This Could Break Trading Card Games. 

5 million raised is certainly no joke, but where do you see this fitting into the landscape of TCGs?

He didn't mention the most important thing when talking about rarity and deck building: You can only have up to 15 rares and 3 uniques while building your deck, so common will always be the majority in any deck. The game is not about having a deck full of rare with better stats, rarity is a power budget in this game, and there will be less bulk and less expensive decks because common is always used

I was on the fence but decided to back for three reasons: 1. The non violent gameplay is perfect to introduce younger family members to the hobby. 2. Equinox has been more transparent as the Kickstarter went on, giving updates and doing interviews. 3. All the unique and foiler stretch goals make me think I'll easily make my money back if we end up not loving it. Most people I've seen that are against this game are mainly focused on whether they'll be able to flip it for a quick buck. I'm glad those people are turned off by it, they're the ones that ruin secondary markets. Game looks fun and I'm eating up as much content as I can about it.

I have my doubts and chose not to back. Don’t wanna get burned again.

Love to see some more Altered content on the channel! It's exciting to see some new concepts and shakeups in the TCG space even if they seem risky. I like the idea of re-printing your own cards, but wonder how that will turn out in the secondary market.

personally, i don’t think the tcg space is saturated at all. it just that people keep making “me toos” of the big 3. that’s saying video games are saturated because of 3 popular games. i think altered is out to carve its own space and not compete with what’s on there market head to head. and so far it’s been organically grabbing peoples attention since it’s breaking a lot of molds. excited to see where it goes but it’s off to a great start.

I have played Altered TCG, and it's really fun to play! Will I get a starter deck through the Kickstarter? No, probably not; I will wait until Altered has a bigger scene.

I backed the game with the same backing you offered. If it fails I will just report it as a loss on my taxes. It looks like a kewl concept.

A Promising Game! Unfortunately they don't ship to my country... Régis Bonnessée is an awesome designer and Dice Forge is one of my favourite games of all time. And the art of the game... Wondrous!! Hope Altered is a success so I can play in the future...

im so glad my LGS is stocking this game up... this game has inspired me to make a noncombat TCG and this game does it in classy fashion

Pretty smart financially. Ensures they will always have a slice of the pie of the secondhand market. They couldn't care less about sending you paper copies of cards because they already made their money off the same card 100 times over as it switched hands on their marketplace.

I backed this awhile ago! It looks like fun. I have high hopes for it.

I'm very high on it! I was skeptical but after I played it on BGA I upped my teir and got another box. I hope this game lasts

Would love to see it do well :)

I almost backed this game. But then I asked myself "Will I play this game?" When the answer was "only if others are playing" I stopped myself. Sure, maybe I'm missing out on the financial chance of a lifetime. But if I was to back a game just because I could sell the reward for a profit I wouldn't be happy with myself. Games are for playing, not for profit. If you want to profit off of a game make your own game. Long story short, I'll gladly buy this game if I see it in the store and others want to play it. Until then, however, I have enough on my plate with FaB and OP. Especially with how incompetent Bandai is with distributing products...

Ive been looking at the recently sold on the promos on ebay and they are selling for a decent amount. Saw a couple that sold for 500 each, bunch for over 100. Looking promising already

I wish they had cases available

Im open for new tcg's, but am not positive towards the pacifist focus of a 'non conflict' game. Interaction and competition is key for any game focused on a market outside children. Ill see how its other ideas shape out though.

I decided to back Altered, but I definitely have concerns about the longevity of the system. The game feels fantastic online, frankly it feels like FaB and Lorecana had a baby. But in person it felt more like a board game than a TCG. I’m hoping that’s more a one time thing caused by me not explaining the rules properly. It also feels like it’s leaning heavily into the digital stuff in a way I’m not sure if I like. I think the game definitely has potential, but it’s probably in for a bumpy ride

Looks nice. I have been informed by a very important person (wife) that I don’t need another TCG! 😂

I'm skeptical, but I really hope its a success

I don't think indie tcg is even possible today. If it will have low playerbase, it will die. And if playerbase is big, it will be solved quite fast, and after that you will need to race against your playerbase, inventing more and more sets so game will not become stale Will be surprised if this game will stay for long (and of course i'll be glad for them)

Super excited for this game

I've been following this very loosely, I was somewhat excited until you spoke about the rarity. I can play against someone and we have exactly the same deck, but theirs is better bc their cards are higher rarity? You say it seems cool, but aren't my common cards just redundant once I get that card in a higher rarity? Honestly, at this point, I will play anything which has both a physical and digital version.

Awesome!!!Big Like ❤❤❤❤❤

I find collecting to be a big part of TCGs, Without collecting I dont think I would of made it to my local game store. I went there to trade and ended up playing the TCG for the first time. Same back when I was in school collecting pokemon very rarely did we actually battle unless in a game store it was mostly trading for collecting and I still enjoy collecting as much as playing if not more. I dont like the direction TCGs are going against collectors for me it kills the game same reason I stopped with FaB. I understand they want people playing the games but you need to get them in the game store first also You dont understand NFTs my g they have a place in the cryoto markey just not for what the masses use them for, also minting an NFT would cost a lot less energy and leave less of a carbon footprint then printing cards on demand lol personally i would prefer the cards to be NFTs they have done exactly the same concept without the security/transparency of a blockchain or use of crypto. Also print on demand like this does NOT support your local game stores I cant see a lot of them pushing this TCG when it's just cutting them out of the loop.

Deleted my previous comment, I should have just watched the video further. I am so glad this doesn't use NFTs or blockchains!

It looks like it will have a strong launch, but most new usually do. It's relatively easy to make a card game, but where most fail is long-term support for the game. Many have come and gone and we just lost MetaZoo though I would argue MetaZoo was destined to fail. I'm not backing Altered but if it comes to retail, I may look into it. It doesn't look that fun or interesting for me personally.

So, I dislike this whole scheme because it feels like the company has designed a bunch of infrastructure to make sure they are the middle man for every single transaction. I can't buy cards from my local game store with out going through them, I can't buy cards from my friends, or people outside an event hustling their trade bait for lunch money, because I'm not buying a "card" I'm buying the Equinoxes recognition that I'm allowed to use it in Organized Play. I haven't done the work to see what their cut of this is, because maintaining that infrastructure isn't being done out of good will, but I expect it to adjust upwards once they can get a firm grip on the exact value of the secondary market and figure out what kinda goals they want to set for themselves growth wise. And I'm not against a company trying to make money off a game they are creating, but this is making money off secondary market transactions they've forced you into as a tax for wanting to play their game. Couple that with the fact your account in good standing is a prerequisite for liquidating your collection, if they decide they really don't want you playing the game, they just disconnect your account and you can't even liquidate your collection to people who are interested in continuing to play. And the Kick Starter wasn't so much of a kick starter as it was their preorder system, they have all the back end for the game made, they paid their artists, etc. They just wanted the free publicity of saying "Our Kickstarter met it's goal in 2 minutes and made a X times more than our goal." It's not unusual these days and it's not unique to them, but it still gives me the grumps. I don't inherently think they are a sketchy company, or they are out for some evil mastermind stuff, but they do happen to have a lot of the tools and systems in place that sketchy companies would love to have normalized.

The rarity system is an ARPG loot system. Essentially cards have the same base effects and get better stats with higher rarity I saved you 10 minutes.

I can't believe how much I want to play and collect this game but honestly putting a QR code on the card destroys the aesthetic for me :( I didn't think it would bother me that much. I find it very distracting ...

Looks like Gwent

Will not be backing, but they are doing some interesting things.

Looks like a kids game, NOPE from me 😂

Leave it to the French to make a TCG where you don't fight lmao

It sounds good for me as a player, but it just sounds abusable in a way that might get the company bankrupt. Like if I buy a handful of cards digitally, then print out 10 playsets each, and sell the digital cards to buy another handful - can I not end up with multiple playsets of every physical card for essentially free, and if so how are they intending to make money? Might not work that way, I came up with that while watching the video with only the information you mentioned but if I can come up with a flaw in 15min then I would be wary of the business model.

I can't imagine a worse way to implement unique digtal versions of every card as "Large white and black box of random squares taking up 1/6th of every single card." I've never been able to call the failing reason for a tcg down to a singular thing, but the QR code on every single card is the ugliest thing to ever happen to the face of a trading card game.

Your take on the NFT thing seems like too much of an "crypto insider" take. To most people NFTs are just owning rights to "digital art" and the idea that that is something that holds value (which people at large rejected). To me the whole economics side of this just seems like it's concieved by people who are way too deep into this "eco-sphere" and can't see the broader picture. Also, the fact that half of what's innovative about the game is that stuff is... concerning. At the end of the video the question left in my mind is; Is the game good though ? Even if this ends up being a successful new take on distribution of card games it won't matter if the game fades away into obscurity.

Too many of these go to 0. Can’t buy anymore. Fab was the last for me.

TLDR: I'm a hater. The more I look at this game the more it feels like it should have been a board game or an LCG sold in a box or something. For some reason youtube keeps recommending this to me, so I'll take my time to write a comment after watching this. My main reasons for hating this game are mostly knee-jerk, nothing to do with it's actual quality, backing or potential future. I hate the art. The art-style is this homogenized boring inoffensive style that league of legends started adopting not too long before I quit and is used by many games since. I always hated it as to me it looks boring and uninspired, even the coolest ideas look lame this way. Can't exactly describe it better, because I'm not an art guy. The whole QR code (disgusting) / digital ownership stuff. Seen it tried before, as you mentioned it was the "other way around", might as well have printed it on the back that is going to be covered by a sleeve. The print-to-demand thing is also questionable, what even are you collecting here? The core gameplay of winning a race is also boring and feels like the game will be a lot more meta heavy than others as the win condition is so unorthodox. By that I mean people will have an easier time optimizing the fun out of it.