Comments on: Sperling and Reitzl Ask: What was Your Breaking Point?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 00:48:33 +0000

In reply to beaneau. Having to give a client a month to figure it out and appreciate it blows any positive user experience design out the window. If you can pickup any of the competitors and start playing straight away, through the tutorials at least, why spend the investment of time working with MTGO?

By: Matthew Yancer

Matthew Yancer — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 15:32:57 +0000

Another digital product that seems to be suffering is Gatherer. I used to love to read the card discussion comments. It seems that since M15 was released, no one is posting comments any more. Take Goblin Rabblemaster for example – 6 votes, 0 comments. Really? Where did everyone go? Sure all of the card discussions on older cards are still there, but it’s not very useful if no one is going to comment on newer cards going forward. I miss the old Gatherer.

By: banzaitron

banzaitron — Sun, 14 Sep 2014 00:02:11 +0000

In reply to beaneau. Incidentally, it is NOT good enough to trade. Try shuffling a decently large number of cards between accounts, sometime. Good luck.

By: jcardshark

jcardshark — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:42:37 +0000

I have played around 10 drafts since the new client was released. I used to play around 25 drafts per week. In the 10 drafts I have played, bugs have cost me 2 drafts, both in the finals where I was denied reimbursement because I “won” packs, meaning I got screwed out of the opportunity to win 4 additional packs. Once, one of my opponents had the client break on him, costing him the match.

I simply cannot justify wasting time on a broken program when their support team will not even reimburse me properly when the program breaks.

By: Paul Nemeth

Paul Nemeth — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:56:56 +0000

In reply to beaneau. I gave it more than a month try and it's still painful to me because I'm constantly reminded of the many ways v3 was better in important ways and rarely do I see evidence of v4 being better in any way I care about.

By: beaneau

beaneau — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 13:10:37 +0000

One of my biggest pet peeves in MTGO writing and streaming is ranting on the new client. I don’t sense that you’re ranting, just expressing frustration about how things aren’t perfect.

The client is good enough for me to do everything I want: play, trade, draft, build decks, etc. It took a lot of trial and error to get to that point, and many things are counterintuitive, but I experimented with right clicks, left clicks, changing settings, and now I am very comfortable with it.

Maybe you can give it a month of experimentation and then get back to us with your likes and dislikes. One day of playing is not enough in my opinion to make a credible critique.

Whether you play or not is not up to me, but let us know how it goes after you give it the ol’ post grad try.

MTG daily is terrible, I agree…