Talk:World of Warcraft Trading Card Game

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Contents 1 Top Tier WoW TCG program correction 2 External Links/spam 3 Reviews summary and Inquest game of the year? 4 31 or 33 cards? 5 Fair use rationale for Image:Spectral tiger.jpg

[edit] Top Tier WoW TCG program correction

The external link to the Top Tier Gaming program patch was misleading in that it claimed to "let you play the game online". That is incorrect. What it does is modify a Magic the Gathering card game program to include WoW TCG cards in its library. So you can catalog and display all the WoW TCG cards in your collection within the program.

However, the program does not actually play WoW TCG. The only game it is apparently capable of playing is Magic the Gathering, and if you attempt to play the game using WoW TCG cards what happens is that you end up using Magic the Gathering rules and the program tries to use the WoW TCG cards within those rules. Since the rules for WoW TCG are a bit different in some major ways from Magic the Gathering, it is doubtful you can actually play WoW TCG online in any meaningful way using this program (short of perhaps doing a lot of manual hackery as you go).

Therefore while it looks like this program is relatively decent at helping you catalog your deck, it's not an online game simulator for WoW TCG. Dugwiki 22:36, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Top Tier Gaming also does not appear to even be a WoW TCG site. They have a small section on WoW TCG with 1 news post and a forum. Pushespretn 03:49, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Re-removed the Top Tier link after it was reinserted by an anonymous editor. The same editor also has inserted the Top Tier website link to Dragon Ball Z: Collectible Card Game, and I have also removed that too. Basically it appears that these links are being inserted mainly to promote that particular trading card website. Dugwiki 18:40, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External Links/spam

Personally, I don't think this article is trying to sell anything. Why was this flagged for spam? It tells you about the expansions, and provides official links. Fr0 11:32, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

It's marked this way because, every few days, another commercial or promotional link shows up in the "External links" section. The existing links are intended to be informative, but invariably, folks keep adding links to pages selling cards, or otherwise promoting their own minor web sites. -- Slordak 14:35, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Gotcha. I didn't check the history, and the links at the time were valid ones. ;) Fr0 12:24, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Removed recent link, if its to be added lets discuss it here. Fr0 07:59, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

I've add a link to a Video of the TCG being Played. I consider it very helpful to anyone with questions on game mechanics. I'm still learning the game and I have found it a great tool. If anyone finds an Tournament videos I would love to see links to them. Rgoff31 5 April 2006

[edit] Reviews summary and Inquest game of the year?

I heard on a gaming news podcast this week that InQuest Gamer, one of the major magazines for the TCG genre, nominated or named the WoW TCG as its new game of the year for 2006. I realized that this article has no mention of that or of any critical reviews.

Now that the game has been out for a month or two, and citable critical reviews and awards are available, it might be a good idea to include a couple of sentences talking about the critical response to the game. Cite a few major reviews, with key quotations, along with a bullet list at the end of the article to summarize any awards its won or been nominated for. This would demonstrate how the game was described, good or bad, in key gaming publication. Dugwiki 17:28, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 31 or 33 cards?

Exactly how many cards are supposed to come with the Heroes of Azeroth starter box? Both the box and rule book states "30 cards, 1 hero card and 2 UDE point cards". But I received 32 cards, and 1 hero card. So 33 playing cards, and not 31. The 2 UDE point cards came also though, but one inside each booster pack. So... to clear up the confusion, did the starter boxes originally come with 31 cards, and then changed to 33 and now has a missprint in the rule book?

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Spectral tiger.jpg

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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:56, 5 December 2007 (UTC)