Funny enough I just used the Beanie Baby example in a reply to other user: it's the closest analogy I found in modern history. Something that was designed to b

Funny enough I just used the Beanie Baby example in a reply to other user: it's the closest analogy I found in modern history. Something that was designed to be scarce, for the sake of being scarce. Serves no other goal: it's not a balancing mechanism to game (overpowered cards are rare), it's not promoting something that people love and want to be a part of (like baseball cards), hell it's not even a celebration of some success with the fans, nothing that holds people emotionally attached to any of it other then those that want to hope on something to resell later - this is completely the wrong motivation.