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Все обновления VGCards, от новых к старым: новые функции, улучшения, исправления и изменения правил. Игра развивается почти каждый день, часто по предложениям игроков.

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Card reviews and guest mode

Новое

  • Card reviews: rate a card from 1 to 5 and say what you think, from its details. Reviews also appear on the franchise's public page.

Улучшения

  • Guest mode: without an account, you can browse packs, the Index, auctions and rankings, open trial packs and play a solo game of VG Quiz. Nothing is saved until you create an account.
  • Franchise encyclopedia: only the main franchises remain, automatically created pages are removed. In-game collections don't change.

The Arena takes a break

Правила и баланс

  • The Arena is closed for now while we rework it. The “Win an Arena fight” daily quest is removed.

A livelier social feed

Новое

  • Message of the day: each day, write a short message above the social feed; it shows up in the feed of the players who follow you.

Улучшения

  • Social feed: on top of big pulls and listings, it now shows fusions, completed collections, new public binders and comments from the players you follow.
  • Social feed: buttons above the feed to show only one kind of activity (pulls, listings, fusions, collections, binders, comments).
  • Received, sent and past trades: the estimated value of each side (cards at their current price, plus Shards).
  • Social page: pin your favorite players to keep them at the top; all your follows are in a list, with a search.

Daily quests, binders and your suggestions

Новое

  • Daily quests: every day, 3 quests (open packs, place a bid, like a binder, play VG Quiz…) that earn Shards, and a Rare pack for finishing them all. On the Packs page, next to the drop rates.
  • Binders: likes and comments under the pages of other players' public binders. You're notified when someone comments on one of your binders or it reaches a like milestone, and you can remove any comment on them.

Улучшения

  • Binders: reframe the cover image (move, zoom) from “Cover image”.
  • Blocking a player also stops their messages and trade offers: it now says so when you block. Your blocked players are listed in your settings, with “Unblock”.
  • Index: pinned collections follow the chosen sort and filters, completed ones first, are shown in pages like the others, and an “Unpin completed” button removes them all at once.
  • Contact the team: a reminder to send one idea (or one bug) per message, so each one is tracked separately.

Исправления ошибок

  • Auctions on phones: in “My sales” and “My bids”, finished sales no longer overflow the screen (the status and price were cut off).

Правила и баланс

  • Daily streak: the Ultra pack now comes every 30 days in a row (instead of 50), in place of the Super Rare pack.

Emerald cards and binders

Улучшения

  • Public site: home page and guide updated (the 9 rarities, trades, binders, fusions, festivals, daily streak), and a rules page for each mini-game, VG Quiz and Arena, in the new “Mini-games” menu.
  • Binders: drop a card in any empty pocket, even on another page. Other cards no longer move, an empty page always waits at the end, and a removed card leaves its pocket empty. On a card already in place, the next ones slide up to the first free pocket.
  • Emerald cards: a slightly see-through background under the title, so it reads well on any artwork.
  • Emerald cards: no more “1/1” or logo in the bottom tip.
  • Emerald cards: a card tied to a game shows that game's name under its title, and its details link to the game's Steam page.

Исправления ошибок

  • Emerald cards: no more large black rectangle on dark artwork, where the reflections used to vanish.

Your suggestions

Улучшения

  • Trades: “Edit” on an offer you sent that hasn't been answered yet. Change the cards, Shards or message without cancelling and starting over: the other player sees what changed.
  • Packs: “Open all” for Rare, Super Rare, Ultra and Legend packs, up to 50 at once.
  • Wishlist: a card you already own can be wished for “to fuse”, from the Index. It stays in your list until you have 3 copies.
  • Index: pinned collections show 12 at a time (“Show more” for the rest) and can be collapsed. The page stays fast even with hundreds of pins.
  • Settings: “My messages to the team” lists the bugs, ideas and cards you sent us, and where each one stands.

Исправления ошибок

  • Auction house on phones: the price, bids and time left are no longer cut off, and the “My bids” tab shows in full.
  • Sound settings: the volume slider no longer overflows its panel.
  • iPhone and iPad: tapping a search field or a menu no longer zooms the whole page.

Auctions: bidding wars unblocked

Исправления ошибок

  • Auctions: on a card in high demand, a higher bid could be refused with the message “This price is too far above the card's market value”. A bid is now compared with the other players' bids, not only with the market value: players bidding each other up is no longer blocked.

Your suggestions

Улучшения

  • Home page: the three showcase cards take turns flipping over to reveal a card of another rarity, sometimes fused. Hover a side card to see it better.
  • Binders: several copies of the same card can be filed in the same binder, each in its own pocket with its serial number. File the card in that binder again (“+1” in the binder list) to add the next copy.
  • My cards: new “Binder” filter to show only the cards stored in one of your binders.
  • Trades: when picking who to trade with, each player shows how many cards from your wishlist (heart) and your pinned collections (pin) they can trade you.
  • Index: “Keep out of trades” on a collection now also protects the cards from that collection you get later (packs, trades, purchases).
  • Notifications: the notification center (the bell) can be turned off in the settings without affecting push notifications. It now also tells you when your sales end, when a card from your wishlist goes on sale and about new followers.
  • Pack opening: before tearing, the window flags cards wanted by players you follow, with their names.
  • Profiles: the trade button shows when trades with this player are unavailable.

Исправления ошибок

  • Pack opening: a card protected (“Don't trade”) during the opening could still be torn or listed with the selection; it is now kept.
  • Filters: “Clear all” only removed the last rarity when several were checked; it now removes every filter.
  • “Who wants it” list: players who have since obtained the card no longer show up.
  • Binders: after a fusion, a binder's cover switches to the fused card instead of disappearing.
  • On phones, the bottom navigation bar no longer shifts up while scrolling.

Правила и баланс

  • Trades: the allowed gap between two players no longer adds up from one trade to the next. Beyond a small gap over 30 days with the same player, the difference counts against your balance budget. Auctions: a bid far above a card's market value may be refused.

Notification center

Новое

  • Festivals: during a festival, join a team (final choice) and complete collections to earn it points (1 for Bronze up to 5 for Diamond). At the end, every participant gets a badge in their team's colors, and the top teams win packs and a special card.
  • “Fused” filter: wherever you can filter Shiny cards (My cards, Index, auctions, a player's collection, trash, trades), you can now show only fused cards.
  • Studio and publisher collections: every studio and publisher with at least 3 games now has its own collection in the Index (Arc System Works, for example), with its card, all of its games' cards and a badge to earn. The Index's “Collection type” filter shows only franchises, studios or publishers.
  • Notification center: a bell in the menu (with the unread count) opens what happened over the last 30 days: trades, auctions, Arena, raffle and messages, even with push notifications off. Tapping a notification takes you to the right page.
  • Franchise encyclopedia, readable without an account: a page for each of the game's big franchises, with its highlight cards, games by decade, studios, publishers, platforms and genres, card rarities and the full list of its games.
  • New public pages: the full update history and an About page with frequently asked questions. The home page now also explains how the game works, with franchises to explore and the latest updates.

Улучшения

  • Sorting: new “Quantity” sort in My cards, a player's collection and trades. The cards you own the most copies of come first, handy to spot your duplicates.
  • Legendary cards: embers are scattered more randomly (two layers, one fast and one slow, placed differently on each card) instead of rising in regular rows.
  • Fused Diamonds: the crystal shards around the card now show every color of the rainbow, with an iridescent glow, so the rarest of cards stands out at a glance.
  • Trades: new “Only those I own” filter in the other player's column, to find extra copies of your cards to fuse (next to “Hide those I own”).
  • Fusions: cheaper. Common 50 Shards (instead of 100), Uncommon 150, Rare 250, Super Rare 500, Ultra Rare 1,000, Legendary 2,000, Diamond 5,000 (instead of 8,000).
  • Fusions: a Shiny card now counts as 2 copies. One Shiny and one normal copy are enough to fuse (torn, a Shiny still gives twice as many Shards).
  • Team messages: the team can now send you files (screenshots, documents). They stay downloadable for 24 h, so remember to save them.
  • Filters: new “Copy number” filter in My cards, a player's collection, the trash, trades and auctions. Type a number (7) or a range (1-50), or pick #1, #1 to #10 or #1 to #100.
  • Raffles: when several raffles are shown side by side, opening or closing the participant list of one does it for all of them (on phones, where they're stacked, each list opens on its own).
  • Trades: the cards picked on each side (“You give”, “You get”) sit in a fixed-size scrolling area, so both columns stay aligned; on desktop, the balance gauge now sits next to the message.
  • Trades: the shortcuts are back above the cards (their wishlist, their pinned collections, hide the ones I have or they already have, non-tradable cards), on top of the filter menu.
  • Emerald cards: no more small stars over the artwork, which stays clearly visible.
  • Fusion: tap the fused card preview to view it full screen before confirming.
  • Notifications: tap the cross (“Seen”) to remove a notification, and “Clear all” empties the list.
  • Fused cards: stronger depth effect when you tilt the card (the artwork slides further under the frame, the text floats further forward).
  • Studio and publisher collection badges: they show the company's logo, over the artwork of its rarest game.
  • Fused cards: the prism now covers the whole frame, including the rarity corner, with the rarity letters in white. Tilting the card gives it depth: the art shifts as if seen through a window, the frame casts its shadow on it and the text stands out in relief.

Исправления ошибок

  • Notifications: the number on the bell resets as soon as you open your notifications (it used to stay until the page was reloaded, even after reading or clearing everything).
  • Halloween event: on phones, the title of the announcement on the packs page is no longer cut off.
  • Fused cards: on some browsers (notably on iPhone), the prism covered the whole card and hid the artwork; it now only colors the frame.
  • Fused cards: the artwork didn't slide under the frame with lighter effects (the default on phones); the depth effect is now the same everywhere.
  • Fused cards: when the artwork had been recropped, tilting the card could reveal a black background along one edge; the artwork now always covers the card.

Правила и баланс

  • Trades: a new, more flexible balance rule. Both sides must still be worth about the same: a 30% gap for cards that rarely sell, a bit less for cards whose price rests on several sales. A bigger gap goes through now and then (orange “Imbalance accepted” gauge); if it happens too often, trades need to be more balanced for a few days. Trading with a variety of players, both ways, gives more flexibility.
  • Trades: the allowed value gap between both sides goes from 20% to 30%.

Your suggestions

Новое

  • Messages: you can edit a sent message for 24 h (“Edit” under the message). It then shows “edited”.
  • Binders: new “Friends” visibility. The binder is shown only to players you follow who follow you back. Tapping the visibility goes from private to friends to public.
  • Pack opening: each card shows whether it belongs to one of your pinned collections, and you can protect it (“don't trade”) right from the opening.
  • Auctions: a heart marks cards on your wishlist and a pin those from your pinned collections. On your profile, wished cards up for auction show “On sale” and lead to the auction.
  • Fusion: preview of the fused card before you confirm.
  • Studio and publisher collections: the team can now create them, with all of the studio's or publisher's games.

Улучшения

  • Index: collections can be sorted and filtered by tier (Diamond, Platinum, Gold…).
  • My cards: the collection filter now offers “Completed”. Trades: new filter to hide cards the other player already owns.
  • A gear in your username box (sidebar) leads straight to the settings.

Правила и баланс

  • Trades: at most 2 completed trades per day with the same player, and both sides must be close in value (20% apart at most). While you build the trade, a gauge shows whether it's balanced and what value to aim for; if the daily limit is reached, it shows when you can trade again.

VG Quiz: real covers

Новое

  • VG Quiz: new “Covers” rounds with the game's real box art, its title hidden until the answer. The old “covers” are now called “Artworks”.
  • VG Quiz: non-Steam games are in: Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox, retro, arcade… with their screenshots, artworks and box art (Mario, Zelda, Smash Bros., Halo, God of War…).
  • VG Quiz: in free mode, each player gets one joker per game that turns the round into multiple choice for them only (4 answers, one try).
  • VG Quiz: adjustable lives (1 to 9), the bonus can be toggled with the round kinds, and you can pick game genres (platformer, racing… or all).
  • My cards: “Collections” filter to show only cards in no collection, or in no completed collection.

Улучшения

  • Pack opening: “Reveal all” no longer stacks every card's sound. Cards riffle through with a crisp rising flick, then a single reveal for the rarest one.
  • VG Quiz: many more well-known games and screenshots (several per game), and new studio logos, none with the name written on them.
  • VG Quiz: rules screen redone in 4 clear steps, with “The game at a glance” summing up the game before you start.
  • VG Quiz: more covers with the title hidden (Steam and consoles, nearly 3,300), even when the title is a heavily stylized logo. The title is hidden under a mosaic of the image instead of a grey box. More studio logos (661): the name written next to the symbol is hidden the same way, and logos that are just the name were removed.
  • VG Quiz: many more well-known games and studios in the easy difficulties (600 Legendary games, nearly 1,900 Ultra Rare, 220 logos), and games you just saw don't come back right away.
  • VG Quiz: new Joker button, matching the game's style.
  • VG Quiz: “Random” or “Increasing” draw in its own section, presets shown as cards you tap to bring back your rules, bonus round that clears up faster.
  • VG Quiz: more reliable free-mode search: only quiz games, no duplicates, handles typos, Roman numerals and acronyms (“gta 5”).

Исправления ошибок

  • VG Quiz: you can check every round kind at once again.

Правила и баланс

  • VG Quiz: in multiple choice, the wrong answers look like the right one (same series, same studio, same era…). Suggested years are 1 to 3 years apart.
  • VG Quiz: ranked solo includes the new rules (covers, bonus, 3 lives, every genre).

Public rooms and filters

Новое

  • Trash: multi-select like in the Cards tab (“All”, “This page”) to restore several cards at once.
  • Minigames: make your VG Quiz or PvP Arena room public, it shows up on the Minigames page and anyone can join without an invitation.

Улучшения

  • Binders: no more 2,000-card limit.
  • Platinum badges: a new rhombus shape, so they no longer look like Gold badges.
  • No more background ambience while opening packs: the Sound button now only controls sound effects.
  • Profiles: a showcase of 4 badges, each in its own display case, chosen with “Edit showcase” (otherwise your most prestigious), and a proper badge inventory: filter by tier, search, sort and pages.
  • Filters: the same menu everywhere on the site, with each category as a collapsible section (open when a filter is active). Pinned collections in “My cards”, Index collection sorting and trade shortcuts now live there.
  • Card sheet: in the details, the developer and publisher open their Studio or Publisher card when one exists.
  • More visual novels, mobile games and itch.io or web games can now be added to the catalog on request: suggest them with “Write to the team › Card”.
  • Catalog: new cards now arrive every day from all our sources (trending Steam games, the best-known visual novels, the most played mobile games), not just Steam.

Исправления ошибок

  • Empty collection: the Binders and Trash tabs stay available (to restore torn cards).
  • Well-known visual novels and mobile games were never rarer than Common: their rarity now takes their votes into account.

Super Rare pack and your suggestions

Новое

  • Play streak: every 50 days in a row, you get an Ultra pack instead of the Super Rare pack.
  • “Write to the team” now offers “Report”: search for the card, its sheet opens with the reasons (artwork, duplicate, collection, 18+, fangame), and your report goes straight to the right place.
  • Your suggestions: keep a whole collection out of trades in one tap from the Index (one copy of each card, the most valuable; duplicates stay tradable).
  • Trades: a button hides the other player's cards you already own, and a blue mark shows the ones you already asked for in another pending trade.
  • Pack opening: a pink heart marks cards that a player you follow is looking for (wishlist or pinned collection).
  • Binders: add a short description, shown on the binder's public page.
  • Profile: the estimated value of your whole collection now shows in the stats.

Улучшения

  • New play streak card: a ring up to the next milestone, a flame lit when you've played today, and the upcoming packs.
  • My cards: filter by pinned collection. Everywhere (My cards, Index, auctions, trades, deck editor), several rarities at once in the filters.
  • Index: filter collections that are completed, started or not started yet.
  • Auctions: a “My pins” filter, and 10 active sales instead of 5.
  • Tearing: choose how many copies of each card to keep. Cards marked as not tradable are no longer torn in bulk.
  • Arena: the deck editor can filter by fight effect and gives tips for building a deck.
  • A trade proposed during a pack opening brings you back to the packs once sent.
  • Collection badges not yet earned keep a hint of their color: gold and platinum can be told apart.
  • Profile: badge counts per tier are now in the Stats section.
  • The Super Rare pack now wears the colors of Super Rare cards: iridescent amethyst and an SR badge.
  • Play streak: the next Super Rare pack is always shown, with a gauge up to the milestone. Progress toward the Rare pack is in the “i”.

Исправления ошибок

  • Index and auction search now ignore accents (“pokemon” finds “Pokémon”).
  • Android notifications: the small icon is no longer a white square.
  • The Super Rare pack text now also mentions the play streak, which gives one every 10 days.

More reliable sign-up

Исправления ошибок

  • Account creation: no more false “invalid request” or “too many attempts”. Spaces added by phone keyboards are ignored, each input error says what is wrong, and retrying right after an error works.

PvP Arena and draft mode

Новое

  • PvP Arena: invite friends from the lobby and they get a message with a “Join” button, like in VG Quiz. With an odd number of players, whoever faces a copy of a team is told so.
  • PvP Arena: create a room of 2 to 8 players and share its code or link. Each round, everyone places their team, fights another player in the room, then picks their reward, on a timer (set by the host). Everyone has 100 game HP and a loss takes some away: last one standing wins.
  • Draft mode: no deck needed, you start with 3 cards drawn from the whole catalog, and every “card” reward offers 3 more. As a run (just for fun) from the Arena home, or as a PvP room option.

Улучшения

  • New “not found” page (404), translated, with a button to go back to the packs.
  • Arena rules updated: a new “Game modes” part (draft and PvP Arena), current rewards in “Getting started”, and no more mention of bets.
  • Card sheets now look the same across the whole site, like in “My cards”: copy number, folding sections and a Close button at the bottom.
  • PvP Arena: an “I'm ready” button starts the fights as soon as everyone is, the opposing team is shown as it was at the start of placement (not its live changes), and a reward not taken in time stays for the next round (you then take two). Fights play at normal speed, then rewards appear 3 seconds later.
  • Arena: moving cards by touch is much more reliable (scrolling no longer cancels the long press), and a handle on the left of each card grabs it right away during placement.

Исправления ошибок

  • PvP Arena: no more rollbacks during the game. Cards you move during placement, your reward choices and your shop purchases (blood shop included) no longer jump back to their previous state.
  • PvP Arena: the time to pick your reward no longer starts during the fight. It begins once the fight is over, and the countdown is hidden during the fight.
  • PvP Arena: the last fight of the game is shown before the victory screen.
  • On phones, the menu bar stays at the bottom of the screen (it sometimes drifted), and tucks away while you type.

Правила и баланс

  • Arena: permanent seals are now applied from the deck editor (the card's magnifier), no longer from “My cards”.
  • Arena: challenges and bets are removed. Pending bets are cancelled and staked cards are freed. The pact is no longer offered in draft mode.

Arena: reward choices, shops, seals and events

Новое

  • Arena: every 10 fights of a run, an event shakes up the fight (cards swapping places on turn 3, random or swapped rarities, reversed order, frenzy, level playing field, passive swap, genre madness, early sudden death). It's announced as soon as you place your team.
  • Arena: 6 new passives (Opening act, Elite, Anchor, Glass cannon, Siphon, Thorns).
  • Arena: after each win, a card from your bench (mandatory), then one reward out of 3: upgrade, passive, max HP, seal, shop, blood shop or pact.
  • Arena: every fight earns tokens to spend in the run's shop. The blood shop sells the same items for max HP, and the pact gives tokens or a passive in exchange for a card from your deck, replaced by a random card.
  • Seals: five seals that transform a card in the Arena (Echo, Midas, Rampart, Ascension, Plague). You earn them in every run, for the length of the run, and the 5th win of the ranked run gives a permanent seal to apply to a card in your collection (card sheet, “Transform” section). Never shards.
  • Arena: 8 new passives (Twins, Field medic, Bloodlust, Precision, Strategist, Melting pot, Underdog, New generation).

Улучшения

  • Arena: more varied bots, built around a publisher, a platform or a style (Retro, New generation, Headliners, Hidden gems).

Исправления ошибок

  • Arena: choosing a pact did nothing. It's fixed, and pacts are stronger: 3 options to pick from among 15 tokens, +40 max HP, a passive straight at level 2, the whole team upgraded one level or a seal on the card of your choice.

Правила и баланс

  • Arena: HP gained per win drops from 15 to 10 (the rest comes from rewards), and opponents gain a passive every win: the longer the run, the tougher they get.
  • Arena: Horror fear now grows with every level, from 30% at level 1 to 90% at level 5 (before: 85% from level 1, maxed out at level 2). The card below takes a share that also grows with level. Horror cards are weaker early in a run and worth upgrading.

Card fusion

Новое

  • Fusion: merge 3 free copies of the same version of a card into a single one with an animated prismatic border. You choose which number you keep; the other two disappear. Costs shards depending on rarity (from 100 ✦ for a Common to 3,000 ✦ for a Legendary). In the card's sheet, “Transform” section.
  • Report a profile: new “Private messages” reason. A moderator will be able to read your conversation with that player, and only that one, to check the report.

Улучшения

  • Card sheet: “Who has it?” and “Who wants it?” are available everywhere (Index, collection, profiles, auctions, trades, packs, Arena), and actions are grouped in sections (Trade and sell, Organize, Transform), right below your copies.
  • Shiny cards: new brushed-metal effect with a golden glint that follows the tilt, visible at every rarity (they were barely distinguishable on Super Rare and above).
  • On phones, card pages show fewer cards at once (collection, trash, auction house, Arena deck, showcase and avatar pickers, Index collection list): less scrolling to reach the page buttons.
  • Profile: the “Collection” button was removed (it's still in the menu).

Правила и баланс

  • Terms of use: if the rules are broken, the team can also take away shards (fine) or limit for a time what your packs give (nothing better than Rare). You always get a message with the reason, and you can reply to dispute it.

Sound is back

Новое

  • Sound is back, fully remade: real foley (cards, paper, ice, crystal) mixed for the game, brighter and tuned together. Ordinary buttons stay silent: only real game moments make a sound.
  • VG Quiz has its own sounds: 3-2-1, round start, last seconds, right or wrong answer, life lost or won, podium.
  • A subtle ambience while opening packs.

Улучшения

  • Studio cards now share the Publisher card sound, and opening a booster is 100% real foley (wrapper crinkling and tearing, cards sliding out).
  • Arena: new combat sounds, short and soft (hits, heavy hits, shield, heal, fear, poison, defeated card), no longer overwhelming at high speed.
  • VG Quiz: the leaderboard has its own page, opened with the “Leaderboard” button next to the room's records (it's no longer on the Social rankings page).
  • VG Quiz: lives now use the Arena heart pictogram, and the button click is softer.
  • VG Quiz: logos that spell out the studio or publisher name are removed from studio rounds (it was too easy).
  • VG Quiz: new gem-shaped lives, and no more settings recap at the top of the screen during the game.
  • Super Rare sound retuned to match the other rarities, softer than the Ultra Rare one.
  • Rarity sounds remade: no more held note, rarity now comes through air, crystal sparkle, ringing metal and the weight of the impact.
  • Opening a booster sounds like a real one: the wrapper crinkling and tearing, then the cards fanning out.
  • A subtle click on menu buttons, tabs and action buttons.
  • Sound button: sound effects, music and ambience are set separately, each with its own switch and volume (also in your profile).

Исправления ошибок

  • Legendaries: the heartbeats no longer race before the reveal.
  • Legendary and Diamond sounds now match the animation (the Diamond hit came in late).

A deeper Arena

Новое

  • VG Quiz: ranked solo (same rules for everyone, increasingly obscure games) whose score counts in the ranking, and custom solo with a record per setting.
  • VG Quiz: adjustable time per round, “Rising” difficulty, savable presets, a “Skip” button and the rules behind a button at the top of the room.
  • New mini-game in beta: VG Quiz. Find games from their cover or a screenshot, studios from their logo, and release years, against your friends or solo: 3 lives, last one standing wins. Free mode (hints after every miss) or multiple choice to get started, blurred bonus rounds, podium and records.
  • Ranking: new VG Quiz tab with the best solo scores.
  • Messages: a VG Quiz invitation shows a button to join the game.
  • Arena: passives can be upgraded. Taking a passive you already have (Endurance, Armor, point bonuses…) raises it to level 2, then 3, and its effect is multiplied by its level.
  • Arena: new “Veterans” passive. A card sent to the bench keeps its level when it comes back to the team.
  • Arena: during a run, “Your deck” shows all your cards (team and bench) with their level.
  • Auctions: the list of sales is split into pages.

Улучшения

  • Game sounds are switched off for now (and the Sound button is hidden): they will come back reworked.
  • Arena: both health bars are at the top, side by side, and each team's passives are shown on its side of the cards.
  • Arena: Rules, History and Ranking are at the top of the page.
  • Arena: effects are explained more clearly, especially the Amp of Music cards (no damage itself, +4 to every hit of your team during the turn).
  • Arena: the Fear of Horror cards shows what it really takes off the opposing card, not just a percentage.
  • Trades: the most recent offers are at the top of the list.
  • Index: a single search field in “All cards”; studio and publisher are in the Filters menu.
  • Details of a game without a Steam page: a link to search for it on Steam.

Исправления ошибок

  • iPhone and iPad: no more gyroscope permission prompt on every pack. Card tilt with the gyroscope is off by default there and can be turned on in Settings.
  • Luck ranking: the page loads much faster (it recalculated the whole pack history on every visit).

Правила и баланс

  • Auctions: at most 5 sales running at the same time, bulk sales included.
  • Arena: a card coming back from the bench starts again at level 1 (unless you have the “Veterans” passive).
  • Arena: bots get stronger as you win (more upgrades, fewer Common cards).

Easier trades

Новое

  • Index: in “All cards”, search by studio (who developed the game) and by publisher (who released it), on top of franchises.
  • Binders: search (binder name or a card stored inside) and Pinned, Public, Private filters on the shelf.
  • Profiles: likes and comments under a player's collection (public collections). A comment can be removed by its author, the collection's owner or a moderator.
  • Collection: a “Do not trade” filter and a bulk action to protect (or release) all selected cards at once.
  • Card details (Index, collection, wishlists): “Who wants it?” lists the players who have the card on their wishlist, with a link to offer them a trade.
  • Arena: sounds during fights (cards acting, hits, shields, heals, fear, poison, passives, victory and defeat). They follow your Sound setting and stay discreet when the fight goes fast.
  • Arena: four new passives. “Steady nerves” halves the Fear you suffer (the counter to Horror teams), “Assault” favours cards that strike, “Venom” strengthens poison and “Chain reaction” doubles the Combo bonus.

Улучшения

  • Arena: clearer tutorial. Each fight explains one idea (reading cards and their value, neighbours with an example taken from your team, rarity and strategy), with a link to all the explanations. The rules now start with a “Getting started” section.

Исправления ошибок

  • Wishlists: the arrows and swipe in the card details follow the order the cards are shown in.
  • Arena: an upgraded card sent back to the bench in a card swap keeps its level when it returns to the team (it used to drop back to level 1).
  • Ranking: on phones, the tabs (including “Luck”) fit on screen and can be tapped normally.
  • “Who has it?”: the trade button now opens the offer with the card already requested from the player (and, from a collection, the cards you are missing).

Правила и баланс

  • Arena: Horror Fear is rebalanced. It reduces the card in front by 85% (95% at most with levels and bonuses) and the card below by half as much. A Horror team can no longer fully block the opponent turn after turn.
  • Arena, friendly challenge: on top of as many upgrades as the ghost, you choose as many passives as it has (and your cards go up to level 5 if you take “Mastery”). The fight is on equal terms.

Badges and Arena beta

Новое

  • Trades: in the history, “Propose again” starts from a finished trade (declined, cancelled, expired…) to offer a new one to the same player, with the same cards and Shards when they are still available.
  • Arena: new passive “Mastery”. With it, your cards can be upgraded up to level 5 instead of 3.
  • Opening several packs: once the cards are revealed, filters by rarity (and Shiny) show only the cards you want. “Select” then “All” then takes only those, to sell, store or tear them in one go.
  • Binders: change the order of your binders by dragging them on the shelf (on touch: press and hold).
  • Profiles: an “Inactive” tag on the profile of a player who has not opened a pack for more than 30 days.
  • Daily streak: an extra Super Rare pack every 10 days in a row (10, 20, 30…), on top of the daily Rare pack.
  • A game guide, readable without an account: how to play, rarities, badges and level, the Arena rules and the latest updates.
  • Arena: tapping a card's value shows how it is calculated (base value, level, neighbours, passives, rarity).
  • Arena: in deck building, the cards of the deck can be moved by dragging them (on touch: press and hold).
  • Arena: a magnifying glass on each card opens its details, without going through its effect badge.
  • A warning before selling, trading or tearing the last card of a completed collection: it shows the badge and the points you are about to lose.

Улучшения

  • Daily streak: the explanations now sit behind a small “i” button, making the card lighter.
  • Arena: in deck building, the genre and platform filters follow the fight rules (the genre that gives the card its effect, its main platform) and only offer what your collection contains.
  • Sharing a link to the site now shows the VGCards logo.
  • Arena: in deck building, each card shows its effect and what creates synergy (franchise, studio, platform, year, genre). What another card of the deck shares is shown in purple.
  • Menu: the Mini-games tab now comes after Auctions.
  • Arena: proper icons instead of emojis, for card effects, passives, rarity markers, the fight and the medals. Each family of effects has its own colour (attack, protection, healing, poison, hindrance, support).
  • Arena: deck building has the same filters as the rest of the game (sort, type, rarity, genre, platform, decade, duplicates, shiny) and pages, instead of a list capped at 60 cards.
  • Phone: the Contact button is in the top bar, next to the sound, instead of being tucked away in the options.

Исправления ошибок

  • Arena: the explanation bubbles (card effect, passive) now sit above the cards, are no longer cut off by the fight frame and no longer shake with the card.
  • Arena: the displayed value of a Horror card no longer goes above 100%. It kept climbing with bonuses although fear is capped at 100%.

Правила и баланс

  • Collections: completing a collection no longer gives Shards. It still gives its badge and its collector level points (and so a Super Rare Pack for each level gained).
  • Arena: upgrading a Horror card finally matters. Its fear still cancels the card in front, and weighs more on the card below with each level: 50% at level 1, 66% at level 2, 83% at level 3.
  • Badges: you keep a badge as long as you own every card of its collection. If a card goes missing (sale, trade, tear), the badge and its collection points are removed; you get them back by completing the collection again.
  • Arena (beta): the mode's rewards are temporarily disabled. Your feedback is welcome through the Contact button.

Private messages, trades and daily streak

Новое

  • “Give feedback”: a banner tells you when your feedback is picked up, then when it's done.
  • Badges: tap a badge to see it large, with its collection and the date you earned it.
  • Report that a game is a fangame (or isn't one) from “Report…” on a card sheet.
  • Private messages between players: a “Message” button on a profile, and an inbox with unread conversations.
  • Cards not for trade: in a card's sheet, mark the copy you want to keep. Everyone can still see it, but it's no longer offered in trades; players can still ask for it, with a warning.
  • Trades: an optional word when accepting or declining an offer, shown afterwards in the history.
  • “Shiny” and “Wishlist” filters in the Index, collections, the auction house and trades.
  • Raffle: history of past raffles, with the winner next to each prize.
  • Daily play streak: open at least one pack a day, and from day 3 in a row you earn a Rare pack (5 cards, all Rare or better) every day. Your streak is shown on the packs page.

Улучшения

  • Badges in relief: they tilt toward your finger or mouse, with a shine (and follow your phone when shown large).
  • Messages and Trades: who can message you, and who can send you trade offers, are shown at the top of each page, with a link to Settings.
  • Blurred cards: “Sensitive” instead of “18+” for games with sensitive themes.
  • Cards: badges (owned, copies, wishlist, auction…) are grouped at the top left and never hide the rarity again.
  • Card sheet: a single “Report…” link groups every report (artwork, duplicate, collection, 18+ or sensitive topic).
  • Trades: a blue badge marks your cards the other player already owns, and their pinned collections become a shortcut to find what they're after.
  • Raffle: between two raffles, suggest anything for the next card to win (a game, a developer, a character, an item, a concept…).
  • Phone: vibrations at key moments (shiny card revealed, trade completed, bid placed, card won), depending on what your device allows.
  • Social: the Messages button is on the Social page, next to Trades, with the number of unread conversations.
  • Settings: “Trade offers” and “Private messages” have the same choices: Everyone, Players I follow, Mutual followers, Nobody.
  • Raffle history: the winner's tickets and their chance of winning.
  • Drop rates of the Rare and Super Rare packs in the packs page dropdown.
  • Luck ranking: raffles count too. Winning with few tickets raises your luck, entering without winning lowers it slightly.

Исправления ошибок

  • Tearing more than 500 cards at once works (up to 10,000 at a time).
  • The shard balance updates on its own: a bid refunded after being outbid shows without reloading the page.
  • Times are shown in your time zone (they were one to two hours off).
  • Wishlist: move from one card to the next (swipe, arrows, keyboard) without closing the sheet.

Правила и баланс

  • Auctions: 24 h at most (the 48 h duration is no longer offered; ongoing sales keep their end time).
  • Underage players: trades and private messages limited to mutual followers by default (can be changed in Settings).

Sounds, levels and profile

Новое

  • Sound effects: a Sound button next to the language, with a small menu to mute them and set the volume.
  • Each collector level gained gives a Super Rare Pack.
  • Collector level ranking, on the rankings page.
  • Flags next to your username: a country and an LGBT+ pride flag, chosen by tapping the small flag on your profile.
  • Showcase built right from the profile, with cards reordered by drag and drop.
  • Raffle: the end of the draw replays for each participant, and between two raffles you can vote for the next prize or suggest a game.

Улучшения

  • Raffle: the card you win no longer arrives face down, it materializes on screen out of particles.
  • Collector level: one level every 10 points, badges worth more (Bronze 2, Silver 5, Gold 10, Platinum 25, Diamond 50), shown as “Level N” with an “i” help.
  • Trades: a counter-offer shows what changed (cards added or removed, more or fewer shards).
  • Public profile: badges are shown only once, at the top.
  • Reworked home page, and a tidier top bar on phones.
  • Public profile: stats, wishlist, binders and collection gathered in one expandable panel, with the stats in a small block, and “Propose a trade” next to Follow.
  • Card pages: the same buttons as binders everywhere (first and last page, a slider to jump far in one move).
  • Opening several packs: with “Reveal all”, the screen scrolls along with the cards as they flip.

Исправления ошибок

  • Trash: shown in pages, it no longer lags when full.
  • Alignment fixes: a profile's collection, Trades, My cards and Raffle on phones, Account and security.

Badges, collections and 18+ cards

Новое

  • Tiered badges per collection and collector level, to stick on binder covers; reorganized public profile.
  • Collections: report a mistake, suggest a new collection, and see which players have the cards you're missing (with their numbers).
  • Auctions: a bell to be notified 3 minutes before a sale ends, and a warning before bidding right after a big overbid.
  • Report a game as 18+ or not from its card sheet.
  • Terms of use and code of conduct, from the options.

Улучшения

  • “Collection” becomes “My cards”, so it's no longer confused with Index collections.
  • Card sheet: details and collections in folded panels, Steam button in the details, market value above them.
  • Packs: no separate bonus pack button anymore, “Open a pack” opens them too and the counters include them.
  • Separate “Blur sensitive themes” setting (nazism, dictators, terrorism…), independent from sexual content.
  • No more switching cards with the mouse wheel; swiping, arrows and keyboard remain.
  • Same “Card info” button and “owned” check everywhere; tapping an auction's card shows it large.

Исправления ошибок

  • Card sheet: the card no longer moves when a panel opens.
  • Trades: checks and “remove” buttons no longer cut off in scrolling lists.

Правила и баланс

  • Birth date required: 18+ cards are hidden from underage players, and games with sensitive themes become 18+.
  • A collection has at least 3 cards.

Trades, bonus packs and game rules

Новое

  • Report an artwork, a duplicate or a profile (with a verified e-mail).
  • Suggest a missing card from “Give feedback”.
  • Pack opening: an “Info” button to see the full sheet of a revealed card.
  • Raffle: list of participants with their tickets and odds.
  • This What's new page, from the profile.

Улучшения

  • Navigation: Collection and Index merged into a single “Cards” tab, with a switch between the two.
  • Bonus packs: the button chains one ad per pending bonus pack, then opens the unlocked packs; clearer texts (“Watch 5 ads (+5 packs)”).
  • Diamond cards numbered separately (◆ #1), cards you already own highlighted in trades, affected cards listed before tearing.
  • Emerald card: new gem silhouette and “1/1” in the bottom tip.
  • Raffle: banner on the packs page and a button to the raffle from the auction house.

Исправления ошибок

  • Phone: nothing overflows sideways anymore (auction details).
  • Phone: tapping a card works on the first try.
  • “Who has it?” updates when moving from one card to the next.

Правила и баланс

  • One account per player: multi-accounting is forbidden and detected. The accounts involved may be frozen; a frozen account can contact the team to explain itself.
  • Raffle: one ticket costs one shard.
  • Luck ranking: 100 regular packs opened to appear in it (instead of 20).

Trades and binders

Новое

  • Private or public binders: public binders can be browsed from the profile.
  • Trades: choose which copy of a duplicate card to trade.

Улучшения

  • Trades with no card limit.
  • Received cards first in “Recent”, My auctions better organized, reworked binder animations.
  • Auctions: 5 h duration suggested by default.

Правила и баланс

  • Up to 30 pending trade offers at once (instead of 10).
  • Mature games can no longer be used as a profile picture.

Trash, trades and rankings

Новое

  • “Owned” marker on other players' cards (auctions, trades, profiles).
  • “Who has it?” in the Index and the wishlist, with copy numbers.
  • Warning before tearing a card you care about.

Улучшения

  • Trash: its own button in the Collection.
  • Rankings: top 10, your place, then your friends'.
  • Sorted binders, sort by release date, swipe from one card to the next everywhere.

Исправления ошибок

  • Profile picture: the chosen framing finally applies.

Правила и баланс

  • Trades unlocked after 24 h instead of 48 h, up to 20 cards per trade.

Pack opening and rankings

Новое

  • Player rankings (packs opened, luck), from the Social page.
  • Profile picture: free framing (zoom and move).
  • Filters: duplicates, genre, platform and decade.

Улучшения

  • Pack opening: revealed card shown large with its actions, free sale price, multiple selection.
  • The same card actions everywhere (pin, binder, sell, trade, tear).
  • Options moved to their own page, from the profile; mature artworks blurred by default.

Исправления ошибок

  • Pack opening: SR and higher cards no longer vanish on a shaky network.
  • Pack opening: face-down cards no longer turn invisible.

Bonus packs, languages and new logo

Новое

  • Bonus packs: one every 10 minutes, up to 10 in reserve, each opens after an ad; 10 ads in a row give 10 packs.
  • 5 new languages: Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, German and Korean.
  • Multiple selection in the collection: sell or trade several cards at once.
  • “Fangame” tag on fan-made games, and franchise badge emblems.
  • “In a trade” badge on cards offered in a trade.

Улучшения

  • New logo: two brackets around a directional pad.
  • Sign in with your e-mail or username.
  • Diamond artworks: real artworks, no more screenshots.
  • Wishlist with no size limit; slight card tilt with the gyroscope.

Исправления ошибок

  • Face-down cards: no more rarity hint before flipping them.
  • “This page” no longer selects pinned cards (cards torn by mistake were given back).

Правила и баланс

  • Trades unlocked after 48 h; notification when you are outbid.

Notifications

Новое

  • Push notifications: full pack reserve and received trades.

Referrals, Diamond versions and reports

Новое

  • Referrals: an invite link, a pack for your referee, and an Ultra pack per validated friend (Legend pack at 20 friends).
  • Diamonds with alternate art: 2 or 3 versions per game.
  • Report a card's artwork, reviewed by the team.
  • “Give feedback” button to write to the team.
  • “Shiny” badge and card versions; sorted by rarity by default.

Улучшения

  • Smoother pack opening, especially on mobile, and skippable.
  • Shard balance shown in the navigation, on every page.
  • Index: collections sorted by size or by owned cards.

Правила и баланс

  • Legendaries and Diamonds made rarer.

Binders, filters and wishlist

Новое

  • Wishlist on profiles.
  • Profile picture: one of your cards.
  • “Install the app” button for your home screen.
  • Card sheet: its collections, with a link to each.
  • Over 6,700 franchise collections detected automatically.

Улучшения

  • Binders: cards that spread out and pages that turn.
  • Filters shared by the collection, the Index and the auction house, kept from page to page; sort by value everywhere.
  • Editions and compilations merged with the original game (copies follow).

Исправления ошибок

  • Mobile: no more sideways overflow.

Правила и баланс

  • Progress reset, with a Legend pack given as compensation.
  • New account: the date when trades and sales become available is shown.

Huge catalog, binders and Social

Новое

  • Huge catalog: about 150,000 games (Steam, RAWG, LaunchBox), rarity based on each game's fame.
  • Custom binders, pins and card tearing.
  • 5 free packs when you verify your e-mail.
  • Change your username and delete your account.
  • Language switch button.
  • Social tab: player search, followed players and activity feed.

Улучшения

  • Redesigned Studio and Publisher cards, with official logos; studio and publisher on Game cards.
  • New animations: Legendary in motion design, Ultra Rare in gold-veined marble.
  • Paginated Index and collection, name search in the collection.
  • Pack counter next to “Open the next one”.

VGCards launch

Новое

  • Open packs of video game, studio and publisher cards, with a blade.
  • Rarities from Common to Legendary, and Diamond: the ultra-rare crystal version of a Legendary. Stinky cards can be cleaned.
  • Custom reveals for Legendaries and Diamonds.
  • Accounts with a code-verified e-mail, and forgotten password.
  • Public profiles, showcase, private or public collection, follows and blocking.
  • Trades between players and auction house.
  • Card Index, collections and profile badges.
  • Legal page with the drop rates.