I don't really keep up with MtG news, but I consistently find myself shocked whenever outrage over something WotC is doing spills over into my channels. I'm admittedly probably a little more invested in the "loot boxes should be illegal, or at least clearly marked as gambling" camp than most people, but the degree to which MtG needs to overstep, when the basic structure of the product already feels exploitative is baffling from the outside. I've been spoiled by the Netrunner model, where you just get all the cards in one pack and move on.
It's truly ridiculous what they're pushing, and it's honestly alarming how far they have to go before it's viewed as overstepping. The whole thing, all the way back to the initial rise of MtG cards as a collector's item, just looks like the worst excesses of videogames, and heck even some of the crypto/NFT nonsense, just 25 years before its time.
It's truly ridiculous what they're pushing, and it's honestly alarming how far they have to go before it's viewed as overstepping. The whole thing, all the way back to the initial rise of MtG cards as a collector's item, just looks like the worst excesses of videogames, and heck even some of the crypto/NFT nonsense, just 25 years before its time.
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