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Almost like the game isn't done.

Nobody in this thread has said the opposite. The problem lies with the fervor some people are expressing against people showing the game prior to the day one patch, which should be no problem at all.

I don't see how its even close to being similar to Elite Dangerous. Elite Dangerous is a hardcore space sim, with the focus being on space combat and space stuff. The focus in NMS is very much on being on the planets, you can fight in space but mostly you just use it to go from planet to planet, minute to minute the gameplay in NMS is largely about gathering supplies and exploring planets. Not the space part.

Yes, of course they are. But every other game is shown before that day one patch, and nobody complains.

One patch will not change any game dramatically either, they are simply bug fixes and balance changes in the last second. What you see is still extremely close to what you will play, if you get delusions that with the day one patch the game will be completely different, which many people are doing, you will just end up even more disappointed.

But you can get Eerie Statue -> Silence on turn 4 right NOW, a whole turn earlier. If it really was that good, people would be playing it already. It wouldn't be something that is NEVER played. The combo is just far too unreliable to ever be "better" than Flamewreathed Faceless. Also getting out one Eerie Statue on 4 won't help Priest, because the classes that Priest struggle against have great tools to deal with that. Hex for 3 mana, Power Overwhelming for 1, Sap for 2. These cards deal with something you had to combo out, instantly and without any combo required.

You cannot even cycle Purify, so if you draw it late without a board, you cannot get a card draw from it. It requires you to have a board, and you might even be forced to silence something positive simply to get another card draw.

It will never see play.

Seriously, what has it come to when people are defending not sending out review copies, and holding games back. The developers of the game basically telling you go on on blind faith and not look at anything.

If you get a copy, you should show it off. No there isn't any excuse for "a day one patch", nobody gets that benefit of the doubt, but because No Man Sky is so hyped people suddenly forgive it.

If that is the standard, then from now on no game should be reviewed before they get their first patch out. Its silly. If you put a game out, its for all intents and purposes done, anything coming after is just fixing minor things and a bonus. If you cannot do that, then delay the game until you can. This practice is just promoting shipping more broken games, that again get fixed in patches. And if you think NMS will be completely fixed from shit in ONE patch, you are sorely mistaken.

The card is awful, just absolutely terrible. Priest already had Silence for 0 mana, this card wont suddenly make silence priest a thing. They didn't even introduce any card that synergies with it in the expansion. The archetype has always been available, but not played because its not good, and has no room whatsoever in the current meta. Priest still doesn't have any good 2 drop, still doesn't have enough reliable board clears. And will still just get chewed through by any aggressive deck.

Priest didn't need more gimmicky, situational shit. They lack the core, strong units and removal that so many other classes have. The card just doesn't make sense from a value standpoint either. Power World Shield is 1 mana, Silence is 0 mana, combining these and removing an upside from both means its somehow 2 mana?

Roughly 3 hours to get off the first planet I heard.. I can see a lot of people tiring before just mining minerals for 3 hours.

Purify is the worst card in the entire expansion, 2 more mana for only being able to silence your own minion and to draw a card, and no card that synergies with it.

Got my 500 wins in Priest yesterday, I am just sad.

If you want written reviews, there are hundreds of sites that do that.
Why does Giantbomb need it?

I bought 50 boxes at launch and it didn't take any fun out if it, I only think it does if you desperately need that carrot to actually play the game.