🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 07:25:18 -0400, IYM <nor...@whitehouse.gov>
wrote:

>Haven't played / tried it yet, but it seems like from a glance it's 
>along the pokemon or Magic the gathering card games...Is this only for 
>the PC at this point?

At present, yep, but at least one of the Blizz devs has it on his iPad
apprently, so I guess that'll follow soon! Kinda hoping Android
follows, my bf has an Android tablet he doesn't use much, so I borrow
it occasionally, it seems the kind of game that'd go well on a tablet.

>Bliz would be extremely wise to get this as a app for android / iphones 
>if not in plans already, as I see this as something to do when away from 
>the PC.  IMO, If my head is in warcraft mode and I'm at the PC, I'm 
>going to play WoW.  If I'm at lunch or break at work, and away from the 
>PC,  I may play this.

Yeah, agreed. Although despite the Warcraft theme, it's not much like
WoW so handy if you're in the mood for a different type of game. I'm
hoping/dreaming they'll put it ingame as a minigame - there's NPCs
playing it in the shrines and suchlike now, so it'd be pretty cool if
you could sit down at a table and hav a window come up! Doubt it'd
happen tbh, but it'd be cool if it did :-)

>They also would be smart to make it F2P app to all, with better cards or 
>features available to those who already have accounts with blizz.  Might 
>be a way to draw in more ($$) for them from people who will play the 
>card game who never touched WoW before....  Kinda a new market.

I believe it will be free to play from what I heard - only cost is if
you want to buy extra cards. You can earn ingame gold to buy decks, so
spending money isn't compulsory, but you can speed it up by buying
them for real money - in beta, you get a legendary card for your first
purchase so I took the cheapest option: £1.99 for 2 decks. I don't
normally do ingame purchases as if I get in the habit, costs will
stack up pretty fast, but a calculated one-off suits me. 

>On a side note, right now I play Castle Clash on my android tablet as my 
>relaxing game when away from the PC.  Anyone else try it?  Kind of 
>reminds me a bit of the old warcraft 1-3, where you build town hall, 
>bases, towers, walls, gold mines, mana mills, etc and can upgrade them 
>the way you could in Warcraft.  You can raid other players, run dungeons 
>in where it's strategy of placing your types of troops and hero class as 
>you don't have direct control over them.   Quite addicting little game 
>and recommend checking it out...   :)

Haven't come across it but I may take a look. There seem to be quite a
few empire-building type games out there, I play Avalon Wars a lot,
sadly people willing to spend real money get a pretty big advantage
there but you can still be fairly decent at it if you don't, just have
to accept you'll always get beaten by those who've got big wallets.