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r/sto • … • u/Deeviant

Anybody a little worried about the impact of Magic Legends failure on Cryptic and thus this game?

I'll admit it is very early into release but I have played it enough and seen enough of others reactions to confidently state the game is a steaming pile.

Depending on how much cash Cryptic sunk in Magic Legends (which I assume to be a sizeable chunk) and how much they expected to get out (which I can't imagine to be much, the game feels neigh irredeemable), I can see it effecting Cryptic in a variety of ways.

On another front the extremely aggressive and probably predatory monetization strategy Cryptic employs in Magic Legends ($500 in loot boxes to unlock a class + season pass + cosmetics + more loot boxes for spells + more loot boxes for equipment/artifacts, I wouldn't be surprised if the was a charge to uninstall the game), and the Magic communities massively negative response it feels like a shift away from gamer community acceptance of absolutely ruthless MTX strategies employed by many game studios. And of coarse, many of the these maligned MTX strategies exist in STO.

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