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I feel the same way about Magic: The Gathering cards. We need to really band together and protest this company's dominance over our youth. They (or their pare

I feel the same way about Magic: The Gathering cards. We need to really band together and protest this company's dominance over our youth. They (or their parents) are being forced to spend large sums of money just to be locked into this card ecosystem, so that they can play with their friends. The company designs these cards with certain appealing colors and characters, and charges a hefty premium for them. And anyone who can't afford to buy the cards (or is threatened with copyright violations if they make their own) is left out of that community. And every year I'm forced to buy a new set of cards just to keep up with friends. Clearly they've engineered some addictive property into these cards to produce that very effect. --- Is this similar enough? Or maybe it's the NFL or NBA or Nike shoes, or little league hockey, that we should cut/paste in there?

Waterfall 6y ago
Are you kidding me? Everyone plays magic online now. Nobody plays in person except for casual (usually elder dragon) and tournaments. You can print proxies but better yet you can use a program like magic workstation to play any cards for free if you don't post the official wizards one. As long as they don't look like real MTG cards it's ok usually. Most people offline carry more than one deck too. I don't see any of your issues as a real problem at least in my life its always been fine.
- supernova87a 6y ago
  :D In case you don't realize, I'm joking above. And I have no idea how Magic cards work.
  - Waterfall 6y ago
    Sorry it should have been obvious lol. Like how Nvidia screwed the 2000 buyers lol
splatzone 6y ago
I think you are right, consumer companies make a lot of money off of teens' status anxiety across the board. The problem goes a lot deeper than any one product
ewired 6y ago
MTG cards didn't exclude me from communicating with the rest of a travel group because I was the only one that didn't have an MTG deck.
- valuearb 6y ago
  Every phone supports SMS.

Waterfall 6y ago

Are you kidding me? Everyone plays magic online now. Nobody plays in person except for casual (usually elder dragon) and tournaments. You can print proxies but better yet you can use a program like magic workstation to play any cards for free if you don't post the official wizards one. As long as they don't look like real MTG cards it's ok usually. Most people offline carry more than one deck too. I don't see any of your issues as a real problem at least in my life its always been fine.

supernova87a 6y ago
:D In case you don't realize, I'm joking above. And I have no idea how Magic cards work.
- Waterfall 6y ago
  Sorry it should have been obvious lol. Like how Nvidia screwed the 2000 buyers lol

splatzone 6y ago

I think you are right, consumer companies make a lot of money off of teens' status anxiety across the board. The problem goes a lot deeper than any one product

ewired 6y ago

MTG cards didn't exclude me from communicating with the rest of a travel group because I was the only one that didn't have an MTG deck.

valuearb 6y ago
Every phone supports SMS.