MY PERSONAL OPINION THAT I AM IN NO WAY FORCING ON YOU LIKE A DRUNK CO-WORKER AT AN OFFICE PARTY.

Constructed Strategy / Tactics

These are great but few and far between. All you high level pros, there's a market here for you. the way the PC system is setup allows you to totally take advantage of it. build an awesome deck for a PC, bash the heck out of the metagame and then write an article about your metagame strategy and tactics for the upcoming PCQ season. you can't miss.

Sealed Play

we already have two great perspectives on this, anymore and we may reach the point of over-saturation. i just wish the articles would come out on different days.

Deck articles

deck articles should only be about good, metagame decks. decks that are proven. anything else falls into jank which in my opinion is casual play. we need these Pro deck builders to write articles explaining their awesomeness after every PC. again, there's a built in market for this expertise...just like for strategy and tactics.

Reports and Observations

are we talking tournament reports or the PC Primer type articles that Kergy writes? either way, we need more. but please, only write a tournament report if you actually do well. most people don't care that you started out 4-0 with a fun jank deck and then went 0-6. and if you're going to write a report, please be thorough. if you're just phoning it in, you're wasting all our time.

BAD EX:
Round 3 - Some Guy

i drew the nuts and won on turn 3. the end.

Thematic (comic lore in relation to Vs.)

these don't appeal to me personally. mostly cus i already have a gigantic comic collection. but, i think these only help the game and i wish more people would write them. most players have no idea who the characters on those pieces of cardboard are. education is a good thing. i look forward to an article by Kergy about MHG.

Casual play

ok, casual play is weird. this is for all the jank. but the odd thing about jank is this: building other people's jank decks is kinda like sleeping with another man's wife. you just don't get the same special feeling from playing someone else's deck as you do when you create your own jank. this is why i hate jank articles. i know, that sounds weird.

i don't hate jank, just yours. heh.

Vs. Theory

theory vs practice? do you mean mental magic here? cus that's lame.


BTW, i voted for strategy and tactics. besides sealed, that's where the average player needs the most work.

And you were doing so well...

You sir, are not most people. Thank God. I enjoyed your personal opinion anyway. You are now leveled up.

My favorite articles are PREVIEW articles.

That I'm awesome, of course. Duh.

I disagree a little, since jank combos can be adapted and customized from deck articles. Deranged Hermit/Lifeline changed my life and I found it first in Inquest.

And I just realized that you didn't include alternate formats at all. I assumed those would fit in "Casual Play".

What do people think of alternate format articles?

check the edit.

but, i stand by my "most people". HAH!

This is the line in question, and I actually got a helluva positive response from my crash and burn report.

ah, alternate formats...most people don't know this but i'm a huge multiplayer fan. but, i can't get anyone to play that format with me. our Versus scene is not what you would call "conducive" to casual play.

i'm all in for alt_formats just give me someone to play with. :cry:

i'm bringing a 100 card deck to PCLA...so Adam, you better play with me. but not TBS. he's stains.

I have been writing a few articles on Metagame, have done some coverage and have a regular column. My focus is advanced strategy, theory and constructed play. Some of the articles are pretty intense and seem nerdy, some seem entirely theoretical, but most seem to aim at solid content.

I have wondered if people ever read the really long theory stuff or if they like the lighter, funny stories, talk a little tech kind of stuff. I have received a handfull of e-mail asking questions or talking about the contents. Some good. One real bad. It is hard to find brilliant weekly writing in a small sample of people. How many talented writers exist in the VS. community? In the end, I think we are doing the best we can.

Read some of our stuff and offer specifics. I do not even really mind the highly insulting, critical posts like this as long as they give some specific examples of what they like and don't like. As a weekly writer, I may be able to respond to your feedback, but if you just want to hate...well, I got my hata blockas on.

i wasn't taking a shot at you. i was actually referring to that X-Statix deck that went 4-6. Keebler Powell's deck i believe? and the thread about it that was like 100 pages long. i love the X-Statix as a deck and i love when jank decks do well...but 4-6 is not doing well. i would know. sorry.

Doesn't that sorta disprove your "most people don't care" assumption though? Just sayin'...

there used to be a tab in the forums section that would tell you how many unique users were in a thread right? 100 pages doesn't mean a thread is popular with the majority of the Vsrealms users...it can just mean there are a small group of posters keeping a dead thread alive.

not to poke at stu, but his "Ask Stu" thread is a million times longer but i wouldn't call it popular. maybe popular for the small group that posts in it but i would guess that the majority of the realms doesn't even register it's existence.

and it's interesting that i come in here to give writers what they always ask for, positive feedback, and i get badgered for using a throw away line like "most people". not trying to play the martyr, just found it interesting.

TBZ

1) Wasn't trying to badger. I actually rep'd your original post when I read it.

2) I think by taking a look at the poll in this thread that it's pretty hard to say what "most people" do or do not like. You know, outside of the fact that most people enjoy a well-written, entertaining article. I think subject matter is unimportant. I think when written correctly, a tournament report about a deck that went 0-8 would generate plenty of interest.

3) While certainly not perfectly accurate, I have to believe a thread generating pages-upon-pages of post is generally popular. And seriously, how many people on Realms do you think have no idea what thread we are talking about? I'd wager that it's not a majority.

4) How effing trivial is this argument? Oh, that's right...I have nothing better to do at work right now. pwnage.

"Poke" and "longer" should not be used in the same sentence. But now that you mentioned it, maybe that thread really will get popular: http://www.vsrealms.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18595

I get this quizzical grin everytime people (including myself) make pronouncements about what the "majority" does. I guess its in the nature of the beast. There are always hundreds of lurkers here, and none of them contribute. The profit margins are secret. And yet, we always seem to know what everyone wants. Maybe Tony could program the system to put "In my humble opinion..." at the beginning of every post.

Personally, I think Deck "De-Construction" articles are pretty cool. What goes behind the decisions to put cards in a deck. Not too long ago, there was a huge flame thread on the card "Death Trap". Sure... the card isn't great. The people defending death trap as a choice were rather compelling. I threw a couple into a deck for a recent PCQ. I'll be darned if that stupid card isn't massively responsible for me winning 2 matches that day that I otherwise probably would have lost to and I top 8'd. Writers dont have to be "right"..... merely compelling.