Collectible TCG vs Non-Collectible CCG, Benefits?

As a detractor of CCGs, I've always felt that the key difference between CCGs and Non-CCGs is money and strategy respectively. For CCGs, the kid with the richest parents is at an advantage and for Non-CCGs the kid who is the best strategist is at an advantage.

It has also been my experience that CCGs tend to "get house-ruled". However, I don't know if this is due to the game itself or the type of person playing the game. Two factors are at work here. 1. CCGs tend to be overly complex due to all the cards and the need to cover all possibilities of card interaction. 2. "Collectibility" - some people just like the cards. When these two things come together and interest in the cards is greater than the interest in the game, the game tends to get played out of convenience rather than by the book. Age seems to be a factor as well; the younger the player, the more interest in the monsters (cards) over the game.
Compare this to a Non-CCG like Bridge or anything else. Given the constant set of finite cards, the game focuses on strategy and not who can afford the most cards from which to build the best hand/deck. With Non-CCGs there also is considerably less (if any) 'open interpretation' of the rules. There are no open-ended features of Bridge, so there's no confusion as to how to play; everyone uses the same rules.

My opinion is that if you don't have a 30 minute animated TV show based on your game airing at 4pm on school days, don't bother making your game a CCG. If you feel like your game is aimed more at gamers than monster-loving children, keep your game a closed-system and forget about the collectibility aspect.

Is it important to classify your game as either?

And given the choice, would you call your game a "bad/restricted CCG"?

In my personal (crazy) opinion (worth at least 8 times what you're paying for it), it's always better to be original and forge new paths than try to force yourself into someone else's definition/expectation of what you should be.

You: "Is it just ice cream or is it a sundae without syrup?"

Me: "Do I have to know to eat it?"

I'm with Dralius; you have a game with Expansion Sets.

As for marketability, pitch it as "customizable". Players can buy whatever thematic decks/sets appeal to them and leave the rest out. This is a FEATURE, not a restriction.

Just calculated that with the decks my LCCG has, I have 4 years and two months to sell a deck a month. It consists of two novels. The first novel or series has 40 titles. The second novel has 10 decks. The genre is high fantasy LCCG. When a player buys a box chapter, they will be able to read a chapter or a leaf lit to understand where they are in the world. Who they meet and gain as allies and gain as enemies.

Thats what I am doing. Its something that i have been working on. Silly Zodiak Team. I think you misread what my LCCG is all about. Its just an added feature for the game and another way to create an immersible world for the players. The players can read the leaf lit novels or just play the game or combine them.

Was thinking of the abbreviation above. NCCG = NOVEL CUSTOMIZABLE CARD GAME? It doesn't have that unique roll of your tongue when you say LCG. Any suggestions?

I recently made an analogy with some video online games and collectible card games.

In some online games, especially face book, people have the option to pay real money in order to skip some tasks that could be done in the game for free but that would require more time. There is a Xbox video games that allowed you to buy 40000 gold for a fee. So they allow the player to cheat the game for a price.

Collectible is almost the same thing. You can either take time to collect and trade card to get what you want. Or if you have the money, you can simply cheat and get the deck you want. The only difference is that accumulating cards the regular way also cost money.

As for your game, I would stay that you should stay a way from collectible games. This way you will get more control on your game and will be able to fix issues more easily with expansions.

as for other type of card game, I event thought of DCG: Designable Card Game. A game that supply rules for players to design their own cards.

Since Dominion is called "Designer card game" it's design as in "design your own deck"... but I'm glad I'm not the only one who hasn't heard that term yet. I find it quite misleading.

For me, it's just a deck building game - so the most obvious term would be "Expandable deck building game".

I am going to just go with the NCCG : Novel Customizable Card Game. This is the best way to categorize my card game.