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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JiffyPopTart" data-source="post: 7827780" data-attributes="member: 4881">I like the thought here   I could get behind the idea that MTG is shaping the tabletop industry as a whole.  If that was the driving factor I wonder why the delay?  It has been around since the early 90s but "costing" seems to have taken 25ish years to rest it's head in other parts of the hobby.I was VERY into magic in it's early days.  I stopped collecting at Homelands.  I never heard the phrase costed, but then again I didn't play in store and the internet wasn't a big influence on the hobby.From there I transitioned to 2nd edition 40k.  Stuck with that through 3rd edition and once again never heard the term costed.  Internet boards became a bigger thing at this time, but still nowhere near what we have today.From there 3e popped on the scene and I moved to mostly playing that for it's entire run.  Joined ENworld to get the scoop on changes coming with 3rd so forums were big by then.  Never saw costed.Around the time of late 3rd I picked back up collecting boardgames.  First started to notice the term costed when listening to Xwing miniatures podcasts.  2013ish.Since then it's become pervasive in miniatures gaming sources I dip my toes into, but I've not seen it very frequently in RPG circles.Then today I accidentally clicked the wrong thing and threads I'd normally never read showed on my feed, as linked above.  Costed has entered RPG lingo it seems.I don't believe the podcasts or forum users I see using costed are unintelligent, uneducated, or needlessly spouting netspeak gibberish.  Costed is just a term that has entered our vernacular and perhaps it's a fair add to distinguish real world price versus in game price.I find language change interesting and don't mind a reasonable amount of it in my lifetime.  Time moves on and words people use do as well.  It reminds me of the team behind Deadwood explaining their choice of using modern cursing (AND LOTS OF IT) because period accurate cursing would make the otherwise we'll written characters sound like Yosemite Sam to our ears.</blockquote>

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