CCG are just way too expensive to keep going.

The expansions come way too quick. You need almost 300 Euros per expansion to keep up. And so no one will play the same game over and over when they have to pay 1.0000 Euros a year.

There were really really good CCG out there over the last 15 years, but they were all killed by the greed of the publishers.

A strange limit is put upon these CCG: in order to keep your players playing you need a new set every 4 months ... and by this mechanic you allianate players who don't want to put out the money anymore to upgrade.

So most people who are interested focus on the game leader in CCG (Magic) and most other card games just fade away after 2 years of money making.

I have NO doubts Blizzard will cut it the moment they'll loose money on it. And I think this is happening right now (together with that miniatures game btw - which simply is dreadful).

NOT everything Blizzard touches is turning into gold.

It shows two things: they should stick to video games (and the lucrative merchandising of puppets and books etc) AND their new MMO is not automatically a new massive hit either... They will have to work for it ... hard.

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