Enjoy the salty tears of Dota 2 fans upset about Valve’s Artifact card game

In the world of fantasy video games, you are nothing until you get your own digital card game. That’s why Dota 2, Valve’s multiplayer online battle arena that is in the middle of a $24 million tournament this week, can finally consider itself one of the big boys now that the publisher announced its spinoff Artifact card game. But while another version of nerd poker from a major developer makes sense in the era of microtransactions and games-as-a-service (GaaS), it didn’t quite thrill all of the fans who were in attendance for the reveal.

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