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Isn't that good for Flesh and Blood?

Remember when that defunct online crypto exchange used to be a Magic the Gathering exchange website? Good times.

Could be. Could not be.

What makes you think I dislike MTG ?

I just thought you liked F&B more

Hasbro taking a hit in any way, shape, or form would please me.

i see what you did there...

A bit overblown, it's marketed towards people with enough money to blow on it basically, though it is annoying.

marketed toward people who can afford it. Otherwise known as marketed toward anyone that can make thr credit card transaction clear

I mean if you want to be stupid with your money, yeah.

Thats why its predatory... they want people to be stupid with money because they want their money.

This is meant for the "unboxers", who can be stupid with money because they have an audience who is stupid with money.

If you think they dont want as many people to buy it youre deluding yourself to how capitalism works.

The $999.99 for 4 packs of fake cards goes on sale today.

If people buy it, the game could be irreparably destroyed.

After all cant have an "uber limited" pack stay available for long.

Hasbro already manufactured these months ago. The only real question is whether or not unsold stock will have a fire-sale, and how deep it gets discounted.

Nah. They rather burn it. If they do that, they wont be able to ever again sell a product like this. And also at what discounted price would this even be worth it? Cause even at 500 its stupid crap. Even at 200 and 100. The og collectors edition was sold at 50 bucks and it contained ALL cards from Beta.

Thats why its predatory... they want people to be stupid with money because they want their money.

Is F&B fun? I read a synopsis of sorts on their sub and it says players start full-strength. Idk what that means but it sounds both intriguing and removing a lot of the luck of the draw

Is F&B fun? I read a synopsis of sorts on their sub and it says players start full-strength. Idk what that means but it sounds both intriguing and removing a lot of the luck of the draw

I mean aren't they sold as pure collector's edition for an anniversy set? I don't have a problem with that, it's not like players can use these cards in tournaments or whatever.

You know I actually like the FF TCG. Its fun and slightly more simple than MTG. Just got some cards from the first 2 sets, but would keep buying if there was a big scene for it.

It's amazingly fun, but Square is probably the most incompetent developer I have seen when it comes down to the game and it basically killed the game outside of Japan. Back when Opus 1 was the only thing available they basically produced no cards period which lead to all stocks instantly drying up. This continued into Opus 2, with them having a slightly larger beginning run but still not allowing people to actually play the game. By about this time almost every card store just dropped any pretense that they would actually host events because people literally could not put a deck together. Like, I was the only person out of the group I was with that even managed to get something together and even then it was very much in the "I was able to do so because I wasn't trying to make anything even slightly meta" category. Opus 3 rolled around and then they just flooded the market (and not just Opus 3 stuffs, they went back and did enormous printings of 1 and 2 as well) but the damage had been done and the game was all but dead in the grand scheme of things. You can still find people that play it if you really get down to the ground, but by and large the game is just a bit above "dead" status and only because it is popular enough in Japan that they still produce cards + the collectors outside of Japan are enough to keep print-runs going (there is a very non-trivial amount of people who go for full foil sets in America at least). Hence why there are a lot of cards that technically should be extremely expensive but aren't: they aren't characters that are popular and thus have no one buying the cards. A good example of this is Opus 1's Minwu. In a game with an active player-base a card that hoses decks that hard goes up in value over time, but because the only people buying cards are doing so for the collector-value the top slots are made up of popular characters (Cloud -> Tidus -> Valefor -> Shantotto -> Sephiroth -> Squall are the top slots for price) or cards that are extremely "hard" to get a hold of (Zangan is just above Shan for price and was only available in a short print-run starter deck). You can also see this with its rarity = price dichotomy as the only card that actually breaks the mold for this whole thing is Ovelia, who both comes from a popular FF and is a defining feature of an entire archetype.

is there way to differentiate between a fake FFTCG card an a real one?

their boxes also don't have special seals....

It's amazingly fun, but Square is probably the most incompetent developer I have seen when it comes down to the game and it basically killed the game outside of Japan. Back when Opus 1 was the only thing available they basically produced no cards period which lead to all stocks instantly drying up. This continued into Opus 2, with them having a slightly larger beginning run but still not allowing people to actually play the game. By about this time almost every card store just dropped any pretense that they would actually host events because people literally could not put a deck together. Like, I was the only person out of the group I was with that even managed to get something together and even then it was very much in the "I was able to do so because I wasn't trying to make anything even slightly meta" category. Opus 3 rolled around and then they just flooded the market (and not just Opus 3 stuffs, they went back and did enormous printings of 1 and 2 as well) but the damage had been done and the game was all but dead in the grand scheme of things. You can still find people that play it if you really get down to the ground, but by and large the game is just a bit above "dead" status and only because it is popular enough in Japan that they still produce cards + the collectors outside of Japan are enough to keep print-runs going (there is a very non-trivial amount of people who go for full foil sets in America at least). Hence why there are a lot of cards that technically should be extremely expensive but aren't: they aren't characters that are popular and thus have no one buying the cards. A good example of this is Opus 1's Minwu. In a game with an active player-base a card that hoses decks that hard goes up in value over time, but because the only people buying cards are doing so for the collector-value the top slots are made up of popular characters (Cloud -> Tidus -> Valefor -> Shantotto -> Sephiroth -> Squall are the top slots for price) or cards that are extremely "hard" to get a hold of (Zangan is just above Shan for price and was only available in a short print-run starter deck). You can also see this with its rarity = price dichotomy as the only card that actually breaks the mold for this whole thing is Ovelia, who both comes from a popular FF and is a defining feature of an entire archetype.