The Magic: The Gathering Machine Go BRRR As It Makes $600 Million In Three Months

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• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Go BRRR

  What does that even mean?

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  • plaztek@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    It’s been meme-ified, but it’s the sound a money counting machine makes:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAmG5fiMegc

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    • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Ah, it’s about that money printing sound. Well thanks, I really never understood the reference before.

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• Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I know this is likely an unpopular opinion, but I’ve never liked card collecting games. It’s like having gambling microtransactions in my card games. I don’t tolerate those in video games, why would I in card games? Why wouldn’t I just play Wingspan or Uno or Catan or one of the many other games instead?

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  • tanisnikana@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, I’ve stopped playing dark pattern games too. A loot box is a dark pattern, even if that takes the form of a randomly sealed pack of cards.

    Also I’ve always hated going to a tournament to try to socialize, but the only words I get told by anyone are “turn” and “trigger,” so fuck that noise.

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  • danciestlobster@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Turns out, when your product is a piece of cardboard anyone can print it off at home. The game itself is fun, but yeah I hate the micro transactions/gambling too. Luckily in most play groups proxies are totally welcome

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  • AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The $150 cardboard is so obviously a racket. The game itself was fun, but I could only get into it by proxying a lot of cards. A sharpie is a reasonable investment.
    Nowadays I have Forge on my phone for the same cost.

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• CombatWombat@feddit.online ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So… Hasbro is going to voluntarily recognize the union because it’s the only part of their business that makes money, right? Right????

  Wizards of the Coast reported $367 million in operating income from the quarter, the majority of which came from Magic: The Gathering. That in turn accounted for over 66 percent of Hasbro’s overall operating income last quarter. That number jumps to roughly 90 percent when you look at the last nine months. Yes, Hasbro owns everything from Hot Wheels and Transformers to Play-Doh and Peppa Pig, but that’s not where the money is coming from anymore.

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  • crayons_to_chaos@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

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• Nihilore@quokk.au ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They alienated their core fans and it made them a shit load of money, fucking sucks, marvel was the last straw for me, finally decided to give up after over 20 years of MTG

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• garretble@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And then there’s me, a guy who admittedly was drawn in by Final Fantasy so I could be considered a newbie scrub or whatever who is already kinda burned out on the game because there are SO MANY SETS. You can’t even enjoy collecting a set because a new one is being shoved in your face seemingly a couple of weeks after the last.

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  • danciestlobster@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is what killed it for me. It was fun to look at new cards and retune things every 3-6 months…not every 3-6 weeks like it is now

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    • garretble@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Honestly I have kinda switched over to Sorcery for the moment.

      Since it’s newer, there aren’t tons of sets, seems like about one big set a year-ish, so you actually get some time to enjoy the product.

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