I dont know if I'm the only one out there that loves LCGS? They are such a great idea, I dont know how much money I have thrown away on games like dragon ball z and magic, it is such an innovative idea and you know what you need to make the best deck! and did I mention the money you can save?? give me a hell yea!

I agree but I do really miss the randomness and excitment of opening booster packs.

The_Big_Show said:

Personally, I always found on paper this sounds good, but the investment smarts and actual joy/reward received was rare. I can't imagine ever picking CCG over LCG.

not only that, but the excitment was greatly over shadowed by opening crap rare packs...i just spend $3.50 for this?!!?!

I'd add... I also believe LCGs are a way back into card gaming for many previous CCG players. Personally, I was done with CCGs even if I will admit it missed it. I simply couldn't justify the expense. Now that LCG's are an option I'm immediately back playing and craving more. The limitations I have now are more time based and schedule driven (coordinating with other players). I've also sucked in 4-5 more of my friends that were in the same situation and also excited about the LCG format.

Lars said:

That never bothered me because I could always trade what I didn't want with someone else. I can't do that under the LCG format.

The_Big_Show said:

jhaelen said:

Because everyone has the cards under the LCG format, especially now that they are going 3 of each card in a pack. I'm notm complaining because it saves a lot of money but it means that an entire aspect of collectable card gaming goes out the window.

I absolutely prefer the LCG format to any other format I've tried.

If you compare card pools, you have (surprosingly) more otions here than in any other Card Game...

Then, each player has the same chance to be a "T1" player.

Lots of pepole started playin' because of the LCG transition...Low budget but still wonderfull aestetics makes these games absolutely better than most of other card games out there.

Madduxx said:

You just described me. I vowed to never CCG again. CoC's LCG format fits me perfectly. Although I must admit that I buy Mythos cards from time to time since they are cheap. Other than that I'm CCG-clean. :-)

I think that the LCG is the most brilliant invention ever devised. I left CCGs because I got sick of trying to collect all of the cards. It's far better for my hobby OCD to be able to buy one of every pack and have everything.

LCGs are also recession-friendly.

I have yet to make the transition from Cthulhu CCG to the LCG, but agree that this new format sounds great. So often Magic The Gathering was about 'whoever spent the most money ordering rare cards online wins'. FFG fixed this problem with Call of Cthulhu by eliminating the connection between rare and powerful cards. Fetch Stick, anyone? But again, it was still a CCG that involved either trading, buying tons of boosters, or buying individual cards online.

Anyway, I love how this new LCG format levels the playing field even further. Now everyone has easy access to all the same cards. Awesome. It just helps to make the game rely more on skill, and less on money.

Vondur said:

I totally agree.

and infact opening a chapterpack is almost the same fun as opening a boosterpack!!!

the only difference is that you open just one and already get all cards!!!!

How could this be lame????

its fantastic. its brilliant!!!

i love LCG´s.

The_Big_Show said:

I'd rather focus on playability than collecting.

^^This +1^^

Couldn't agree more! I dropped MTG (the only card game I've ever been into) a little over a year ago because I couldn't keep up with my hyper competitive friends. They were spending hundreds of dollars every time a new set came out to get everything they needed and I was just simply outclassed by them. Going to my FLGS wasn't any better as most of the people who hang out there are just as competitive as my friends if not worse and they're generally far more bloodthirsty about it. The game just became un-fun because I didn't have the $$$ to win a game.

This LCG format on the other hand has got me pumped! =)

LCG's are much easier to collect that is for sure. In about a year I went from starting AGoT to owning every single card for the game. No other CCG other than the short lived Ophidian 2350 can I ever have said that about.

I joined yesterday when I found LotR LCG, I'm not a huge fan of LotR but the reason I'm buying it it's because... lol... I DON'T BUY BOOSTER PACKS!! I might even get a rare card, but to get to it I would've needed to spend a LOT of money I mean A LOT!! And I needed to continue buying boosters to be a real T1 player... ... and that sucks a little =x now with LCG what matters is skill and not money...

Besides, I will be able to play singleplayer with LotR when I don't have a friend around, and that gives more value to the package, you can test your deck before playing with a friend.

This concept is so awesome it's hard to believe =D I stopped playing my card games because of the money, now I can have fun all the time only wasting 15€ a month instead of 30€+ with random cards....

Distributed like DBGs, but they play like CCGs, nothing but awesomeness in my book.

The only problem with LCGs is that some of my favorite games aren't.

I completely agree and if you want to know why you can read about my thoughts here .

I love the new LCG format. I stopped playing CCGs not because I didn't enjoy them a lot, but because they were such a big investment to truly have a pool of good cards to play with. Sure opening packs is sometimes fun and exciting (its really like gambling), but most of the time you're dissappoinited- you just tossed out a bunch of money, and possibly not even gotten 1 card you wanted to use. It is easier with friends to play with, but with a smaller group of friends it can be hard, and lets face it, some cards just aren't very good and nobody wants. There are also times when several people want to play the same color.

LCGs have gotten me back into deckbuilding card games. I now know up front how much I have to spend to build a deck, and can budget accordingly. I know Magic will never change because they have pretty much a stranglehold on the top of the market, but I would hope this is how new generation CCGs go. (I also doubt Japanese card games will pick up this format.)

I guess the only drawback is I doubt you will see any dealer with singles for sale for LCGs. Oh yes and drafting is totally different, but I've never really been a draft player anyway. I just like to build decks and have fun.

Kitsune Rei said:

Well, Thorondor, the organizer for the German tournaments at Stahleck has been selling single cards: www.eaglecard.org

I'm not sure if he will continue to do so, now that every AP will have three cards.

I was done with CCG´s then found LCG´s and I just love to have all necessary cards in one booster!

In my opinion its truth that LCG's have advantage with " You know what you get " effect, but same thing can be also bad side becouse like someone mention before its pleasure opening boosters in CCG's when you dont know what is actualy inside.

But im not sure about money problem in CCG's over LCG's. I noticed that actualy many my friends that playing Warhammer Invasion buying same expansions multiple times, even core sets they geting 2 or 3 times to get more copys of cards they need for deck. If add to this how fast coming new addons its also very expensive . So if someone want be serious pro player in LCG's tournaments he also need spend a lot of money, maybe in some situations even more than CCG player becouse that one can have luck with rare good cards in boosters.

cheers