by Vacabck
For the record, I like both games, I'll play DC more simply because I don't have to hassle with the ridiculous setup, but I do play both and enjoy them both.This is just a silly theory about why people are "hating" on the DC deck builder vs Legendary, just a stupid theory in my head.
It all has to do with how Upper Deck marketed Legendary vs how Cryptozoic didn't. UD made it a point to get reviewers and UD community members into demo the game at Gen Con, and let them do their reviews from that and then sent them the demo copies as soon as they could, gave them a feeling of exclusivity. Cryptozoic didn't do that, they let everyone demo their game at GenCon, didn't give it the feel of anything special for the reviewers out there. If I am a reviewer and I get a personal invite to play a game and review it, I sure as heck may look on it a bit more favorably than I do a game that I didn't get that for, even if we try to not be biased. Maybe I had to actually buy my own copy of DC vs getting the review copy of Marvel.
There are a lot of sheep on BGG, people that see what certain reviewers and certain voices say about a game and then no matter what else, that's what they will think about the game as well, even if they never try it themselves.