Hearthpwn

There seems to be a weird mindset in this thread that Artifact won't affect HS because Artifact won't be a good game.  I think Artifact can be a good game and still not affect HS.  I'm really looking forward to giving Artifact a shot, and based on the games I've seen so far it looks like it will be a lot of fun.  I'll gladly throw down the $20 and if I enjoy it, buy more packs after that.  The possibility of trading and purchasing cards is also appealing to me.  I'll almost certainly continue to play HS as well, though maybe not at my current whale level of spending.  I'm not a F2P HS player so I couldn't care less about paying to play a game.

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There seems to be a weird mindset in this thread that Artifact won't affect HS because Artifact won't be a good game.  I think Artifact can be a good game and still not affect HS.  I'm really looking forward to giving Artifact a shot, and based on the games I've seen so far it looks like it will be a lot of fun.  I'll gladly throw down the $20 and if I enjoy it, buy more packs after that.  The possibility of trading and purchasing cards is also appealing to me.  I'll almost certainly continue to play HS as well, though maybe not at my current whale level of spending.  I'm not a F2P HS player so I couldn't care less about paying to play a game.

Exactly. I feel like people have this weird mindset that if they are unhappy with HS then the new game that they are thinking about switching to absolutely needs to hurt the game they are now bored with. 

If Artifact is too different from HS then you can't compare the two in all honesty, they are two separate ballparks. They can mostly operate on their own to attract their own types of players if the right conditions play out. 

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Quote from Goebs80 >>

There seems to be a weird mindset in this thread that Artifact won't affect HS because Artifact won't be a good game.  I think Artifact can be a good game and still not affect HS.  I'm really looking forward to giving Artifact a shot, and based on the games I've seen so far it looks like it will be a lot of fun.  I'll gladly throw down the $20 and if I enjoy it, buy more packs after that.  The possibility of trading and purchasing cards is also appealing to me.  I'll almost certainly continue to play HS as well, though maybe not at my current whale level of spending.  I'm not a F2P HS player so I couldn't care less about paying to play a game.

Exactly. I feel like people have this weird mindset that if they are unhappy with HS then the new game that they are thinking about switching to absolutely needs to hurt the game they are now bored with. 

If Artifact is too different from HS then you can't compare the two in all honesty, they are two separate ballparks. They can mostly operate on their own to attract their own types of players if the right conditions play out. 

 This.  I think Artifact is specifically designed NOT to compete with HS.  Which is why I think it has a good chance of things.  It's just a matter of whether Valve is ready to handle a card game which is VERY  easy to screw up.

Honestly I don't even think MTGA would need to compete.  HS is great at covering the casual market and it's tooling itself to not try to hold those who want a more technical game.  Which is fine.  MTGA is tooling itself to be great at technicals but is still very difficult to get into casually.  Which is fine.  There's more than enough room for both games to exist and both companies have proven to be willing to not monopolize a market (MTG hasn't tried to kill YGO or Pokemon.  Blizzard never did go after all of those F2P MMOs and seems content with HotS not destroying LoL or Dota).  It's just the fans and haters that seems to have this desperate need for only one game per genre to exist.