Eye of Judgment cards can be copied, played

The winners will always be the pirates, and the losers will always be the honest consumers as long as expensive snake-oil copy protection schemes are constantly being implemented. Companies should be more focused on making their product more attractive to buy over copying, rather than attacking honest users in a vain attempt to keep them honest.

"But we trust you not to hurt their bottom line so callously, dear readers."

Since when did a company's financial health become the consumers' responsibility? Hey Sony, build a better mousetrap next time; don't just rely solely on a world full of stupid mice.

Wizards of the Coast are worse than ty. But I've got a bias against gambling.

In each CCG, I set limits to my purchases. Take this one for example. I only bought a single case of boosters ($89 shipped, I love having "dealer" status). What I don't get outside of this booster pack, I just won't get. Period. You don't HAVE to buy $300 worth of cards to be competitive. No amount of Ultra Rares will save you from bad draws or lack of strategy. And that element will play in the online portion as well. Bad players will be bad players. Having a Wrath of God cards does dick all unless you know how to use it.

But am I disappointed? Yes. Because the people who will be doing this won't be buying the cards. Without the sales of the cards, the game will not see the returns necessary to pursue expansion packs. All those people who stole their decks will be pissed when this game eventually gets abandoned. The people copying the cards are only ensuring companies won't take a risk like this again.

Which is a shame because I want to see this become successful enough to see a Triple Triad game. Or better yet, HoloChess. The camera scans symbols on flat pellets and the game on the screen shows themed battlechess armies.

How does a video camera see magical ink?

"Did no one check this?"

How would you stop it? Of course they can be copied. There's no magic, the camera sees what your eye sees.

What some people seems to miss is that if the cards can be copied, they also can be scanned and printed. It won't take long for closed communities to make a downloadable library of all cards for the users to pick and print.

Gee, I wonder if this turd will be as frighteningly horrid as the PS1's version of Magic: The Gathering way back when. Christ, that was a bad game. The PC versions fared better, but really, I never enjoyed playing the video game versions as much as the real thing. Of course, I haven't touched a CCG since the mid-'90s, so there ya go.

There is an easy way to combat this. make every card have its own unique number being scanned. There would probably have to be 999,999,999 unique numbers to make sure tings didn't get out of hand, but it would have kept cheating from happening. A card is scanned, the main server places that card with the user name of the person who scanned it, and crosses it off the list of possible future scans. Every card has a unique number, not every type of card, but every single card: no two cards are the same in number.

Nintendo did this with the GBA eReader, that failed and so will this.

And "magical ink" sounds exactly like Sony.

Stupid Sony.

I have to say, you can't call people geeky just because they play one video game. How much of a geek are you when you read and reply to random video game news on a geeky game. Eye for an eye; no pun intended.

This was foreseeable. But hey, it's just for playing with the PS3 Eye. If you want good authentic cards, you have to buy real ones. Or heck, if you want to play a real battle against your friends, with good real tradeable cards, then yourself real ones.

But if it's just to mess around, knock yourself out.

If they'd dropped the gimmick of Eye recognition and made this as a regular CCG video game, you would've really been left with the same game and all this could've been avoided.

But then Lechuk you would of missed the whole point of the game really. Its sole purpose was to be different and unique and blend real CCG with a video game.

and i for one, applaud them for doing that. AS i like different games like this, same way i like games like Steel Battallion for trying something outside the norm.

But then the question remains how would you translate a reall CCG experience in a video game if there's no.. Collectible cards so to speak?

hah, whenever my brother is watching nickelodeon I always see ads for these handheld games that use cards for characters, Kind of like pokemon but you collect the cards and scan them for characters as opposed to catching them or whatever. I think there where cards for different abilities too.

Anyway, after seeing this game get cloned on nickelodeon about 1000 times I see this, its on the Playstation, and all along I was thinking, Wow, what a stupid game you could just copy the cards (oh it worked for the game boy scanner thing too now that I think of it, but only if you had a really good printer)

I'm just glad that for once there's a CCG you can play without sinking a hundred bucks into it just to have fun. If they have live tournaments or something (like those arcade machines in Japan), they'll have warm bodies looking for copies. If you just want to play with your friend down the street, you don't have to shell out the cost of three new games in boosters just to have fun.

Card copying is NOT new. In fact, in MtG, it wouldn't be uncommon to see people use "a piece of paper with a land card in a card protector" to simulate other far rarer cards.

In a sense, it's sort of like demoing cards, seeing if the card works for your deck before actually getting it. There's 3 reasons for getting cards: casual play, competitive play, and collection. Unless you really think online competitive play will work (haha), all this does is facilitate casual play while hardly affecting RL competitive play and collectors..

well, see.... a nerd like me has no self-respect to speak of, so.. off to copyin' I go!

I played this game at Digital Life 2007 in NYC and somebody there asked "Can the cards be copied" and the answer was absolutely not, there are a bunch of security features that would keep them from being copied. I as skeptical of this answer (while the camera is a decent resolution camera...) and I guess I was right to be skeptical.