Prepare for the enshittification and bedbathandbeyonding of Magic the gathering.
If I had to make a guess as to why, given the fact that the people they laid off were all senior leaders and the numbers are good, it would be preparing for a pump and dump.
if you want to be able to pump and dump a really strong brand then you need to be able to have leaders who don't mind burning the brands equity in order to make money. My guess is that specifically what intending to do here.
Change the leadership, make new “sticky” products, pump revenue numbers, then spin out a public offering of the magic brand that looks like a great new reboot and refresh.
However the brand is only there to smuggle in the subscription model around new products that have strong margin. Everyone* gets rich cause they slaughtered their fattest pig and yet another cultural staple is killed.
you know like selling pieces of paper for over a $100 a box for the last few decades?
I've seen people say that it would be nice to regulate loot boxes in video games, but they can't figure out how to do it without banning Magic's business model. I never understood why that would be a problem.
The genius thing about Magic is that it doesn't place individual value on a card... Video games don't have such safeguards. It's all on the studios servers and they can adjust value on the fly... I feel that's an intrinsic difference that places a video game closer to a casino ("the house always wins") than a TCG (throw out what you think is worth and let the community sort it out).
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Magic fans are the fricking worst.
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Yup, that's why Yugioh has and will always be the superior card game.
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They'll probably make digital cards like Steam but making magic NFTs would truly be glorious
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MTG Arena is already the future of the game, there are even game mechanics specifically designed for use on digital cards: https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Designed-for-digital.
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There's also mechanics they printed in paper that absolutely shouldn't have been (like day/night)
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Magic arena is actually way worse than nfts with nfts you can trade them
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ngl this is absolutely epic, I didn't know these strags were on the brink and how the heck do they only have a staff of 20? That's insane. lol get fricked nerds, welcome to the real world
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It's owned by Hasbro and is one of the company's most profitable areas. iirc they're trying to squeeze as much out of their paypiggies to make up for losses elsewhere but I'm just vaguely remembering some nyt article I read.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/business/magic-the-gathering-hasbro.html
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uh too late neighba
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Lmfao. With all of these ridiculous cards, i have no idea (nor do i care to find out) if theyre real or just /tg/ outrage bait
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Corporate America figured out all they need to do to defeat the imageboard autists is crush the dweebs at their own game by out-shitposting them.
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https://nerdist.com/article/magic-the-gathering-announces-second-collection-of-my-little-pony-cards-ponies-the-galloping-2-cards
New ponies just dropped!
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I can think of at least 2 dramatards that would probably do a c*m tribute to those cards.
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I'm here king
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Three.
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Aragorn one still makes me seethe
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Card nerds
Superior Hasbro property enjoyers
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Superiour hasbro property enjoyers
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https://rdrama.net/h/traditionalgames/post/221615/these-are-the-new-interns-at
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prepare? It's been over a decade
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Jesus frick these people are either glueless or just super easy to impress.
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It's literally just an neurodivergent game of play pretend, why do you need the stupid corporation at all? Just get together with your bros, throw some dice and run whatever kind of game you want.
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These are midwits we're talking about, they aren't capable of taking initiative themselves so if it's not the Current Thing that holds their hand through every aspect they don't want it.
I am 100% in favour of this and I hope wizards released a lazy cash grab terrible 6th edition so all the redditors (derogatory) get what they deserve.
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Already in progress. It's called OneDnD
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With digital tabletop integration for my heccing covidsisters to play too?
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It's all digital
The sneed was glorious and I can't wait for the second wave
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Becouse they clearly lack imagination. Thats why they are so easy to impress
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Unironcialy most of these people are completely unwilling to "play a different game" despite there being thousands of rpgs with similar systems (some even have fetch mechanics).
Dnd has solidified itseld as nerdcore and its become fashionable somehow
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Probably has something to do with why it fricking sucks now. Hipsters might've been insufferably smug cute twinks, but history seems to be vindicating them.
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I thought hipsters were the ones obsessed with being as "geeky" as possible.
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What i dont get is why? Its suck. Its stupid and booring. Its as intresting as watching paint to dry.
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Its pretty fun then again you need some actually fun people to play with not just some dude repeating references or being annoying
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If you have fun dudes to play with. Having fun has nothing to do with dnd.
I would argue it acts like anchor
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Yeah its like watching bad films or something. Dnd is a little more effort than that not by much
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Nothing says “I'm a giant whiny cute twink” than using the word enshittification
Just do something else. Clinging on to dead hobbies run by big corporations and pearl clutching it's not like the 1990s when I was a teenager is lame. Like whining about Green Day not being real punk and thinking you're clever
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Ill just play Unreal Tournament and listen to Pantera.
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Yeah I just stopped playing and looked for other things to do once it was clear it was going completely to shit
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The lord of the rings gimmick was prettty end times crazy
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Yep, when Star Wars went to shit (when Disney bought it) I didn't b-word about it. I just started checking out other stuff that interested me.
When Ubuntu pissed me off I switched to other distros.
When Amazon went to shit I started using other retail sites.
I hate these people who b-word about hobbies or brands, but then fhey still give them money instead of supporting a competitor that might actually improve in the long run.
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Hello. Kubuntu or Mint? Which is more user friendly? Mint looks uglier from the screenshots.
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I hate Snaps with a burning passion, so I'll always recommend Mint over a Ubuntu spin even though I prefer KDE to Cinnamon. MX Linux was also shockingly good when I tried it, specifically the KDE version.
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Mint is generally considered more user friendly and more of a "just works" distro, especially if you have an Nvidia GPU.
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Green Day, aside from not being punk, is also incredibly shit and straggy
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Unironically it immediately tells you a lot about this person's personality. They can't just call people r-slurs or strags like a normal person so they have to come up with something scatological and try to sound clever at the same time.
This is exactly what happened in the 1990s. TSR through some kind of mismanagement managed to go bankrupt at the height of D&D's popularity.
I listened to stuff like the Vandals so I thought the whole punk thing was tongue in cheek. I didn't like Green Day because they weren't funny.
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Enshittification is Cory Doctorow's teenage-tier term to describe worsening a product for more money after you captured enough of the market, see google, netflix, etc.
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They got worse with American Idiot but a lot of people discovered them when it came out.
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I love one-upping it with "enshitskinifcation" because virtually everything they b-word about stems directly from brown minorities having literally zero shame when it comes to "easy" monetization models and wanton consumption.
Remember EA? Don't hear much about them these days. Look up how much money FUT makes off of Mexican children every year.
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I used to be resigned to the eternally declining state of modern tech, but then I realized that all the companies that have been getting notably worse have Indian CEOs, and now I know the problem has a solution
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I miss Windows being usuable though.
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!edgelords My Chemical Romance is still hip right?
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definitely
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I will say yes if you say Reel Big Fish is still cool.
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Reel big fish is ironically fetch, still have some of their bangers in my play lists
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Did you forget a prefix?
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idk what that is bro im in high school remember
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Die zoomer
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WHEN I WAS
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It applies to shit that isn't hobbies too though. Do I just go to a better society or Internet?
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You're here, so I think you chose 'worse'.
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I think most people here are ai'ight
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Maybe you're just not friendly enough
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i feel like Shes mean on purpose, shes a tsundere, and Its how she shows affection
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but I am clever.
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Okay let me do -
Ah s have already infiltrated and destroyed it.
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Wait lets try.. oh nevermind.. already been destroyed by s.
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They haven't gotten to outdoor hobbies thank God. Probably have panic attacks if they are without internet access for longer than a few hours
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Womens' sports
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Neither have rdramatards tho
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The call is coming from inside the house
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it's cthulhu, also we seriously need rdrama-themed decks and a webapp to play tournaments
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Can't write a kernel module in Rust while kayaking.
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Outdoor hobbies are already overrun by annoying wannabe hippies if you don't also live in rural frick nowhere.
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If you don't live in rural f*** nowhere you don't deserve to be happy in the first place. It's not a complicated equation
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This is a big thing on Reddit that I don't see anywhere else. Making up gay butt childish words, I saw douchenozzle the other day on immediately thought the same
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