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Message: <blockquote data-quote="molonel" data-source="post: 3283062" data-attributes="member: 10412">To be fair, although I certainly can't speak for everyone, a lot of folks in the aforementioned thread didn't call either WotC or making money "evil." We just asked why we can't get what we want. I make money at my job. I hope folks at WotC do, too, because I like some of their products. I do not, however, like some of their products nor some of their distribution practices. As someone who has paid a LOT of money to Wizards of the Coast and purchased a metric butt-ton of their books, I don't think I'm being unreasonable, in this regard, either.But this doesn't explain why EVERYTHING has to be randomized. How about a war series? One that is designed at collecting armies or units? One where you could be reasonably certain that if you purchased four or five of the boxes that you're going to put together a reasonable unit of orcs, or skeletons, or kobolds, or something? Anything?As far as gluts go, I got bad news: We're already WELL on our way to a 2nd Edition rules glut. I think there is going to be a market revolt if they announce the release of 4th Edition at any point in the next two years, at least.Nobody expects any store to carry all of them. There are so many channels of distribution at this point, though, that it seems odd that you can't get what you want without hunting it down on eBay, especially when there are so many folks in these threads who declare their disgust with randomized minis and their desire for something else.Inexpensively, perhaps. Reliably? No.Go ahead and package them however you want. I've bought my packs, and despaired of ever getting what I wanted without buying a bazillion boosters. When I can't even get a pack of orcs non-randomized, what's the point of asking for anything else?It is counter-intuitive, although it's nice to see someone admit that with so many folks trumpeting their business acumen that this is so blatantly obvious.Or take the largest groups of typical bad guys, and randomize them somewhat, but still give you some hope that if you buy at least a half-dozen packs, you'll have some reasonable encounter sets for the game.As it is, I know I must go to secondary sellers if I ever hope to acquire sets of minis even close to one another in theme or style.I do it because I have to. But it seems like there should be another way.</blockquote>

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