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Postby Khaospawn » Wed Mar 25, 2015 5:07 pm

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Postby Khaospawn » Wed Mar 25, 2015 5:08 pm

Although having them register your pool seems good. When I played in Orlando, I barely had enough time.
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Postby Valdarith » Wed Mar 25, 2015 5:11 pm

Registering your sealed pool is the worst, especially when others around you have no clue how to do it.
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There are usually other perks attached to VIP status as well, like guaranteed playmats and fixed seating placement.
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Postby Khaospawn » Wed Mar 25, 2015 5:37 pm

What are the rules on splits?
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Postby Mcdonalds » Wed Mar 25, 2015 5:58 pm

Damn SCG, capitalist scum

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Postby Kaitscralt » Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:09 pm

Just all of the weird language you have to use to offer something to your opponent. It's so pedantic and causes people to get DQ'd for no reason.

Earned byes, splitting politics, paid perks...all of these things arent the game I want to play. SCG has wrapped this senseless bureaucracy around Magic.
Does SCG really have anything to do with any of that
Standard hobos who play budget garbage should be looked upon with suspicion.

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Postby Thrillho » Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:22 pm

I was sarcastically referring to the MMORPG practice of offering additional services for money that should just be free in the first place. Thy are widely regarded as the downfall of the genre, the pinnicle of the infiltration of corporate greed into the gaming industry.

Having to pay extra to be able to show up late when you have byes is ridiculous.
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Postby Thrillho » Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:24 pm

Just all of the weird language you have to use to offer something to your opponent. It's so pedantic and causes people to get DQ'd for no reason.

Earned byes, splitting politics, paid perks...all of these things arent the game I want to play. SCG has wrapped this senseless bureaucracy around Magic.
Does SCG really have anything to do with any of that
Not a god damn thing.

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Postby Thrillho » Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:26 pm

Wizards of the Coast used to be cool, man. Now they've, like, changed. It used to be about the gamers, now it's just about trying to stop people from illegally colluding with one another and not having their IP ravaged by Chinese counterfeiters on alibaba.

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Postby Thrillho » Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:29 pm

Remember that time Wizards was so about the gamers that they financially crippled one of their most popular hypemen because he told the Internet about game information he wasn't supposed to know and now that guy is literally insane and derided by most of the sane Magic community? That's real heart. That's real appreciation for your fanbase. You're totally right, Maverick, this recent change in Wizards attitude is a bunch of corporate BS. I'm into punk pizza rolls, with Totino's.

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Postby Khaospawn » Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:38 pm

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Postby Thrillho » Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:42 pm

In 1998 Hasbro bought Avalon Hill for $6 million[10][11] and in 1999 Wizards of the Coast was bought in a deal worth $325 million.[12] Wizards of the Coast is now a subsidiary of Hasbro and has Avalon Hill as its division. In 2001 money-losing Hasbro Interactive was sold to Infogrames, a French software concern, for $100 million.[13]

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Postby Kaitscralt » Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:44 pm

Just all of the weird language you have to use to offer something to your opponent. It's so pedantic and causes people to get DQ'd for no reason.

Earned byes, splitting politics, paid perks...all of these things arent the game I want to play. SCG has wrapped this senseless bureaucracy around Magic.
Does SCG really have anything to do with any of that
They regulate their own earned bye and paid perks system, so yes.

The didn't create the unweidly language policies, but they enforce them. They're large enough that they could break off and hold their own ruleset tournaments if they wanted, a "standard rules minus these few bullshit things" league. They also have enough clout to push for an official rules change.


I think they just copied the GP bye system
Standard hobos who play budget garbage should be looked upon with suspicion.

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Postby Thrillho » Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:45 pm

Yeah but they're not a pre-1999 Wizards of the Coast, so they're malicious and bad for doing it.

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Postby hamfactorial » Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:50 pm

:scrump:

Guys we've gotten seriously derailed. What does any of this have to do with playing Mountains and using them to cast things?

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Postby Thrillho » Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:55 pm

Just all of the weird language you have to use to offer something to your opponent. It's so pedantic and causes people to get DQ'd for no reason.

Earned byes, splitting politics, paid perks...all of these things arent the game I want to play. SCG has wrapped this senseless bureaucracy around Magic.
Does SCG really have anything to do with any of that
They regulate their own earned bye and paid perks system, so yes.

The didn't create the unweidly language policies, but they enforce them. They're large enough that they could break off and hold their own ruleset tournaments if they wanted, a "standard rules minus these few bullshit things" league. They also have enough clout to push for an official rules change.


I think they just copied the GP bye system
They're all pretty terrible. I don't believe past results should affect future games.
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Postby Khaospawn » Wed Mar 25, 2015 6:56 pm

I'm at 20% on my GoFundMe. The ball is still rolling! :jam:
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Postby Valdarith » Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:03 pm

Just all of the weird language you have to use to offer something to your opponent. It's so pedantic and causes people to get DQ'd for no reason.

Earned byes, splitting politics, paid perks...all of these things arent the game I want to play. SCG has wrapped this senseless bureaucracy around Magic.
Does SCG really have anything to do with any of that
They regulate their own earned bye and paid perks system, so yes.

The didn't create the unweidly language policies, but they enforce them. They're large enough that they could break off and hold their own ruleset tournaments if they wanted, a "standard rules minus these few bullshit things" league. They also have enough clout to push for an official rules change.


I think they just copied the GP bye system
They're all pretty terrible. I don't believe past results should affect future games.
Many sports use a bracket system that awards byes based on previous performance. How is this any different?
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Postby Thrillho » Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:14 pm

I hate it when you find out a sentient AI has been posting for a time-displaced forum member and you have to catch your recently-defrosted associate up on all that stuff he missed while in suspended animation.

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Postby Thrillho » Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:15 pm

A lot has happened over just the past few years alone. Do you remember when they put you under?

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Postby Thrillho » Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:15 pm

They elected a black man president!

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Postby rcwraspy » Wed Mar 25, 2015 7:16 pm

Fittingly, demolition man has been on TV recently.
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Postby Self Medicated » Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:18 pm

Looks like RDW might be a contender after DTK release.
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Postby Khaospawn » Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:25 pm

I'm really in love with the idea of building my Modern Goblins deck in standard. Cuz, that's basically what it is. Flood the board with tokens and abuse the shit out of Attarka's Command. The Command is basically Goblin Bushwhacker.

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Postby Thrillho » Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:29 pm

I caught myself building Jeskai Tokens in block during a meeting today.

I have never played a game of Block Constructed in any format before.

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Postby Khaospawn » Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:31 pm

:lol:

Geez, were you that bored?
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Postby Khaospawn » Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:38 pm

Fittingly, demolition man has been on TV recently.
"You really licked his ass!"

"It's KICKED! I KICKED his ass!"
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Postby windstrider » Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:39 pm

@khaos -- You've sat through business meetings. How can you not be that bored?
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Postby windstrider » Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:42 pm

Looks like RDW might be a contender after DTK release.
There's too many great new cards -- Zurgo Bellstriker, Dragon Whisperer, Ire Shaman, and Thunderbreak Regent -- to not try a mono-red build of some kind.
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Postby Thrillho » Wed Mar 25, 2015 9:56 pm

:lol:

Geez, were you that bored?
2.5 hours in a stifling conference room talking about whether or not the fda would be ok with wording "a" versus "one" is not the most attention grabbing of discussions.

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Postby Khaospawn » Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:15 pm

@windstrider, yeah you're right

@Thrillho, after that long I'd begin to question my existence :suicide:
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Postby rcwraspy » Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:30 pm

We get it, Mav. Bujcaj4lyfe.
I'm not sure where you get that from anything I've posted.
Hrm, let's see...
It feels like some people believe they live in some Yi-gi-oh anime world where card games matter and players are celebrated like professional athletes.
I still don't really care. If you put that much stock in MTG, I don't care if you get cheated out of winnings or entry fees because I don't consider that to be a smart life choice... Just because some people who fooled themselves into thinking playing Magic could be a viable career... He may as well have cheated at a game of Monopoly for all I care.
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I wish the game was just playing the game, not playing the tournament.
Earned byes, splitting politics, paid perks...all of these things arent the game I want to play.
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Postby Nuwen » Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:53 pm

Just all of the weird language you have to use to offer something to your opponent. It's so pedantic and causes people to get DQ'd for no reason.

Earned byes, splitting politics, paid perks...all of these things arent the game I want to play. SCG has wrapped this senseless bureaucracy around Magic.
Does SCG really have anything to do with any of that
They regulate their own earned bye and paid perks system, so yes.

The didn't create the unweidly language policies, but they enforce them. They're large enough that they could break off and hold their own ruleset tournaments if they wanted, a "standard rules minus these few bullshit things" league. They also have enough clout to push for an official rules change.
Need data to nail down a couple of things here, before you can argue the bolded:

Tournaments appear super lucrative because attendees are CONSIDERABLY more likely to drop large amounts of cash at a single event, but that earned income prob doesn't directly translate to clout because Wizards is prooobably providing product under very specific circumstances. Consider the tight margins your local game shops operate on when buying/redistributing Wiz products.

What % of MtG product consumers attend tournaments, how frequently, and what are they spending money on?

Would any of them STOP buying products to assert a demand of their provider? This point is the one you should consider, if you ignore the rest. I think MtG is a chemically/psychologically addictive experience. Magic is a fantastical gambling game. You keep hitting up your distributor, even if the transaction terms aren't in your favor.

I hate the way games extort players' experiences, and I'm an anti-capitalist hacker hippie by anyone's measure. But to actually solve the problem here, you need to offer REPLACEMENTS instead of half-hearted suggestions @ current infrastructure. This is why I have two different Cockatrice servers in two different countries ready to fire if ever Woogerworks goes down. If I were a little smarter and better networked, I'd totally float competitive MtG players participating only in online tournaments on F2P platforms.

Tangent question: Do CFB streamers even use Cockatrice, or are they only streaming MODO?
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Postby rcwraspy » Wed Mar 25, 2015 11:04 pm

pretty sure just MODO.
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Postby LP, of the Fires » Wed Mar 25, 2015 11:30 pm

The wording on splitting is mostly a way to get around gambling laws in addition to avoiding collusion from what I've been told.

Byes are there to sort of create a 'meritocracy' where you get rewarded for achieving or whatever. That and as a way to reduce variance for the sake of narrative building. Pro players are somewhat of a brand to WOTC, hence the player ranking system which they created last year.

Finally, you don't play in tournaments and don't care about much of the tournament perks so your opinion is largely irrelevant so you're just talking for the sake of talking; which is fine I guess. I don't think anyone REALLY cares.
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Postby Jamie » Thu Mar 26, 2015 1:30 am

I think putting random cards in packs is dishonest and harmful to the competitive scene. Meanwhile, wotc is rolling in money. My opinion is irrelevant. Maybe you can have the same maturity?

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Postby Jamie » Thu Mar 26, 2015 1:35 am

according to mtg players, control takes 'skill' which is news to me


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