violent_ant  |  February 23rd, 2008 at 11:41 pm

Also just so you know we are continuing the ‘Software Pricing debate’ in the US forum if you interested you can have a look at it here:

http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message?board.id=eyeofjudgment&thread.id=36875

If you new to the game and need help in building decks or just have general question about rules and stuff visit just click on the red words under my sig on that site

whoisjosh  |  February 23rd, 2008 at 11:42 pm

In regards to you comment about the community understanding having to pay to play our series 2 cards because of the finance / partnership / production background, I think that Sony is being shortsighted.

What Sony needs to understand is that players are going to do the math here and realize that this game is going to cost an awful lot to keep playing. And as another poster mentioned, what if someone decides they want to pick up the game later on? They have to pay $70 + $30 and they still have to buy series 2 cards?

I love this game and I implore Sony to rethink this pricing scheme. I fear we are going to lose players from an already small community and the game will simply fizzle out. Think long term guys! You don’t need to take more money just because you can.

mvalledor replied on February 24, 2008 at 9:03 am

You’re completely entitled to your line of thinking. EOJ is a completely unique consumer proposition, and a new business model had to be created - which some will accept and others reject.

Believe me, lots of global research and analysis went into pricing, and being a TCG’er from the “MTG Beta” days, I see both sides of the gamer vs. business fence and stand by the pricing model - to not screw over my TCG brethren. And who said anything about $30?

Ghostm  |  February 23rd, 2008 at 11:44 pm

Can I please get an answer to some of the questions I ask?

mvalledor replied on February 24, 2008 at 7:59 am

Re: music - check out # 36 and a few above it

viralbyte  |  February 24th, 2008 at 1:15 am

I got the playstation eye as a gift. Is there any way to get Eye of judgment without the camera? I’ve been tempted to get the game but seems wasteful to get a 2nd camera I won’t be needing./

mvalledor replied on February 24, 2008 at 7:53 am

Sorry, not quite yet.

BlitzXor  |  February 24th, 2008 at 1:28 am

@Those With Camera Problems:
Automatic works great if you keep a blue LED flashlight next to your EoJ Table. Anytime a card isn’t being recognized, briefly flash your blue LED flashlight at the board and cards will be recognized instantly after removing the light source.

Without a flashlight, best setting for nighttime play is Warm Dark, will work consistently with moderate lighting. Play with a Blue setting during the day. Automatic seems to have trouble with both natural daylight and nighttime lighting, so I don’t recommend using it unless you keep a flashlight handy.

@Mark: Thanks for your comments on the blog. I will definitely purchase the expansion at 10 bucks or less, but I still won’t be happy about it. 10-20 I will probably buy it, 20+ very unlikely to buy it.

I think the suggestions to include promo codes in booster boxes for the DLC is a GREAT suggestion, it really seems to solve a lot of problems. It allows SCEA to charge a premium to the card copiers for software updates, and allows you to maintain good will with your best customers who spend hundreds on cards and feel like they are being double-charged and “nickel and dimed to death.” I really hope you implement something like this.

adj24  |  February 24th, 2008 at 2:53 am

Sign the release of Home Open Beta Petition @ http://www.petitiononline.com/ps3home/petition.html and sony plz look @ this as this is what your customers are asking 4.

Pure_Mind_Games  |  February 24th, 2008 at 5:45 am

some answers would be nice on comments 88 - 91 thanks

mvalledor replied on February 24, 2008 at 8:02 am

Sorry, can’t really answer for other territories (your pricing / packaging questions seem like they derive from Europe).

As for a single player mode, check out #26.

THATPSPGUY  |  February 24th, 2008 at 6:45 am

mvalledor The Eye of Judgement is nice, I had it but I sold the game and cards because I wanted the eye ps3. What sucked for me here in St. John’s Newfoundland, is that the only way to get the EYE was to buy this game and an eye without the game cost just as much. WTF is that about. I know it’s a good cam but $70. THat’s a rip off if you ask me.
Sure I love my eye for video chats but I want to know are we going to be able to “FACE MAP’ our avatars in HOME? That’s my only concern now. Also are there any up and coming games that will let us have our face on our character in game? Please say yes…..

mvalledor replied on February 24, 2008 at 7:49 am

Maybe you didn’t see it, but when we launched EOJ, we also launched the stand-alone camera for $40. As for Face Mapping, I’ll have to check with our Peripheral/Hardware/3rd party support groups…

BTW…did you see the previous blog posts on upcoming Eye technology? Its a great peek of potential things to come.

djtenks  |  February 24th, 2008 at 7:01 am

About time they add more cards to this game.

erico316  |  February 24th, 2008 at 8:20 am

is there anyways to get eye of judgement to use this techlonogy from sonyhttp://www.core77.com/blog/videos/sonys_stunning_water_and_laser_hologram_8818.asp
cause i know alot of people would go crazy for something like that in a card game

erico316  |  February 24th, 2008 at 8:21 am

http://www.core77.com/blog/videos/sonys_stunning_water_and_laser_hologram_8818.asp

dapper  |  February 24th, 2008 at 8:26 am

Mark,
I just read through your responses. Thanks for all of the information. This is great stuff.

I do have a question/suggestion for the game that I didn’t see anyone mention, yet. Is there any plans for integration with the PSP? Remote Play would be nice, but even better would be a stand-alone version. You could use the PS3 Eye to register your deck, then upload it to your PSP. Then you could either play against the computer, or another PSP.

ACE72  |  February 24th, 2008 at 8:50 am

mvalledor replied
Leaving 4 for….(mhuahahahah - my evil tease laugh)…stay tuned…

Its safe to say their Phantom Cards….I can’t wait for this to come out.

I still have 10 left from my set of 26 Rares to complete and a slew of the Ultra Rares not to mention I still need 3 of the Five Phantoms Cards. For my release one collection…

mvalledor replied on February 24, 2008 at 9:04 am

nope…not phantoms…(mhuahahaha x2)

chasegamez  |  February 24th, 2008 at 10:23 am

this game needs custom soundtracks
sometimes the games go on real long
and music in the game kinda sucks

oxygenx  |  February 24th, 2008 at 10:57 am

Firstable, Thanks Mark for your respones to all the comments, i really appreciated this.
A few questions i forget in my first comment:
1. When will the Cards and the Update be released in Europe?

The german translation of the first Generation Cards were bad. Some Elements and Abilites were mixed up and the funniest thing Edin has a male article (Edin der Verfolgte). If you look at the picture, it’s obvious that this is… wrong.
Any chance that this time the QA works better?

mvalledor replied on February 28, 2008 at 6:31 am

Global release…and I’ll notify my EU counterpart

ACE72  |  February 24th, 2008 at 11:47 am

Hi Mark,

The Community has brought some interesting this first of all the official list of cards made available for EOJ.

Is incorrect could we have please have someone look into this? In addition they would like also more up community centric site for Eye of Judgment similar to what we’ve seen with our Asian Members site.
Please see the link:
http://www.jp.playstation.com/scej/title/eoj/players/index.html

Would also love the idea up loading videos of our duals againist opponents and share others. Similar to what we’ve seen and heard with Singstar for the Playstation 3.

Please also note second to the first tab at site I just mentioned has a area for players movies.

Could we also have the Official Rule Book Translated in English and other
Languages. And made available for all players.

mvalledor replied on February 28, 2008 at 6:33 am

SCEJ’s site is awesome. Don’t worry, community plans are in the works, and videos will follow shortly. Same with an updated manual.

Real Gambler  |  February 24th, 2008 at 12:17 pm

@Mark: Thanks for taking Canada into account. Just want to make sure that what Darkknight said in @96 also still count for the software patch: “Canadians are also STILL paying a 1$ premium on everything on the store”, so since we had to pay extra, for shipping and custom, for all our set 1 cards, I really, really hope the software patch will be at par with U.S. for once. Motorstorm is my second favorite game after EoJ, and I have not bought one addon because instead of paying $2.99, it’s $3.99, instead of $3.99, it’s $4.99 and so on. It’s against every fibers of my body to pay 25% to 33% more for downloads when our money is still at par with the U.S.

Now to answer your very own question: “There IS a spectator mode (sort of). I forget how the specifics, work, but when you look at the rankings list, you can watch their last matched (saved on the server)…I’ve done it before…I remember analyzing which decks the best players were playing…not the ‘rare-fest’ everyone thinks.

Can anyone elaborate on the top of their head?”

Well, you can currently watch the replay of the last match played by the top 100 players only. I believe that the expansion will allow us to record and save our very own matches, which is already better since it will only be a question of putting those on youtube for everybody to see. Particularly those all important final tournament matches. (hint: matches that we have to organize ourselves since there’s nothing supported by Sony or WotC…)

Thanks for the great job Mark. Particularly spending precious week-end time with us!

Nynja  |  February 24th, 2008 at 12:18 pm

I may be a bit off topic, but on EOJ … The playing board (or cloth), any chance of releasing a separate version of the playing board that is made of wood or some other harder surface? The cloth is nice, but when you remove it from the package it has creases in them that causes shadows and makes reading the cards difficult. This only makes playing the game more frustrating and reduces my desire to want to play.

Please release a better version of the game board, I know I would buy it. Maybe offer special orders or include some card packs with the new board if you feel it may not sell well.

BlitzXor  |  February 24th, 2008 at 12:25 pm

@Nynja: See the link in my comment above, #104, to see an awesome custom made EoJ board. I plan to buy one myself as soon as I can afford it.

EvoAnubis  |  February 24th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

@114: If you look back, you’ll realize that not only have I already said that, but Mark already answered that.

IcedDice777  |  February 24th, 2008 at 1:39 pm

On 112…mvalledor replied on February 24, 2008 at 9:04 am
nope…not phantoms…(mhuahahaha x2)

…Ok If not Phantoms, Then the last 4 will be THE SAINTS!!! called it.. lol!

mvalledor replied on February 28, 2008 at 6:34 am

close….begins with an “S”

ACE72  |  February 24th, 2008 at 1:57 pm

Would also love the idea up loading videos of our duals againist opponents and share others. Similar to what we’ve seen and heard with Singstar for the Playstation 3.

Please also note second to the first tab at site I just mentioned has a area for players movies.

Here a good example: However with better encoding of course? Sorry for the low level quailty but its the idea that matters..
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5300709321931973955&q=eye+of+judgment&total=1304&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=4

mtb178  |  February 24th, 2008 at 2:11 pm

gotwriter  |  February 24th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

Whoever picked the music should be flogged. Thanks again for your comments, it made me feel better as a consumer.

ILoveJudgment  |  February 24th, 2008 at 4:53 pm

@Mark

I also like to thank you for taking time answering all of our questions. I have never seen something like this before, and I truly appreciate this.

I felt like I was already at the peak of excitement about EOJ, but I was wrong. I am getting more and more excited every single day.

Cheers and wish you a great day

ILoveJudgment  |  February 24th, 2008 at 5:00 pm

@115

Mark has already answered that it will be global release.

Neofire  |  February 24th, 2008 at 7:53 pm

Hey mark that replay thing you were telling me about isnt there ive looked and looked for it. That and ive asked others and they havent heard of it either. But to the point the game needs a “real” spectators mode not the players last match played that is supposedly saved to the server. i want to be able have my friends watch me play while i play, or the ability to save the match replay to the HDD altogether.

mvalledor replied on February 28, 2008 at 6:36 am

to your last point…OK

Junkyard Dog  |  February 24th, 2008 at 8:45 pm

“And who said anything about $30?”

When will we get official word on the update price. Its the hottest topic out there.
I think announcing the price, especially if its lower than 30$ would go a long way for customer relations, and also not frighten new customers away that may be considering purchasing the EoJ starter package but have heard they will have to pay a high dollar update price in a little more than 30 days from now .

Any Info on the update cost would be great… anything

Junkyard Dog

BEERODEATH  |  February 24th, 2008 at 9:12 pm

Hi mvalledor,

I live in Australia and it appears that the Eye of Judgement has been discontinued in my country.

I understand that this is a niche title, I’d also wager that a population of only 20 million doesn’t help either.

Are there any plans to re-release the Eye of Judgement bundle, or a bundle of set 2 or a version that just comes with a starter deck, play mat and disk?

Before this game I wasn’t into CCGs but EOJ is just brilliant and I would really like to see more people in Australia playing it. I have a friend who loves CCG’s and would be a real shame if he couldn’t get a copy of the game.

Thank you in advance, mate.

Cheers

wilson87  |  February 24th, 2008 at 9:46 pm

Hi Mark,
First of let me say that i realy really love the game, never play such thing like that before, but here is how I feel about what you guys are doing. The game was mean to target a small group of audience such as hardcore and CCG fan- the group that is most likely to pay more for the game? so that you guys can charge freely for it? I think it’s already abit overdone. When the second set come out, people who truely love and loyal fan of the game need to buy cards from the new set to keep up with because it’s basicly screw up the 1st set, this not neccessary a bad thing, just feel like the game is refreshed all over. The thing is the update content, why it have to be releashed separately? shouldnt it supposed to be all in the disk ’cause BD has such large capacity? why it’s not a whole pakage before release to the market instead of bit by bit update and consumer have to pay for evey update content. The other thing that I also hate about this: there are plenty cancancies on the disk but limited space on my hard drive. I already paid around 300 for the game anh willing to buy more new cards of the 2nd but plz dont have us to pay too much for the update content. The game is already too expensive to keep up with.

mvalledor replied on February 28, 2008 at 6:43 am

Unfortunately, development of new creatures, modeling, animation, etc. takes time. It would’ve been impossible to put Set 2, Set 3, etc on the BD back in OCT 07. As for pricing, don’t worry, the Set 2 download won’t be as expensive as you think…

wilson87  |  February 24th, 2008 at 9:59 pm

oh and just one more thing: the booster pack is extremely hard to find at my local gamestops, toyrus,… and I know its the very same problem other eoj fans have been expiriencing. Seems that retailers just carry out 3-5 packs at a time. So if there is any way to fix this problem that would be great.

Kamahl  |  February 24th, 2008 at 10:40 pm

Great game, but i got a huge problem… I live in Peru and they don’t sell boosters here, in fact… they don’t even sell the game, i had to import it and it took me 1 month and a half to get it, so i asked a friend who is in the US right now to buy me a few boosters, the thing is he can’t find them, he’s coming back in about a week and he told me he only found 2 booster packs, why are they so hard to find? I’m running out of time and i honestly don’t know what to do… I don’t wanna have to import again because the prices are ridiculously high and it takes too long.

mvalledor replied on February 24, 2008 at 11:57 pm

Be sure to check the TCG aisles at ToysRUs and Target too…

SoulX  |  February 25th, 2008 at 1:35 am

I am surprised to see so many answers from Mark in this thread.. Great work and thanks for support!

//still waiting for my copy. People should bring it from Minneapolis to my little Minsk, Belarus..

Forjat  |  February 25th, 2008 at 4:19 am

Any chance we can have tournament modes similiar to Legends of Norrath? I am very surprised that there was not a tourney mode with set one.

mvalledor replied on February 28, 2008 at 6:45 am

hopefully soon

muaddib33  |  February 25th, 2008 at 5:38 am

Hey Mark,

Can you find out if there is a plan to patch EOJ so that it will display in 1080i for those of us who have TVs that will not display in 720p. Other developers (many execpt SCEA) have patched their games to use the scaler SDK so that we don’t have to see their games in 480p. I would love to have EOJ display in HD but I cannot go buy a new TV just for that.

Thanks

mvalledor replied on February 28, 2008 at 6:45 am

Interesting…I’ll ask about this…

fuzzysquash  |  February 25th, 2008 at 7:02 am

May I request a farewell blog post from Phil Harrison? I’m disheartened to hear about his resignation, but I think I speak on behalf of the Playstation community that we would appreciate the opportunity to say goodbye to him.

Real Gambler  |  February 25th, 2008 at 7:40 am

Post 135 and 136…. My hat to you. Two great ideas.

Xeron  |  February 25th, 2008 at 9:03 am

Its good the game is still developing, I think its pretty fun.

Just an idea:
I don’t think it would be a bad idea to make a second purpose for the cards. Right now we only have 1 game to use the cards with and to be honest its a little pricey(But definitely reasonable) once you have what you need.

I think it woudl be nice to be able to purchase a TCG based Adventure Game. Since EOJ doesn’t have this already, it would be nice to have. I’d rather it be a game to buy instead of free download. If its developed to be for free, not many people will put time & effort into it.

Any chance of this happening?

Loucifer  |  February 25th, 2008 at 9:08 am

@fuzzysquash

someone has to pay the price for the PS3 not making any deadline for game releases, HOME delays, lack of everyday features, the lack of PS3 upscaling of its pathetic 720p games.

so it may as well start from the top…sorry Phil u just suck!

will someone take his place and light a fire under someones ass to get this system in gear??

will sony ever fire eric lempel???…god i hope so!

west coast ps3  |  February 25th, 2008 at 9:19 am

I haven’t played Eye of judgement in several months now. I got it at launch and played it for a few weeks, lost interest as it was impossible to get cards from any local shops (I am in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada). I guess I could have ordered online but never got around to it.

Anyway I hope that Sony does resolve their Canadian supply issues (as mentioned several times all ready in the blog), and I look forward to the new update.

TheMissingLink  |  February 25th, 2008 at 10:44 am

Your dedication to answering so many questions (including my comment!) is commendable, and really reassuring.

One of my main fears with EoJ would be the support from the devs and the evolution of community features. You’re certainly saying the right things, so many right things that I really don’t have anything to add in terms of enhancing the EoJ experience!

All that’s left is increasing the amount of EoJ players and giving the game more exposure. Do you have any plans on trying to get more people to take the plunge?

mvalledor replied on February 28, 2008 at 6:49 am

Outside of spending more money on mass marketing, we’ll have to rely on our core community to help spread the word. Hopefully as we introduce more competitive elements into the game, and more PS3’s sell over time, EOJ will take off even more.

yort5  |  February 25th, 2008 at 11:43 am

I probably already know the answer to this, and Mark may be done checking the forums, but it never hurts to ask, right?
Is there any chance for a PC version of the game that would work interactively with the PS3 online? I play EoJ a lot with two other friends, but only one of us has a PS3. The other guy and I can’t justify it at the moment, but would love to be able to play online without having to go to the PS3 friend’s house. I’m guessing there may be both technical and business reasons why this will never happen, but if it did, at least two of us would be very happy!

mvalledor replied on February 28, 2008 at 6:51 am

Re: PC - I think you already know the answer to that.

thewolf619  |  February 25th, 2008 at 1:16 pm

I’m really loving this game. i just need more hours in the day to be able to devote more time to putting together the “perfect” deck. lol

ILoveJudgment  |  February 25th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

@Mark,

As I read this same blog over and over, I have just came up with a new question. Will the interrupt be spell? Or will it be creature’s ability? If it’s a spell, do we cast for opponent’s next turn? Or we cast it for the opponent’s previous turn?

mvalledor replied on February 28, 2008 at 6:51 am

Ability (for now)…but you never know

greeble  |  February 25th, 2008 at 1:49 pm

Has the gameplay been sped up at all? I’d love to see the Battle animations but they take too long. (Haven’t seen most of my cards animated) Is there anything in the update to speed them up? (Such as not panning the camera zooming in/making the other cards disappear, or perhaps only seeing the animation on the first time that creature attacks.)

Or allow you to skip the animation. I’d love to see my Biolith dragon attack but would rather not watch my flame magus attack for the 10th time.

mvalledor replied on February 28, 2008 at 6:52 am

Interesting…i’ve often thought about being able to press a button to either skip or fast forward animations. I’ll ask.

wizardpsp  |  February 25th, 2008 at 1:50 pm

Hey Tell us What happened to Phil Harrison!!!
Is great!!!! The PS3 is on the run why is he leaving?

frito  |  February 25th, 2008 at 2:25 pm

@146

good ideas!

I usually just set mine to off for the same reasons!

cheers

tearsofash  |  February 25th, 2008 at 9:07 pm

There was a point last summer when I was thinking about picking this game up. Then I decided against it, because I knew I’d probably end up buying all the booster packs and spending more than I could afford. It seems like a good idea, and at the game store I work at, I suggest it to people who are curious about PS3 games.

I was thinking about picking it up one of these days. The ship hasn’t sailed, but there’s also the issue of having room for all that. I have a tough time finding a place to properly put my PS Eye when I need it.

mvalledor replied on February 28, 2008 at 6:53 am

If its any consolation, its not that difficult to set-up/break down EOJ.

Kallel00  |  February 26th, 2008 at 2:37 pm

Eye of Judgement is imo the coolest game available on the PS3 atm. Anybody who loves board/card games should try it out.

Online gaming also means being able to actually play a TGC when I want, not when the local hobby store is open. Unfortunately, not enough is done to prevent cheap “disconnects”, and hopefully the new honor system will fix that.

I really wish the game would allow for shortened board animations (spell casting , etc) without having to chose between no animations whatsoever, and the full length battle animations. Can’t we have a in-between? Or maybe an option to cancel an animation with the press of a button?

Thanks, can’t wait to order my new set 2 booster box!