Altered TCG: My Unfiltered Thoughts 

What do you think about Altered TCG?

The biggest risk this game has is that it's essentially a 'print on-demand' subscription. I think it's somewhat weird that quite a lot of people don't really get that this is a 'service' you're buying into and not really a physical product. Few people realise that they could literally not sell ANY product and just sell you digital rights on a digital market place and subscribe you on a print-on-demand service and it would be the same thing. The physical product (Packs/Boxes) literally only exists to bridge the mental gap and make it somewhat understandable that it's a Trading Card Game. It's fricking brilliant if it works, it's absolutely horrible if the costs (for printing and/or shipping) are too high. They said something of max €1 a card which is a decent upper limit but still astronomically high tbh. I think the theoretical math is: How much does it cost to print and ship a starter deck that I own/have bought, it should be less than €12 for 40 cards which is charging less than 30 cents a card. (None of this is even with shipping so this whole thing is very challenging to do, on cost they could possible get as low as 2-3 cents a card). My hypothesis is: If they can get it as low as 4 bucks for 40 cards with 2-3 bucks shipping, ideally under 6 bucks...it'll explode in popularity, over the 9 mark...it'll implode. The cool thing is: Globalisation and Localisation, you essentially can print the card in any language which doesn't split regions.

Im confused at how it can be collectible if everyone can just print the cards they want. By owning one you never have to buy another of that card just print as many as u want. Then give them out to whoever u want. Plus at 4 million plus in sales at kickstarter means a lot of cards immediately available. Makes ks boxes like a normal release. Wont it tank when they all hit the market the week after release? Im no expert but just questions i have.

Elestrals and nomnom is more of my style but I put on for 2 boxes because this looks really polished

Pulled my backing, love the professionalism but I differ from other people in that I think them hijacking the secondary market is just a money grab

Whats cool is with how the unique system works, someone could buy 1 ks pack and pull a card with the highest stats and best ability combos possible and could beat out someone who bought over 40 boxes. Min maxing tourneys gonna pay high price in theory. Could be wrong haha. Could only afford 14 boxes. Gonna be fun hehe

Its a lot of fun and im happy to see so many interesting risks on the companies part. If they really push for local play theyll do well for themselves. Probably a harder sell to LGSs though

the way they set up the digital aspect is quite odd. Funny enough I think this could have been a good use of NFTs. If the qr code on each card allowed you to get the nft of that card and then use that on a digital client while being able to freely buy sell and trade your assets that would be pretty cool. Although you dont need nft's to do that, you can set that all up on a centralized server but the physical to digital could have been done a bit differently

STONKS!

Even though they have artist for it right now, the Blend art style with the soft lights, could potentially be taken over by AI easily. At least with Sorcery they had human art with smaller refine strokes that take the man hours with varies lighting and experience to justify the cost. Others are already talking about the print to demand problems so I don't need to elaborate further. However you're right in Equinox's professionalism and experience in choosing now to launch when everyone is getting their tax returns. I feel as though Drakkerion, Legions Realms at War, Kryptek, and VanquishersTCG deserved the attention much much more if the economy was better during their runs and honestly looks as though they had much more work done in those games. I know I don't know how anything is going to actually turn out, and that the only way to get a net positive is to diversity and buy some Altered just in case, but I just have a nagging impulse that it might not turn out, and that I would actually benefit more by going back to the previous covid era KS TCGs and help with their natural growth now they they have struggled and survived, compared to this silver spoon.

Idk why I'm not attracted to this one, but I hope it (and many TCGs) do good these coming years.. This one appears to be a good representation of what 'todays' TCGs look/feel/play like.. Nothing bad to say about it, just not my specific style.. Similar to Nom Nom.. 🃏

Backed Master Tier as well - there's so much value in these KS boxes compared to what distro will have

Backing it 100% but at the master tier. It is the best TCG experience I have had

I am backing this at the 500$ tier. Opening 3 boxes and sitting on one to hopefully get my money back

On ur speculation...$200 is probably realistic, it's insane to think 1k is remotely possible tho. Theres SO much supply, I'm betting prices will hover between 150 and 175.

Why do tcgs insist on making in person play a disaster. Zoo with it's 4th wall and this game telling you to print your own cards. That sets up so many options for cheating. The card art looks great but I can't get behind a print your own cards gimmick.

the game, from the get go, was highly polished and professional looking. the lifestyle trailer was a great pitch and well put together, informative. This is the bar kickstarter tcgs should aim for. We are no longer in a pandemic bubble where you can put slap together some low effort bs and call it the day *cough* nom nom zoo 2.0 *cough* really hope the project has a long and healthy life.

it's amazing how people are willing to express uninformed opinions in the comments... inform yourself before making blanket (false) statements... but no, perhaps don't and stay away from this game, we'll be happy not to have toxic people in our community

Looks like astroturf and an idea that was brewed in the NFT era. I also don't like the Great Value League of Legends art style.

Nice game. But, not worth speculating by the looks of it.

Save your money, this game will go nowhere.

Bland art, NFT-esque gimmick but the whales are all in on this tcg. It's too big to fail.