rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad

Jyhad/Vtes players: a dying breed?

8 messages from 8 participants · 04 March 1996 – 16 March 1996
original thread on Google Groups

JOSE R. ESCOBEDO

Greetings and salutations! I know this subject has been posted on this newsgroup before but I was wondering if anybody's playing group is shirking or has stopped playing all together. I love this game but our group has been shirking and I'm wondering if anyone else has/is experiencing the same problem. I had comments ranging from the cards aren't clear enough to that the games are too long. I also want to ask Tom Wyle how sales are doing and if it is going to affect the next expansion after _Ancient Hearts_. One more question that I would appreciate from the newsgroup is that what age group plays Vtes/jyhad. Just out of pure curiousity. thanks in advance. A Jyhad/Vtes player to the end and beyond. Joe E.

REF

[ quoted text not captured ] >Joe E. Well interest in my group has been dying. Several of our players are upset at the card back change and the poor balance of many DS cards. And to most of us we have exhausted most of the game strategies and deck designs for Jyhad and without V:tes or its expansions game play has become less novel and interesting. So either we will adopt DS in some fashion or stop playing. Ancient Hearts probably will decide it one way or the other. Our group has probably a couple of 19 year olds but most of us are late 20s early 30's I'm 33 myself. Rory

Harry Smith

The Corrupter (sull...@cslab.uwlax.edu) wrote: : > One more question that I would appreciate from the newsgroup : > is that what age group plays Vtes/jyhad. Just out of pure curiousity. : My play group ranges from a few in high school (15-18?), a few : undergrads, but mostly grad students and people out of college. The : total age range is probably 15-40, with 25ish being most common. Really? My group is the exact opposite. In fact, the oldest person I've ever played Jyhad with was 19. Most people are 16-18, but some as young as 14. Perhaps I'm just not playing with the right people. -- Modest, industrious, benevolent, temperate: is that how you would have men? Good men? But to me that seems only the ideal slave, the slave of the future. Modesty, industiousness, bevevolence, temperance are just so many hinderances to a sovereign disposition, great inventiveness, heroic purposefullness, noble being-for-oneself. --Friedrich Nietzsche, "The Will to Power" /------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | You don't get what you deserve, | Good people are good because they | | You get what you take. | are not strong enought to be evil.| |-----------------------------------+------------------------------------| | Conflicts between right and wrong | 'Conscience' is nothing more than | | are a sickness of the mind. | the fear of being caught. | \------------------------------------------------------------------------/

Marc Erl

Christopher Esko wrote: > > >I definitely don't want to see Jyhad/V:TES going belly-up; I prefer it to > >all the other card games I've played. > > Actually, I think the problems are pretty situationally dependent. > Around here, Jyhad just experienced a resurgence of interest. However, > I don't think it has the broad appeal that Magic does. It's more of a > gamer's game. > > Chris Esko I aggree to you, the problem_is_ situationally dependent. I'm a Jyhad player for about 2 years now and I'm still recruiting new friends to the game. I started alone, infected a single friend first, then my girlfriend and now we are 5 players among my friends and some more to whom I have a somewhat loose contact via a game shop. We don't play regularly, not once a week or something like that, but now and then, about once in a fortnight I'd say. Perhaps this is why I and my friends still enjoy the game. Certainly we haven't played out every possible strategy with every possible deck combination. Since we all don't like the DS much we've include them only rarely in our decks so far. I am 25 years old, our youngest is 17, our oldest 29. As for Magic: I hate this game! And now WotC pushed the Ancient Hearts to July because they want still _another_ MtG expansion to be released first!! Well, my favourite CTCG besides Jyhad is Kult, ever heard of that?? by Marc

Errol T

I to hope that it does not die either but with my play group basically breaking up I have posted want ads a local game stores looking for players and have yet to have any luck. It seems Magic and now Star Wars seems to be the main interest although the Magic Crowd in this city is about half teenagers, which I prefer not to play with any way. I am 27 along with others in my play group. Errol T.

Dick Johnson

In article <4his5o$g...@nntp1.best.com>, refp...@best.com says... > >"JOSE R. ESCOBEDO" <u10...@uic.edu> wrote: > >>Greetings and salutations! >> I know this subject has been posted on this newsgroup before but >>I was wondering if anybody's playing group is shirking or has stopped playing >>all together. I love this game but our group has been shirking and I'm >>wondering if anyone else has/is experiencing the same problem. I had >>comments ranging from the cards aren't clear enough to that the games are >>too long. >> I also want to ask Tom Wyle how sales are doing and if it is >>going to affect the next expansion after _Ancient Hearts_. >> One more question that I would appreciate from the newsgroup >>is that what age group plays Vtes/jyhad. Just out of pure curiousity. > >>thanks in advance. >> > Our group has increased in size this year. We play in north Dallas (Plano, TX) each week. The youngest player is about 25 years old. It's difficult to find new participants, but those that play in our group are strong for the game.

jAMES e. lIN

Play JOL (Jyhad On-Line) then... :^)

Thomas R Wylie

Marc Erl <er...@uni-muenster.de> wrote: >As for Magic: I hate this game! And now WotC pushed the Ancient Hearts >to July because they want still _another_ MtG expansion to be >released first!!... Actually, Ancient Hearts was pushed back because the distribution chain didn't want to buy it at the time it was originally scheduled for, not to put it into any particular position in releation to Magic or Netrunner or whatever. Tom Wylie rec.games.trading-cards.* Network Representative for aa...@cats.ucsc.edu Wizards of the Coast, Inc.