MTG thread
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Leadsalad
Cis-XYite-Nationalist
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"Yes, you haven't given us all of your money and taken a loan out through our new financial services division."
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Every time I look into current MTG it is just more shit, it is like there are people actively trying to ruin the game but just not getting there.
I find it amazing.
Mist
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They did a thing and then admitted the thing didn't really work.
What would you rather them do?
OneofOne
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If you read their release they try and come across that they are doing this all for the benefit of the community and the stores that sell MTG. And it's plain to see in everything they do, they don't give a shit about either. So it's a really, really scummy position by them. He's just calling them out on it.
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OneofOne
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pharmakos
soʞɐɯɹɐɥd
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From paying attention to him for many, many years, and seeing what Hasbro does to other good IPs.
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Chris
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That's not a fair characterisation is it?
They made new types of booster to squeeze more money out of players, an accountant forcasted that the draft booster would eventually become obselete, killing draft.
Rather than put it back to how it was, they are cancelling draft and play boosters and making a new more expensive draft booster to squeeze even more money out of players.
Mist
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It's more expensive but there will be more cards per booster potentially worth money. It seems like a relatively good compromise to keep packs interesting and yet still playable in draft. Booster prices have not gone up in a long time.
I'd be interested to see how much the per-box price really goes up when real world prices hit. The dominance of Amazon has been really good to box-openers (and bad for B&Ms.) It has kept the margins on boxes very, very low.
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Chris
Potato del Grande
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Is it more money per card?
You can put prices up and you can adjust the contents of packs. No problem.
The problem is adjusting the content of the packs "for the health of the game" when they are fixing issues they created themselves to get more money out of players. Then putting the prices up while doing that.
It comes across as dishonest and it's the typical corporate speak they employ to hide their desperate persuit of money.
pharmakos
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It's going to be the same number of rares per booster box as the old way, they said.
OneofOne
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Marvel and Hasbro Team Up to Bring Marvel Characters and Stories to Magic: The Gathering
The multi-year, multi-set deal expands Marvel and Hasbro's relationship through the best-selling card game.
"The first tentpole Magic set based on Marvel’s fan-favorite characters and epic stories will appear globally in 2025, with additional all-new exciting sets for multi-generational fans to collect and play."
Curious what they are up to, and a few years back I'd think this was pretty sick. Hard to care as much these days.
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