The Creator Of 'Magic: The Gathering' Knows Exactly Where It All Went Wrong | Defector
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When they were still in arts school in Seattle in the early 1990s, Jesper Myrfors and Sandra Everingham would sometimes look for inspiration by exploring Fort Worden, an abandoned 19th-century military base at the entrance of the Puget Sound. To them, it felt like a dwarven ruin. One day they found a trap door hidden […]
  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    That’s everyone’s gripe, ain’t it? People ruin everything? I share the sentiment but this is the fate of all things doomed to become popular. They become something else.

  • Sea_Foam_Green@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The game was doomed to be a speculator market thanks to the Reserved List.

    The game rose during the sports card boom, and was the lead-in to sports card bro boom during the pandemic.

    Once finance sites popped up, everyone became an investor.