[2019] REMINDER: MCQW IS THIS WEEKEND!

The Top 1,000 Mythic-ranked players in either Constructed or Limited during Ravnica Allegiance Season 1 (March 2019) or Season 2 (April 2019) are eligible to compete. Eligible players would have a received an email earlier in the month confirming their eligibility and will see a notification in MTG Arena. Additionally, a Mythic Qualifier badge will be visible on their profile page leading up to the event.

If you do not remember receiving these notifications, and/or do not see the Mythic Qualifier badge on your profile you must contact Customer Support immediately to confirm your eligibility. Failure to do so may prevent you from participating in the event!

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@TomDW:

oh nice, someone remembered we lot are still here ^^


someone had some time left over between posting on reddit, twitter, discord, facebook, .. ?

the time/attention spend here seems to be coming and going like the tides... guess it's low tide again :/

anway, good luck to the people qualified!

I check the forums every single day, multiple times a day (even on my days off). Just because I'm not jumping in on discussion posts doesn't mean that I'm not here!

If anyone ever has a question or needs help please tag me and I'll answer if I can! :relaxed:

@wujo444:

@WotC_Lexie:

I check the forums every single day, multiple times a day (even on my days off). Just because I'm not jumping in on discussion posts doesn't mean that I'm not here!
If anyone ever has a question or needs help please tag me and I'll answer if I can! :relaxed:

Sorry, but this forum feels dead. You (devs) never talk with us. You just redirect people to forms and bug reports. Arena team completely dissociated from the community.

I agree, we haven't been very present here lately, and that needs to change.

As for me directing people to forms and bug reports, I do that because they're fabulous resources. If someone finds a bug, creating actual documentation with logs is far more efficient for devs than me telling them (though I do tell them as well). As for forms, if the information lives in a spot and will continue living in that spot then helping people go straight to the source is ideal. Then they can find more information/look up additional questions. Hope this helps clear things up!

What would you like to see from us?

Roger that, everyone! Some things of note:

1. We do post the State of the Beta here. We didn't one time, simply because in the chaos of things it was forgotten. We're sorry about that!
2. The forums WILL be updated soon. The goal is to have it live by July. We don't like how they're designed right now either haha.
3. When it comes to feedback, we are ALWAYS listening. We are not ignoring anyone. I am constantly passing info to the devs that I see on the forums, Reddit, Twitter, etc. We just can't implement that feedback immediately. Making a game takes a LOT of time. Even the simplest of things can take days. We also can't confirm what we are (or are not) working on haha. I know it's lame that things are super secret, but it is what it is.
4. Your suggestions and feedback always matter.

@Obone:

@WotC_Lexie:

What would you like to see from us?

Hi Lexie, I see loads of suggestions for improvements, like for instance the basic land thing, then some time later the improvement is implemented with no Comms in the middle. I've kind of got use to this now so if I see a few comments on the same thing I try to allay folks fears and let them know the problem may be fixed sooner or later.
If you or anyone could just let us know somethings in the pipeline this would be a giant step forward.

I so so so wish I could tell people, but we're not going to. We don't want to break promises, ya know? Knowing something is coming, and then it not happening, feels awful so we aren't going to announce something until we can absolutely guarantee that we can deliver it.

@Kellerhefe:

[[37263,hashtags]] is not enough.
I want to discuss why there is no Brawl, Highlander, Commander in Arena.
Why was Two Headed Giant possible in Duels ?
I suggested Stats for Decks and Player a year ago, so its not days for simple things, unless you mean 400 days.

1. We hear your feedback. As I said above, we aren't going to discuss/announce things until we can announce it.
2. Duels is not MTG Arena. If only it were that easy.
3. Pulling stats and displaying stats is not a simple thing. Also, even if it WAS a simple thing, our devs also have another million things to do. We have are limited in time and resources so things have to be prioritized. Would we like to do that? I'm sure we would! We just have other things happening right now. :slightly_smiling_face:

@Lowthor:

@WotC_Lexie:

Roger that, everyone! Some things of note:

1. We do post the State of the Beta here. We didn't one time, simply because in the chaos of things it was forgotten. We're sorry about that!
2. The forums WILL be updated soon. The goal is to have it live by July. We don't like how they're designed right now either haha.
3. When it comes to feedback, we are ALWAYS listening. We are not ignoring anyone. I am constantly passing info to the devs that I see on the forums, Reddit, Twitter, etc. We just can't implement that feedback immediately. Making a game takes a LOT of time. Even the simplest of things can take days. We also can't confirm what we are (or are not) working on haha. I know it's lame that things are super secret, but it is what it is.
4. Your suggestions and feedback always matter.

I hope that what you say happens, however there are dozens of dev posts on this forum archive apologizing for a lack of participation and promising more, it is a pattern.
You did not miss one SOTB, you missed two. March was the last one posted here. April has not appeared, May has not appeared, but they are up on the Magic page. So to us, SOTB being posted on this forum ended in March.
And, BTW, you can STILL post the April and May SOTB's here. Remember that many people do not want to check half a dozen web/social sites to get their news.

And we will. A lot has been happening around the office. We're human, and things get missed. Sorry! As I said, we'll try to do better.

@Zlehtnoba:

@WotC_Lexie:

I so so so wish I could tell people, but we're not going to. We don't want to break promises, ya know? Knowing something is coming, and then it not happening, feels awful so we aren't going to announce something until we can absolutely guarantee that we can deliver it.

How about, we're looking at this, but are not sure if we can do it? And later, we are not going to do it, or we did it (that one in the State of the Beta, OFC)? That would mean a lot to the persons proposing something.
I agree that breaking promises, even if only imagined ones, is bad.

I do try to say "we're working on it" when I can. Like, friends list? Working on it. Other platforms? Something we want to do. When it comes to specific features though I can't give details.

I know that this isn't the answer you want, but we'll announce things when we're comfortable announcing things.

@Jengas:

@WotC_Lexie:

I so so so wish I could tell people, but we're not going to. We don't want to break promises, ya know? Knowing something is coming, and then it not happening, feels awful so we aren't going to announce something until we can absolutely guarantee that we can deliver it.

Yes, this^
This isn't a WOTC thing, but it's pretty universal when it comes to game development. The negative backlash against a promise broken is on average much more severe than the ones resulting from not enough open information. It's important to note here that this should be treated differently than lack of feedback. Feedback can range anywhere from prompt responses to technical issues to questions about future content and much requested features. For good reason, there are things on that range of feedback items that cannot be divulged in order to provide developers enough room to iterate and reiterate on features to make sure they're as complete as possible before delivering them to the public.
But just because they can't talk about literally everything they're working on does not mean they can't interact with us at all. And this much I think WOTC has done a good job to maintain a pulse on the community. I think a lot of technical issues with the game have been resolved in prompt order, and anything that breaks normal game mechanics have also been addressed publicly. So I think the team has done a good balancing act so far between these two extremes. Of course, you can't please everyone, but this is the way to minimize damage when it does happen.

We try REALLY hard! There is just a lot going on. We only have so many people (and we're hiring!!!!!11!!!!!1!!!) so time/resources are limited.

@Seikojin:

@WotC_Lexie:

@TomDW:

oh nice, someone remembered we lot are still here ^^


someone had some time left over between posting on reddit, twitter, discord, facebook, .. ?

the time/attention spend here seems to be coming and going like the tides... guess it's low tide again :/

anway, good luck to the people qualified!

I check the forums every single day, multiple times a day (even on my days off). Just because I'm not jumping in on discussion posts doesn't mean that I'm not here!
If anyone ever has a question or needs help please tag me and I'll answer if I can! :relaxed:

I think what Tom is referring to is updates are coming to the forums last it seems. I mean, the state of the beta for this month was posted by players.

As I mentioned in a previous reply, that was human error and we'll make sure that it is on the forums next time (as well as DailyMTG).

Heads up, I'm going to close this thread so it sinks, because I want the actual MCQW info to be visible. Thanks for the feedback, everyone!

Another Mythic Championship Qualifier Weekend is almost upon us! Important times for everyone:

• 6AM PT (13:00 UTC): Day 1 Begins
• 8AM PT (15:00 UTC): Event entry is closed. Players must have joined the in-game event prior to the 7AM deadline to begin playing their matches.
• 6PM PT (01:00 UTC on August 18th): Matchmaking queue is disabled. In-progress games will be allowed to finish.

Find all of the information, MCQW rules, etc here:

https://magic.wizards.com/en/content/mythic-championship-qualifier-weekend-information

@wujo444:

Reminder it's August 13th and we still don't know styles for this month ranked rewards cause nobody bothered to post them in 2 weeks, or implement that incredibly complicated feature in client in 9 months.

Good morning to you, too! I'm not a dev so I can't implement in-game features, but I can probably track down the card styles.

Oh hey, card styles.