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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5300601" data-attributes="member: 2067">It doesn't always give you a thing to use in your game (say, what if you get a repeat? Or what if you get a card that doesn't have much use for your character? Or what if the cards vary in power, like, say, feats of the same tier? Or what if one rare has prettier art than another?). That gambling mechanism is what makes it a bad purchase for some theoretical "purely rational consumer."I love the idea of a Fate Deck, I hate the way it is being sold. That doesn't really make it OK. Most people know that the KFC double-down is a horrible thing to put in your body. They do it anyway. I don't want to forbid it or make a law or say they can't sell it, but I am entirely free to recognize that it is a horrible thing to put in your body, and therefore, not eat it. I'm free to recognize that the randomized booster pack is a cynical marketing ploy designed to exploit a cheap thrill (give WotC $4 for the simple chance to be awesome!), and, therefore, not want to buy it. That doesn't really mean I have a problem with the people who want to buy it, or with WotC selling it, it just means my personal calibration for the level of marketing exploitation (or cholesterol) I'm willing to tolerate is perhaps a little lower than that of someone who doesn't care. My only point is that I have a problem with it. No one else has to. Listen, Sarcasmo, I just wanted to be crystal clear that I'm not jumping up on a soapbox and screaming that WotC should not be allowed to sell their little cardboard gaming bling however they think they should sell them. They can do whatever they want. Clearly. That doesn't mean I have to fall all over myself being totally cool with something that I see as problematic. And given how quick the snide discrediting of "oh you're just against a company making money" pops up in threads like this, I wanted to get it out of the way early on that no, that's not what's going on here.Capiche?</blockquote>

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