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>1) You can sell your cards and get money from them (could be less, could be more) and they have some tangible value to other people. Shouldn't this make it a

>1) You can sell your cards and get money from them (could be less, could be more) and they have some tangible value to other people. Shouldn't this make it a bigger problem, not a smaller one? >2) You don't have to acquire magic cards through booster packs (aka loot boxes) only. If you want a particular card then you can go to the store and buy it. This was the major concern from the parent in the top comment of this post, that you couldn't just buy the skin directly but had to gamble for it. I wonder if the skins were priced per their rarity values, would people still be okay with it. Some mtg cards costs $1,000s. I wonder what people would say if some game added loot boxes containing rare items that were worth similar that players could then trade for money. My guess is people would respond far more negative to this.

daemin 7y ago
To be able to have point #2 you have to have point #1. Someone has to take the risk to open the booster packs and get those cards out onto the market. Sometimes business oriented people do that, other times a group of friends buy a booster box to play with at the time. At least in these circumstances the people opening the packs know what could happen. I think if you could buy all of the items that were included in these loot boxes then it wouldn't be as bad. You want skin X, just go ahead and buy it. However there would still be a problem as people might pay way too much trying to get that expensive item in a loot box than just paying for it.
- a1369209993 7y ago
  > To be able to have point #2 you have to have point #1. Well, no. You can require (on pain of jail time) that the producer provide all N possible skins for individual sale at prices that add up to less than or equal[0] the cost of N 1-skin loot boxes. 0: To preempt the obvious "make individual skins so expensive noone can actually buy them" strategy.
dragonsngoblins 7y ago
The magic cards that cost thousands only cost so much because they aren't in print anymore. Ones with that kind of price point are collector's items and aren't even legal to use in the formats that are commonly played
- SkyBelow 7y ago
  But the booster packs that contains those cards are still available for sell. So why WotC isn't the one profiting off of it, private businesses still are selling them and some people do open them hoping for one of those rare cards. While it isn't a price point a normal child can afford, I don't see why it is different given that the items are still being actively sold.
  - dragonsngoblins 7y ago
    Well the randomization is actually part of the product for a lot of people, boosters are typically used for sealed/draft games for example. Secondly the booster packs that contain cards that cost thousands aren't still for sale, at least not from Wizards, though you might still find a few unopened ones around. Some of the cards available in current standard legal boosters might cost quite a bit, but not thousands

daemin 7y ago

To be able to have point #2 you have to have point #1. Someone has to take the risk to open the booster packs and get those cards out onto the market. Sometimes business oriented people do that, other times a group of friends buy a booster box to play with at the time. At least in these circumstances the people opening the packs know what could happen. I think if you could buy all of the items that were included in these loot boxes then it wouldn't be as bad. You want skin X, just go ahead and buy it. However there would still be a problem as people might pay way too much trying to get that expensive item in a loot box than just paying for it.

a1369209993 7y ago
> To be able to have point #2 you have to have point #1. Well, no. You can require (on pain of jail time) that the producer provide all N possible skins for individual sale at prices that add up to less than or equal[0] the cost of N 1-skin loot boxes. 0: To preempt the obvious "make individual skins so expensive noone can actually buy them" strategy.

dragonsngoblins 7y ago

The magic cards that cost thousands only cost so much because they aren't in print anymore. Ones with that kind of price point are collector's items and aren't even legal to use in the formats that are commonly played

SkyBelow 7y ago
But the booster packs that contains those cards are still available for sell. So why WotC isn't the one profiting off of it, private businesses still are selling them and some people do open them hoping for one of those rare cards. While it isn't a price point a normal child can afford, I don't see why it is different given that the items are still being actively sold.
- dragonsngoblins 7y ago
  Well the randomization is actually part of the product for a lot of people, boosters are typically used for sealed/draft games for example. Secondly the booster packs that contain cards that cost thousands aren't still for sale, at least not from Wizards, though you might still find a few unopened ones around. Some of the cards available in current standard legal boosters might cost quite a bit, but not thousands