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would be a cool feature and pokemon company has done cool things like that before. though I think tcg pocket is intended for new trainers, collectors, and not us sweaty og tcg players :P :D

In fairness, the segment was Billy explaining the info and it was Nick reacting with his thoughts on it. With WoW specifically he's had some grievances and (I feel) pretty wild demands of the game philosophy over the last 15-20yrs that we've played.

thanks! yaa i realized after we shot. loxodant is one of the new fighters. aether 1 was cool for the "dlc" characters like ori

Top level esports are definitely suffering from bad actors and corpo-greed. BUT, Historically colleges used traditional sports like American football as a recruiting and alumni strategy. That strat supercharged those games over time. Students ARE interested in competitive gaming, colleges WILL follow. The friction is really whether or not the game devs holding things back. Like the NFL didn't have to ask football's game developer to organize games.

Def do but this card was a problem, had something like a 70% win rate in tournaments and almost a 50% play rate. Normally decks are like 10-20% play rates

@@TheEsportsMeta just face it, organized magic is stupid. The players and creators don’t know how to make a balanced game. The players are crybabies and the developers enable crying.

There's a pop up when you load the game that says "EARLY DEVELOPMENT BUILD. Deadlock is still early in development, with a lot of temporary art and experimental gameplay. Do not share anything about the game with anyone." To clear that popup you need to hit escape or okay, either way is legally acknowledging the statement. An action made to clear that don't speak about it popup. Lawyers do more with less and everyone who played it in secret seemed to agree hence why no one said anything until the verge leaked. Shroud showed the deadlock discord message confirming the "NDA was lifted" (what it literally said) the day it was lifted and then talked about the game publicly for the first time. At minimal its a gag order, but valve being a big company (though they're more good guy video game company than others; a very low bar) their lawyers almost certainly considered it an NDA. Do not disclose information about this thing. Are you saying that a publication like the verge was working with valve in some way to build secret hype for the game announcement by leaking screenshots and gameplay? or that was ultimately the pinky promise? From my pov it looks like verge leak forced an announcement from valve that they're leveraging right now.

@@TheEsportsMeta I don't think Valve would permit this super sneaky secret project to be unleashed on tens of thousands of people via friend invite, and then have lawyers squalor over how they can pursue people, even the Verge, in a court of law. Of course Valve wanted people to play the game and talk about it - it wasn't actually a secret, everyone knew about it prior to the Verge posting that article. Even that discord post you are talking about doesn't actually say the word "NDA". Valve's legal team almost certainly would have consulted with Valve's executive team and developers and said, "Hey, do we actually want this to be covered by a formalised NDA? Otherwise we have no way of protecting this game from being leaked" - to which the rest of Valve would have certainly made the calculated choice to not push a formal NDA, and made a calculated intentional choice to let the game spread like a virus via invites. I'm not saying Valve colluded with the Verge, but Valve knew publications like the Verge would post about the game because Valve was not formally protecting their game from being leaked. Yes, NDAs as a legal instrument do not have to have 'Non-disclosure agreement' written in big bold words. They can be implicit. However Valve chose to not protect their game with a formal big bold NDA, and if this went to a court of law, a magistrate might just say "well look at the way you freely allowed mass distribution of your game to unvetted players; on that notion there wasn't even an implicit NDA, let alone a formal signed contract". It's not a gag order either because gag orders pertain to ongoing lawsuits, of which Valve has not started any over Deadlock being leaked, to my knowledge. I don't think their lawyers consider it an NDA at all. I think this because I think Valve released this game in a weird and covert way as a marketing stunt, and the stunt was in essence that Valve didn't want people to talk about this top secret game because it was so tippity top secret. Except it wasn't, because Valve mass distributed it and had no legal instruments protecting it. If Valve wanted to protect knowledge of the game, they would never have mass distributed - and so, there was no NDA, neither explicit nor implicit. I'm not trying to be a dick, by the way, I don't mean to come off like that. Your video raised some interesting points. I just think it was an operative choice for Valve to not pursue any legal protections.

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yes sir. appreciate the honest feedback. we had a mic fx issue that we didn't realize until after the show and currently working to resolve.

I don't think it's that hot of a take. Gaming is a tale of two cities. Highly competitive xbox live 12yo trash talk and fight for your rent money stress / anxiety. Its def a fair thing to say with competitive esports' financial instability. We believe esports needs to "grow up" with the trash talking (ie not just defaulting to "i slept with your mom" & n-word :| ) so it can grow up with the money. Maybe that means players need to be older too? On the fence with that one but the argument there is these 17yos brains haven't finished cooking so of course they fumble how to shower or haven't mastered the eloquent art of trash talk. Hell, how many stories of the profession athlete rookies crashing the brand new car are there? Shaq famously spent a million dollars the moment he signed his first NBA contract. Not exactly responsible. And then Conventional athletes chirp at each other all the time BUT have more insulation. They've got player unions, codes of conduct, a different kind of PR department from the AAA Game developers than the major sports leagues, and a lot more to lose.

@@TheEsportsMeta A good your momma joke comes in clutch. Every time. And the majority of the time everyone can laugh at it cause everyone understands, it's a joke since it's been around for so long. While I'm not against trash talk I'm not for unnecessary trash talk or physical contact and at some point it does become harassment and some people actually do take it way to far (IE calling someone a 🐻over comms or saying you're going to 💀someone irl b/c you're "trash talking", that is an example of WAY to far, you just said a person is about to commit a felony and in the other falsely accusing them which still can be career ending even if completely false) but that line is in different places for every single individual which makes it hard to tell where that line lies. The main thing I'm against is taking our amendment rights such as freedom of speech and just COMPLETELY STRIPING IT just because it hurts someone's feelings WITHOUT taking it to far. A code of conduct if you will. Just go back and look at Eminem. He's the whole reason CD's came with the a Parental Advisory sticker they tried to silence his music based on just words that came from his mouth that he skillfully crafted to ignite emotion. Freedom of speech, man up, suck it up, move on. No one forced you to join an esports organization or to play a competitive game. I do not condone physical violence or emotional abuse but the art of competition has 2 sides. One: you're insecure about who you, where you belong, etc, and your trying to fill that gap. and Two: You just want to be the best version of you at that skill set, opinions, words, or otherwise doesn't phase or bother you b/c you're only goal is to improve yourself and anything else isn't your problem. With One though comes this "play nice" mentality b/c they're insecure, they can't take any trash talk. And with Two, they simply don't care or they are over it in the next 5 minutes and it'll never be a thought again other then maybe in a joking format. An amazing example of this is what the Super Smash Bros Esports circuit has become. They're nice but they all bullshit and trash talk just as well. Grab that, study that and put that in the code of conduct and I'd be completely fine with it.

Absolutely, we discuss this in our recent podcast episode about apex legends' new battle pass. the one thing I still feel is important to acknowledge is that we love these games and want to play them so it does hit the feels when this shit happens. first impulse is to fight for sure but you're right, at a point move on and maybe come back when it's chill.

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@@TheEsportsMeta How dishonest

Yeah I don't think it would be an issue in commander, its the evoke ability that's the quiet killer. Pushes a bigger advantage in the other formats.

@@TheEsportsMeta I mean honestly? from what I understand about other formats, this card is no different than any other control spell, it's just a cheap control in mono black. Also I use control loosely as a overall term for controlling the pace of the game/controlling the narrative to keep it to how you want the game to be played.

in another comment thread @augrills hits the nail on the head. Its cheap, sets tempo, and creates advantage / you don't lose advantage. I think it's the lynch pin in oppressive vibe of black decks right now. There's a reason the deck with grief went from a 37% to a 50%+ play in the last couple weeks. We here think its grief.

Even if you can counter it, it’s a one drop that’s strictly better than any other one drop lol. Heck, it’s even better than a 1 drop cause you can play it on turn one and still have a land untapped

It's not a skill thing. Look at play % and win rates in legacy. The last 30 days reanimate went from 37% to 51%. Grief is in the top 6 of 10 decks. Players are choosing to play with this deck and they're winning. No one is "finding" a solution that doesn't put you behind like @augrills is saying.

@@TheEsportsMeta There’s literally no downside to playing this card. You don’t lose card advantage, there’s a ton of damage, a ton of tempo, a ton of value, and it stands on its own as broken. At any point in the game it’s either nuts or good.

@@TheEsportsMeta Awee someone is mad that they're bad. How typical.

Sorry you lack critical thinking skills. 🤷‍♂️

Holy wall of text batman. Thanks for the feedback, do appreciate the notes. There's a lot to unpack here but don't totally have the time. The biggest thing I want to point out is that a meta isn't something hard and fast. It can be very loose. The reasoning is because people. Player sentiment can skew for or against stuff so best or meta can very intangible. Ideally it is which tool makes a task or problem easier, ie a hammer is S tier meta for hitting nails BUT you can do the same job with the back side of a screw driver. If the screwdriver is on your belt but the hammer is in the truck, people will use the screwdriver. OW is more complex but same principles apply.

yeah but with the BR characters, the legends. Playable in an action shooter. Hell we'd even like to see them do an RTS or auto-battler with them. Throw in the titans too!

@@TheEsportsMeta an rts would actually be super cool if they brought in titanfall grunts and had legends be hero types. I get what you’re saying!

​@@AkaTipla dude that'd be so cool with the Titans and if they could some how keep some sort of movement from Titanfall 🔥

Exactly, Probably a big reason why. We're not anti spending money on a game but sheesh people going too hard with the wallet on these free games.

Yes we stream. Still new, and new to TH-cam. Just hit a good point for tech tech. Tried out shorts and I think some videos double posted

@@TheEsportsMeta enjoying the content. But you could ask your co-host to buy a better mic.

​@@Reyfii appreciate the honest feedback and yes something that we're working on ❤

but have you ever tried type 4?

He's figured out our duplicity! Quick run