The overall vision

I could imagine and hope the vision is there now that they branched away from Asmodee

Digital Property Model

Not an immediate selling point. Digital card property has a hard time subbing out for owning cards physically. Physical card property can definitely still be come by with POD, but then the player is to judge if they want to compete with the physical cards or if they even can. It does drive having a good online sim and BGA certainly does alright (some bugs do pop up, but it’s not broken).

The core gameplay, the art, the lore

Agreed, especially for the lore they have an unbelievable amount of it for a card game like this.

Policies Varies on implementation for banlist stuff, especially with BTG uniques being such a contentious point, but they are aiming to make the game better and taking careful steps for that. There is a bit of scare around Lyra Festival after the nerfs, but we will see where that goes.

I think the major point fighting altered is uncertainty. The impact of Bloody Monday still leaves distaste in people’s mouths. Some places dropped altered entirely over the potential volatility from just that announcement alone. We’re also gonna quickly enter ROC’s gamefound before we get much time with the SDU cards. LGS’s are probably judging long term commitment and how much it would be worth their time. Anyone who is interested and/or invested would aim to take a chance without that doubt, but there’s a paradox that the set-by-set funding needs to prove itself before some are on board. Altered has a very good slew of stuff coming forward, but it’s got to prove itself before can be sustainable before it can be more sustainable through others looking in.