Stone me if you want, but - PvE???

In other PvE news, LotR: LCG is going in the right direction. There are some neat things coming. If anyone is interested, go read the 26 Mar weekly news update on Steam. While you're at it, check out the 19 Mar update as well about the new tutorial. They actually care about the new player experience. That game has progressively gotten more fun to co-op with a friend.

steamcommunity.com/app/509580/allnews/

all dev updates there, recent one is also very interesting

Hey Coyote just wanted to say thanks for starting this thread if you are still around. I am sure I have posted in here before but that doesn't matter now.

To bad the game went to shit after explicitly focusing on PVP. I was here for the PVE side and backed only for that and know many others did as well.

At least I gained 2 friends on steam from the ordeal other than that it has been a waste.

It's always been about a lack of engineering resources, not a lack of ideas or lore or card design. There is a lot of unreleased content¹ deep in the game files. Enough to make me believe Cory when he said that this and that had been designed and fleshed out but he needed more time to get it released. The designer-to-engineer ratio was way too high though. So many ideas in the pipeline, so much lore, but not enough people to actually implement it and turn it into real software. There is no such thing as minimum effort when it comes to software. Everything takes time and effort.

Cryptozoic is a board game company. To create board games, you need a lot of creative people, designers, artists, but very few, if any, engineers, because it's all cardboard pieces, and your players can use their mind to fill in the gaps. A software company needs engineers, lots of them, because every single detail needs to be implemented. You can't just print a rule book and let the players implement it to their understanding, you need to code every single thing. I think Hex stuck with the board game mentality and neglected engineering.

¹ : Among the things that's been designed but not released, about two dozen quest lines (there's an ambush, there's a heist, something with the Yeti family, King Ook-Bok, the Void Society, the Primal of Pain, many more, and my personal favorite: Squirrels vs. Dinosaurs), as well as 9 raids.

I think they realized that too late, or was just stubborn/not knowledgeable enough to adjust in time. Unless you have 20+ years of history and deep fanbase, one mistake is going to kill you. Killed Artifact; Killed Hex; killed a ton of card games. It takes time to build a Rome; it is also sturdy enough to not fall in a single day. Oh well, fuck this timeline.

P.S. Remembered Hex today and decided to check the forum for funsies.

i remember when this game was first kickstarted it was the pve the made the deference from other tcg. when hex ends think anyone will try and fix it? i know somebody is releaseing battleforge again because tcgs can make money.

All I know is whoever releases a PVE focused card game of quality will get all my money. Unfortunately, Hex already took my money without giving me what they promised. Never again will I kickstart based on potential.

I still don't get it, I figured "it's a TCG, not star citizen, they aren't promising the world, surely, they can deliver even if they are a small company..." and then... ugh.

rabble rabble rabble!

I mean, they couldn't even get guilds in the game. The minimum they would need to fulfill that promise is a table of members with a separate chat channel. They can't even do the minimum to not break promises.