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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mamba" data-source="post: 9435561" data-attributes="member: 7034611">for physical packs there is a give and take in that the consumer gets minis cheaper than in the pick and choose world (on a per unit basis, that might be very different when ‘needing’ a specific one) while the manufacturer still makes about the same (I presume) by selling out everything.Once you get to digital, the drag of unsold inventory goes away however.no, even if they only had cosmetics that are entirely optional but valued by the community they are. It’s the randomness that makes them predatory.Even in pay to win you usually could also grind the loot, so the boxes ‘just’ make you spend less time to get there. You are basically paying the game company to not have to play the game as long <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />it is, but at least on the physical side you can make the case that the average mini has a somewhat lower price in exchange for you allowing / volunteering for the predationNot sure you could even make that same case for physical MtG cards however</blockquote>