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<blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 2487920" data-attributes="member: 3586">On Decipher:In the early days of CCGs, Decipher made a bad game from one of the hottest properties (Star Trek), but somehow kept it alive.They then made a good game from one of the hottest properties (Star Wars) and tried to ruin it with an awful rarity system. Eventually, they fixed this problem, only to muck up big time on Death Star II by introducing two &quot;very rares&quot; (Jedi Luke and the Emperor) which many cards in the set required to play... Good going, Decipher. The game had also become something that was suffering from HUGE amounts of errata and poor playtesting. As the next few sets came along, Power Creep hit in an even bigger way than before... and the game was so complex that it wasn't attractive to newbies.The Star Wars CCG was one of my favourite CCGs, but it was terribly mismanaged.On WizKidsMageKnight was great because it was the first CMG. Unlike Magic, however, it couldn't sustain itself. It really carved out its own niche with its selection of miniatures - but that left it vulnerable to DDM, because role-players wouldn't find much useful in MageKnight. With set rotations and terrible playtesting, the game was primed to end.OTOH, some of their other games are more accessible, especially Pirates and HeroClix.Cheers!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MerricB, post: 2487920, member: 3586"] [b]On Decipher:[/b] In the early days of CCGs, Decipher made a bad game from one of the hottest properties (Star Trek), but somehow kept it alive. They then made a good game from one of the hottest properties (Star Wars) and tried to ruin it with an awful rarity system. Eventually, they fixed this problem, only to muck up big time on Death Star II by introducing two "very rares" (Jedi Luke and the Emperor) which many cards in the set required to play... Good going, Decipher. The game had also become something that was suffering from HUGE amounts of errata and poor playtesting. As the next few sets came along, Power Creep hit in an even bigger way than before... and the game was so complex that it wasn't attractive to newbies. The Star Wars CCG was one of my favourite CCGs, but it was terribly mismanaged. [b]On WizKids[/b] MageKnight was great because it was the first CMG. Unlike Magic, however, it couldn't sustain itself. It really carved out its own niche with its selection of miniatures - but that left it vulnerable to DDM, because role-players wouldn't find much useful in MageKnight. With set rotations and terrible playtesting, the game was primed to end. OTOH, some of their other games are more accessible, especially Pirates and HeroClix. Cheers! [/QUOTE]

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