Just wanted to wish FFG luck in getting me to give up one of my keyforge decks if it has an unfortunate Archon name. Not even for the two decks for one ?
https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2018/11/9/archon-names/
Might be illegal for tournament play, but you're so not getting it. W ondering whose job it was to switch on the filth blocker and forgot ?
Edited by Andyh19I have a feeling some of them will become collector's items if the game becomes popular. Saw one posted on Twitter yesterday: "Wang the Suddenly Bruised."
The cynic in me wants to think that this whole thing is a manufactured "mistake" by FFG to get people to buy more decks in the hopes of getting a "contraband" name.
@Andyh19 You don’t have to send it in to them.
@pkreynolds Good thing the cynic in you isn’t a businessman, cause he’d be stupid as all ****. Every extra free deck they give for thi is $10 not going to them. You don’t increase profits that way.
Edited by HyperjaymanQuote....
Our customer service team will verify that your deck has been flagged for removal, then work with you to arrange the return of the defective deck.
So if you want the two decks yes you do have to send it to them. I imagine FFG doesn't expect a lot of these decks back even with the two for one, I imagine they just have to make the offer though.
Edited by Andyh192 hours ago, Hyperjayman said:
@pkreynolds Good thing the cynic in you isn’t a businessman, cause he’d be stupid as all ****. Every extra free deck they give for thi is $10 not going to them. You don’t increase profits that way.
That's a pretty dim view that ignores basically everything in my hypothetical scenario.
Again, if the game becomes popular and the "banned name" decks become collectors items that people buy more decks to attempt to find, and then either hold onto or sell online...
Players buy extra decks, players don't return the banned decks, FFG makes more money.
All hypothetical, of course, and yes, if everyone who finds one of these decks sends it back to get two in return then FFG doesn't gain anything. But let's be honest, if you got a deck named "Wang, the Destroyer of the Wetlands" are you mailing it back to FFG or are you keeping it to show to people?
6 hours ago, Hyperjayman said:
@pkreynolds Good thing the cynic in you isn’t a businessman, cause he’d be stupid as all ****. Every extra free deck they give for thi is $10 not going to them. You don’t increase profits that way.
You do know that FFG doesn't get $10 per deck, right? Each deck probably costs them $1 or less and they probably make $1 or $2 on each one.
7 hours ago, Hyperjayman said:Good thing the cynic in you isn’t a businessman, cause he’d be stupid as all ****. Every extra free deck they give for thi is $10 not going to them. You don’t increase profits that way.
The number of extra decks people buy hoping to get a banned name will waaaaaaay outweigh the 4 or 5 decks they'll have to replace.
And I am serious about the 4-5, as I think the vast majority of players (like 99%) would rather have the collector's item.
14 hours ago, Andyh19 said:W ondering whose job it was to switch on the filth blocker and forgot ?
Is it really that bad? I always imagined that it was only about unfortunate combinations or wordings
37 minutes ago, Raahk said:Is it really that bad? I always imagined that it was only about unfortunate combinations or wordings
Honestly don't know. Personally hoping they forgot to switch on the profanity filter totally, but that's just because i'd find it amusing that they forgot to do that ? Until someone gets a totally OTT Archon named deck there's no way of knowing if it's just a few "unfortunate" word combos or not. Also, we don't know what they mean by unfortunate word pairings, there are worse things than profanity. In the meantime it's just slightly amusing to think about what they have let slip through.
Joking aside though, there are some types of named deck that i would return. But if they are of the order of the one PK mentioned then it's like shrug of the shoulders and who cares. It raises the deck to a somewhat interesting collecting deck, not a hair on fire thing. And even the somewhat interesting is a bit of an overstatement ?
Edited by Andyh19One of the decks I got so far is "so and so, the Statistician Statistician." I don't remember the given name, only the title. I'm both torn on that this deck could very well fall under the unfortunate deck naming, but still its a hilarious name.
Will edit this later with the Full name
If I owned this it would never go back to FFG!
This is one of those "unfortunate" deck names.
Please lord tell me those are legit names and not some cruel photoshop prank.
They are indeed, as was general bonerider colt
Wang the Suddenly Bruised is a legal deck as you can check with the search option in the app... It has been registered.
On 11/11/2018 at 1:17 PM, pkreynolds said:I have a feeling some of them will become collector's items if the game becomes popular. Saw one posted on Twitter yesterday: "Wang the Suddenly Bruised."
The cynic in me wants to think that this whole thing is a manufactured "mistake" by FFG to get people to buy more decks in the hopes of getting a "contraband" name.
If this game blows up, as time moves on and public sentiment changes, I could see a lot of bad name decks becoming extremely valuable. It's probably worth it to hold on to those unfortunate decks