OMEGA COLLECTARDS REJOICE

[Black Tiger]

I'm sure that you're all crying yourselves to sleep each night, lamenting over how there is nothing more for a collectard to do once you've completed collecting all the sets in existence.

But what about beyond existence? What if we could begin piecing together sets of concepts and imaginary possessions?

Nintendo really f*cked the elite over when they began selling Virtual Console games for standard prices. There is hope of a brand new infinitely collectible future though. Our friends Topps, the trading card company, truly appreciate what makes us better than anyone else and they've finally figured out a way to make all our dreams come true.

Digital Collectible Trading Cards


If we're lucky, we can pay twice as much for even rarer O-Pee-Chee versions of the exact same cards.

Lets all renew our nightly prayers to the Great Butter Monster , that someone, perhaps Microsoft(?), will release limited random quantities of digital Turbo games in the same proportionate rarities as the useless hard copies. I know that I'd much rather pay $10,000 for a Complete-In-File digital Magical Chase than a fourth MIB hardcopy.

[HailingTheThings]

Please, stop praying to me, I'm getting a headache.

[esteban]

Ha!

It is brilliant.

[Necromancer]

It's crazy, but I don't think it's all that much more silly than people paying hundreds of dollars for a physical trading card.  It's just paper.

Here’s how Card Trader works. You use credits (which are given out free daily, or you can get some with real money) to buy packs of cards.

It sounds to me about as entertaining as your average freemium game.  Get the fans attention at the free level, a certain percentage will pony up a few bucks to get their favorites, and a handful of hardcore nerds will go nuts and pay the big bucks.

[MrBroadway]

[DarkKobold]

It's crazy, but I don't think it's all that much more silly than people paying hundreds of dollars for a physical trading card.  It's just paper.

At least, with that piece of paper,  it physically exists in the world, rather than being a 1-bit flag on server somewhere. That "digital object" only exists so long as the company continues to pay their server costs, they have high enough security, so some script kiddie can't just do a drop table script injection, and etc. I'll never get why people value digital goods, when someone sitting at a server could make 1,000,000 of the object with a single line of code.

[Opethian]

[munchiaz]

I play magic online. But i only play draft and sealed events. Then i sell my cards to enter more drafts and sealed events. the only reason to collect on MTGO is to actually play. Here you are just collecting stuff right. Seems really stupid

[shonenx]

WTF !?!? Did he get paid by TOPPS for that write up ? I felt like every time he was going to finally say - e.g." well in the end you don't own any thing physical " instead he was like THIS IS GREAT !!!

This is worse than amiibos.
The world is doomed

[FiftyQuid]

I read it twice and I still didn't understand what I was reading.  Why would you chase virtual items?

[esteban]

I read it twice and I still didn't understand what I was reading.  Why would you chase virtual items?

Because they are virtually the best experience money can buy.

[escarioth]

I'll never understand people who collects..  unless the use it (thats diferent)
but paying for collecting something that's not even physicaly existing.

i had so much bad experiences with people like that.
maybe i'm just getting old 

[Punch]

Finally humanity conquered death (or decay), at least for collectardism. With the state of those cards always being 'mint' it's way easier to gouge them.

[Gentlegamer]

Lets all renew our nightly prayers to the Great Butter Monster ,

Ja!