I feel like people here may be missing the point. The headline is poorly-worded.
The problem is not that they are printing too many duplicates of a card set, and lowering the price. The problem is that they are making too many card sets!
Their MO here lately has been to push some wild new exciting Universes Beyond set, like Final Fantasy, or Doctor Who, or Lord of the Rings, or whatever. They hype this thing up, it comes out to big fanfare, and then it’s immediately on to the next one in the next quarter.
They are pumping these out as fast as possible, and it’s pissing everybody off. Steamers are sick of it. Players are sick of it. Investors are sick of it. Tolarian Community College has been very vocal about how this shit has been ruining the game and diluting the game into a random soup of somebody else’s lore. Their own teams have a hard time balancing the game because of the dizzying pace, and there’s been so many cases of standard being left with some broken card fucking up the format for months.
This lawsuit is a good thing.
Steamers? 😂 Like pressure cookers?
I was wondering if it was a misspelling of Streamer…
…why dont they just buy/play something else?
First of all, play what? Uno?
Secondly, don’t you ever get tired of picking up your life and moving somewhere else every time some idiot decides to shit in your living room?Sorry if you’re asking this in earnest, by the way. I just find this unwillingness to believe in a better world infuriating. I don’t play magic, but I will stand up for people standing up for themselves.
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which they say risked saturating the market and reducing the value of existing cards on the secondary market.
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com, is it that this lawsuit is a good thing in spite of it being filed by weirdos? I feel like I’ve scarcely heard of that ever paying off.
I’ve tried a few TCGs (Pokémon, Yu Gi Oh, Magic, and virtual ones like Gwent, Hearthstone, and Runeterra).
Magic remains my favorite by far and is the one I keep coming back to most consistently.
Magic is unique and already has decades of history with set game modes, metas and very well thought out card pools people already enjoy. With how the cards are structured, people have also made other game modes from the cards, which adds a level of sandbox-iness that doesn’t exist in most other games.
Cards aren’t also typically power scaled to irrelevance, so people’s history with the game usually carries forward to eternal formats.
Also, the community is already overwhelmingly pro-proxy for certain formats / game modes, and being pro-proxy is seeping into other formats too. Everytime shit like this happens with WotC/Hasbro, the default reaction from a lot of people is “I’ll just proxy the cards”.
“Ticket scalpers sue venue for adding more seating capacity, says it erodes their profitability”
For the first time ever, I opened a bundle to realize the dice straight up hadn’t been included. I opened a ticket after showing proof of purchase and was told Wizards was experiencing a higher than normal volume for returns and issues, so it’d be while before I saw it.
I wonder if others are experiencing a decrease in quality or if I was just unlucky?
So they want Hasbro to print less MtG cards to prop up the secondary market because profits were not high enough?
So if they win, it becomes illegal in the US to make fun games with investor money?
Of course anyone can sue anyone for anything. So just because the lawsuit exists, doesn’t mean much
“Once I got all the rare cards, you were suppose to stop! Now I’m losing my edge!”
“We’re selling a game. You treat it like an investment when we just want more people to play. Please, accept our invitation to go fuck yourselves.”
Not what’s happening. Hasbro isn’t making rare cards more available, it’s printing too many sets. Each new set comes with new keywords and mechanics, meaning the strongest decks always have cards from the latest set. As a result, Hasbro has essentially required players to spend more each year in order to stay competitive.
Hasbro is the anti-player party in this, not the plaintiff.
If you’re still playing this game and not using proxies you’re part of the problem.
