[georgeecollins]

I'll be the devil here-- I played a Magic event with my teenage son last year and it was a blast. We're not big collectors, but over the holidays we got some commander decks and I played with my sons.

It's amazing to me that they have kept Magic that relevant and commercial that long. People always complain about "greedy" corporations but guess what? Greedy corporations make the books, movies, video games, board games that you play. If they were failing no one would complain. In these spaces complaints about your motives come with success.

[xavdid]

That's totally fair! I'm glad you enjoyed it. At its core, Magic is a great game and I really do wish for its success. I just think WotC is compromising the long-term health of the game in the name of short-term profits (which is not unusual in big companies).

> People always complain about "greedy" corporations but guess what? Greedy corporations make the books, movies, video games, board games that you play.

I will push back here a bit - I play a lot of videogames from small-medium size indie studios (I play relatively few AAA videogames anymore) specifically for their perceived lack of greed. Sure, anyone selling a game wants it to be profitable and fund future games, but indies aren't doing so by selling "Gold Editions" of their $70 game that exist purely to squeeze money out of players. Indie devs make a game and hope to be lucky enough that it gets enough press (and good reviews) to bring in revenue.

[georgeecollins]

My career has been in video games and I agree that many medium sized studios are not greedy, they probably have higher motives in general. A lot of these projects are made for love not money and stay that way. But there are types of video games that take a lot of money to be made. They would never be made for love, or by a community, because you can't run a creative project on that scale except as a business. There is no open source model for movies, novels or video games in my opinion. You can say those people making games as a business are greedy but in my experience they have pretty similar ethics to people in any business, for better or worse.