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Hasbro and their injected pointy-hairs don’t care about hardcore fans. Or fans. Or players. Or even the odious non-playing collectors. Or the game. Or it’s hist
by jachee 4y ago
Hasbro and their injected pointy-hairs don’t care about hardcore fans. Or fans. Or players. Or even the odious non-playing collectors. Or the game. Or it’s history. Or their workers.
All they care about is how much more money they can wrong out of their cash cow.
- chongli 4y agoWhile all of that may be true, it's hard to see how the deletion of a website fits into that grand plan. We're talking about saving a few bucks to maintain this old information at a cost of huge waves of bad will? Seems incredibly short-sighted.
- prettyStandard 4y agoAgree. Not a Magic player, but this is your business, what do you think you should be doing?
- gverrilla 4y agoWell this is the first time I hear about magic in a few years. So maybe it's a PR stunt?
- jachee 4y ago“Incredibly short-sighted” concisely describes all the Hasbro execs in two words. The Magic site has been running more or less for 25 years, and due to WotC being a game company rather than a web content company likely has a shit ton of tech debt. Rather than “pay down” that “debt” the right way, they’re going to “write it off” and only modernize a small fraction of their content. Because they have zero actual intellectual investment in their business, haven’t ever played, or been involved, and thus have zero idea of how much value they’re destroying.