Back to collectionThe First Internal League Puts Balance to the Test
Background: The studio has brought the latest playtest balance changes back into discussion, and the team needs to see whether card battles hold up against real player choices. Today: On Friday, the first internal battle league began, with a sushi meal as the champion’s prize. Impact and next: The matches temporarily put paper judgments to a hands-on test and brought support staff’s playing experience into the design conversation.
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Background: The studio has brought the latest playtest balance changes back into discussion, and the team needs to see whether card battles hold up against real player choices. A-Zhen is still working on chain-side tasks, while the Night Watchman is a long-standing community member; today’s internal league brings development and support to the same table.
Today: On Friday, the first internal battle league began, with a sushi meal as the champion’s prize. Planners, support staff, and colleagues no longer discussed strengths only around a spreadsheet; they tested decks through actual matches. Questions that surfaced in play also became concrete material for the next balance discussion.
Impact and next: The matches temporarily put paper judgments to a hands-on test and brought support staff’s playing experience into the design conversation. The champion will be known after the final, and the balance team still has to tell which impressions came from a single match and which merit a change.