So apparently, wizards of the coast has a new CEO coming on board after the previous guy stepped down (after doing a lot of work to get magic to the great place it's at now)
Also apparently, the new guy has more of a tech focus to his experience. Could this mean more input into the clunky and terribly designed MTGO client? Maybe something new altogether (which is probably the way to go. Polishing a turd isn't the right idea in my own humble opinion)
This could mean some great changes to our game, and potentially more growth, and more of an e-sports focus as well.
This could go many different ways. I'm hoping some of this guys decisions will herald the creation of full art Snow-Covered basic lands. One could dream.
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I play Standard, EDH, and a very tiny bit of Modern.
This could be very interesting how things go. This could go badly or this could go amazingly, either for this game or the others that they own. As long as this doesn't make Kaijudo take over Magic I am good.
This could go many different ways. I'm hoping some of this guys decisions will herald the creation of full art Snow-Covered basic lands. One could dream.
I would take a reprint of snow basics right now just to drop the price of those.
This could be very interesting how things go. This could go badly or this could go amazingly, either for this game or the others that they own. As long as this doesn't make Kaijudo take over Magic I am good.
This could go many different ways. I'm hoping some of this guys decisions will herald the creation of full art Snow-Covered basic lands. One could dream.
I would take a reprint of snow basics right now just to drop the price of those.
Um. Kaijudo is fully dead and has been now for at least a year.
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This could be very interesting how things go. This could go badly or this could go amazingly, either for this game or the others that they own. As long as this doesn't make Kaijudo take over Magic I am good.
This could go many different ways. I'm hoping some of this guys decisions will herald the creation of full art Snow-Covered basic lands. One could dream.
I would take a reprint of snow basics right now just to drop the price of those.
Um. Kaijudo is fully dead and has been now for at least a year.
It's alive and well in Japan under the name Duel Masters, and even has the occasional Magic guest star, like Jace.
I'm just hoping that this new focus on the online aspect of the game doesn't take over the paper aspect. I don't play online because I like interaction and playing with physical cards and it would be sad to see the game move to an entirely online focus.
Also apparently, the new guy has more of a tech focus to his experience. Could this mean more input into the clunky and terribly designed MTGO client? Maybe something new altogether (which is probably the way to go. Polishing a turd isn't the right idea in my own humble opinion)
Could this mean they are finally going to fix comments on Gatherer?
Well, one can dream.
Also apparently, the new guy has more of a tech focus to his experience. Could this mean more input into the clunky and terribly designed MTGO client? Maybe something new altogether (which is probably the way to go. Polishing a turd isn't the right idea in my own humble opinion)
Could this mean they are finally going to fix comments on Gatherer?
Well, one can dream.
It´s stupid how it´s not fixed yet. I would say that it´s important for the community to share and rate cards but apparantly Wizards think otherwise
This could be very interesting how things go. This could go badly or this could go amazingly, either for this game or the others that they own. As long as this doesn't make Kaijudo take over Magic I am good.
This could go many different ways. I'm hoping some of this guys decisions will herald the creation of full art Snow-Covered basic lands. One could dream.
I would take a reprint of snow basics right now just to drop the price of those.
Um. Kaijudo is fully dead and has been now for at least a year.
It's alive and well in Japan under the name Duel Masters, and even has the occasional Magic guest star, like Jace.
To be honest, that's like saying the WOW tcg is still alive because Hearthstone exists. The games are similar and Kaijudo even repeated a ton of the exact same art assets from Duel Masters but they aren't the same game. Kaijudo died even though it's parent Duel Masters is still alive in another part of the world.
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Grabbing a tech guys as CEO probably means that WOTC really wants to increase their online business, profits and technical applications.
I would not be surprised if WOTC ends up supporting Legacy only as an online format. Guess what? reserved list doesnt stop them from creating digital copies.
Hearthstone is massively popular and has been around for very little time and has a bigger playerbase than paper magic and online magic combined. If that doesn't motivate a company to try to make something to draw more customers I don't know what will. As for it being a new magic online platform I'd put my money on that since the current client is horse ***** just like every other client before it and is where WotC wants you to play magic from a digital standpoint.
You couldn't have at least mentioned the name of the guy taking over? Chris Cocks, whose last position was Vice President of OEM Technical Sales at Microsoft/damn well hope he can do something for magic digitally as president of WotC.
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I would not be surprised if WOTC ends up supporting Legacy only as an online format. Guess what? reserved list doesnt stop them from creating digital copies.
oh please no !
although what you say makes perfect sense, sadly.
What the game needs is big healthy bunch of reprints and to get rid of the reserved list.
It'll take some balls to do that. I want to see them open up Kindle Worlds like how GI Joe fanfiction can be sold on Amazon. Granted using their characters is like a 30% drop in royalties. It's a nice way to pad some extra time to experiment with a few concepts in a prebuilt sandbox.
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Grabbing a tech guys as CEO probably means that WOTC really wants to increase their online business, profits and technical applications.
I would not be surprised if WOTC ends up supporting Legacy only as an online format. Guess what? reserved list doesnt stop them from creating digital copies.
Don't ever talk to me or my 500 online copies of Didgeridoo again.
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So apparently, wizards of the coast has a new CEO coming on board after the previous guy stepped down (after doing a lot of work to get magic to the great place it's at now)
Also apparently, the new guy has more of a tech focus to his experience. Could this mean more input into the clunky and terribly designed MTGO client? Maybe something new altogether (which is probably the way to go. Polishing a turd isn't the right idea in my own humble opinion)
This could mean some great changes to our game, and potentially more growth, and more of an e-sports focus as well.
Good times.
According to previous quarterly earning reports, Hasbro is currently investing alot of money into making a new Magic digital platform, scheduled for release in the middle of 2017, (working?) title "Magic Digital Next".
So grabbing a guy with tech background makes sense. Hasbro wants some of that sweet Hearthstone money, which is almost double of what Paper MtG + MTGO made last year.
I just wanted to point out something about the comment that hearthstone made almost double what wizards made from magic the gathering last year. I checked and as of the information I saw listed the middle of last year, it mentioned that hearthstone was making $20 million per month, ($240 million for the year), and that magic the gathering from wizards of the coast had made $250 million for the year. So basically they are about equal. I just wanted to correct that for the record. (if you have an updated and verifiable source I would be interested in seeing the information, as the business side of things is an interest of mine). It should also be noted that hearthstone cannot be played in person like you can with paper magic. I agree that doing something to help revamp the online presence of MTGO to be able to ramp up that portion of their revenue base would make for an excellent change. But one also has to consider that while both games may be based on something of a CCG model, Hearthstone is honestly based on a completely different business model to magic the gathering and how wizards of the coast has set things up for magic the gathering with the larger emphasis on the physical magic the gathering game, which one also has to consider has now been around for 23 years and is still making more money than ever before. Hearthstone certainly isn't a bad game, but it will be interesting to see how both games will faire in the long run.
Inevitably a new CEO might just be what mtgo and magic needs to be able to help it move forward into a new more digitally focused era. Keep the strength in paper magic, while being able to finally give mtgo the significant boost that it needs to be able to more readily compete against other digital games. The question will be though, how they would choose to handle the connection between mtgo and paper magic with the current redemption system and otherwise how things are set up now.
Hopefully the new CEO looks at their new standard format business model and realizes that it is disenfranchising players from playing standard. Eventually lowering their sales because ever increasing price of standard. While wizards has diversified their products heavily to pull money from all formats of magic that they can more recently. I've talked to a lot of people who just think playing standard is just crazy these days. Another thing is wizards used to give prize support to stores for tournaments free of charge. That's gone and prize support is completely dependent on the store owner. This results in smaller prizes or increased tournament prices. Over all it's super negative the direction standard is going in. Wizards has continually removed player rewards. There is a big reason that most of the player base went to modern and EDH. It's not to spend money on standard anymore. I just don't think their pricing method is going to function anymore.
Right now SCG has some standard booster boxes on sale for $80 each or $2.22 a pack. The usual price to buy a booster box is about $90 or $2.50 a pack. There is literally no money equivalent for buying a pack anymore for at the MSRP of $4. You'd be out of your mind to pay $4 for a booster pack these days. There is some major disconnect. Just to compare a brand new deck of bicycle cards =56 cards costs $4. So even at $2.50 a pack everyone buying a pack is still massively over paying. While wizards still turns a profit. huh.......just some thoughts. Every time I try to get back into standard it just sucks. Then I go back to playing modern and EDH. They really need to balance the way their value is distribution out between their packs. There needs to be useful valuable uncommons and the preferable elimination of mythic rarity.
Come on man, I don't play standard or have any intention of playing standard but you are massively missing the picture by generalizing yourself and your friends into who is paying 4 bucks a pack.
There are TONS of people out there who are paying 4 bucks a pack at Walmart aren't playing at your LGS, and people playing modern with you aren't the players playing standard.
You are associating with people like you which is warping your idea of the average player.
I think we have to separate what this new guy might do from what posters want him to do. Improvement (or overhaul) of digital platforms looks to be right in his wheelhouse, but talking about price controls, the reserved list, or mythic rarity sounds more like wistful thinking.
We're not likely to see any drastic changes to long-standing WotC tradition regarding paper Magic. What this new president has inherited in that sphere isn't broken. It not only works, but by all measures, is only growing in popularity. I'm inclined to agree with the people who think this president was brought on to expand MtG into new digital territory - to make that work.
I do want them to make MtGO better but please don't make online Magic into a different game than paper Magic. If they do that, this new online game will probably be some watered down version of paper Magic meant to appeal to new players. You can do that with DotP don't do it with MtGO. MtGO could use some help with user interface and bugs though.
Also apparently, the new guy has more of a tech focus to his experience. Could this mean more input into the clunky and terribly designed MTGO client? Maybe something new altogether (which is probably the way to go. Polishing a turd isn't the right idea in my own humble opinion)
This could mean some great changes to our game, and potentially more growth, and more of an e-sports focus as well.
Good times.
[edit, source: http://icv2.com/articles/news/view/34195/wizards-coast-ceo-resigns ]
I play Standard, EDH, and a very tiny bit of Modern.
My youtube channel, I upload gaming related videos and other videos.
I would take a reprint of snow basics right now just to drop the price of those.
(I'm being intentionally, almost comically harsh here to pre-empt actual flamers.)
I'm officially proposing we retire the word "insane" from the MtG vocabulary.
"The best way to be different is to be better" - Gene Muir
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Monocolor Budget Cube
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It's alive and well in Japan under the name Duel Masters, and even has the occasional Magic guest star, like Jace.
Could this mean they are finally going to fix comments on Gatherer?
Well, one can dream.
It´s stupid how it´s not fixed yet. I would say that it´s important for the community to share and rate cards but apparantly Wizards think otherwise
-Chandra Nalaar
I would not be surprised if WOTC ends up supporting Legacy only as an online format. Guess what? reserved list doesnt stop them from creating digital copies.
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RG Omnath GR
WRG Modern Burn GRW
WB Modern Tokens BW
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You couldn't have at least mentioned the name of the guy taking over? Chris Cocks, whose last position was Vice President of OEM Technical Sales at Microsoft/damn well hope he can do something for magic digitally as president of WotC.
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It'll take some balls to do that. I want to see them open up Kindle Worlds like how GI Joe fanfiction can be sold on Amazon. Granted using their characters is like a 30% drop in royalties. It's a nice way to pad some extra time to experiment with a few concepts in a prebuilt sandbox.
Modern
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I just wanted to point out something about the comment that hearthstone made almost double what wizards made from magic the gathering last year. I checked and as of the information I saw listed the middle of last year, it mentioned that hearthstone was making $20 million per month, ($240 million for the year), and that magic the gathering from wizards of the coast had made $250 million for the year. So basically they are about equal. I just wanted to correct that for the record. (if you have an updated and verifiable source I would be interested in seeing the information, as the business side of things is an interest of mine). It should also be noted that hearthstone cannot be played in person like you can with paper magic. I agree that doing something to help revamp the online presence of MTGO to be able to ramp up that portion of their revenue base would make for an excellent change. But one also has to consider that while both games may be based on something of a CCG model, Hearthstone is honestly based on a completely different business model to magic the gathering and how wizards of the coast has set things up for magic the gathering with the larger emphasis on the physical magic the gathering game, which one also has to consider has now been around for 23 years and is still making more money than ever before. Hearthstone certainly isn't a bad game, but it will be interesting to see how both games will faire in the long run.
Inevitably a new CEO might just be what mtgo and magic needs to be able to help it move forward into a new more digitally focused era. Keep the strength in paper magic, while being able to finally give mtgo the significant boost that it needs to be able to more readily compete against other digital games. The question will be though, how they would choose to handle the connection between mtgo and paper magic with the current redemption system and otherwise how things are set up now.
Come on man, I don't play standard or have any intention of playing standard but you are massively missing the picture by generalizing yourself and your friends into who is paying 4 bucks a pack.
There are TONS of people out there who are paying 4 bucks a pack at Walmart aren't playing at your LGS, and people playing modern with you aren't the players playing standard.
You are associating with people like you which is warping your idea of the average player.
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WB Teysa Tokens
BR Wortsnort
UG 23.5-No Edric
URG Noncombo Animar
GUB Damia Stax
WBR Alesha Hatebear Recursion
WBR Daddy Tariel
UBR [Je]love-a Your Deck
GWU Almost Critterless Enchantress
WUB Sydri+Artifacts=WUB
WURG Glint-Eye Combo
In what way?
I play Standard, EDH, and a very tiny bit of Modern.
My youtube channel, I upload gaming related videos and other videos.
Given the tone and the most common feeling towards the list, abolishing the list is the solid guess
As in, he gets rid of it. And im saying this as someone that owns bb duals.
G MGC
WB Teysa Tokens
BR Wortsnort
UG 23.5-No Edric
URG Noncombo Animar
GUB Damia Stax
WBR Alesha Hatebear Recursion
WBR Daddy Tariel
UBR [Je]love-a Your Deck
GWU Almost Critterless Enchantress
WUB Sydri+Artifacts=WUB
WURG Glint-Eye Combo