A Conversation with Richard Garfield -  

He said it clear as day, making the game a collectible first is a disservice to the players that keep the game alive!

Video starts @ 3:58

Richard Garfield: look what they've done to my boy

16:35, gang! Carve those words above the WotC HQ entrance!

so ironic that what he said at 16:35 was on the magic 30th anniversary

Surprised Hasbro didn’t blacklist him after this 😂

Richard Garfield: Game first Hasbro: Money first

The epic music is hilarious next to the tiny crowd and light smattering of applause.

Actually its crazy because if you listen to him he says multiple things they are doing wrong i love it. He said you dont need a bunch of sets if there good. They have good cards but then they make bad cards on purpose that are fillers to male more sets. Then he says making it a collectible first knowing that’s exactly what they did. I feel he smacked them in the face a few times for us :) You know its bad when there is only 10k view and then 275 likes

Been missing BDM! Good to see him! BDM and Buehler in the booth some time awe back in the good magic time when the pro tours mattered.

Richard! Help!

Certainly wouldn't be playing board games if Richard Garfield didn't create Magic. So I have a lot to thank him.

I wish BDM would have asked him how he felt about $250 booster packs

Pretty strong message here that WOTC / Hasbro could really do with listening to. $999.99 packs is not the way forward.

I've been so nostalgic lately for the 2011-2012 season 😢

Richard Garfield really put Wizards on the spit roast with this hot take, huh? 🍖🔥

thanks Richard, I really like your analytic aproach of games

Chess would be a terrible game if you could choose your pieces, but if you couldn't place a queen on the board until the 12th turn (similarly for all pieces), then that would suggest different army-building strategies. That's captured in Magic by the different mana costs of cards.

Boosters Marked up to 25 and selling for 100 months later:Truly absurd prices for packs. Putting the collector and the speculator before the player: a true terror! Thank goodness Richard Garfield was able to set the rudder to prevent that nonsense from happening in the game’s future. Now if you’ll excuse me I have a $32 standard collector booster to open and I need to go check if the TCG prices of Magic 30 have come back closer to their perfectly reasonable release price of $250 per pack.

Just logged on Hearthstone, got a welcome back gift of 80 boosters! Wuuut! While Wiz wants to sell me 30th celebration boosers, with a price tag of 1000$

Mr. Garfield: " Game first, collectable second..." Moneygrabbers at wotc: "Huh? No idea what he is talking about..."

Thank you Richard!

GOAT

Great content

When is 2HG coming to arena?

Based

Why does it sound like the crowd is so loud?

Hello Richard Garfield.

i was expecting more of this video, at the very least more people asking various questions. The featured questions sound curated. I'd actually like to ask my question though i never went due to circumstances. When will we see a ZERO mana cost artifact that provides mana and enters the battlefield tapped?

16:30 the part you are looking for

The Legendary God of the MTG 👏🏼

I wonder what Richard Garfield thinks about his creation being hyper-sold to oblivion because capitalism. Who am I kidding, he doesn't care. He has moved onto other things a long time ago.

Mr. Garfield, I understand that you are upset. The one thing I can tell you is this is a battle of inches; you need to constantly keep the pressure on Hasbro to get them to back off from MTG. If they offer you money so they can keep ownership of the game, then don’t take it (take it as bribery, regardless of the legal implications). Despite only being a fan for 3 years and not a business owner, I know that some (not all) businesses put profit over people and will do anything to increase their profits. Keep fighting, Mr. Garfield; this is another War of the Spark, only the spark is MTG itself, you are Ugin, and Hasbro is Nicol Bolas. I hope this has a good ending.

How intrusive is Magic in our lives today? People like me, breathe on its existance and longevity. Magic has become the most common game that about everybody knows or heard of it. MTG has become integral to the lives of many and a livelyhood to a mass of people. The sheer increase of depreciation of the game has hindered the outlook of the game overall. what was looked as nostalgia has turned into being "overwhelming"- What made MAgic exciting has been exasperated and exausted. We have reched a point where the "AWE" of the game has now been turned into "Taken for granted" Because we cannot take it serious anymore. Not becuase Magic is a joke... it is not... But because the business model has evolved from "feed the people- the players" into Segregate the player base. Via their wallet size, emotional conections of the game and favortism- not in that exact order. I mean I never thought there would be a day in my life, where I wrote a comment like this. Where I felt like the game has exceded past the invested players and the people who litterally built the game up by attending every pre-release, draft and spent hours and even free-days at their magic shop. building connections and memories. Building friendships and growth in the game. Some how- and I tie this comment down to this- Some how WOTC has turned from favoring the community over all and pushing for the individual player to be involved in the game. To seperating the players from those special connections with the community and taking the experience away from being an invested player. I may be wrong- you let me know?

1000$ proxy boosters FTW. Brilliant!

Take notice Hasbro and Wizards. You have been called out and it doesn't look good.

I miss mtg being just a fun game. 30th anniversary not being for the players... just insanity. I hope they don't get a 40th, they don't deserve our support.

Does he still work for WOTC?

Why is RG phoning it in?

I understand if you had other big events planed to be on a a screen but if the 30years of your game and can’t be live in person and this was planed most likely a year ahead of time and still. It there in person I think that is wrong

if magic would have more and more colors, the colors would lose their personalities

$999 answered at 16:35

21:25

You guys post this and don't heed his advice

richard wore black because he knew this was a funeral

1:00:30 huh ? 😅

Listen to garfield wotc; you are ruining mtg. You are destroying a mans legacy, a game we love, the hype for any new sets, and our confidence in buying any new products period. Less sets, less cards, better design, more casual design, and no unnecessary price hikes cuz you are greedy when numbers been amazing til now when we all sending a message

That means stop with the secret lair

Hasbro’s squeezing Magic: The Gathering players for too much money, big bank warns Stock plummets as analyst says Hasbro is ‘killing its golden goose’ By Charlie Hall on November 14, 2022 12:17 pm A Bank of America analyst says Hasbro is “destroying the long-term value” of Magic: The Gathering by overprinting cards. The dire warning was accompanied by a double downgrade of Hasbro stock - from “buy” to “underperform” - as its valuation fell more than 5% before trading began on Monday. “Hasbro is overproducing Magic cards which has propped up recent results,” wrote research analyst Jason Haas. “Card prices are falling, game stores are losing money, collectors are liquidating and large retailers are cutting orders.”

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Woo-hoo! Let's wheel out the games creator so he can pretend we haven't destroyed it and spit on his legacy! -WOTC employee probably.

4.7k views, only 150 likes... 3.19% of people likes this.

Reprint the reserve list!!!

Put that hat back on.

"If it's not mishandled"... 😂

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