To waste space in decks? Weird.

Originally posted by Arnold Rauers:

our game has a very unique style on it's own, which i actually prefer.

I like the style too, I'm talking about making another card game that way. Anyone who makes a good Hearthsone clone even with just bots, will become a millionaire. This game is a contender if only the graphics were that way inclined. How many hours, approximately, did this game take you to make from start to finish?

[Arnold Rauers]

Well, the game is ultimately about highscores, this is why coin cards make sense even in custom decks.

The game took about 8 month for the first release and another year and a half to add content. The port to Steam took another 3 month. 3 people worked on it.

[PC GAMER]

Originally posted by Arnold Rauers:

Well, the game is ultimately about highscores, this is why coin cards make sense even in custom decks.

Right, so one can't collect gold to buy cards much quicker, but they can still game the score, such as it is. I'll pass playing custom decks for now.

Originally posted by Arnold Rauers:

The game took about 8 month for the first release and another year and a half to add content. The port to Steam took another 3 month. 3 people worked on it.

Okay, so reasonably longish - depending on hours worked each day I suppose. I won't be able to commission you then.