Well if they are working mostly on homeofice and they have less of a collective design i guess we can expect in the fall of 2021 or 2020 some unbalanced or really creative cards being printed (not that we don't have those since eldraine, theros bd, and now in ikoria) but i want to see some of the design that comes from those sets for sure. Maybe new alternative victory conditions cards, more mechanic lords perhaps. On a side note there may be more story cards that doesn't follow a "true" story (as for exemple the story spotlight cards from ikoria) because the loss of easy acess to other teams works, soo if there are last minute changes before the production the changes will be more easy to spot.
Wonder how the playtesting will go, how they will aproach the balance of new cards in future standard.
My undisclosable data suggests that we need to wait until 2023ish for the results of design occurring now. But I'm with you on pretty much all else.
So he admits that the game is still largely played offline, often at an LGS, but how are players going to do that in the next many months (potentially year or more)? In person play is not happening at LGSes, if they're even open, and I highly doubt the average playgroup is getting together for game night. Is MaRo expecting a dramatic spike of people playing paper Magic via Zoom?
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the company is at least signalling a continued commitment to paper Magic, I just don't see it as anything other than a platitude given that in person play is largely impossible right now and LGSes are going to start dying soon, if they haven't already.
That's because LGSs are treated as non-essential businesses by the government and health officials when they don't understand that EVERY business is essential. They're the ones who are deciding on which businesses survive and which ones go out of business without the consent of the customer who should have the final say on the matter. The customer is the one who is keeping certain businesses alive so why should the government and health officials be the ones to decide for them? That's basically someone telling you how to spend your own money when customers should have a choice of who they want to support.
You're trying to make a basic free market economics argument through the haze of several layers of politics and social/public good. If you want to successfully make a point, then as a professor of both economics and communications, I suggest you 1) reduce your scope, 2) increase the explication and length of your thesis and 3) do it elsewhere.
(And I intend all of that as 99.9% honestly helpful and 0.1% playful snark.)
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My undisclosable data suggests that we need to wait until 2023ish for the results of design occurring now. But I'm with you on pretty much all else.
You're trying to make a basic free market economics argument through the haze of several layers of politics and social/public good. If you want to successfully make a point, then as a professor of both economics and communications, I suggest you 1) reduce your scope, 2) increase the explication and length of your thesis and 3) do it elsewhere.
(And I intend all of that as 99.9% honestly helpful and 0.1% playful snark.)