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Originally Posted by DoGGz
I've played so much live poker that I'm pretty set on the standard 52 card look.
This is pretty much it. Change happens very slowly, and in small increments. Not because people don't like change, -most don't- but because it is extremely difficult to make a large change that is an improvement on what has gone before. Essentially the card deck of the English speaking world has not changed
at all in 400 years. Hard to believe, right? And if you look at science and art the advancements that have mattered have been tiny steps. Usually, radical novelty is regressive.
Like it or not, as designers we are stuck with the history we have. But this does not stop us trying to be original. And to do that we must experiment whatever way we can. Out there somewhere is a currently unknown idea for a digital poker deck that will be the "standard" for future online poker players. And because originality, improvements, and genius advance incrementally, that deck might be designed by a design n00b who, having seen all the experiments in threads like this might make one tiny change that no-one else has seen, and baam - everyone will be making derivatives of that.
When you look at the history of playing cards you read that they began in China where a ruler played with his wife and had the pieces of paper decorated to entertain her. So, technically speaking, a professional poker player should have unadorned decks as anything else is diverts the attention. The ruler's wife needed paint because she actually was not really interested in the game itself. The pretty designs were to
keep her entertained.
EDIT: this does not mean that the future "standard" digital deck will be plain.
Last edited by wilneedheart; 12-28-2010 at 09:50 AM.