I just wanted to point out how good of a job WOTC is doing. After all they are realeasing card faster than the rumor Mill can keep up.... Well thast is according to the ask wizards question from friday. So anyone else feel this is a fake question to make wizards look "good" if you will?
I don't know about making them look good, but it's clear they want to move in a more agressive way towards previewing a new set. I commend them for that, as much as I can being in our position here at 'Salvation.
With their hopes of eliminating all un-authorized spoilers from the internet, it would leave MTG.com as the the premiere site for 'new cards', whether found in magazines, or officially previewed. That could spell the end of MTGsalvation as 'the' rumor site... so time will tell.
They don't quite understand that despite themselves, people continue to open product early and release the info. Nothing, except armed guards on every case of product is going to stop that info getting out to someone who is going to post it.
I just wanted to point out how good of a job WOTC is doing. After all they are realeasing card faster than the rumor Mill can keep up.... Well thast is according to the ask wizards question from friday. So anyone else feel this is a fake question to make wizards look "good" if you will?
I don't think its was a fake question BUT it was chosen to help make them look good:)
Unfortunately, there's an obvious answer for Wizards to solve the 'pre-opening' problem. Plan the ship date so that the time the shipments arrive is the same day as the items are released and the official full spoiler is released. Problem solved. No one has time to open the things before they are already spoiled. Then the only time to get spoilers is from people inside of the company actively releasing info, which will cause lawsuits.
Luckily, I think Wizards is too lazy to do this.
Edit: I would, however, not put it past them to not ship product out until the official release date, or some such.
Unfortunately, there's an obvious answer for Wizards to solve the 'pre-opening' problem. Plan the ship date so that the time the shipments arrive is the same day as the items are released and the official full spoiler is released. Problem solved. No one has time to open the things before they are already spoiled. Then the only time to get spoilers is from people inside of the company actively releasing info, which will cause lawsuits.
Luckily, I think Wizards is too lazy to do this.
Edit: I would, however, not put it past them to not ship product out until the official release date, or some such.
The problem with this solution (from WotC's side) is that shipping product can be somewhat unreliable and they need to make sure the retailers have their product in time to unpack it and sell it on the release date. More importantly, they need to get the product to TOs in time for them to unpack it and organize it for the prerelease. That means getting it there well in advance to account for possible shipping complications and letting the TO organize the product.
As much as that seems like a sensible solution, shipping time is just too unreliable and it wouldn't work to get TOs the product the day of the prerelease; they would never have time to organize it to efficiently distribute it at the tournament.
I would, however, not put it past them to not ship product out until the official release date, or some such.
Yeah right. Could you imagine the backlash that would happen if a release had to get cancelled because the UPS truck broke down? Or they shipped to the wrong address? Take the hundreds of diffrent things that can happend to cause a shippment to not arrive on time and multiple it my the many locations of releases/or prereleases around the world. The odds are heavily in favor of at least one or two locations having to cancel because they didn't get the product on time. This would result in the loss of lots of cutomers because you are upsetting both the players and those who put on the events. Also those events cost alot of money to host and you know store owners/event holders are going to be sueing for lost revenue due to the mistake. All of this combined is reason enough that wizards will never try to wait until the release date to have the product arrive.
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That could spell the end of MTGsalvation as 'the' rumor site... so time will tell.
Is that necessarily a 'bad' thing, though? I'm tired of the server blackouts on MTGS because of the mass influx of guests on the forums, personally. Sure, we'd still be one of the top non-Wizards sanctioned forums on the net still. And it's not like our rumor mill would certainly die. But it would let Wizards deal with the server overloads and not Hannes.
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With their hopes of eliminating all un-authorized spoilers from the internet, it would leave MTG.com as the the premiere site for 'new cards', whether found in magazines, or officially previewed. That could spell the end of MTGsalvation as 'the' rumor site... so time will tell.
They don't quite understand that despite themselves, people continue to open product early and release the info. Nothing, except armed guards on every case of product is going to stop that info getting out to someone who is going to post it.
I don't think its was a fake question BUT it was chosen to help make them look good:)
Luckily, I think Wizards is too lazy to do this.
Edit: I would, however, not put it past them to not ship product out until the official release date, or some such.
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The problem with this solution (from WotC's side) is that shipping product can be somewhat unreliable and they need to make sure the retailers have their product in time to unpack it and sell it on the release date. More importantly, they need to get the product to TOs in time for them to unpack it and organize it for the prerelease. That means getting it there well in advance to account for possible shipping complications and letting the TO organize the product.
As much as that seems like a sensible solution, shipping time is just too unreliable and it wouldn't work to get TOs the product the day of the prerelease; they would never have time to organize it to efficiently distribute it at the tournament.
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Yeah right. Could you imagine the backlash that would happen if a release had to get cancelled because the UPS truck broke down? Or they shipped to the wrong address? Take the hundreds of diffrent things that can happend to cause a shippment to not arrive on time and multiple it my the many locations of releases/or prereleases around the world. The odds are heavily in favor of at least one or two locations having to cancel because they didn't get the product on time. This would result in the loss of lots of cutomers because you are upsetting both the players and those who put on the events. Also those events cost alot of money to host and you know store owners/event holders are going to be sueing for lost revenue due to the mistake. All of this combined is reason enough that wizards will never try to wait until the release date to have the product arrive.
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