Titans Return Is the Final Release for the TCG

Discussion in 'Transformers Trading Card Game (TCG) Discussion' started by Wreckgar, Jul 20, 2020.

  1. cutestprincess

    cutestprincess Well-Known Member

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    Dangit, this is a real bummer. I'll admit i was worried this would happen after Covid screwed over the launch of Titan Masters Attack, but i was hoping Hasbro and wotc would be more merciful and understanding of the situation and give it another year or so to bounce back. Are temporary hiatuses a thing for card games? This was my first tcg I've gotten into as an adult, the first one i put any money into, the first one i sought out a community for. I made sure to support my flgs and i went to all the group getogethers there. I inow this happens to a lot of tcgs, but it still hurts when it happens to you...
     
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  2. OctanePoststuff

    OctanePoststuff Soundblaster

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    Dang...
     
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  3. Suboptimal Optimus

    Suboptimal Optimus Burn it all down

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    It can certainly be done but you need a serious hardcore fanbase and also need to keep the legal side in mind.
     
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  4. Rexidus

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    My only question is why? What caused them to cancel it?
     
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  5. Grimlock64

    Grimlock64 Well-Known Member

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    The Dragon Ball Z Collectible Card Game by Score lasted nine sets and two revisions before going belly up, but the fan base (with help from the actual developers of the game ) kept it alive for TEN YEARS with fan cards and rule errata until Panini revived it for seven new sets... then cancelled it when Bandai put out a Dragon Ball card game, and fans/developers did at least two full sets of fan made cards.
     
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  6. PlanckEpoch

    PlanckEpoch Red and black red and black

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    I saw this at launch, which is why aside from a few boosters I got just for shits and giggles, I never really committed to this game. Wasn't the sole reason, but definitely a big one.

    I said before that if your TCG isn't competition ready and fully featured or truly innovative right out of the gate, you're gonna have a hard time competing against the titan that is Magic the Gathering. Plus, with Magic being Hasbro owned and one of the biggest goddamn properties they have, I highly doubt that, internally, Hasbro was willing to take any thunder away from Magic.

    The reality is that this was doomed from the start. Yugioh and Pokemon hold on due to the appeal of Japanese properties. Hell, the only real card game alternatives are a dozen or so Japanese based ones, and that's propped up due to the appeal and popularity of anime and the fans that consume that media.
     
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  8. shadowbug

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    Yep, I feel if this had been cheap to collect, say 1.99 or 2.50 a booster, it would have put the packs into the impulse buy territory and it could have had some staying power. Having it be the same as a booster of Magic, which has twice as many cards and way more variety, was a nonstarter for me. I'm sure the oversized foil character cards were a big factor on the upcharge and maybe they should have forgone that idea.
     
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  9. Dinobot Snarl

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    I think if they had actually pulled in other properties, (like GI Joe and Power Rangers) they would have been able to keep this moving but the combination of the Corona virus and maybe the fact that Titan Masters wasnt as popular, well and maybe that insulting $200 box set (I don\'t really care how you justify the price of the box the fact is most of us spent probably $200 prior, only to see that they\'re releasing all the best cards and some of them in plastic)  


    I really like the system I think would have been perfect to pull another properties, but at the end of the day they could have just made this a side expansion compatible with magic and the player base would have immediately been so much larger.
     
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  10. InstantClazzic

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    I\'m honestly not surprised it would probably do well if they could just make it a digital game.
    so here\'s yet again another tcg I put money into That died out well before it should.
    now we will never get that planed beast wars set.
    Hasbro needs to just stick to toys and video games at this point
     
  11. Blam320

    Blam320 Assembly Inventor

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    I'm not surprised. It was an insanely stupid decision by Hasbro to make Wizards of the Coast create a brand new TCG in direct competition with their pre-existing, worldwide mega-hit TCG Magic: The Gathering.
     
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    What a shame.
    I love this game.
    I was so excited for another wave of combiners.. or Scorponok to make his way into the game!
    Well, at least I have a couple decks that play really well against each other..
     
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  13. BlackHawkOmega

    BlackHawkOmega Just trying my best.

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    MtG has nothing to do with it? It's not 'direct competition' if it's by the same company
     
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  14. Blam320

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    MTG has everything to do with it. They're both trading card games being produced and released by the same company. They both appeal to the same niche and target audience; the Transformers TCG target audience may even be significantly smaller.
     
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    Couldn't get into it because accessibility issues (think like one card shop in my country carried the game overall), but condolences all the same. Been there with WoW TCG when that got axed.
     
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  16. Lexomatic

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    This news is a big "whatever" to me. I picked up the game at an official event at Pax Unplugged 2018 (buy-in included five booster packs), played a few hands at TFcon Toronto 2019 (pick-up, not tournament), and have purchased boosters at Target, but I haven't sought other opportunities. I'm a fan of Transformers-the-brand, but not of CCGs, so the intersection of "Transformers" and "CCG" is to me merely a novelty, not a strong affinity/commitment. (More generally, I rarely manage to pin down friends for a session of any kind of tabletop game; none of us play enough to get good at anything.)

    The game mechanics are complicated, the official instructions are confusing and the on-card instructions are too-often ambiguous. (I'm a programmer and technical writer, so I've got high standards for algorithm documentation -- similarly, I've found myself re-flowcharting the rules for Star Munchkin). Maybe it all makes sense for CCG veterans ("this dynamic is like X ..."), but as a CCG virgin, I've been lost at sea each time. Even worse is the so-called "metagame" of building a deck with a strategy (prioritizing attack/defense/etc.) in mind. Conversely, I tend to conceptualize in character-oriented, RPG terms -- "a trio of Seekers" or "iterations of Bumblebee from three universes".
     
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  17. briag45

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    Sounds about right. When this first released, I was excited but assumed wotc was using it to introduce more people to card games so they could hook them on mtg. That may not be what happened but its a good cross marketing tool.
     
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    I know it’s probably not going to do anything, but I did sign this petition: Sign the Petition
     
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  19. Steeljaw

    Steeljaw Play more games

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    Hugely disappointing. I really enjoyed this game, had a lot of fun creating content for it. It was exciting to see what you gimmics they translated to game mechanics, the innovation and creativity was really on display here. 
     
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  20. PrimalFury

    PrimalFury The Chosen One

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    Sad news for those who were into the game but I wonder if this means that tech spec bio cards could return to Transformers figures in the future? POTP was the last to have cards and that coincided with the start of the TCG for seemingly obvious reasons, no more TCG so hopefully the toy cards can return, if need be, I'd even settle for digital cards if physical pack in cards are too expensive.