Planar Chaos release on mtgo and other animals.

[eldaec]

PC comes to mtgo on feb 26th.

Nowadays it seems these announcements are hidden away in official forum posts.


No information on release events, or on whether they'll run for 2 weeks again, though they'll presumably run from 28th onward.

In other news, wotc will attempt to enforce one-simulateneous-login-per-household between PC and v3 launch (still nominally slated for Q2). Bot owners have commenced a great wailing and gnashing teeth, and since magic lacks an alternative trade interface, they do rather have a point.


Early rumours for Future Sight suggest an Enchantment Magus cycle, and another Akroma card.

The next block (starting Autumn 07) has been named, called 'Lorwyn'. Also the codename for the 2008 summer set has been leaked : 'Sandwich'. The codename for Lorwyn is Peanut, and the codenames for parts 2 and 3 of Lorwyn block are Butter and Jelly.

This has fuelled rumours that Lorwyn/Peanut block will break with tradition and be a four set block. Long threads about how the sky will fall and this will be the end of draft and sealed as we know them can be found on various magic websites.

[Margalis]

Why one login per household? People gaming 8-man tourneys?

V3...what the hell is up with it? Boy they screwed that one up.

[Merusk]

Why one login per household? People gaming 8-man tourneys?

V3...what the hell is up with it? Boy they screwed that one up.

At the very least they're gaming their stats for the leagues.  A few of the release (The hero-japan set.. with the 9-tailed fox..) leagues when I was playing had the same 2-3 accounts playing each other, with one winning each league.

[Raging Turtle]

Too broke at the moment to do this, but I'm not real wowed by PC anyway. 

[eldaec]

Why one login per household? People gaming 8-man tourneys?

V3...what the hell is up with it? Boy they screwed that one up.

The purpose of one login per household is to stop the server collapsing due to too many concurrent logins.

Card sellers often run 5-10 separate bots all with their own login.

The idea is that by shutting down trading, there will be almost enough space on the server to play the game.

Having to shut down the trade process in a trading card game is of course, all kinds of amusing.

[Margalis]

Seems like it would be easy enough to offload all trading to a separate server with seemless integration with the main one.

Edit: Of course, given how badly MTGO has been handled technically, easy enough may not actually be easy enough.

[eldaec]

Wotc claim that mtgo2 design prevents the use of any form of server load sharing.


EDIT: It's worth remembering that this is a company whose official community forums still have to go down for several hours maintenance every *DAY*. Also the same forums have no search function because "it is impossible for us to archive old posts, and the query that would search the backcatalogue would break the server". Further, this is the same mtgo that still requires a half day maintenance outage every week.

I don't think IT is really their 'thing'. Which is unfortunate for people running an online game.

[Margalis]

And they are looking to vastly expand their digital game offerings as well.

Step #1: hire someone who knows WTF they are doing!

[eldaec]

Played a PC release league, went 4-1 (like I do EVERY SINGLE TIME). The block felt a lot more playable with the addition of PC. TS was just tiresome, with PC it feels better balanced and better to play. It's not actually interesting ofc, felt like playing a more advanced core set.