Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-5996974-20130521101634/@comment-9890645-20130524170630

@Krynn007 - If you want to WIN at MtG now, you MUST spend money. I don't know when you played (I'm guessing a while back), but the economics of the game have changed greatly in the last five years. If you want a winning deck (that you didn't expertly craft yourself, if such decks exist in Standard at the time), you WILL spend $300+. A lot of cards you open from packs are useless chaff, even rares. (You are aware of Mythic Rares?) And play Magic Online (not Duels of the Planeswalkers), where they charge you full price for packs and money to play in tournaments for literal vapor that you don't own and they don't care if it disappears. Gaming is Big Business in any form it takes now, because we've proven we'll pay for the privilege AND will take whatever customer "service" they deem to give us.

Re: EVE, etc.: It's great that there are game companies like that. How many are there, exactly? Not many, I'd surmise. Most game companies are companies and want to make money. Just saying. :)