Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone, for some reason the Suggestions forum has been removed, can’t find it. So I’m posting here instead, if the Suggestions ever come back forum mods may move this thread there.

I am pretty sure that many players here were fans of the Final Fantasy series back then, the good old classic FF7, FF8, FF9 ones specifically. You probably remember those fun card games you could play against NPCs or even against some main story characters as well.

The general idea of the card game is summed up to enriching your card collection, with the most common cards having normal “stats”, and the very rare ones having much stronger stats. This will motivate all the GW2 players who just love collecting stuff to start killing specific types of monsters in specific areas in order to claim the creature Card, whether it is of common, rare, exotic or legendary rarity, and be able to use that card in the card game against other players. Should the cards be tradeable over the Trading Post, this will offer players one more challenge: sell their cards for profit, or purchase other players’ cards to complete their collection.

How the Card Battle system works: Although the overall idea of this mini-game is to place your cards in the “battlefield” and compare them with your opponent’s cards (card with highest number(s) wins), I will not mention the exact mechanics of the FF series card mini-games, because I want to see something new.

Just imagine how cool it would be, getting extremely rare cards of the GW2 main story characters, which you could also inspect to read more about the GW2 lore and background of each of those characters. Anything could be presented on a card. From a White Moa to Evon Gnashblade, and from a white rarity Dagger to the legendary hammer Juggernaught. Anything! Even the big towns of Tyria can exist on a card! Rata Sum, Lion’s Arch, Zephyr Sanctum (from an older Living Story), even malicious characters like Scarlet and members of the Toxic/Molten Alliance.

I hope the Guild Wars 2 staff will cherish this idea and implement this as soon as possible (because I’d personally be delighted to see this in-game).

Optionally, there could be a special achievements category designed for this mini card game.

I like this idea. Would be fun for collectors and card games are fun so, i’ll say yes.

Edit: It would also make the lore richer, as these cards hold lore about monsters and NPCS in the game.

I do not see the need for a card game, I would rather see the return of polymock played with our mini pets. As for adding lore, perhaps each mini could have some flavour text when highlighted in the inventory.

That all said, Arena Net have an amazing concept art team and I would love to see more of that art used in the game.

One extra layer of depth to the game? Sign me up!

Would love to see a card game over any of the current mini games in the game or planned to be in the game personally. Love Legends of Norrath in EQ, and Tetra Master from FF9 gave me hours upon hours of enjoyment.

That sounds fantastic, its doesnt even have to be complicated like Magic the Gathering, something like triple triad from Final Fantasy VIII will do.

I agree that polymock should be brought back first. The two ideas are too similar, and polymock already has a foundation set up from GW1.

Please, no.
There’s enough collect-a-monster crap with just minis.

Sounds interesting, but it would also be a whole new thing to balance. Also, it should never feel like you are forced to hunt and collect those cards (because you can somehow make lots of profit easily); otherwise people will complain about having to grind.

Saturn.6591:

Sounds interesting, but it would also be a whole new thing to balance. Also, it should never feel like you are forced to hunt and collect those cards (because you can somehow make lots of profit easily); otherwise people will complain about having to grind.

Booster packs purchased with gems will solve that problem

Yeah I’m with you and have had the same idea now for a long time. The only reason I never posted it was because the game mentioned is obviously now competition for this game. Even tho the stated games were not MMO’s and were solo play games which these card games featured in, the franchise as such is the competition.

But again yes I agree and would LOVE such mini games like these that the other said game featured through out the series. Now I would like to add just one small suggestion to this. Every player starts off with a small handful of cards (enough to play a game with of course) and every player has 1 card that features their own character! Of course this said card would have average or slightly better stats than an average card so that it would only be used for a short period of time until they get more powerful cards.

Lets make this happen! Oh and what about players who play against each other, could they set bets or a prize? O.O

Sariel V.7024:

Please, no.
There’s enough collect-a-monster crap with just minis.

Yet no one ever forced players to collect every single one of them. It’s something optional. And after all, mini-pets are only decorative (for the time being, at least), you can’t do anything more with them other than fill your bank