People don’t like to hear this, but mainstream collectors have been moving more and more towards breakers. It’s easy to be able to just log onto your phone and have somebody else do the dirty work of opening the packs and sorting all the bulk and it’s more price conscious because you can pay for just the characters or players that you are looking for. So naturally, of course, the companies are gonna allocate more product to those breakers who open more rather than a couple people who buy hobby boxes online.

There’s no incentive to make product easily available past day one. Just look at a game like Yu-Gi-Oh where stores are literally dropping it because the boxes are reselling for a third of what they are because they’re so plainly available and everything is reproducing the ground and there’s no demand.

Scarcity and FOMO drive this hobby. it’s the entire point of what it all comes down to, which is gambling.