Does anyone know if roseanne's research will be reprinted?
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sonicyellow said:
And how sure of that are you? I haven't heard anything about that.
Also, why would they permit one card from a set to be usable, but not everything else?
Rosie is dead come World's (as is all other D/P/Pt cards).
Rose WAS in POP8. That's our only lifeline.
#1weavile said:
The next format has to be PL-on. If it were SF-on or LA-on (basically, anything with SF but without GE), Machamp would become the only playable deck. If it were HGSS-on, there would be only two or three legal sets for a long time. With past redesigns, some of the old sets have remained legal for one season after the new sets have been introduced.
#1weavile said:
If Machamp were allowed to remain but Unown G were rotated out, Machamp would become the only playable deck, so people would quit because the game would be purely luck-based. Whoever went second would always win, making the game pointless. If the format became HGSS-on, there would only be 2-3 sets for a while, and about that many playable decks. It wouldn't be as bad as SF-on, but it would make the game very boring, once again causing people to quit. Therefore, any new format other than PL-on would cause large numbers of people to quit, which would significantly cut PUSA's profits. As a business, they clearly don't want that.
Celebi23 said:
Really? Huh, I didn't know that. Guess my post was wrong.[/sarcasm]
Guess I need to change it so people actually understand I meant after instead of before.
Shiny Noctowl said:
But, see, you're looking at it in the metagaming light. Plus, if you read through the cards, you'll notice that there are two nasty combos for HG/SS*.
Think about it, though:
By Worlds, we’ll have about 3 HG/SS sets, which will come to about 300-400 (450 if they do it right) cards. That’s enough to build a few good decks. Now, by NEXT year’s Worlds, we’ll have around 7 sets, which means we’ll have between 700-900 different cards to choose from. Not to mention that D/P/Pt cards thrash anything that came out before the Diamond and Pearl set, and the two most broken cards/effects are coming back (DCE and Raindance say hi).
Plus, how are they going to make money when people keep playing with old decks?
Also, transition from Gen II to Gen III says hi.
* I'm going by the Japanese set.
GreenAiden555 said:
That was because a different company was taking over production. For Gen I-II, the cards were manufactured by WotC. However, starting with Gen III, the cards were produced directly by PUSA. During the transition from ex to DP, the last few ex sets were still legal. Therefore, it would make sense that, during the transition to HGSS, the last few DP sets (that is, Platinum) should remain legal. Also, the format has never only had 2-3 sets, except at the very beginning when there were only 2-3 sets total.
Shiny Noctowl said:
And I'm talking about G/S/C to R/S/E.
And for those who can't tell the difference between the TCG and the games, I'm referring tot he fact that the Gen II games (G/S/C) can't connect to Gen III games (R/S/E).
GreenAiden555 said:
As I said in my post, the transition from Gen II to Gen III doesn't count because a different company started manufacturing the cards starting with Gen III, so PUSA couldn't allow the old cards and thus help their competitor WotC.