What the hell was Valve smoking?
>>749002397What's that?
>>749002397It really did seem like a dead cert at the time:Digital CCGs were boomingValve quality and fan basedRichard Garfield involvedThe market just seemed to sour on the genre for some reason.
>>749003812Artifact. It was Valve's first game since Portal 2, released in like 2019. Obviously nobody gave a shit and people were upset that Valve finally made a game again and it was this trash
>We aren't going to balance or ban any cards! if a card ruins the game we are just going to leave it in and let the meta fix itself!>Okay we released the game and then fucked off for like 6 weeks lets take a look how it's doing>OH FUCK NEVERMIND