I remember this being the plan, but thought it was rolled back.
Stuck between playing one of the least pleasant metas i've seen in a card's standard AND draft mode, or wasting the mastery pass. Only winning move is to not play.
Posted Oct 21, 2019, 7:04 PM UTC
They have been pretty clear if you want to play Magic Arena, you play Standard. That's how they make the $$$ :)
Only winning move is to not play.
Exactly what Wizards would prefer.
they'd prefer people not play their game at all, than allow people to play historic?
Yeah. They would.
I mean, I don't see why they'd include historic then if they'd rather people just uninstall, but I guess they won.
There's no reason WotC would want people playing historic unless they are also buying historic packs in the store. They created it because it wasn't difficult to implement at all, and some people will spend that money.
It's barely included. It isn't even clear in-game that it exists. So yeah, that was the decision they made, knowing they'd lose players that would quit over it. I'd be willing to bet it was the right decision from their standpoint, much as I wish Historic at least had its own queue. That's really the only aspect I think is appalling and breaks their promise. Not having wins count for rewards is covered by their statements that Historic was going to be "casual only".
It's bizarre. I think that they see it as they would rather players play Standard than Historic.
There doesn't seem like a lot of incentive for WotC to encourage the historic format IMO.
I guess giving your customers a product that isn't shit doesn't count as an incentive these days.
Not if said customers are paying for it.