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That's not a fair comparison. One thing that you have to remember is that a significant portion of the trading cards bought are purchased by people who plan on flipping them over as a financial investment. (Truthfully, how many of you expect to sell your Pathfinder books for 2-5x the price you pay for them?)A significant number of them are also bought to be pulped in order to make feed for unicorns.
Isn't making things up fun?
Back when I played M;TG (around '94-'97) I knew several hobby stores who were doing exactly this. They'd buy a box of booster packs, open each pack and sell the rares/uncommons individually. Heck, I remember once I bought a Mirage starter deck and got 2 cards in it worth around $50, turned right around and sold them back to the store. This was an extremely common practice.
Don't believe me? Go look on Ebay. I know it's happening BIG time with Star Wars miniatures.
Singles market is nothing new to gaming stores. They regularly open up boxes of M:tG or another CCGs for singles, while buying or trading for singles they need/want.
I'm a little sad for Phil, as I enjoyed his Rising Tide trilogy back in the days of 2nd Edition Forgotten Realms,
That was Mel Odom.
That sucks, because I really liked Phil's Sahuagin trilogy from FR
Still not him.
Same here Todd. His Sahuagin trilogy is still one of my favorites
... what's wrong with you people? ;)
That was Mel Odom.
*facepalm*
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I'm a little sad for Phil, as I enjoyed his Rising Tide trilogy back in the days of 2nd Edition Forgotten Realms,That was Mel Odom.
That sucks, because I really liked Phil's Sahuagin trilogy from FRStill not him.
Same here Todd. His Sahuagin trilogy is still one of my favorites... what's wrong with you people? ;)
Yeah, I was the "yet another guy" quote. Not sure where my head was at the time. Once I got home, I was looking at my bookshelf and thinking "WTF?".
Maybe we were thinking of the Watercourse Trilogy, which was also Forgotten Realms.
... I only know Philip Athans as the guy who wrote those excruciatingly horrible Baldur's Gate novelizations a little over a decade ago.
At the risk of sounding like a horrible person, is this really a bad thing?
Horrible or not, your sentiments are not unreasonable. On the books that have borne his name, they have mostly been quite bad, AFAIC. Further, FR novels have been pretty much universally horrendous for the last many years... and worsening, not improving.
While I highly doubt this event will result in a turnaround in the quality of FR books (that ship has sailed), I - personally - still can't be all that choked up about it... (Sorry if that offends some people's sensibilities.)
(As for mixing up the sahuagin trilogy - while it might be the Watercourse trilogy, I think people are actually thinking of the Realms of the Deep short-story anthology [which ties to the Threat from the Sea trilogy] - Athans' name is featured very prominently on the cover as being the editor.)
I don't know if Phil was the editor on them, but the last two WotC books I read - the first two in "The Dungeons" series were horridly put together. (Well, actually, the first was horrid, the second was "meh".)
Reading those two books convinced me to stop buying WotC novels.
Phil is a friend of mine and has benn since we were in high school together.
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In regards to D&D and WotC he told me that 4th Edition is a complete bust, a victim of the bad economy, but that M:TG has had it's best year EVER.
Are you just yankin' our chain on this one?