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Is anyone able to buy Star Wars Destiny?
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I really just want to see how it plays, it looks pretty fun. Don't think I'll get into it much though specifically because of that chart you have there. And apparently you need characters, which you don't always get out of a booster. That sucks.
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I really like that Pokémon has those special sets where if you really want Mewtwo or Rayquaza or whatever, you can just buy a special box where you get that and maybe some extra packs or whatever. I wish this was done like that.
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Gary Sax wrote: Broken record but the CCG part is definitely something that hurts it with me. ESPECIALLY like legendary rarity. I can deal better with ordinary rares without foils/legendaries, etc. It shouldn't matter to me but it does.
I actively played several CCGs in the '90s. Several years later, I saw a comment at BGG that I wish I could have forwarded to younger me: in a CCG, your real world bank account is a game component.
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The other key is to do the following:
1) Get a playgroup together (which could be just contained in the family!)
2) Set strict spending rules for that playgroup!!! If "your real world bank account is a gaming component", as Shellhead says: in a game where that were actually true, wouldn't there certainly be rules that everyone starts with the same amount of money in that account? The spending rules can be simply "we're all going to spend $40 and then stop", or "we're all going to buy 1 booster a week", etc. Restrict purchases to boosters.
3) Allow trading WITHIN the playgroup. No purchasing of singles or trading for singles outside the playgroup.
I set up an enormously popular Magic league at the school where I work; other teachers have commented that, even to them, it appears to be the single biggest thing at school. Students play Magic *all the time*: they're getting several matches of Magic in every single day. How much do they spend? $7.50 a month, with NO exceptions. I'm willing to bet they've gotten more play/$ value than nearly anyone on this site has gotten from any game they've ever purchased (with the POSSIBLE exception of Gary Sax). No one gives a hoot that they don't have a "complete set"; instead, they relish that Catrin has an Olivia Voldaren, but Eli's got a Gideon Jura, so playing against those two people gives two entirely different experiences.
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I know its popular to bash the evil Asmodee empire, but to be fair, this is their first foray into a CCG type game. Dice Masters went through this feast and famine cycle for the first several years it was out.
Doesn't mean it isn't aggravating. Short term, I suspect the extremely short supply is driving up singles prices as well.
The Team Covenant site had complete sets on preorder for $300, but sold out .
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