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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AllisterH" data-source="post: 5380057" data-attributes="member: 51325">Er, people do realize that M:TG actually gets mentioned in Hasbro stockholder reports? Indeed, in the last couple of years, M:TG has undergone something of a resurgence in popularity..Hell, the Xbox Live game Duels of the planeswalkers is listed in the top 10 of all time X-box-live games and that's incredible... Given the size of Hasbro, M:TG must be pulling in serious moolah to get a mention and from what I remember, M:TG is NOT WOTC's most profitable property... That would be DuelMasters which is HUGE apparently in East Asia (but was a bust in the North America) market. M:TG has undergone in the last few years significant changes (rules changes, addition of planeswalkers, mythic rares)...but I think this is where M:TG has an edge over D&D. M:TG has ALWAYS been somewhat in-flux. Fans of the game realize/expect that the game will always be changing/being modified. With the rotation of sets and the fact that cards every 3 months change in value because of the addition of new cards means WOTC has conditioned MTG players to be more receptive to change. So the fact that WOTC tries something different with M:TG isn't seen as  "the sky is falling" (...although..even here...on MTG website, MaRo likes to joke that he is STILL working on that damn list and one day he'll actually "wreck" magic the gathering....given how many times people complain/write to him that he's wrecking magic:TG). We think that WOTC doing nothing/not experimenting/trying something new is a good thing whereas I think most M:TG fans would start to get worried if WOTC didn't have some sort of biyearly announcement.</blockquote>

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