Dear Trick:
I call bull on your article bemoaning leaks. Your goal is understandable, but your analogies are false, and your blame is way off target. I am not a leaker, and I never have been. But I read MTG Salvation more than your website (especially since the recent "improvement" which makes it almost unreadable).
A leak is a WOTC failure. Not our moral failure for being fans. No, I don't agree that you are telling a story that we would all enjoy better if there weren't these pesky leakers. You are trying to control the narrative. But the real world is in your way. You have to let stuff out before the big day, because you physically have to make and ship stuff in advance. Even to Russia. As long as you make a good product (and no, marketing doesn't do that), there will be a tremendous interest in it. You fan it (marketing DOES do that). All that fanning has a cost: the desire to learn what it coming. You create the pressure, the force that draws leaks out. So don't point this way. Look in the mirror.
Do you really think we are getting an unfair advantage? Then why were you sending out the God Book to pros for years? Didn't you have the same philosophy then? No, you had hype in mind. You didn't care about the advantage those article-writing pros got, you wanted hype. It was a WOTC failure that sent out complete set information all over the world for a little hype.
Don't cry to us that we ruined your hype. You are driving it. And no, I don't like the WOTC-controlled narrative since you clamped down on Rancored Elf et al. Having you control every leak is pretty bad, actually. It isn't nearly as exciting as the old days. Look at the number of posts on boring old colorless mana! Your announcement wouldn't have done that!
I could go on, but I will spare you; if you want to control leaks, then don't send stuff out before you discuss it. If you can't do that, then accept that your security will not be 100% and you are making a product where advance info is "worth" leaking by some segment of the population, and worth reading by a huge segment of your customers.
I call bull on your article bemoaning leaks. Your goal is understandable, but your analogies are false, and your blame is way off target. I am not a leaker, and I never have been. But I read MTG Salvation more than your website (especially since the recent "improvement" which makes it almost unreadable).
A leak is a WOTC failure. Not our moral failure for being fans. No, I don't agree that you are telling a story that we would all enjoy better if there weren't these pesky leakers. You are trying to control the narrative. But the real world is in your way. You have to let stuff out before the big day, because you physically have to make and ship stuff in advance. Even to Russia. As long as you make a good product (and no, marketing doesn't do that), there will be a tremendous interest in it. You fan it (marketing DOES do that). All that fanning has a cost: the desire to learn what it coming. You create the pressure, the force that draws leaks out. So don't point this way. Look in the mirror.
Do you really think we are getting an unfair advantage? Then why were you sending out the God Book to pros for years? Didn't you have the same philosophy then? No, you had hype in mind. You didn't care about the advantage those article-writing pros got, you wanted hype. It was a WOTC failure that sent out complete set information all over the world for a little hype.
Don't cry to us that we ruined your hype. You are driving it. And no, I don't like the WOTC-controlled narrative since you clamped down on Rancored Elf et al. Having you control every leak is pretty bad, actually. It isn't nearly as exciting as the old days. Look at the number of posts on boring old colorless mana! Your announcement wouldn't have done that!
I could go on, but I will spare you; if you want to control leaks, then don't send stuff out before you discuss it. If you can't do that, then accept that your security will not be 100% and you are making a product where advance info is "worth" leaking by some segment of the population, and worth reading by a huge segment of your customers.
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