WotC Anyone Else Tired of the Wizards Bashing?

[mamba]

They don't actually, which is why they sent the armed thugs to berate him.

he can always tell the 'armed thugs' to contact his lawyer, they seemed pretty respectful for the term armed thug...

 

[Raiztt]

30th, OGL, Pinkerton.

Man, what a great company to give luxury funds to.

As long as people get the product they want.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The packaging has ways to track it, but the cards themselves do not.

By packaging, do you mean shipping crates or the foil packs? (I would hope both.)

And if I were WotC, I would be considering whether there's a way to do a discreet stamp of some sort on the cards as well.

 

[TheSword]

30th, OGL, Pinkerton.

Man, what a great company to give luxury funds to.

You really don’t have to. Plenty of the rest of us will, if they make great products.

 

[mamba]

Isn't it crazy that so many people in this thread defend WotC even though WotC apologized for sending armed thugs to intimidate someone? You guys don't even agree with WotC when they say they went too far!

So when I agree with WotC I am shill for them and when I disagree it is still not ok

I don't care whether they apologized. From a damage control perspective it is the right thing to do. That does not mean I have to consider what they did wrong.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

WotC doesn't believe he committed a crime.

WotC doesn't believe he committed a crime AFTER they finally spoke to him about it. It seems that they REALLY THOUGHT that he was some kind of mastermind before they finally got ahold of him and found out what had actually happened. Talk about egg on their face!

 

[trappedslider]

30th, OGL, Pinkerton.

Man, what a great company to give luxury funds to.

MTG fans when the 30th anniversary was released:
fans move on other than making jokes

WotC messes with the OGL
Months later fans are still upset

 

[Scribe]

As long as people get the product they want.

Oh I know, thats certainly how they want it.

 

[Scribe]

MTG fans when the 30th anniversary was released:
fans move on other than making jokes

Never underestimate the addiction of MTG players. I mean that quite seriously.

 

[Bacon Bits]

it's almost like one group of fans are willing to overlook WotC's past actions (the whole 30th-anniversary nonsense) since they more than likely don't know nor care what the OGL fiasco is/was instead of being fixated on it.

Yeah, but they do know about the complete debacle that was the Magic 30th Anniversary set. We've all but got confirmation that it didn't sell out; they just stopped selling it.

And they should know that Bank of America double-downgraded Hasbro to "underperform" after an in-depth analysis because they've been overprinting Magic so much. People are starting to quit the game because it's impossible to collect anymore. I keep getting flashbacks to the comics collapse in the 90s. A bunch of fans are still upset about Universes Beyond. Before the Pinkerton thing, all I knew about Aftermath was that it was a microset of 50 cards that made no sense unless you just assumed Hasbro was out whale hunting again.

Those were pretty big stories from last six months. Like Magic is not really feeling like a good game at the moment, in spite of how good the current set is. The same feeling of good development teams with terrible and shortsighted executive management is there, too.