I am fascinated by the total lack of talk about the WoW World Championship on both the UDE forums and the wowrealms site.

They got nearly 400 people to qualify and play, but only 4 people seem to care on the message boards.

How does that work? Are they keeping it within their guilds in the WoW online game itself? Are they just anti-social? What gives?

When we have Mega Weekends and our World Championship, we will have plenty of conversation about it. In the past, we have gotten 400 people to talk about a final four tables.

Are we so different, or do they discuss things in a place I don't know about?

VS is a good game. People discuss it because it's fun.

WoW is a bad game. People play it because it's supported. They don't discuss it because it's boring.

Seems fairly straightforward to me.

good question, I was wondering the same thing. I think the popularity of the WOW TCG is artificially inflated by the 100K prize being played for at worlds, as well as the ebay value of loot cards. Of course it seems the same same was likely true of VS. when it was the money game, but we have survived beyond that initial boost as a community, and are becoming fairly self sustaining at this point, purely on the strength of this being an awesome game. I wonder if anyone would discuss the wow TCG at all anywhere if they took all of it's money away(which wouldn't surprise me in the least. I doubt they took the money out of the PC's just to instead give it away at WOW tourneys). Not saying it's a bad game, I've only played it two or three times myself and it seems fun, it just doesn't seem to have anywhere near the awesome community we do... Yeah, good for us. Will Wow maintain it's popularity once they pull the money out and pro's all go back to magic or poker. Or maybe me and Stu are just out of loop and there is some magical hidden place where all the community talk is. It6 is entirely possible that we are just our of the loop.

I have a few friends who play it, and whilst they're happy about the announcement, that's about it. They don't seem to feel the need to discuss it with anyone else.

Yeah, this really is an awesome game.

I wonder how many TCGs would survive like this one if you took away all the money and support?

Ive never played WOW, but people who have, have told me that it plays in the exact same way as MTG.

I know card games are going to be similar in one way or another, to be exactly the same just seems boring. (And I got bored of MTG, so didnt feel the need to play WoW...)

I wouldn't say exactly the same. It's very similar and I think they made it with the intention of it being easy to learn for magic players, but then I think it has as much or more in common with vs from my limited experience with it.

I don't think it plays EXACTLY the same as MTG, but it has been years since I've played MTG.

Comics are my first love, so Overpower and VS hold a special place in my heart. WoW was pretty good the few times I played it, but it never really grabbed me. I would rather spend my time correcting some of the VS flaws and create an even better comic TCG than delve into WoW even with all of the support.

Besides, this community kicks ###. 'Nuff said. ;-)

I do know a few guys who play.
Their comunity isn't as open as our community.

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You know what, now that you think about it: that is unusual. We have developed a big online community despite how many times we verbally pummel one another or for that matter the game of VS. Bottom line is we are here and more importantly we continue to show our support because this is more than business to us: it's basically like a second Family.
I mean we are here... Still buying singles and boxes, discussing sets gone bye and speculating on future ones.
The strength of our community has got to count for some future benefit, but as of right now: this is interesting???

A Huge Majority of the WoW online community is at Worlds. People who tend to troll message boards about the games they play are the people who truly love them. Its only natural that when 400 of the games most loyal fans show up for a tournament, most of them probably don't have the time or the resources(laptop + paying for wireless) to post on the forums. I troll the WoW Forums frequently and most of major posters are at Worlds. (I don't even post there because I just play WoW for fun and Raids)

The forums got super tight close to Worlds too. I mean 100k is on the line for first. WoW is serious busines.... (get the joke?)

While I understand that arugument, I don't think it holds water here.

The forums for WoW don't hold a candle to ours, even when there is no tournament ongoing. Go look at the lead-up threads, and check back after it's over. Our community is like at least 10 times stronger than theirs in terms of participation. And ours was 10 times stronger than it is now when we had big money tournaments.

Not to mention that we have been around much longer than WoW. Hence our fan base is larger, and more loyal. We have been established, even during our days of "dying." No matter how you try to look at this, yes we are a tighter community... but only due to the fact that we have been here longer.

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I disagree, strongly.

I was here in the early days, and we had a much larger amount of participation right off the bat.

Maybe it's the superheroes, maybe we are less "guild oriented", maybe we are more accustomed to traditional communication... but our forums have always had better and more well-attended discussions.

Because stu doesn't play WoW.

Neither do I. I tried when it first came out, but I kept falling to sleep.