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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Unwise" data-source="post: 6324934" data-attributes="member: 98008">I was about to post exactly this. This technique has become pretty much ubiquitous for some industries. Whenever we have a new gaming console come out there are warehouses full of thousands of them waiting there until the requisite number of articles about the shortage have come out. The same goes for queue times on new MMOs. People complain about them, but if they are not there, we assume the game is a failure. Our main hope is that this technique is so overused and trite by this stage that WotC won't insult our intelligence with it. Any outage will be minimal, just enough for a well constructed humblebrag about the demand. Past that, it does not make sense to manufacture scarcity in an easily duplicated digital product.</blockquote>