[HN Gopher] The creator of 'Magic: The Gathering' knows where it...
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       The creator of 'Magic: The Gathering' knows where it all went wrong
        
       Author : superbyte
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2024-05-14 01:59 UTC (21 hours ago)
        
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       | marssaxman wrote:
       | > One day they found a trap door hidden in the woods near the
       | fort, which opened to reveal a rusty ladder leading to a series
       | of underground bunkers filled with broken doors and graffiti.
       | 
       | That's funny: I think it is quite likely that I once found that
       | same trap door and descended that same ladder. It's quite a
       | magical place.
        
       | mock-possum wrote:
       | > After they left the factory, one of the company's sales
       | representatives pointed out a building in the city's Old Town,
       | which looked like something you might explore in a Dungeons &
       | Dragons campaign.
       | 
       | > "You know what that is?" Everingham remembered the sales rep
       | asking. "That's our prison. We send all the flattened Magic
       | packaging and booster packs to the prison and the inmates do the
       | product fulfillment."
       | 
       | Jesus.
        
         | 2024throwaway wrote:
         | I'm not sure why this is surprising. Prison labor in the US is
         | an extensively documented horror.
        
       | getwiththeprog wrote:
       | Linked from the article are the pre release testing cards..
       | According to Garfield - it all went wrong after this! Magic with
       | it's twice a year new sets and pay-to-win is not what he had
       | envisioned.
       | 
       | https://www.magiclibrarities.net/955-rarities-alpha-beta-gam...
        
         | yetihehe wrote:
         | Everything always goes wrong when it leaves it's small niche
         | and starts being monetised. The thing that mattered no longer
         | matters, only money.
        
         | 2024throwaway wrote:
         | You definitely don't have to pay to win. I play entirely on
         | MTG: Arena, and you can pay $0 and still build a competitive
         | deck. For paper magic, just find people who don't have sticks
         | in their posteriors and use homemade or printed versions of the
         | cards you want.
        
       | neonate wrote:
       | http://web.archive.org/web/20240514162813/https://defector.c...
       | 
       | https://archive.ph/lH00w
        
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