Alright, I'm finished with this game. I have no idea how WOTC can drop the ball continuously on their digital offerings of Magic. I mean, it has to actually take work to fuck things up over the span of decades.
This game was touting itself as a free to play game boasting a platform to be continuously updated with future blocks of cards. Great. The problem is that there's no cross-platform play, meaning a person on Steam can't play against a person on an XBO. This means that your gamertag/ID is tied to the game, and not a special login to the game itself. So I can spend hours grinding for a complete collection on my Steam ID, but have to start completely over if I wanted to play on my XBO. What sense does that make? Especially if you're wanting to entice me to buy your stupid coins to open packs. I should have my collection accessible on any device that supports the game. What the fuck is wrong with you, Wizards?!
Let's face it, WOTC was pressured to offer something better than their yearly shitty digital offerings because Hearthstone was crushing them. I was excited that this forced them to re-evaluate the horrible way they've been doing business digitally, but they're either unwilling or unable to fucking put out an acceptable digital game. I think they hate money. If Hearthstone can pull in 114M+ in revenue last year, there's no reason Magic couldn't be doing the same, or better.
Then to further compound issues, the game is riddled with connectivity issues, which means you can't even earn gold offline. So why even play? If I can't play against my friends, I want to at least earn gold playing single player mode. There's literally no reason to play this right now (or ever, in my opinion).
Fuck this game. I'm sorry I even brought it up in this thread. I should've known better.