As someone affiliated with Dotts (mostly just consulting and helping when I can, I definitely didn't do any hard work) this is going to come off as a bit defensive, but you have to love users (who's biggest contribution to the community has been complaining) calling Dotts a failure. It is really disheartening to see people ignore all the free time other people devoted to not only making the cards, but building the entire site database/platform (and as far as I know Cal isn't a professional coder). They may not be for everyone, but it really rubs me the wrong way to see the hard work of people shit on in this PT.
To actually address the prompt, I'm hoping that we can introduce some new specialty series. I think something for DSFL players would be fun to involve them in the cards and give them more incentives to buy packs rather than waiting for their ISFL card to be made. Maybe something related to the draft directly or something like that. Anything that can get more people interested would definitely be a good thing and I've seen some potential designs that look very promising. I wouldn't mind adding in some real world trading card aspects as well. Some cards could be autographed or would be "short prints" that are numbered. I know some people have discussed doing "patch" cards for players as well that would be neat and imitate real world cards in a way. Hopefully we can just keep it going though, keep making new cards when people get called up or joining a new team and make sure that this stays a part of the community after all the hard work that went into it. I know Cal still is hard at work on the site trying to get bugs fixed or add new features to it, so I hope that the majority positive reaction we have received from the community stays that way.
To actually address the prompt, I'm hoping that we can introduce some new specialty series. I think something for DSFL players would be fun to involve them in the cards and give them more incentives to buy packs rather than waiting for their ISFL card to be made. Maybe something related to the draft directly or something like that. Anything that can get more people interested would definitely be a good thing and I've seen some potential designs that look very promising. I wouldn't mind adding in some real world trading card aspects as well. Some cards could be autographed or would be "short prints" that are numbered. I know some people have discussed doing "patch" cards for players as well that would be neat and imitate real world cards in a way. Hopefully we can just keep it going though, keep making new cards when people get called up or joining a new team and make sure that this stays a part of the community after all the hard work that went into it. I know Cal still is hard at work on the site trying to get bugs fixed or add new features to it, so I hope that the majority positive reaction we have received from the community stays that way.
Thank you to @bfry for the signature!