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What do you guys think? Personally I think both have their uses depending on the situation. Physical games have their value if you ever get out of them,and digital games are nice since it significantly makes your chances of finding an opponent easier.

Digital has so much more of an advantage in almost every way except the social aspect. That's admittedly a big reason why I play games, but it's so frustrating to have to travel hours to play one day of competitive games.

I like digital CCG engines like Lackey, OCTGN, or RTS for testing a game or certain cards for free before I decide to buy them, but I would always rather have the physical cards then be limited to a digital copy. There's something about physically drawing cards and moving them that pushing buttons or dragging images can't replace. I also find it easier to make decks with actual cards as opposed to numbers and names in a list. The only real disadvantages to having physical cards are lack of people to play with, money, and storage.

Physical CCG's also tend to carry monetary value far greater than digital CCG's do.

I could very easily see that changing soon, unless gambling laws apply or something.

Quote from: Master KChief on June 29, 2014, 08:34:10 PM

Physical CCG's also tend to carry monetary value far greater than digital CCG's do.

I could very easily see that changing soon, unless gambling laws apply or something.

They wouldn't, because you're not paying for the chance to get X card, you're paying for a specific product (the pack itself).

I didn't mean the amount of revenue generated from tournaments and prize support, I meant the secondary market value of a paper card vs its online counterpart.

I would say physical card games but the online games are becoming more famous and they don't ensure constant instalments of new cards like card games do.

If anything online card games have the advantage of constant installments because of no production costs.