![]() ![]() ![]() You still don’t actually own the game through Steam (duh), but it’s pretty darn close.Reflex Arena is an old-school arena shooter that updates the dizzying speed and demanding precision of a classic arena FPS with the power of modern gaming technology. It’s the next best thing to a natively mobile experience. You can access your friends list even if it isn’t linked to the game and chat with the overlay, and you can take MTG Arena with you to the couch and away from your oh-so-stiff-and-rigid computer chair through Steam Link. If so, you’ll probably prefer having these alongside your Arena gameplay if possible. If you’re an active Steam user then you’re probably used to things like the Steam overlay or streaming your game via Steam Link, right? You can sort of already play Arena through Steam by adding the game’s shortcut to your library as a non-Steam game. Either way, we know that the game will be finally available on both platforms, because although Steam takes a higher cut of the profits, it offers a much wider reach with over 120 million users worldwide. With MTG Arena being a free-to-play game and only bringing in revenue through in-game purchases, that 88% income share sounds a lot more appealing. They only take lower percentages after the game has raked in a certain amount of money.Įpic, on the other hand, takes 12% and doesn’t bother with tier systems or anything like that. Whenever a developer goes through Steam, Valve takes 30% of all revenue from the game. Steam is the main competition to Epic when it comes to publishing games, but Wizards comes away with a better deal from Epic in terms of getting the game to Mac. They stated that partnering with Epic was the fastest way to get the game to Mac and still provide the same experience that’s available on Windows. In June 2020, Wizards finally pushed beyond the operating system barrier and MTG Arena was made available for Mac with the help of Epic Games. If you’re a part of that crowd then I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but MTG Arena is already there and isn’t going anywhere. You could argue that some players would rather see MTGA on Steam than on the Epic Games Store. You can also Draft, play Sealed, and more. ![]() On the flip side, MTG Arena offers you every single card released in a set, offering a much more varied meta where you can build a real Standard deck to compete. If you were heavily invested in, say, Duels 2013, there were few people playing the oldest version after the release of Duels 2014. The meta quickly settled, and after a few games you’d rather just buy the next game. The line basically failed because it offered limited decks to build, and you had to either pay for all your cards or grind hundreds of matches to have the full deck. ![]() There was a new release each year, and the games cost something between $10 to $15. I’m of course talking about the Duels of the Planeswalkers games. These games actually made me return to Magic after a long break. There’s been ways to play Magic on Steam since 2010, even if it wasn’t Arena. There are lots of people who play games mainly on Steam, and there’s compatibility with platforms like Steam Deck and VR. MTG Arena being on Steam will almost assuredly increase the player base. From there you’ll be able to download the game for free, since MTGA makes its money from in-game microtransactions. When Arena is finally available on Steam you’ll need to make an account on the Steam platform if you don’t have one yet. Not only will MTG Arena be available on Steam soon, but we’ll have the game on consoles as well in 2023. Later this year, the game will be available on Steam for the first time. Arena is entering its fourth year of availability since its open beta in 2018 and is a profitable, vital platform for new player acquisition into Magic. The information we have comes from the Hasbro’ second quarter 2022 financial results conference call management remarks, on July 19, 2022:ĭigital remains an investment priority for Hasbro. But, according to Hasbro’s CEO Chris Cocks, we can expect MTG Arena on Steam later this year. Runaway Steam-Kin | Illustration by Jason Felix ![]()
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