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On the one hand, I agree with you. However, I think it's worth reiterating that the massive hardcover campaigns are really a collection...

It would certainly have required remarkable prescience to predict 108% tariffs! I hope they are OK.

Maybe Chris Perkins was right when he said he felt the future of D&D was in good hands--Cao leaving, Bilsland returning. Makes me a bit...

Same! And I haven't spent a dime there. I grind and improve my preferred decks. I won't be a champion, but whatever.

Paper Magic predatory? Nah. No more so than baseball cards. Collectible, addicting . . . yeah.

Overrated: Fritz Leibers Fafhrd and Grey Mouser series. I have tried on numerous occasions to read this literature and I just cannot...

Yikes.

I got to know Cao briefly when I ran the largest fansite for an MMO he helmed, DC Universe Online. I remember that game having to be...

Sure,but pushing that even harder to the point of breaking game balance...?

I have a favourite Chris Perkins memory - not that he's dead or anything - that I'd like to share. His second appearance on Critical...

Oh, jeez. Had no idea about that. Arena is honestly somewhat predatory in design to begin with, pushing that harder to the detriment of...

Google is the ultimate ally! Cao was Exec Producer at the time, brought in to monetise arena upon its launch. Here is one article at the...

Supposedly he was behind the proposal to make crafting older cards in Arena cost twice as many wildcards, which was met with absolute...

The reference was on porpoise, that’s my story and I’m sticking with it.

Cannibalized. :) I would not be surprised if covid & lockdowns pushed a lot of people towards MTG Arena as well. I do know that all...