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Valve's Artifact CCG launches in November, not F2P, costs $20

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Daitokuji

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Valve Software's first brand-new video game since 2013, the digital card-dueling game Artifact, finally has a release date: November 28.
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Anyone who wants to play Artifact will need to buy the game's base model at $19.99, which will be available on all Steam platforms—meaning Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

What exactly does $19.99 get you? The game maker didn't answer this in its press release, so we reached out to Valve's Doug Lombardi, who broke down the exact package included in that cost: two pre-made "base" decks of 54 cards each ("5 heroes, 9 items, and 40 other cards") and 10 sealed packs of cards, which each include 12 random cards, one of which is guaranteed to be "rare." Additional 12-card packs will be sold directly by Valve at $2 a pop at launch.
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https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018...-november-starting-at-20/?comments=1&start=40

I'm not sure how this will succeed. The current online CCG market is pretty saturated and this one isn't F2P (meaning players can't try before they buy) and the gameplay seems more complex than Hearthstone or any of the other MtG clones out there. At best they will be the DotA2 to the LoL that is Hearthstone and try and get a smaller, but hardcore enough fan base that keeps the game profitable.
 
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