More News from GenCon

I confess that I was very disappointed initially by most of the news I heard coming from GenCon. The poorly done reprints of MOR cards. The botched rules sheet. The violation of the Living Card Game trademark. The duct tape on the GenCon banner to cover up said violation. Cue the circus music. It looked to me like the Vs. System revival was going to end before it really started.

Things started looking up a bit, however, when Upper Deck posted this announcement on their blog on Saturday morning: Upper Deck's blog post. Their post raised as many questions as it answered, but it at least made it sound like they wouldn't be deterred by not being able to use the Living Card Game moniker.

Then I watched this interview by Gamersledge.com with Jason Brenner of Upper Deck:

For the first time since news of their announcement came out, I actually began to feel somewhat optimistic that the game might return in a form that most of us would be happy with. I'm still plenty skeptical, to be sure--Upper Deck's track record with card games is not very good, to say the least--but the optimism-to-skepticism ratio is definitely trending higher now.