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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Iso or Goko?
« on: February 13, 2013, 03:24:15 am »I would say by keeping the online and physical version in the hands of the same company, whose product line had proven to be maintained, survived the Pokémon competition, to have withstood the lure of power creep, they were in a different position to address the concerns issued by Watno and serakfalcon. Dominion the card game is excellent as a product and will, like, say, Carcassonne, be around for many years, but an online version by Goko would have to stand the test of time. (OTOH, my unsleeved cards might have a shorter life expectancy than an online version.)So for sure online versions need to be cheaper than the box sets. And, how cheaper depends on the customer, and how much of a price cut the company is willing to settle for.Let's just repeat this for the one person reading this who doesn't know this. Magic: The Gathering costs exactly as much for online packs as for real packs. They felt like they had to do that to not lose money on the online version, and so that's what they did. When this was announced, there were sure people who said "lol no-one will pay that much for imaginary cards, this is never getting off the ground." It has been many years and Wizards has been raking in cash from online Magic.
Also, I have never played M:tG online but I had found that deck construction grew more and more unwieldy the more physical cards I possessed, and I would imagine that an online version takes care of that brilliantly. Isotropic always reminds me to topdeck my Treasury, which is nice, but nowhere near the added convenience I'd expect to have with online deck construction.