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We've had collectable cards for ages. Baseball cards, garbage pail kids, etc. Those you couldn't even play a game with, you just tried to collect and trade. Hon
by autoexec 3y ago
We've had collectable cards for ages. Baseball cards, garbage pail kids, etc. Those you couldn't even play a game with, you just tried to collect and trade. Honestly even MTG and Pokemon cards are so much better than mobile games which are there 24/7 begging for attention and making kids feel like they're missing out if they don't check in every few hours. Plus with the cards in the end, you've got a collection of cards you can play with, sell, or keep for the memories or whatever. With digital stuff you'll be lucky if you can still access in your ingame purchases after a few years
- cruano 3y agoAnd the worst you can do is to buy all of Walmart's stock of cards, while digital stuff has no upper limit
- Ekaros 3y agoI think there is real option of buying worthless fakes online for overinflated price of real one...
- bentley 3y agoWhen I was a kid with no money and no game stores nearby, I “collected” Pokémon cards by pasting JPEGs from the web into Corel Wordperfect documents stored on my stack of 3.5″ floppies.
- Tao3300 3y ago> Baseball cards Which were originally included in packs of cigarettes!
- YurgenJurgensen 3y agoCorrection: Were so much better. Now that WotC are selling thousand-dollar booster boxes and concentrate most of a set's value in a few mythic rare premium foil cards, they're basically lottery tickets by another name. There was never a sudden change, the monetisation just got slightly more predatory every year.