PRE ALPHA IS NOT A FUCKING THING!!! STOP CALLING FINISHED TITLES PRE ALPHA!!!
idk why it pisses me off so bad, probably cause it’s such a stupid nonsensical phrase and a blatant lie
people don’t even know what beta means anymore, let alone alpha
@PokemonTCGP wow, this set is incredibly disappointing. why was it a themed booster pack and not a proper expansion?? we already got a theme pack for paldea!! i wanted immersive and crown koraidon :(
@SoraKeyLight@DavijoMan but why give us a SECOND mini paldea set 😭 like, this one is literally focused on the box legendaries, they used to only do that for the actual full sets with two or three packs
@HaleyTCG i was in line at target guest service to return something and two little kids lined up behind me to get some cards since they were behind the counter, and the whole time all i heard them talk about was the value of the cards in the then-current expansion
shit is depressing, man
Being a gamer since the 90s and seeing how companies execute 10 year plans; here's how i speculate this will go:
Step 1: Over Price games.
Step 2: Make Digital games artificially cheaper. (We are here)
Step 3: Get majority users to buy digital.
Step 4: Abandon physical next generation since majority audience has been conditioned to purchase digitally. Expect cope comments like
"Who needed physical anyway? Digital has been the cheaper option for awhile now"
Step 5: Over Price Digital games.
Step 6: Check Mate. You no longer have a free market to trade or buy or sell preowned games. And now the market value of video games is 100% in the hands on the corporations.
Younger people wont even question it. It'll be a culture ingrained in their childhoods.