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@gameinformer I feel like this should surprise no one. The game felt like a mix of every popular game for the past half decade. In trying to be everything they succeeded at nothing.

Highguard developer Wildlight Entertainment has reportedly laid off "most of the team." gameinformer.com/2026/02/11/hig…

@Ryan87333040 It’s not a dig at their games, I personally love league. It’s that a lot of TCG players are coming from other TCGs and they aren’t going to be part of that game necessarily.

@brokymon Lmao

1: I just want to let everyone who missed the Riftbound drop know: the merch store is a Shopify store, and there’s a loophole to the riot account, you can checkout on the Shopify backend with a non riot account. Just an email and your info. That’s how people got around it.

@PunishedEnvoid UVS is the company in charge of production, they’re the publisher. I don’t think Asmodee has anything to do with Riftbound or any TCG, as they make board games, but I may be wrong.

@brokymon I’m more concerned that Asmodee (previously FFG) is in charge of production of the product lmao

The poor Riftbound team has to deal with Riot killing their game by contracting UVS and not fixing their merch store.

Message conveyed to anyone playing Riftbound from the errata, don’t spend money on good cards. They will get nerfed like this is a video game and you’re out potentially hundreds of dollars. Not loving that.

Because falling star is a single spell, no matter the targets, it should only pay the deflect cost ones regardless of targeting a single unit once or twice, because your only targeting the unit with /one spell/

@playriftbound now that IR and FS are single spells, by RAW only one deflect cost should be paid as deflects texts is “Spells and abilities an opponent controls that choose me cost an amount of Power equal to [Deflect Value] more to play as an additional cost”

@DrFreeHugs @RiftboundReport It’s a big nerf, and tbh deflect should also only apply once from a logical standpoint: now that those cards are a single spell, deflect states “spells that target me” now that those cards are single spells. I’d argue by RAW, it’s one deflect cost.

@RiftboundReport What a nerf, good god 😅 Then again, reflexive triggers are such an unintuitive part of the game, i hope they go for good

With the Erratas to both Falling Star and Icathian Rain in the Spiritforged Erratas, these cards no longer have reflective triggers, which means that you can now 'Not So Fast' the whole spell instead of just 1 instance of damage. #RBSpiritforged #Errata

@DeinArztGaming @RiftboundReport You understoood it intuitively, which is how it should be, a card is a spell and therefore a counter spell counters that card. But because it was made reflexive for each tic of damage, it turned 1 card into 2 or 6. Which wasn’t what they intended.

@RiftboundReport Someone tell me this game isn't complicated. I though all the time Not so fast was able to cancel Ica Rain. Welp, I was wrong, but now I'm back to right. 🤣🤣🤣

@HadesN47 @RiftboundReport Previously it was dumb, and falling star / icathian was two/six spells. Now it’s only one, as it should have always been.

@RiftboundReport But why? Why is this diffrent? Why couldnt I play "not so fast" on falling stars?. Its still targeting unit

@RiftboundReport Thank god, not so fast was borderline useless. Ahri shall now rise in the ranks! Counter spell galore deck finally coming!

Actual better response than Pokemon, who just shrugs and send the scalpers their 50 orders.

@Frodan @scarra @BoxBox @Frodan goated as usual

@brokymon @scarra @BoxBox We talk with Riot often about community concerns, especially because it affects everyone (us, our friends, and local communities that we play at) so we'll make it known. Not sure how much influence we have over that stuff but at least we can guarantee they hear it 👍

Ngl I think creators connected with riot like @Frodan @scarra @BoxBox who also play Riftbound need to voice how annoyed the community is with how bad UVS is handling Riftbound for Riot. China doesn’t have UVS, has way more people, and none of the problems.

@noam1233 @RiftboundReport @Senith91 was the original poster, if I understand it correct, after the botting rumors he paid to join groups and filmed this.

@brokymon @RiftboundReport First of all thank you for share it with us :) secondly how did you found this info?

@RiftboundReport look at this dude. I think only 5-10% of sales today were by users. Look at the checkout times, they’re all before the product loaded for us.

@Ryan87333040 Uhhh, because a lot of people don’t play their other games.

@brokymon Why not just offer product waves by rank in their games (LoL, TFT, runeterra, valorant, etc)

@davetron @davetron does the riot team know how the bot traffic got through? If not, message me, I can provide specific incites on how bots work and ideas of how to counter them. Kinda a specialist on this. More than happy to help.

Second, the sales process was overwhelmed by a mix of real traffic from Riftbounders and bots. We’re in the process of canceling all fraudulent orders. If you’re a real player who placed an order, your order will remain valid and it will still ship. (2/9)

As you all saw, Spiritforged preorders went fast today. We know it was a frustrating experience for a lot of you. Overall, we saw two major issues: first, even with ~50 percent more product than Origins, we still didn’t have enough to meet demand. (1/9)

@davetron @playriftbound For those about to comment here: I don’t work at riot, but I have worked a corporate job. The merch store dev team and Riftbound are different teams. The riftbound team aren’t responsible for managing the sites bot protections, but thanks to them listening, they’re working on it.

@Zaitus_ @RaafaaCasts More complicated than that, but it’s possible to manually do, so I won’t be sharing it publicly.

@brokymon @RaafaaCasts What was the backdoor? That they literally changed one word in the URL for Spiritforged booster display? Is this the same thing that happened with Vegas regional tickets?

If you got your hands on a Spiritforged Booster Box and ACTUALLY plan on opening the packs/enjoying the cards, I'm genuinely happy for you. Everyone else who are scalping them up to resell at $200+, you will be going to a special level of hell.

@RiftboundReport @RiftboundReport dm me, I have some specific info to share that might help the riftbound and merch store teams handle this. But I’m not putting it on here.

@brokymon Thanks for this I'll see if I can pass it on to anyone at Riot to help them identify bots.

@Cstrobears @RiftboundReport The only people who did were the ones who got it in the hours after from cancellation. With the backdoor, it was probably all bots.

@RiftboundReport @brokymon I think it’s cooked, I’ve talked to over a 100 people today hopped in calls with big groups of people I don’t think anyone who got a box was a player, or if so it has to be less then 1% of what got sold