Well said +rep

scammer

Unless you can provide proof of that statement, I unfortunatley have no reason to believe they said that. If they did, then dropping support is shitty of them. Also if they did, that was stupid of them to say. No dev team can continue support of a game forever. Eventually they have to move onto other things, which is what they're doing.

That was WotC's whole selling point with this title, in which they did say that, specifically. Then they went back on it, specifically...as I've already said. We can sit here and go back and forth but it doesn't change their product or the pitch attached to it. Take it or leave it. I'm leaving it.

Unless they explicitly said, "We are going to support this for a very long time, with continuous updates, content, and support," and then went back on that, they didn't lie. You assumed they would support it for as long as you wanted, and they didn't. You played yourself, they didn't play you.

The 'lie' is the facade of longevity (in terms of dev/pub updates, content, support, etc.) Again, if you like the game m8, play away. I'm just over the bs corporate agenda to milk gaming communities, whether it's through 'fake' expectations, early access or like the crap that No Man's Sky pulled.

At some point, we do honestly have to stop letting ourselves be steamrolled/taken advantage of.

The frustration a lot of us are experiencing is that WotC let the amonkhet series drop a few weeks prior to announcing the termination of updates or future cards. Which leads the community to believe that they had every intent on milking this thing for all they could prior to announcing it's discontinuation.

WotC could have EASILY announced with the release of Amonkhet that future updates wouldn't be a thing. But no, they let it excite everyone; let everyone buy in, then terminated. The whole point of the community even being excited about this game to begin with was the life span it was supposed to have.

Games can absolutely have value after discontinued support, however, when that continued support was part of the game's promise/value to begin with...things take a different turn.

WotC originally released Magic Duels as a "long term" replacement to the Duels of the Plainswalkers series they were pumping out on a yearly basis.

Magic Duels has been sold and packaged as a long term investment option (since it's release) for people to play Magic in a digital format.

Games have value even after they stop getting updates. If they didn't, no one would play retro games. And maybe I haven't been following the game closely enough, but what exactly did the pub/devs lie about?

literally no updates, no new cards, no support or game mode fixes (two headed giant is a glitch festival) -- it's technically playable but with a withering playerbase and discontinued content, seems rather...I don't know, pointless. If you are able to find a match and you are easily amused with the amount of cards that are already available, have at it. I simply don't see the point. and honestly, if you are okay with being lied to by a publisher/developer then there isn't anything wrong with indulging in their product. I just expect more, especially from a money bag like WotC.