MTG Talk

Elrond, Moon - Reader Painted for Magic: The Gathering - Universes Beyond - The Hobbit

AD: Cassie Murphy

Recently learned about Alters so here is my first try at it!

Yo, Homelands! And they fixed the weird flavor failure on the two thieves destroying artifacts instead of, you know, stealing.

What's really cool here is seeing how good Douglas Shuler is now.

Magic design will always follow the will of the players, as a collective whole. If the majority of players want the game to go in a certain direction, that’s what R&D will do, albeit making the choices that lead to the best gameplay in that direction.

The players, again as a collective whole, can change their mind and Magic will adapt. Just because we do something one way doesn’t mean we will always do it that way. If opinion shifts, we will shift with it. It is the best interest of Magic that we follow the desires of what that players want.

But you all have to understand two things:

1) What you personally believe the direction of the game should go might not be the current desire of the collective whole. And recognizing your perspective is not lined up with that of the larger collective can be hard to do.

2) The loudest voices on the Internet are not necessarily representative of the collective whole. It’s why we have so many metrics and an entire team to break down what the data is telling us.

So yes, we very much listen to what you all are saying, and I never want people to feel that they shouldn’t be empowered to share their opinion. This blog, in specific, is a place for you all to voice what direction you would like to see the game go.

In exchange, I’m using this blog to be as open as I can about what all the data we collect is telling us about what the collective whole wants. I’m speaking for a lot of players whose voices aren’t heard as much online, so it might often feel as if it isn’t what you all might believe is the desires of the collective whole.

I can’t share all the data, as much of it is proprietary, but I’m always happy walking through our understanding of it and explaining how it’s guiding our focus.

I do enjoy the back and forth on this blog. Again, I just ask that you all state your opinions politely. Everyone here is a real person with real feelings, myself included.