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Saturday, 21 July 2012

Mtgo Beta Client

When I saw that I could get a booster pack for playing in a tournament with the new beta client, I downloaded the said client to try out the new system.
Pros 1) Downloading was incredibly fast.
I logged in to find a very unfamiliar interface.
Pros 2) It had msn messenger-like pop up notices when friends logged in. I liked that.
I went to look at tournaments and I tried to enter one.
Cons 1) I couldn't find the prize payout.
Cons 2) I could not sort the featured tournaments
Pros 3) The tournament page opened a new window so I suppose managing the event would be better than before.
Pros 4) I can see who and how long more it would take before it begins

I went into the TP room to find a very messy page with the annoying featured tournaments still there.
I tried a legacy game.
Cons 3) The chatbox can't be docked.
Cons 4) I was playing Apprentice instead of MTGO
Cons 5) Foils look ugly.
Cons 6) Searching for cards in the library was a huge pain because they were not neatly sorted like they were in the past and I had to scroll right to search my deck. Foils were very hard to see.
Cons 6) Revealed cards had to be looked at from the revealed tab on the right.
Cons 7) Attacking only moved the creature up so I could barely tell that my creature was going to attack.
Cons 8) The stack looked very uneven with different sized objects (spells/abilities) in it.
Cons 9) Once a deck is submitted during sideboarding, you cannot resubmit a different configuration until the end of the next game.
Cons 10) The deckbuilder is hard to use with the small space allocated for the deck's usage and the display of the deck is so ugly and squeezed in. Deck building is just repulsive.
Pros 5) The decks are on the left so pulling them out seems to be easier.
Cons 11) Classifieds is so hard to read with wrapped text in an allocated space.
Pros 6) You can see previous people whom you have traded with.
Cons 12) I try to look at my avatars and it looks like one from a forum. It tells me that I need some more but I don't think I have seen those anywhere.
Cons 13) I need to mouseover to see the name of the avatar.
Pros 7) It seems easier to find which avatar you want to use.
Cons 14) Trading without the sets tabs is so difficult with you having to have to filter out what you need or typing the specific cards names.
Cons 15) The trade button was under where all the popups came in.

Overall, it feels like a very bad experience considering how v3 is and also
having seen dotp which this is a far cry from. I am tempted to get an ipad to be able to carry around a dotp.
It is definitely a pity that they are not taking the good parts of v3 to do up v4. I am rather disappointed to be honest.
If this is the future of MTGO, I'd rather have v3. Have you seem how the cards look like? Yuck!

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