“ They’ll never admit that bot farms are exploiting their product because then they have to admit to having poor management of the issue.
But if guys like Spencer can find, and even interview people involved in the process then Cryptic must surely be aware of the situation. They have way more data... ”
“ Short version: They were developing an MMO based on the cards called Magic: Legends - after an extended period of a lack of communication, Cryptic announced at the end of June 2021 that they were pulling the plug on it. The game never made it out of beta and a whole refund process started (as the... ”
“ They were developing a new game and moved a lot of devs from other games to work on them and it basically failed in open beta and was canceled.
So in short they lost a lot of money on it and fired many of the Devs (for us the most important one was "Spartan") working on it causing a big brain... ”
“ I'm still of the opinion that the whole Magic: The Gathering debacle hurt Cryptic more than they let on and the majority of the cash is going towards getting them out of that hole. ”