HaemishM
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My draft wait times are usually between 15-30 minutes.
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Eh, the problem with new fish is without the KS packs, the only way they can draft is by spending real money, and if you dont know what you are doing yet, that doesnt seem wise. $7 a draft is better that Magic sure, but HS is still free...
They will get a small bump once they finally put regular trading in, but the next big influx of "can i has beta pls?" will occur when the PvE finally hits, and not before.... unless they really ramp up the hand outs and free stuff to get people on with more than just the starter decks.
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Rendakor
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I've got extra beta keys if anyone needs them. I also have some codes that give 1 draft and 3 free packs; if any non-KS f13er wants either let me know.
Edit: Still have keys left, but I'm not giving any to 0 post newfriends. Longtime lurkers I might make an exception for, but otherwise if you have less than 10 posts fuck off.
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Ironwood
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I'd take a pack code...
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Ingmar
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You guys with the extra slow draft waits, are you queueing for competitive or swiss? Swiss appears to fill up much slower - scrolling through the visible history its like 8 to 1 in favor of competitive draft.
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Bunk
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Seems to depend on when you draft. 15 minutes at 4 PM on a weekday, versus 15 seconds at noon on Saturday.
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Yegolev
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There was one of each draft open, both with zero players. I blame the late hour.
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Merusk
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You guys with the extra slow draft waits, are you queueing for competitive or swiss? Swiss appears to fill up much slower - scrolling through the visible history its like 8 to 1 in favor of competitive draft.
I only queue for competitive, even though I suck. |
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HaemishM
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Yeah, I only queue for Swiss since I am cheap and can usually get at least 1 pack back out of the tourney.
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You guys with the extra slow draft waits, are you queueing for competitive or swiss? Swiss appears to fill up much slower - scrolling through the visible history its like 8 to 1 in favor of competitive draft.
Really? It feels like Swiss fills more often to me. I only play competitive, and I am almost always the first or 2nd person in the queue. |
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Ingmar
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FWIW the competitive queue I was in at 10:30 PM Pacific last night filled within 10 minutes of me joining it (I think I was 3rd.) The Swiss queue sat at 2/8 the whole time I was waiting. Seeing the queue at 0/8 doesn't really tell you anything about the rate that they're firing off, since if they're going frequently you'll see 0/8 all the time too.
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schild
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I've never seen a swiss queue fire. In fact, I joined a comp queue at 0/8 and it filled while the swiss one was at 6/8. Swiss queue still hadn't fired when mine had.
Anyway, swiss fucking blows.
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Yegolev
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I played a swiss once. I forget if I got more cards as a result.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
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Merusk
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10 PM for you all is 1am for me. Newp. I try at 7 or 8 EST. No luck so I fuck off to other things. One to three hours after those times I can still function in the morning. Later than that and why bother going in ill just drag all day.
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10 PM for you all is 1am for me. Newp. I try at 7 or 8 EST. No luck so I fuck off to other things. One to three hours after those times I can still function in the morning. Later than that and why bother going in ill just drag all day.
In almost every game I've ever played, the queues for things are better in your prime time than mine. It would be a little startling if Hex was an outlier. |
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Guess they must have a lot of Euro players then. I queue up at prime time after work (6-8 PM), and by then drafts are firing every 15 minutes or so. Thats at 12 to 2 PM EST.
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Merusk
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10 PM for you all is 1am for me. Newp. I try at 7 or 8 EST. No luck so I fuck off to other things. One to three hours after those times I can still function in the morning. Later than that and why bother going in ill just drag all day.
In almost every game I've ever played, the queues for things are better in your prime time than mine. It would be a little startling if Hex was an outlier. *shrug* There's always been a sweet spot between EST and PST that's typically around 9 E/ 6 P for multiplayer games. However, since Hex requires at least an hour and a half and up to three hours to play a tourney, if it doesn't fire-up within 5-10 mins I say fuck it and find something else to do. I'm an old man and go to bed at 11 now. I've got no time to sit around waiting on shit when I've got other games or activities I can just hop right in to. I also have *no* interest in sitting around in a lobby for 15-20 mins. The matchmaker in WoT is around a minute and even that makes me impatient sometimes. |
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Ironwood
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Is there going to be another round of keys at any point ? Getting Wife Aggro.
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When speaking of the MMOG industry, the glass may be half full, but it's full of urine. HaemishM
Always wear clean underwear because you never know when a Tory Government is going to fuck you.- Ironwood
Libertarians make fun of everyone because they can't see beyond the event horizons of their own assholes Surlyboi
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schild
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I just sent Ironwood one.
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Rendakor
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I think I have a few still if anyone (who didn't register this fucking week  ) needs one. |
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Ironwood
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I just sent Ironwood one.
You're an absolute gent, I don't care what the rest of them say. Cheers. |
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Antrax76
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Hello !
I'm a big fan of Hex and I really want to play it.
Can someone send me a beta key, please ? (:
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Paelos
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New guy gets the hose!
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CPA, CFO, Sports Fan, Game when I have the time
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schild
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Ironwood
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We could be really cynical here...
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Rendakor
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We're unleashing our cynicism on the official forums. Not-quite-open-beta is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen.
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Thrawn
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We could be really cynical here...
We could should be really cynical here... |
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tazelbain
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We could be really cynical here...
I think the cynical answer is correct just not the one you thinking. We're unleashing our cynicism on the official forums. Not-quite-open-beta is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen.
Not sure how anything can be more dumb than monetized Beta-but-not-really-beta we have been going through since May. |
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Thrawn
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Not sure how anything can be more dumb than monetized Beta-but-not-really-beta we have been going through since May.
This - This isn’t open beta, but we wanted to give access to a larger amount of players who have been asking to join. The easiest way to accommodate this is by removing the restriction of having to have a beta key. The thread talking about it being open beta is being gutted by Phenteo now it appears. |
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tazelbain
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My point is they have been playing word games from the very beginning.
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Thrawn
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Phenteo is also messaging people (like GatticusFinch and Ryuukan) and threatening bans for that thread. |
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schild
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Phenteo is also messaging people (like GatticusFinch and Ryuukan) and threatening bans for that thread. He threatened me also. Which, given how many friends and ex-coworkers we have in common on Facebook, may have been a.... miscalculation on his part. |
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Paelos
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So are things going well in HEX land?
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schild
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I would compare it to Star Citizen, except they aren't expanding the scope. They're just doing what every single junior dev team has done since time began.
Fuck up in a pretty predictable way.
The bright side is that they've already proven that they can make what might actually be one of the best core sets ever made for a CCG. Shame we've been playing it for a fucking year.
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