Update Your Links!

My Eye of Judgment has been expanding for some time now. In order to best serve the EoJ Community SonicKaos and I have our own domain now. We are still messing around with the layout so pardon the newly formed dust.

• http://myeyeofjudgment.com

Offline Tournaments

We hear about tournaments all the time from readers and other Eye of Judgment sites. However, every-single-one of the them is over the PlayStation Network. Never once have we hear about a physical tournament where you can play face to face with your opponent. Not the case anymore. We just got word that Poland is the home to one of these tournaments.

Game Lord, a store that specializes in collectible trading card game, hosted what looks to be a very successful gathering. The most incredible part is that most of the matches were not played with the aid of the PS3. Yup, that’s right, some matches were analogue. Game Lord used crafty skills with construction paper and dice to make the game playable without the Blu-ray game disc.

The site we are about to link you is Polish so don’t be surprised if you can’t read everything on the pages. The most important thing is that they were having fun and used a bit of old fashioned ingenuity to accommodate more people.

• Tournament Results
• Tournament Pics

Booster Watch

This horse may seem to be beaten to death but the issues are still here — booster packs are harder to come by than a Budweiser at a NASCAR race. The most vocal portion of the community is the Canadian EoJ players. To their credit, booster packs haven’t shown up in stores and Sony or Hasbro haven’t said a word why that is so it is understandable why they would not be happy. I hate to say I played a roll in this by jinxing the community by saying we have been freakishly patient but I forgot to knock on wood from the Juno Forest.  SonicKaos could probably explain the frustration best because he lives in the Great White North.

That’s the reason for the Canadian flag shaped like a heart — to send out love to our brothers and sisters suffering without boosters.

Rumors are flying across the EoJ Community about why that is. Some say production has been halted because of easy-to-print-off cards while others say the supplies are not meeting demands. We don’t know what to believe other than we hope whatever is the problem gets resolved soon.

There isn’t much us consumers can do other than be patient and wait for official word. We’ll let you know the second we hear something.

EoJ Version 1.01

It seems Sony has been working hard on fixing the issues plaguing some online players recently in Eye of Judgement. They released a network update earlier today with two main fixes:

1. Improved connectivity with opponents in online mode – Many people have been having connection issues with the game, so to hear that this has been noticed and taken care of is great news.

2. Better balanced COM AI in Battle Arena Mod – What this means exactly, we aren’t sure. Perhaps the computer will become smarter (or a bit dumber in lower difficulties) so that the selected difficulty will give better competition to a wider range of players skill.

For info on how to update your game version, please check the official site. There are some steps to ensure you apply the patch correctly so read carefully.

Remember, you will not be able to play online until you have installed this update.

Happy Battling!

Eye of Judgment Network Update

One of the community managers at the European PlayStation forms has spilled the beans on a network update to everyone’s favorite game — Eye of Judgment. It is still unclear if this update if just for the PAL regions or will carry over across all the territories where EoJ is released. Still, what does the update consist of?

• Reinforcement of COM AI in Battle Arena Mode.
• Optimization of network connection for Online Mode.

Good news for the back-end of the game because more and more issues were cropping up about connections dropping. We are not clear on what “reinforcement of COM AI” is but it SOUNDS good.

The update will hit on November 12, some places are incorrectly reporting it as Nov. 9 but the forum post has since been amended. Don’t get confused with the 12/11 part because Europe likes to keep us Yankees on our toes by switching the month and day.

Card Spotlight

With the deep card strategy system in place for Eye of Judgment, there can be a number of uses for a single card. Icepick from the Black Cubic site highlights all kinds of cards from the ninja set to the Green Lycanthrope. He does a great job at looking over the card and analyzing what kind of effectiveness it truly has. Not only that, he shows off a sample of the card (and blanks out the bar code, hurray!) so you know what to look for when you open an elusive booster pack.

So far, the updates have been very consistent and it is becoming an invaluable resource to the pro EoJ deck builder. Speaking of building decks, they recently joined forces with one of our favorite card management resources, the EoJ Card Manager. That duo of card information makes it the premier place to look for any question you might have on abilities, battle patterns or mana costs.

We’ll keep you all updated on their development and what is happening with the Black Cubic as they keep on posting about some of the basic and more unique strategies found with individual cards.

• Click here to read Black Cubic’s latest Card Spotlight