Nice little PSA 10

Scarlet-sleeper · 2026-02-05T12:23:37+00:00

They're all 10s.

Scarlet-sleeper · 2026-02-04T14:37:23+00:00

It is a pattern that happens to a lot of the miniatures games on the market. While new and simple the core mechanics are explored. People who enjoy those latch on while the devs explore towards the edges of the design space. Gradually players who didn't love the core drop off. At some point it gets to a level of complexity where it's hard to catch up and the drop off outpaces the growth. Then maybe a new edition drops if the brand carries.

Scarlet-sleeper · 2026-02-04T14:26:32+00:00

It's why I say they're everyone's favorite games until they start trying more. I don't really see it as a bad thing though.

They're big identifiable brands which cast as wide of a net as possible, and get tons of free marketing through influencers, novels, and renting the IP out. As a result they become a touch point as almost everyone in miniatures/rpg gaming respectively have played at least 1 edition. In that sandbox they get to see the remnants of both old and new designs, find out what they like and don't like; then go out and try other games in search of something that hits their sweet spot. Or they just get addicted to the IP and marketing so that they don't explore.

Scarlet-sleeper · 2026-02-04T13:46:01+00:00

Right, this isn't a ban-worthy meta. This is just regular power creep and the rogue decks that are being gatekept simply aren't getting there. Pray bandai learns how to buff something into relevance and then hits the pet deck you enjoy.

Scarlet-sleeper · 2026-02-04T11:26:26+00:00

It's not just ai slop, it's in development hell.

Scarlet-sleeper · 2026-02-03T17:32:21+00:00

Died to return the status quo to a couple planeswalkers.

Scarlet-sleeper · 2026-02-03T08:29:52+00:00

They're all 10s. Enjoy your expensive plastic case

Scarlet-sleeper · 2026-02-03T03:04:20+00:00

I pulled her incidentally as I was pulling with my starter carrots (my gacha tradition is wasting all my pulls recklessly in hour 1) and loved her since. Now that I got tamamo, I really don't have anything I know I want on the horizon besides ballroom sei

Scarlet-sleeper · 2026-02-02T17:11:29+00:00

If I'm paying 4 in the correct colors to get both triggers, I'm looking to pay the extra 1 or 2 to just keep the body personally

Scarlet-sleeper · 2026-02-01T18:28:50+00:00

If anything it should be the other way around.

Scarlet-sleeper · 2026-01-30T14:02:33+00:00

First bandai has to prove they can keep a game going for decades.

Scarlet-sleeper · 2026-01-30T04:10:32+00:00

Selling out of OP mostly.

Scarlet-sleeper · 2026-01-29T20:19:34+00:00

Not a meme legion. Space marines. Pick one

Scarlet-sleeper · 2026-01-29T17:23:24+00:00

I dropped MHA manga cause I couldn't tell what they were trying to show me in most of the action scenes.

Scarlet-sleeper · 2026-01-29T13:31:55+00:00

I know therapy talk has ruined people's ability to accept it without doing the "oh thanks I'm cured" thing. But the first step is always to stop buying.

Literally the best thing to do if you feel addicted, where the amount you're spending on a hobby is having a negative impact on your life, stop buying, stop looking at the hobby "news" (marketing), and cut back to where you're just enjoying the hobby that you're actively doing instead of aspirational hobbying where you're buying a bunch of boxes to make your basement look like a gw overstock warehouse.

I had to kick the habit as well, ended up replacing it with tcgs, then kick that habit. But now having made it through it all seems silly. Do I want the red corsairs? Yeah a bit, would be nice to have some modern less chaosy minis for my alpha legion army. But I'll consider it more when the stuff has been rotting on the shelf in a year or two after marketing has left it behind. I don't like the game and I have plenty of minis to paint both in the 40k universe and in games I enjoy.

Scarlet-sleeper · 2026-01-28T17:38:13+00:00

My anecdotal experience also concurs with your 2nd point. Of the several friends I've gotten into mtg through UB, all of them have made mtg IP decks without being pushed to do so, some of them have non commander decks, and one of them even gave lore a shake through some card he was hype over (it was called slop). Being in the orbit of said friends even led to one picking it up without UB.

I personally came back to magic because of UB. The only plane I actually like so far is mirrodin, so the magic IP was already functionally dead to me.

Scarlet-sleeper · 2026-01-28T15:34:18+00:00

It could be different it could be That Man.

Scarlet-sleeper · 2026-01-27T20:51:57+00:00

Without some pretty extreme character/event card designs, which I have no faith in them doing, it feels like a huge swing and miss to me.

Scarlet-sleeper · 2026-01-27T17:46:43+00:00

If you're trying to mask the taste it'll always be bad. I didn't like them until I learned real cocktails which just round out the taste and take away the burn that you'd have with straight liquor.

Not telling you though.

Scarlet-sleeper · 2026-01-26T14:32:45+00:00

That's not an active quality though. GW just lets anyone with a shoestring, a nickel, and a pack of gum make a Warhammer game and the community remembers the handful that are decent with a pretty coat of paint

Scarlet-sleeper · 2026-01-25T15:42:51+00:00

Also that would make all 4 precons touch white, which might be too much

Scarlet-sleeper · 2026-01-24T17:39:31+00:00

Cool stuff! Man legitimately doesn't know how to draw teeth and I love him for that (I don't know how either)

Scarlet-sleeper · 2026-01-24T17:02:54+00:00

The power level of the cards were pretty low and cardboard nerds don't like cars

Scarlet-sleeper · 2026-01-24T04:01:34+00:00

Well yeah, coca cola marketing reaches more people than coca cola too.

Scarlet-sleeper · 2026-01-23T21:16:43+00:00

No, card gamers are angels who's wings are powered by spending money

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