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Magic: The Gathering Arena Is Coming To Steam And Consoles
https://www.thegamer.com/magic-the-gathering-arena-steam-consoles/

Magic: The Gathering Arena is coming to consoles and Steam. That’s the news
coming out of Hasbro’s Q2 earnings call, where Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks noted
how great Magic Arena has been for the longstanding trading card game’s
growth.

"Arena is a profitable, vital platform for player acquisition," said Cocks.
"We see things like Steam, things like consoles, will be nice revenue kickers
and user kickers for us. Later this year, the game will be available on Steam
for the first time, and in 2023 we expect it to launch on major consoles."

Magic: The Gathering Arena, or just Magic Arena, first launched on PC in
September 2019, later arriving on mobile in 2021. Magic Arena was Wizards of
the Coasts' first attempt to modernize Magic Online, which already allowed
Magic: The Gathering fans to play the game in a completely digital way.
However, there are some significant differences between Magic Online and
Magic Arena.

For starters, since Magic Arena came much later than Online, the focus is on
the most recent expansions in Magic: The Gathering. Magic Arena also features
a far better user interface and is cross-platform between PC and mobile
users. It also has many of the trappings of a live service game, such as
daily and weekly rewards and a Mastery Rank system where those rewards can be
increased through collecting cards and playing games. It also has a bunch of
cool freebies that Magic Online just can't match.

Magic Arena also features an Alchemy game mode which is unique to Magic: The
Gathering. In Alchemy, Wizards of the Coast can sort of beta test cards,
changing them on the fly if they turn out to be too strong or too
weak--something that simply cannot be done with physical card releases.


Although already available to download on PC, being available on Steam will
advertise Magic Arena to potentially 120 million users. Console versions
would also mean controller support for Magic Arena for those who'd rather
play Magic on a couch than with a mouse and keyboard.

In other Magic news, the upcoming Dominaria United expansion will get its
first preview later this week. Don't expect a full reveal, but we'll probably
get to see a few new cards and maybe more during the Weekly MTG broadcast.

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Hasbro 第二季度財報會議傳出來的消息。

CEO Chris Cocks 提到MTGA會在今年上架Steam，在2023年上架主要家機。

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