User:KageNoYugata/Ranting and other non-important things
Boredom[edit]
CORPG, TCG, and Netdecking[edit]
So yeah its a rehashed rant but at least it gets a basic point across. To begin lets go back to 1995(Wizards of the Coast released Magic: The gathering, and a year or two later the Pokemon TCG was released in America) card games ruled the playground for about...less than six months I don't remember, I was like five or six back then, but eventually Pokemon got boring and several new fads came and went.
Moving onto CORPG's and GW...primarily GW since its the only CORPG I know of. What is a CORPG? Its a competitive online role-playing game that basically...pits Player A(lets call him Bob) vs. Player B(we'll call him Tim) or NPC monsters in an instanced setting with a limited set of skills. Now what does TCGs and CORPGs have in common? Why the deck or in GW's case the build of course. Most card games limit how many cards a player may have in his/her deck and GW limits eight skills to a player's skill bar/build. How does a player get better cards or skills for their "deck"? In a TCG you get...booster packs; however, in GW's case we get...quests, skill trainers, boss monsters(for their elites), and tomes a.k.a. our booster packs(for those of us who can afford several hundred or so tomes at once).
This brings us to point three, netdecking. Netdecking is using the internet to look up what cards were in a tournament winner's deck and then mimic their deck(I had to look up this definition so cut me some slack). In GW its basically going into observer mode, and copying the builds of the top rated GvG guilds or just going on PvX and rolling a build from there(of which I'm guilty of doing so and using certain builds as templates to rework into my own builds). Sealed deck eliminated the possibility of netdecking however it also wasnt very popular(and Codex is empty except for syncers and on Z-Combat day) outside of some circles.
So yeah in conclusion GW is a giant card game. At least 95% of us are netdecking, and I'm beginning to forget why I started writing this. I'd just like to once again restate yes I know this is rehashed I have no idea what point I was originally trying to get across but oh well.
Tl;Dr: We're playing something similar to a children's card game and I forgot why I wrote that wall of text.
