Given the choice, I'd prefer the necrobump rather than a new redundant thread.

I believe it was an interview where Yoshi-P said that implementing a card game is problematic because without a reward system people would just abandon the game after a while and all the dev work on it would go to waste.

However, WITH a reward system, there are lots of sticky issues where players could lose on purpose to give others rewards, and some countries have gambling laws that would cause legal issues for the game.

A good solution would be to implement rewards only vs NPCs. But players can still go PVP card games for fun, casual games.