Last Chance to Sign Up for the DLL Tourney

Hey gang – just a quick heads up. Today is the last day to sign-up for the Lanterns Light online release tournament, where you can win one of these fabulous prizes:

A Playmat

EA Cards

For more prize pics and to join, click here.

Where has all the content gone?

If you’re wondering why this site has gotten a little stale this month, it’s because the url “vssystem.org” now no longer directs you here, but to our new site.  Why did we move?  Rather than re-up the domain mapping fee here, we latched onto newbreview.com, one of Steve’s other sites.

You can get there a couple of ways:

1)  type www.vssystem.org like you are probably used to!

2) type www.newbreview.com/vssystem.  This is where the url in #1 directs you anyway!

Happy gaming!

Council Update: Happy Singles-Awareness Day!

Yes, I’m aware that the acronym for Singles-Awareness Day is SAD, but maybe we are all a little sad this Valentine’s Day.  After all, it’s almost exactly one year since UDE dumped us.  They were once the love of our lives, but have since ripped out our hearts and pureed them to make some kind of disgusting parody of a milkshake.

In honor of our tragic anniversary, I propose we make one last ‘drunk dial’ to UDE before tearing them out of our little black books entirely.  Here’s the idea…

Let’s all go to the UDE “Ideas” page found here:

http://www.upperdeck.com/marketing/ideas.aspx

Then let’s all post something like this:

My name is ___________ and I’ve been a loyal customer of yours for years. I grew up on your sports cards, then I got pulled into your fantastic TCG called Vs. System. A year ago, UDE discontiued support for Vs. System because, while profitable, it simply wasn’t producing as expected.

I’ve got a proposal for you. Fantasty Flight games uses what they call a “Living Card Game” model. They produce “Chapter Packs”. Chapter packs are small releases that contain set cards; similar to large starter decks. They’re much cheaper to design and produce, but everyone that plays can simply buy enough of them to get an entire playset.

Fantasy Flight Games has admitted that this model has been much more profitable for them than the CCG/TCG model.

Since there’s still an audience for Vs. System, you’re almost guarenteed profitability. At the very least, if you decide you aren’t interested in producing ‘a ‘Living Card Game’, please consider selling the Vs. System game engine to an interested party as a means to help with the Konami settlement.

Either approach means you’ll be making money, and Vs. Players will get to keep playing. Everybody wins!

Thanks for your time!

Now, obviously you all can put your own personal twist on this message, but the gist should be the same: “Save our game by reprinting it as an LCG!”

Will this work? Probably not. Do we stand to lose anything by trying? Absolutely not!

Happy Valentines Day from the Vssystem.org Players Council!

The Ring Has Chosen Episode 30

The Ring Has Chosen Classix Edition (Original release date 11/17/2007):

The 30th anniversary episode. Well not 30 years 30 episodes. Expect something big and we'll deliver. Special Guest TBS

100 Ideas: DC Round 2 (Part 2 of 4)

Alright guys, I know a month is a long time to wait between updates, but we haven’t really figured out a way to make it go faster yet (any ideas would be appreciated).  Here’s part 2 of DC Round 2.  A couple of shockers in this article.  I think there might be an upset or two on the leaderboard!  Also, I’m sorry to post this so quickly after a Council Update.  I personally don’t like to slide new content down so quickly, but I feel like the wait for this thing has been long enough.  So, without further ado…

Council Update: Vs. System Archive Project

Last week we mentioned briefly the project going on over ‘Vs. Corps’.  This week we’d like to touch on that a little more.  The idea is to make Vs. Corps an archive for all things Vs.  At least all things pre-vssystem.org.  Near the end of UDE’s production of our beloved game.  There was a revolution of sorts.  Blogs popped up all over the place, offering more Vs. content in one week than any one of us could ever hope to read.  But then, that fateful announcement came, and content dropped off the map.  Everyone hovered around the forums for a while to see if this game would have an afterlife.  Luckily, we’ve survived a year now, and we’re doing pretty well.  Tournaments are still being hosted, decks are still being constructed, friendships have been forged, new formats invented, and much more.

But what about all that old content that flooded our RSS feeds and filled our ‘favorites’ side-bars?  Each month it gets harder and harder to find that content as search engines like Google and Bing put it lower on their ‘relevance’ lists.  Much of that content would be invaluable to new players trying to get a handle on the game.  For the rest of us, there’s the nostalgic factor.  No one will ever get sick of going back and reading ‘Breaking Ground’ or ‘Deck Clinic’ articles; and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

So an archive became necessary.  Currently, we’ve been putting up all available Metagame.com articles.  The site no longer exists, but some of the articles can still be found on web.archive.org.  Here’s a link to the last remaining Metagame material: http://web.archive.org/web/20070622040514rn_1/metagame.com/vs.aspx?tabid=67

Notice that when follow that link, many of the articles cannot be found.  For that reason, we’re making a call out to the community.  If you have access to any of the missing content please let us know!  I know a lot of Metagame authors still visit these forums; perhaps they still have the original articles on their hard drives.

Also, if you ran a blog when everyone was jumping on the blog-wagon.  We’d love to archive your material too.  Obviously blogs like The Lost Hemisphere, The Hero Blog, and Full Body Transplant have evolved and will continue to be around.  But many of our blogs (including, at one point, Vs. Corps) became stagnant and died.  Every blog that is transfered over will still retain its individuality, and authors will still get their due credit.  In fact, we’re willing to give anyone access to the site who wants to help with this effort.  This truly should be a community project, since this is our community’s history.

Vs. Corps has also received a facelift for this endeavor.  There’s a new ‘Category’ bar on the left that will allow you to pick an author or website that’s in the archive.  If you go there now you’ll find that there are over 20 authors and/or sites that you can click on.  Many more will be added over the next couple months, so check back often.  You’ll also notice that you can click on specific months/years on the left side.  This allows you to relive Vs. System’s history in the exact order that it all happened.

So, a quick recap.  We need three things from the community:

1. Access to any content that may still be available from Metagame.com
2. A list of people who want their ‘dead’ blogs transferred to the archive
3. A list of people who’d like to help with this process

Thanks in advance, and enjoy!

The Ring Has Chosen Episode 88

Cliff and Squire conquer this weeks hot topics, and about 90 minutes get into more of the MFA review. Beware the rise of the Cliff-Bots!.
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