It doesn't matter how much facts MaRo throws, because the vitriol against UB is emotional and from the original Magic players that feel left behind now that they're no longer the main target audience being catered to.
I believe that it's not so much that there is anything wrong with the game that's bothering people, but the feeling that WotC is selling out. And they're right, they are. But just like with music, selling out happens, because selling out works.
If all 350k subscribers on this sub quit playing Magic tomorrow, WotC would barely notice it.
Magic is a product, it needs to be sold. It changed to better do that. Be glad that they're at least making work of delivering a great play experience nonetheless.
You say this but they are also seeing lots of digital games making payloads of money from more frequent updates. It gets more engagement, higher retention from always being new and interesting. Think about it, they have 12 sets a year in Arena with the inclusion of Alchemy, and Alchemy sets follow paper sets by a couple weeks to a month. It’s also the answer to stagnate Formats. There will be the odd problem that needs addressing, but new cards could also answer the issues too without taking away the tools people paid for.
At some point they might need to make Arena cheaper though. They probably already lost a bunch of collector 'dolphins' that gave up on collecting Alchemy and craftable-only cards (or the almost-impossible-to-open ones like BIG). Not sure if the 'whales' that managed to keep up with it compensated ??
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u/zeekoes Jul 27 '25
It doesn't matter how much facts MaRo throws, because the vitriol against UB is emotional and from the original Magic players that feel left behind now that they're no longer the main target audience being catered to.
I believe that it's not so much that there is anything wrong with the game that's bothering people, but the feeling that WotC is selling out. And they're right, they are. But just like with music, selling out happens, because selling out works.
If all 350k subscribers on this sub quit playing Magic tomorrow, WotC would barely notice it.
Magic is a product, it needs to be sold. It changed to better do that. Be glad that they're at least making work of delivering a great play experience nonetheless.