They handled this horribly, I mean, they did not even complete the circle, that's disgusting. But yeah, as the firemind said, duels was going to it's end; hardcore gamers had already too many coins and new players... well, have you seen new players in the last year? Not at all. They never made a serious and big discount on the first expansions or the basic pack and you know, you can't really expect someone to spend 400 euro on a game like this. After EMN and KLD came out new players would have to spend too much money and/or time to get a decent amount of cards.
p.s. the new Bolas is quite simple to code, I actually had more troubles with the old one (second ability in particular). Other cards like
Cryptic Command are truly a pian to code but at the end of the day it is totally unnecessary, the power level of magic duels cards and decks is way too low to play such a powerful card.
Splinterverse wrote:In addition to the obvious things that bother me about this announcement, is the fact that the AI will be stuck playing AKH cards for the most part. I figured it was Stainless' way of advertising the new cards by making the AI almost exclusively play them, but it really limits the variety.
I totally agree, that's the most boring thing and it makes sense only as long as they keep releasing new expansions. At least they could have done a patch to create decent AI decks with all the cards in duels. Unfortunately with these new lol files it is much harder to edit AI decks.
I actually went back playing magic 2014, at least I can play vs good decks. Hopefully modders will find a way to edit AI decks in duels, that would be nice!