Surprising level of transparency here when it’s very easy to just ignore these kinds of questions, even if it’s a bit roundabout.
“[W]e have to take into account numerous factors to make sure that boosters packs are equally desirable. One of the biggest factors is the overall average powerful level of the cards.”
Translation: no one would (theoretically) buy “under-powered” Standard boosters if they were the same price as “high-powered” masters boosters. This doesn’t really appreciate players who want to draft or want Standard cards (and would therefore buy Standard packs regardless) but I’m sure they have people there doing this all day every day.
There are some people in those comments who are not clear on how capitalism works. I’m not saying you have to like it, I certainly don’t, but raising the price on more sought-after items until they have a sustainable number of buyers is pretty basic supply-and-demand.
Unrelated to the topic, am I the only one who’s bothered by how Rosewater’s blog has no styling to distinguish the question from the answer? I realize that I’m a web developer picking on someone who isn’t, but it’s been like this for years and I can’t believe he hasn’t worked out a solution by now.
@Evu @andrew it has styling for me
It does? I checked in Firefox and Brave and it doesn’t in either one for me. But I guess if everyone else is seeing a difference, that would explain why he hasn’t fixed it.
This is how it works:
For peeps who hate logging in to tumblr, probably better known as everyone, you can also use the feed: https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/rss
It has the questions as the title and the answers as the content.
@Sandra @Evu Or only view on mobile, apparently the mobile version is fine (which is where I saw it pretty :))
Thanks for the explanation! As you may have guessed, I don’t have a Tumblr account. Although as social media monoliths go, it actually seems like one of the better ones these days.
@Evu they’ve still kicked out entire established communities on a whim.
I’m super grateful for the federation to save us from the monolith 🫡
@Evu screen shot is from Firefox on android.
I can’t see a screen shot but I’ll take your word for it!
@Evu Oh, Lemmy doesn’t federate image attachments :(
My reply on mastodon has an attachment :)
https://mtgjudge.social/@lovestha/110856145580927212
I still have a lot to learn about how the Fediverse works.
But yeah, that looks great. I don’t know if it’ll work but I’m attempting to attach a screenshot of how it looks for me.
@Evu I played with window sizes and apparently you don’t get the mobile formatting by just making the window small :(
@Evu Okay, so it’s just lemmy and mastodon don’t talk to each other well, we can both attach images, but the other will not see it :(
@Evu Oh, you may not be able to attach a screenshot, which is why it makes sense for attached images to not federate: Lemmy can’t do images in posts.
It’s weird that people always seems blind-sided by the presence of the profit motive when it shows up in the production and distribution of something they enjoy. I’m not saying it’s good or rational, but something would have to be radically different about either WotC as an organization or the structure of the global economy for cards that are more desirable to not get increased pricing.
Blogatog isn’t even close to how bad custom Tumblr styles can get in terms of usability. But the majority of users and I suspect MaRo himself access Tumblr through the app, so such concerns have been forgotten.