Crossovers are a substitute for actually creative content. Just the regurgitation of already existing content as a means of engaging people from those audiences.
It genuinely stands in the way of real content, because it’s easy and cheap to do with a big payoff. Until audiences rebel against it this will consume everything.
It genuinely stands in the way of real content, because it’s easy and cheap to do with a big payoff.
I dunno about that because they’re way overproducing original content too. They’re just flooding the market as much as they can to hit as much of their target demo as possible. It’s getting ridiculous. On top of the sets, they’re mass overproducing the commander decks and then selling them in special packs at Costco a year later.
All of America’s heroes!
Wtf
ever heard of the metaverse
this is what that actually meant (outside of the deliriums in zuckerberg’s mind)
I’ve been playing like a thousand hours of Magic Arena and learning to love the game in that time, but I think this is the end for me. It’s is such a fucking shame too because Magic is such a beautiful and elegant game, that somehow manages to reinvent itself again and again. I even really liked the new planes and places they introduced, where they really pushed the boundaries of what the game is and delivered really different sets year by year.
The problem might just be that it is too flexible of a game, where every genre or IP can fit within it, every character archetype has some place in the colorpie, every possible action can be mapped onto a card type or game action. It’s such a shame that under capitalism that means that to attract as many customers as possible it has to become pop culture potpourri.
Magic in the early 2000s had such a style to each and every set that just gets drowned out by the IP shit they are chasing
Crossovers are ruining everything:(
Wizards delenda est
I stopped playing for the most part about 5-6 years ago but would still look at spoiler season for interesting cards (I played commander almost exclusively). I stopped keeping up at all when it became evident that universes beyond was just gonna be MTG going forward.
w-w-w-wrong c-c-c-comm?!?!?
