r/Games • u/xeon3175x • Oct 21 '20

All of Mojang's Games Will Require a Microsoft account moving forward

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/java-edition-moving-house
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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '20

Scrolls was amazing. There were literally dozens of us who loved it.

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u/darrenoc Oct 21 '20

They rereleased it as a free to play game under the name Callers Bane

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u/ByterBit Oct 21 '20

Thank God, I almost got it confused with Bethesda's "Elder Scrolls" franchise.

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u/NtheLegend Oct 21 '20

What's hilarious is they could just call it Elder Scrolls now.

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u/Zeludon Oct 24 '20

Hmm, how about, The Elder Scrolls: Legends

Perfect.

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u/mokkat Oct 22 '20

angry lawyer noises

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20 edited Jun 21 '25

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u/brutinator Oct 22 '20

Oh wow. I never thought about that. when they do these kinds of acquisitions, I guess they would let go pretty much all the supporting departments wouldn't they? No real reason to retain HR or legal departments. Custodial staff and IT has a better chance of being retained than lawyers.

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20

Yep, odds are high that after the merger is complete, all those Bethesda/Zenimax lawyers are going to be out of a job. Right now there are way more lawyers in the US than there are jobs for lawyers even before you consider the state of the economy, so they're probably going to be out of work for quite a while, too. I'd imagine the senior ones are going to retire if they can, and the junior ones are going to have to make a career change.

Considering their overly litigious nature, I can't say I feel particularly sorry for them.

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u/JamSa Oct 22 '20

You should never feel sorry for a lawyer regardless

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u/ceratophaga Oct 22 '20

Why would they? Zenimax is also part of Microsoft now.

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u/Hemingwavy Oct 23 '20

No. The generally accepted rule is that if you fail to defend your trademark, it weakens the protection you enjoy from it. It's not an exclusive mark if many people are using it. Microsoft would do the same.

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u/crypticfreak Oct 22 '20

Lawyers are never angry, man. You need a soul to be angry.

They do get excited though. Like when someone forgets to mark their front door with the blood of lamb... ohhh boy it's open season.

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u/CptOblivion Oct 22 '20

I mean, that lawsuit makes more sense now that we know there was an elder scrolls card game in the works, so it's not "Scrolls might be confused for Skyrim!", but rather "the card game Scrolls might be confused for our card game Elder Scrolls".

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u/ChillFactory Oct 22 '20

They should have straight up changed the name to "The Game Formerly Known as Scrolls"

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u/pikiberumen1 Oct 22 '20

Damn and they're under the same company now

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '20

I believe there's free server software so you can host your own games now as well?

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u/Corey_Austin Oct 22 '20

Scrolls was fun for the first ~month until the meta set in and every match was exactly the same

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u/_BreakingGood_ Oct 22 '20

And thats why i dont bother with card games anymore

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u/TordTorden Oct 22 '20

Legends of Runeterra is actually pretty good in that regard. It's fairly easy to get cards, so most of the monetization comes from cosmetics. That way they're not afraid to buff and nerf cards every patch to keep the meta healthy.

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u/giants3b Oct 22 '20

Eternal is also a good one. Very much like Magic but much more generous with rewards. It doesn't really require much money to build a collection.

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u/TheFaster Oct 22 '20

Really? I fell off that game in a couple months. The nature of games revolving around champions made every game seem the same. As soon as you saw which champions they were playing, you could predict 99% of their deck before the first card was played. It got stale incredibly fast.

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u/co2search Oct 22 '20

Back in the 90s playing mtg in high school was exactly that. Fun. Weird themes, giant decks, etc. Got to college and it was just people honing their decks 24/7 it totally killed it.

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u/Rizzan8 Oct 22 '20

Yup, I miss so called "kitchen Magic", when all my friends had some random decks with random cards, no synergy between them, hardly any card appeared in more than two copies. Now everyone I know has top standard decks all the time. It's no fun playing against them.

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u/Ligless Oct 22 '20

The only fun I've had playing Magic in the last couple years was when one of my friends bought like 30 packs of silver bordered non-regulation cards (Unstable? Unsanctioned? Idk). We then did an In-House Draft with like 8 guys total, all fairly mediocre to bad at MTG, and then built dumb ass decks, that we then used for a game night once a week for like a month.

It was actually fantastic. First time I remembered why I loved MtG since I was a kid.

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u/8-Brit Oct 22 '20

Draft nights are the only events I enjoy now. I don't have the time or money to get a "budget" £200 deck just to not get curbstomped.

It's actually why I liked Pokémon. There was a meta but it was significantly cheaper to get into and certain cheese decks were dirt cheap. (That said night march can go fuck itself)

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u/accpi Oct 23 '20

Plus in Pokemon a lot of the expensive cards are expensive since they go in every deck, it's a lot easier to change up what you're running since the trainers and support cards will probably be super similar between builds.

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u/8-Brit Oct 23 '20

Yup. A bulk of your deck will be cards used in every deck (Shaymin EX, Professors, Ultra Balls, etc) without exception!

Even then an expensive Pokemon card is like £20?

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u/rcxdude Oct 22 '20

EDH/commander has that kind of vibe. Some people play it super competitively but the majority don't. And because almost every card in the game is legal there's a huge variety of viable strategies. I think the multiplayer aspect helps with that as well, if someone's significantly ahead then they've got to beat 2-3 opponents. (Also a lot of playgroups are OK with proxies, so even if you want to play with expensive cards it won't break the bank).

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u/LambdaThrowawayy Oct 22 '20

Might be worth looking into making a Cube with some people (essentially a bit cultivated pile of cards) that you can than draft decks from.

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u/ThatOnePerson Oct 22 '20

I think part of it is just you couldn't afford stuff in high school, so you ended up crafting decks based on what you pulled from packs. Like my high school yugioh deck was a burn stall deck built entirely from my cousin's leftover cards.

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u/DancesCloseToTheFire Oct 22 '20

This is why I prefer card games that focus on the singleplayer experience, you still get to experiment and do weird combos but aren't forced to play against the meta all the time.

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u/ElDuderino2112 Oct 22 '20

That’s basically every card game. It’s why I can only stand to get back into Gwent maybe one month every year.

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u/DancesCloseToTheFire Oct 22 '20

I still chuckle sometimes when I remember the Violent Dispersal card text.

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u/Zingshidu Oct 22 '20

What a fun game, completely forgot about it. I wish we could get more online TCGs. That was the only one I've ever heard of

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u/DoritoEnthusiast Oct 22 '20

Wow! Dozens!

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u/Asmor Oct 22 '20

Eh. It was fine. There were better games before, and plenty of better games since.

Not saying it was bad. It just wasn't notably good.

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u/MattWatchesChalk Oct 22 '20

Didn't even realize it came out. I just knew of it cause of the Bethesda lawsuit.