[2023] New player experience has been terrible

Yeah, we planned for new players to get standard-legal decks when rotation came in but hit some big surprises and blockers in the process. Building new decks for store bundles is something we do all the time and are familiar with, and we build new event passes all the time which work similarly to the road of prologue unlocks - so we assumed things would go smoothly: just make the decks like normal and swap out the decks the prologue road gives players.

However, after we were in the middle of the work we discovered there were a lot of extra snags that crossed disciplines due to the unique aspects of how the prologue road was built. It was built as a one-and-done, not a flexible system we regularly update, and this made it take a LOT more time to update. We're going to get them, updated as soon as possible - But still, I wish we'd caught it sooner.

Thanks for bearing with us, and if you aren't already - make sure you're claiming the free rewards on the event pass and region roads. It's easy to forget about them and it's a huge source of new player cards. You can also play Path in the meanwhile if PvE is your thing, you can earn a lot of cards that way for PvP too.

I don't work on this project anymore, I'm a director at an indie now. If you have feedback for the current team, you'll want to make it on a more current post.