With the cost cutting going through wizards right now Im not surprised.
They could save a lot on Maro's salary... though that's off topic since this is purely Marketing. I'd bet marketing is full of people just promoted from within, not a degree or experience outside to be found. Just speculation based on their actions.
I personally believe hasbro is milking WotC for higher and higher profit margins at the cost of all of us. MTG is one of their highest profit properties, and its carrying all their other bullsht that hasbro just needs to drop.
Why are the rare from the furthest out block though? They won't even connect well with the boosters you getting in the box. Why aren't they from the sets immediately prior to the new recent one? Why not have Amonkhet and Hour of Devastation rares since they'll fit with what you get in the box?
Flash forward to next years gift box...get an Ixalan, Dominaria and fall2018 set boosters only to have Amonkhet and Hour of Devastation rares?
Does anyone else see how dumb that is?! Most of those boosters will be off shelves or so minimal that new players interested in such cards might not know how to get more.
Right now most Shadows over Innistrad & Eldritch Moon booster are minimal on shelves and its not even the end of the year yet.
If they put good rares from a set that still has boosters on the shelf then those boosters wont get bought as much. With the cost cutting going through wizards right now Im not surprised.
If you cant tell I think the mod team around here is junk, and Ill say how I feel in public view about the mods. Most of this forum is dead, general and the rumor mill seem to be the only places that get viewed. There are a total of 16 threads that have been active this year at all in this section. Thats 7 months, so about 2 posts a month. 3 of the posts are the same dude. Don't act like this was moved here to get eyes on it. It was moved to put it out of the main view of the site. I also cannot even find the first place my thread was hidden away in to count.
Getting kicked out of Origins is not a cheap **** up either. Two days of sales missed out on, Im sure theres no rebate for the money they put down on it, I would even bet they got charged the 500$ fine for leaving early.
This is why this place is so dead. This is a legit concern about an MTG vendor. Selling bootleg copies of anything leads down the moral road of how long til they buy some chinese bootlegs over off the bootlegmtg reddit and send them out randomly.
Whatever, defend the shop by moving this thread off to some dead forum. <snip> you too osierb18.
Figured some people might like to know that LegitMTG seems to not be so legit. Thats an expensive booth to get yourself kicked out of, blatantly selling bootlegs two booths down from the creators doesn't seem to have been a good idea.
So are they going to sell the 4 duel decks individually? I don't see this being sold in big box stores being viable otherwise. There's just not a lot of shelf space dedicated to tcgs in those places, and they have never put 80 dollar product in those sections before (correct me if I'm wrong)
I'm getting the vibe that these are going to be like From the Vault print runs.
You could very easily fit 8 decks into the deckbuilder toolkit box, and almost every walmart has a half dozen of those on the shelf, not to mention they stocked the hell out of the holiday gift boxes which are a lot of wasted space for just 4 boosters.
as we use them for a draft later on for the same day
Thats against wizards rules.
You cant buy boosters and play with them.
But you can do whatever you want with your prices, open them or draft with them.
If you start a draft, everyone has to have the same product, thats all about it.
For an FNM you can also use other boosters, as long as everyone has the same product.
As long as you arent holding prize packs back and selling them to start a draft then it should be ok, but if you arent giving out prize packs and using them for draft thats against rules.
I trade for a bunch of "junk" that turns into gold a couple years after rotation. So many of my cards from Scars block are double-triple what I traded for them at that.
I hope when everyone's making their pro/con list, they're remembering that A) Hannes was hardly around to fix tech issues (Any virus laden ads couldn't be yanked) and B) That the vB MTGS was a complete jumble of messes. It basically couldn't be upgraded and had so many holes that user data was at risk.
Also, Curse has owned MTGS for a year, so complaining about them now seems silly. If someone's leaving now, it's because of the software change, not any change in ownership.
I will say that I am leaving because of how intrusive curse is now. If you didnt know before, there was no real way to tell curse even had a hand in MTGS. Now its full on curse with an afterthought of an MTG forum. Sure Vbulliten isnt the greatest, but you could have at least brought all the features from there here. This place feels like a half done forum, with many features missing/not important enough to make it through the transition.
Not to mention that the color scheme here sucks, and there are no other options, unlike the old forum with something like 6 different color schemes.
Well I guess this is the last post im making here. The new curse site is just terrible. From the piles of ads for other games curse forced onto these forums, to there only being the single color scheme, it just feels intrusive. Top it off with teemo at the bottom of every page and it just makes this place not feel right anymore.
Im off to find a pure magic forum, curse can shove it.
I personally believe hasbro is milking WotC for higher and higher profit margins at the cost of all of us. MTG is one of their highest profit properties, and its carrying all their other bullsht that hasbro just needs to drop.
If they put good rares from a set that still has boosters on the shelf then those boosters wont get bought as much. With the cost cutting going through wizards right now Im not surprised.
Getting kicked out of Origins is not a cheap **** up either. Two days of sales missed out on, Im sure theres no rebate for the money they put down on it, I would even bet they got charged the 500$ fine for leaving early.
Don't evade the censor -knickm
Whatever, defend the shop by moving this thread off to some dead forum. <snip> you too osierb18.
You could very easily fit 8 decks into the deckbuilder toolkit box, and almost every walmart has a half dozen of those on the shelf, not to mention they stocked the hell out of the holiday gift boxes which are a lot of wasted space for just 4 boosters.
As long as you arent holding prize packs back and selling them to start a draft then it should be ok, but if you arent giving out prize packs and using them for draft thats against rules.
Thats against wizards rules.
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Ive been using this one since I got it at my first GP.
I will say that I am leaving because of how intrusive curse is now. If you didnt know before, there was no real way to tell curse even had a hand in MTGS. Now its full on curse with an afterthought of an MTG forum. Sure Vbulliten isnt the greatest, but you could have at least brought all the features from there here. This place feels like a half done forum, with many features missing/not important enough to make it through the transition.
Not to mention that the color scheme here sucks, and there are no other options, unlike the old forum with something like 6 different color schemes.
Looks bad
Intrusive curse stuff
Facebook twitter button at the top of every page
No options for different views
Teemo at the bottom of every page
Im off to find a pure magic forum, curse can shove it.