![]() ![]() It’s fun, free to play, has a substantial tutorial, and plenty of card collecting avenues to satisfy the deck building rabbit hole that keeps the game interesting. Luckily, Wizards of the Coast, the company behind the 20-year old hobby recently released Magic the Gathering Arena (Arena) to digitally ease the physical burdens of the card game.Īrena drops you right into the magic. Perhaps you even did some research until you realized the rules, deck strategy, start-up costs, and requirement that you often to need to hang out a game store to play it were all too much to start. Sometime tomorrow, I guess.Even if you’ve never played the card game, you likely ran across someone in life who feverishly explained Magic the Gathering as the greatest activity since breathing. I can't see myself spending a lot of time on mobile if it takes fifteen minutes to a half an hour to update every time I open it up. It seems like every other time I boot it up on PC or Mac it needs an update. But this is insane, especially for a game that needs an update as often as Arena does. Which is now at 150 mb, I'm happy to report.Īnyway. Just to compare, I downloaded Arena, a two and a half gig file, faster than my phone is downloading this 873 mb update. At this rate, the update will take fifteen minutes on the newest hardware using broadband data access. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nope! An 873 mb download on both my 200 mb broadband or 5G mobile internet is at 90 mb after five minutes, and is counting up at Sesame Street numbers lesson speeds. I play Arena on PC and Mac, and just sort of assumed that WotC would do something about the astoningly abysmal update speeds when bringing the game to mobile. I know this can't be the first post to bring this up, but I just got a new phone, an iPhone 12 Pro. ![]()
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