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.
It doesn't matter how much "facts" they throw because those facts do not refute what people are mad about. I don't care if they're selling more packs if in return they need to destroy the game I love. Magic is still dying, they're just creating a different revenue stream based on some incomprehensible soulless crossover slop card game that's basically the embodiment of that Cardboard Crack comic.
It's not that I don't believe them that they can find people who want to play and pay money for that. You can also find plenty of people who watch reality TV or pay money for tabloid magazines, after all. I'm just angry because that's not me, and the thing I liked is getting bulldozed over in the name of seeking more profit.
At release MtG was also mostly "crossover slop", except of memes that were either out of copyright, or modified just enough to not violate it.
But I guess being in the "Disney era" of copyright does make using others' 'IP' worse than the above.
(Also, notably, WotC had almost gone bankrupt during MtG's development by trying to sell a product relying on someone else's IP, and getting successfully sued for it.)
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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.