The Bazaar

it's kinda weird that you cant even tell what the game is from watching the trailer...

based off the game page it appears to be an online card deckbuilder?

Game has been in development hell for years.

Reynad started up development of it during the peak of Hearthstone and the digital card game fad came and went.

The game has changed directions a lot of times over the years to, there was a lot of trend chasing. At one point it even spiraled off into the crypto world.

Regardless, I think if it ends up being good it could find an audience. Hearthstone has been washed for years so maybe it's time for card games to have a resurgence.

Slay the spire and balatro really made me burn a ton of hours. Hearthstone failed on some levels but I will defenitely give this beta a shot

Played about 50 hours in 5 days.

I don't think it will do well unless they make it more casual friendly.

You get one free ranked ticket per day, then they are $1 each or you can win them with a 10 win victory in casual.

The issue is, once you get past 7 wins in casual, the AI puts you against what appears to be top 5-10% builds and makes it near impossible to complete.

of the probably 30 times i got to 7 wins, only about 5 i was able to get to 10.

This is time consuming, and sometimes you could spend over an hour just to get to the end and fail, in which case you get nothing. nada. no coins, no tickets, no anything.

In ranked you get 1 chest for 4 wins, 2 for 7, 3 for 10.

Same issues here. I had a perfect build with all my win conditions shoot to 9 wins and then lose 4 in a row to knock me out earlier this evening. it's basically the AI force lossing you and putting you agaisnt your perfect counter.

If you make 4 wins you get no ranked XP. if you get 7 you rank up 1/4 bars of bronze 5-1 etc.

There is a chance to get champion skins from the chests, but of the 15ish I have opened i got 1 hero skin and the rest were item skins, over half of them being repeats of stuff i " won" earlier. you just have the extras. trading them in the future has been mentioned but it semms to me they are % based and not RNG like everything else, so i imagine byt he time trading is available everyone will have all the same things.

You also get between 35-60 game currency per chest that equates to about 1 penny each.

There is just no incentive to invest the time in it's current state. 80% of your time will be wasted and just lead to disappointment.

There is no set way to build your " deck" the way you want. every encounter, merchant, vendor each turn is RNG. you could spend multiple runs without getting anything even worth playing, or get everything you need to start and go through countless turns never even seeing a skill vendor you need or any upgrades for the items you do want.

too much RNG accompanied by AI that forced you to go against the toughest decks.

Opponents should be just as random as everything else, and they need to take SOME of the RNG out of it and let it be more skill based.

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