I agree. How can they make a good movie when there hasn't been a single screen worthy story in Magic? Every one I ever read was poor and very much merchandising instead of a something that could stand on its own legs. Its not impossible, just not very likely, especially given the current stagnant climate in Hollywood.
The Brother's War would make for a great movie. The problem is we'll get a movie focusing on newer stories which have been less stellar in my opinion.
22 years and this game is still interesting to play
Well, that's debatable. The past four blocks seem to have been a competition to see which could bore me the most. It's gotten to the point that I entirely gave up on Standard, because I just can't muster up the energy to care anymore. Maybe Battle for Zendikar will change that. Who knows?
Sales figures seem to suggest that you are an outlier factor in the equation and that a big majority of paying players have enjoyed those sets.
Well, I'll put it this way. World of Warcraft still dominates the MMO market. That doesn't necessarily make it a good game. It makes it the most played game.
"Good" is a subjective term. "Enjoyable enough that a large amount of people will keep parting with their money in order to continue that enjoyment at the expense of many other things they could be spending their time and resources into" is as an objective, measurable statement as you can get, on the other hand.
I'm calling it right now- worst rare in the set. Even good limited players will find better bombs at common and uncommon no sweat. Worst. Episode. Ever.
I really do predict this to be our worst rare in set award winner. I'd be happier opening a jar of eyeballs, so I think anything worse is highly unlikely. This card wont just have zero constructed potential, but not be significantly better than a mass of ghouls in a draft.
Lol. A terrible movie won't lose any MTG players, that I can assure you. If anything, a broken game is likely to turn players away than a bombed box office.
Lol. A terrible movie won't lose any MTG players, that I can assure you. If anything, a broken game is likely to turn players away than a bombed box office.
Imagine if they hype it by handing out promos with your movie tickets (kind of like what they did with the IDW comics)... and the promos were good...
... it wouldn't matter if the movie itself was David Hasselhoff as Jace and the Olsen twins as Lili and Chandra, we'd all still go just for the cards.
I'd venture to say that whatever gets done for the movie will follow no pre existing storyline and will in all likelihood prove to be some generic fantasy story with jace injected into it.
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Lol. A terrible movie won't lose any MTG players, that I can assure you. If anything, a broken game is likely to turn players away than a bombed box office.
Imagine if they hype it by handing out promos with your movie tickets (kind of like what they did with the IDW comics)... and the promos were good...
... it wouldn't matter if the movie itself was David Hasselhoff as Jace and the Olsen twins as Lili and Chandra, we'd all still go just for the cards.
The Promo will be a Jace, the mind sculptor in that blacked out holo art. They will also couple it with a unban in modern.
I would pay my non magic friends to come see it so I could get my playset.
One of the best things they could do for the movie is making up a completely new story arc that would come out later in the year as the next block of cards.
The Promo will be a Jace, the mind sculptor in that blacked out holo art. They will also couple it with a unban in modern.
I would pay my non magic friends to come see it so I could get my playset.
Might be cheaper just to buy a bunch of movie tickets yourself and cash them all in.
MTG has its audience. Trying to grow it out to include to bro-Steve and Aunt Janice isn't going to do anything good for it. The more you attempt to appeal to everyone, the more you appeal to no one at all. This is a basic concept.
You can't please all of the people all of the time. This exact concept is why I roll my eyes when I see articles like "How can we get demographic XYZ into Magic?". It's silly. Pandering gets you an audience that can be pandered to. That audience is very fickle, and is likely to leave for the next thing that panders to them.
At least we'll all be able to afford some of those staple cards we want once this bubble bursts, and WotC has driven away a chunk of the long time players too by making such generic sets.
MTG has its audience. Trying to grow it out to include to bro-Steve and Aunt Janice isn't going to do anything good for it. The more you attempt to appeal to everyone, the more you appeal to no one at all. This is a basic concept.
You can't please all of the people all of the time. This exact concept is why I roll my eyes when I see articles like "How can we get demographic XYZ into Magic?". It's silly. Pandering gets you an audience that can be pandered to. That audience is very fickle, and is likely to leave for the next thing that panders to them.
At least we'll all be able to afford some of those staple cards we want once this bubble bursts, and WotC has driven away a chunk of the long time players too by making such generic sets.
Probably the best "conversation" I have seen at mtgsalvation, and I am much more in the Firevine camp than in the norsedt camp.
Most of Hasbro's products and policies are crap, but at least they're not Games Workshop, so whooo Hasbro
It's amazing to compare the two and see just how hard Games Workshop has screwed itself over. They dropped all their non-core product lines, treated retailers like garbage, raised prices through the roof without any cheap option of entering the game, priced rulebooks through the roof, wasted their time and money on lawsuits they couldn't win, etc. And then their stock started dropping.
Not even Joss Whedon could make a decent movie with the latest crappy MtG - related stories.
To be fair, he can't make a decent film anyway.
Avengers? No?
seriouly? Joss Whedon can make gold from crap. Give him Theros block, very weak imho, extremely generic, and he will somehow turn it into a masterpiece. He made me love a show about a high school cheerleader and like Vandertroll pointed out, The greatest superhero movie ever and when Ultron comes out, the 2 greatest. If Whedon took over the MTG movie, I would stop assuming it will suck
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Excellent, I see my strategy of investing in My Little Pony and Magic the Gathering has continued to outperform the broader market.
Also Nerf and Star Wars toys and all that other stuff they make. I'm always fascinated by what segments bring in money and which ones don't, but if there is one thing you can count on, its that Magic gets bigger each quarter.
The Brother's War would make for a great movie. The problem is we'll get a movie focusing on newer stories which have been less stellar in my opinion.
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"Good" is a subjective term. "Enjoyable enough that a large amount of people will keep parting with their money in order to continue that enjoyment at the expense of many other things they could be spending their time and resources into" is as an objective, measurable statement as you can get, on the other hand.
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Imagine if they hype it by handing out promos with your movie tickets (kind of like what they did with the IDW comics)... and the promos were good...
... it wouldn't matter if the movie itself was David Hasselhoff as Jace and the Olsen twins as Lili and Chandra, we'd all still go just for the cards.
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To be fair, he can't make a decent film anyway.
The Promo will be a Jace, the mind sculptor in that blacked out holo art. They will also couple it with a unban in modern.
I would pay my non magic friends to come see it so I could get my playset.
I don't think most people are gonna realize this is the greatest post in this thread.
Hell, it'd make a great (modern age) block.
Might be cheaper just to buy a bunch of movie tickets yourself and cash them all in.
You can't please all of the people all of the time. This exact concept is why I roll my eyes when I see articles like "How can we get demographic XYZ into Magic?". It's silly. Pandering gets you an audience that can be pandered to. That audience is very fickle, and is likely to leave for the next thing that panders to them.
At least we'll all be able to afford some of those staple cards we want once this bubble bursts, and WotC has driven away a chunk of the long time players too by making such generic sets.
Avengers? No?
It's amazing to compare the two and see just how hard Games Workshop has screwed itself over. They dropped all their non-core product lines, treated retailers like garbage, raised prices through the roof without any cheap option of entering the game, priced rulebooks through the roof, wasted their time and money on lawsuits they couldn't win, etc. And then their stock started dropping.
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Thank you. I aim to please.
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seriouly? Joss Whedon can make gold from crap. Give him Theros block, very weak imho, extremely generic, and he will somehow turn it into a masterpiece. He made me love a show about a high school cheerleader and like Vandertroll pointed out, The greatest superhero movie ever and when Ultron comes out, the 2 greatest. If Whedon took over the MTG movie, I would stop assuming it will suck
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Just wait for the Magic-opoly crossover.
Also Nerf and Star Wars toys and all that other stuff they make. I'm always fascinated by what segments bring in money and which ones don't, but if there is one thing you can count on, its that Magic gets bigger each quarter.
LOL, yeah, websites, WER program...they better hire some real computer expert to fix those.