Introduction
Last week, I talked about the legendary cards coming in the Tides of Fate set. I actually wanted to move on to talk about epics today but that will be on pause. Today, I want to cover my thoughts on the Tides of Fate: collector's guide that GU recently shared in their blog.
4 Ways To Collect
Now to complete the whole set, you need to purchase packs, craft, participate in faction skirmishes and winning packs from weekend ranked and sealed. In previous major sets, we could just buy the packs or play weekend ranked and eventually get all the cards from just playing or buying. They have now made it harder to collect all the cards and I believe that this will help the value of the cards.
Crystal & Fate Packs
One of the interesting points from this collecting is that there will be two different kinds of packs. One is being bought and one is being earned from playing. The one being bought is crystal packs and they follow the same drop rates as previous sets. The difference between crystal packs and previous major set packs is that they don't include all the cards from the set and they also contain exclusive cards so to get them you will either need to buy packs or buy from secondary market. I have mixed feelings about this idea of nerfing the reward packs but I think it's worth trying and seeing what happens because if GU kept doing what they did before nothing would change.
I think a big problem is we just printed too much. There needs to be a limited supply in the packs distributed. I think weekend rewards needs to be revamped in a way or maybe make it like a seasonal rating thing like we have in Splinterlands. This way they can set a number of packs to giveaway every weekend or every season it'll be easier to have a consistent number than depending on how much people play over the weekend.
Weekend & Sealed
Now weekend rewards and sealed mode will get fate packs which is basically a nerfed and watered down crystal pack. I think this was to make it so legendary cards will retain their value. If you see the value of the legendary cards from the last set, some legendary cards are at a dollar or less. Personally, I don't know if I will be playing sealed mode as the packs you earn from this mode aren't able to get legendary cards. I understand they want to keep the value of legendary cards but they also need to make it rewarding to play. I'm not too big of a fan of cosmetics so sealed mode would just be wasting god tokens in my opinion.
Community Events
I like community events. I think of it as like a raid war. It makes it more fun where the community can complete goals together. I don't have any issue with having some cards being earned through this method and it's a good way to have people participate. These are great cards to get for basically free by participating so I hope people don't sleep on these legendary cards.
Crafting A Mistake?
Let's get to the controversial part about the news where there was a negative reaction from the discord. This had to do with the crafting details. There's actually a few legendary and epics to craft but I just showed one as an example as they were pretty similar. I didn't understand why it would only take 10 epics of the same card to forge a legendary but to forge an epic you would need four different cards and two of these cards are from an older set and has to be diamond quality. It doesn't make sense to me that the epic card would be harder to forge than the legendary card.
When I saw the announcement, I went straight to the marketplace but I was way too slow. Someone cleaned the floor on the crafting materials which kind of disturbs me.
If GU feels like we have too many cards, we can do a card burning event and give some exclusive cards there from cards being burned. I think that would help lower the supply of cards. Of course older editions being burned would give more points.
Conclusion
GU is really trying to find a way to make the game sustainable and for long-term. We can see the efforts being made with this Tides of Fate set. It seems to me like they are trying to keep the value of the cards. Although there are some negative reactions to this news, I think we should be bullish and proud that the team is working on making GU great. I can't wait to see a world championship for GU and esports like Hearthstone has. We could very well see this happen in a year or two.
On side note, I will play this weekend after a few months of hiatus to see what i will get from my fate packs if I do get them! See you on the battlefield. Please go easy on me!
Thank You
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o.o yes i love gaming and GU is the first web3 game i got into. I'm not sure if I told u that!
Ya GU i don't know they haven't been doing so well lately. Hopefully things make a turn the bear market has impacted a lot of web3 games but ehre they are still building so should be ok
The market has affected many web3 games and with bull run we can expect some recovery
ya lets see how it goes. if everything goes well i think those that accumulated during this bear will be rewarded a lot~
Thanks for the explanation man. I am looking forward to seeing how everything is going pan out. I am playing GU now and like the music change they brought in too.
haha what rank are you now? i think ill prob play tmr usually its messy on fridays~. lets get some fate packs hopefully can get the middle one got chance for legendary like small chance :(
Just Twilight Shadow! 😤
dude that rank is a bit hard to get the packs right? like the non-core packs
yeah, but the algo is pretty tough man
u can do it ! i believe in your op decks
Thanks man! 1love!
This is also what I want for GU.
O.O don't we all haha
Hi, good to have you back, nice post.👍👍👍
hey thank you bro glad to see you as well ;3
I'm glad to see them trying new things because the MJ approach certainly didn't work. I've been saying for a long time the needed to remove (or drastically reduce) the card rewards from WR (and now sealed). They found a way to do that. You can't expect people to buy packs if they can just play WR or wait until others flood the market and then buy for pennies. Paid-pack leggies are critical to ensuring that they sell better than past packs (which performed abysmally).
What I'm truly tired of (and I truly mean exhausted by) are the surprise announcements that send speculators into the market scrambling to buy up cards to flip. It just feels terrible. They doubled-down by saying that they are going to rotate recipes. Great. So every few weeks, there's another mad rush to flip cards. Count me out. Instead, I hope they can come up with a long-term crafting approach that everyone understands and that doesn't change often (if ever).
I know right. Actually they just made announcement that they will amend some stuff for the weekend but I think it's still fair.
Ya it's time they do this because if we have 100k players that's a lot being printed but then if player base falls then itll just be a ton of extra that nobody need. I know they say they dont reward multi accounts but there are probably some out there farming the packs which are making the cards worth less.
I'm fine with this. It makes it fair for those that spend money and we need people to spend money to keep the game long-term.
As for this crafting flipping market thing well ya. I wanted to be one of those flippers but its really just a race when announcement seen so i agree with u hopefully they remove this. can try to look at hearthstone with the dusting mechanic to craft something new with the dust so we can burn any card we want for that dust and craft exclusive cards. maybe have special dust for certain raritys like legend dust u have to burn legendary cards and this can be used to craft legendary cards
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