Anarchosyn said:

In essence, your argument seems to be "if they don't provide me as much information as I want, when I want it, then they're a bunch of jerks".

It doesn't quite work that way.  This is their game. They can release it however they want, and they can handle previews however they want.  I may wish that it would come out faster, or have more cards, or be cheaper, or that a full deckbuilding web page was already up - but I understand that I don't have any control over these things.

I do agree with you on the forum software though, this is BY FAR the worst forum software I've seen and I've been on a lot of different forums.

 It should be noted these forums are actually hosted by Edge, a foreign partners of theirs… hence "edge_foros" in the url which translates to edge forum.

dboeren said:

Did I miss this somewhere?  The news article about GenCon says the tournament rules will be posted, but mentions nothing about the game rules themselves.

Buhallin said:

The e-mail after purchasing a ticket for the Netrunner tournament repeated the event description, plus:

"To familiarize yourself with the Android: Netrunner before the tournament, you may download the rules from the Android: Netrunner website at http://tinyurl.com/an-support"

It sounds like they expect to make the game rules available some time before the tournament….

Also, wow, this little post-writing app FFG has is horrible.  I can't make a quote block other than the one in the post I'm directly quoting?  Why is there a bizarre popup intercepting paste?

Chrondeath said:

This forum basically just goes "Ooh, I don't like youuu" and then goes to astonishing lengths to mess with your head. That's been my experience, at least.

 I really wish FFG would convince/demand for Edge to use some other forum software this is horrid. Seriously. I know they aren't a technological company, but there has GOT to be someone else they could outsource this to.

It's been available for preorder for well over a month, when will we find out the card distribution ?

It's not clear how many base sets we'll need to have a tournament ready collection.

 Three, almost guaranteed, if by tournament ready collection you mean the maximum number of cards possible to include in a deck.

But it is Netrunner, you don't need every card x3 to be competitive, you just need to be a better player.

 would most likely be 1 of every card especially with "7 factions", 4 corp 3 runner was it at?

Penfold said:

I want to clarify this, be a better player than your opponent, not be a better player than you currently are. :)

The game is so much about strategy and bluffing that it is entirely possible to win consistently just by being a stronger player. The cards of course can help make up for skill disparity, but if you are not playing in tournaments there is no reason to buy three core sets.