Valve announces Artifact, a Dota 2 card game

Artifact: Valves digitales Kartenspiel kommt im November

Valves Vorstoß ins Genre-Territorium der Sammelkartenspiele hat einen Veröffentlichungstermin: Am 28. November geht es auf dem PC los.

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Valve responds after Artifact community slams 'pay for everything' model

Here's the deal: You have to pay $20 for the Artifact base game, which gets you some starter cards. The only way to get new cards on top of that is to spend money. You can buy booster packs packs for $2, you can buy and sell specific cards through the marketplace (for which Valve takes a small cut), or you can win cards by playing game modes that require paid-for tickets to enter. Currently, you cannot trade for cards.

Valve has addressed some (but not all) of the complaints in a blog post. The next beta update, coming today, will include the option to play Call to Arms Phantom Draft events in user-created tournaments, as well as a Casual Phantom Draft gauntlet to practice drafting without spending a ticket. Before the beta ends, Valve will also add "a system that allows extra, unwanted cards to be recycled into event tickets," so that low value cards aren't a total waste. The developer hasn't commented on requests for card trading or the difficulty of winning card packs.

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