The Creator Of 'Magic: The Gathering' Knows Exactly Where It All Went Wrong | Defector
The Creator Of 'Magic: The Gathering' Knows Exactly Where It All Went Wrong | Defector
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 ...
Entire article comes down to this quote from an interview:
“When Magic was first designed everyone had their own treasured collection, but those treasures became commodities, and we lost some of that magic. Since then I’ve been trying to figure out how to get back to that.”
Edit: Also potentially worth noting, he was doing press for a new video game when he said this quote.
It went to shit when Hasbro decided we need a new set every 5 minutes.
Probably when wizards of the coast was bought by hasbro.
I enjoyed the read, thanks for posting. The two big themes of the article seem to be:
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money ruins gaming
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the customer is always wrong
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It went wrong when the cards became an investment.