Jyhad/Vtes players: a dying breed?
JOSE R. ESCOBEDO
I know this subject has been posted on this newsgroup before but
I was wondering if anybody's playing group is shirking or has stopped playing
all together. I love this game but our group has been shirking and I'm
wondering if anyone else has/is experiencing the same problem. I had
comments ranging from the cards aren't clear enough to that the games are
too long.
I also want to ask Tom Wyle how sales are doing and if it is
going to affect the next expansion after _Ancient Hearts_.
One more question that I would appreciate from the newsgroup
is that what age group plays Vtes/jyhad. Just out of pure curiousity.
thanks in advance.
A Jyhad/Vtes player to the end and beyond.
Joe E.
REF
>Joe E.
Well interest in my group has been dying. Several of our players are
upset at the card back change and the poor balance of many DS cards.
And to most of us we have exhausted most of the game strategies and
deck designs for Jyhad and without V:tes or its expansions game play
has become less novel and interesting. So either we will adopt DS in
some fashion or stop playing. Ancient Hearts probably will decide it
one way or the other. Our group has probably a couple of 19 year olds
but most of us are late 20s early 30's I'm 33 myself.
Rory
Harry Smith
: > One more question that I would appreciate from the newsgroup
: > is that what age group plays Vtes/jyhad. Just out of pure curiousity.
: My play group ranges from a few in high school (15-18?), a few
: undergrads, but mostly grad students and people out of college. The
: total age range is probably 15-40, with 25ish being most common.
Really? My group is the exact opposite. In fact, the oldest person I've
ever played Jyhad with was 19. Most people are 16-18, but some as young
as 14. Perhaps I'm just not playing with the right people.
--
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men? Good men? But to me that seems only the ideal slave, the slave of
the future. Modesty, industiousness, bevevolence, temperance are just so
many hinderances to a sovereign disposition, great inventiveness, heroic
purposefullness, noble being-for-oneself.
--Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Will to Power"
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Marc Erl
>
> >I definitely don't want to see Jyhad/V:TES going belly-up; I prefer it to
> >all the other card games I've played.
>
> Actually, I think the problems are pretty situationally dependent.
> Around here, Jyhad just experienced a resurgence of interest. However,
> I don't think it has the broad appeal that Magic does. It's more of a
> gamer's game.
>
> Chris Esko
I aggree to you, the problem_is_ situationally dependent. I'm a Jyhad
player for about 2 years now and I'm still recruiting new friends to the
game. I started alone, infected a single friend first, then my
girlfriend and now we are 5 players among my friends and some more to
whom I have a somewhat loose contact via a game shop. We don't play
regularly, not once a week or something like that, but now and then,
about once in a fortnight I'd say. Perhaps this is why I and my friends
still enjoy the game. Certainly we haven't played out every possible
strategy with every possible deck combination. Since we all don't like
the DS much we've include them only rarely in our decks so far.
I am 25 years old, our youngest is 17, our oldest 29.
As for Magic: I hate this game! And now WotC pushed the Ancient Hearts
to July because they want still _another_ MtG expansion to be
released first!! Well, my favourite CTCG besides Jyhad is Kult, ever
heard of that?? by Marc
Errol T
breaking up I have posted want ads a local game stores looking for
players and have yet to have any luck. It seems Magic and now Star Wars
seems to be the main interest although the Magic Crowd in this city is
about half teenagers, which I prefer not to play with any way. I am 27
along with others in my play group.
Errol T.
Dick Johnson
>
>"JOSE R. ESCOBEDO" <u10...@uic.edu> wrote:
>
>>Greetings and salutations!
>> I know this subject has been posted on this newsgroup before
but
>>I was wondering if anybody's playing group is shirking or has stopped
playing
>>all together. I love this game but our group has been shirking and
I'm
>>wondering if anyone else has/is experiencing the same problem. I had
>>comments ranging from the cards aren't clear enough to that the games
are
>>too long.
>> I also want to ask Tom Wyle how sales are doing and if it is
>>going to affect the next expansion after _Ancient Hearts_.
>>is that what age group plays Vtes/jyhad. Just out of pure curiousity.
>
>>
>
Our group has increased in size this year. We play in north
Dallas (Plano, TX) each week. The youngest player is about 25
years old. It's difficult to find new participants, but those
that play in our group are strong for the game.
jAMES e. lIN
Thomas R Wylie
Marc Erl <er...@uni-muenster.de> wrote:
>As for Magic: I hate this game! And now WotC pushed the Ancient Hearts
>to July because they want still _another_ MtG expansion to be
Actually, Ancient Hearts was pushed back because the distribution chain didn't
want to buy it at the time it was originally scheduled for, not to put it into
any particular position in releation to Magic or Netrunner or whatever.
Tom Wylie rec.games.trading-cards.* Network Representative for
aa...@cats.ucsc.edu Wizards of the Coast, Inc.