One story to watch: Magic: The Gathering--a collectible card game that was first released in 1993 and has had multiple expansion sets every year since--is experiencing rapidly declining sales. This is believed to be due to alienation of its core audience by SJW politics.
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People are just going to stop playing.
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Why don't they like MTG? I'm so confused! Is it offensive? Ahhhhh
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Too many straight white males play it and appear in the art, apparently.
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That won't last long.
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It's always been this way. They took demons out of the game for years back in the 90s due to social pressure now they're doing same but in reverse. Well, they also employ a lot of leftists too so it's worse tbh
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The game probably won't be completely shut down, but this looks worse than any previous declines.
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There are a lot of issues and I'm rapidly losing confidence. Enough to sell a majority of my collection.
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https://youtu.be/UPe3_fWOH00 Prices on the secondary market are apparently dropping as well, indicating declining demand.
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Ohhhhhohoho
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Wotc own dnd as well and I believe their latest published adventure includes a gender fluid character referred to by the pronoun xir.
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Losing 40% of your revenue and most of your hardcore fans so bluehair nose ring creatures will spend >$100 on your product ever while praising you (not your product) online in a tweet or twopic.twitter.com/MWw1BVRXuF
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Their is a decline in tournament attendance and sales but it remains to be seen if this is unrelated to leftist crap or a poor standard environment or other factors
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When SJWs take over, quality suffers because politics becomes the driver of business and personnel decisions. It's a cliche, but if quality isn't your #1 priority, it'll show.
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Magicians Going Their Own Way
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I’ve never played Magic- how do SJW politics figure into the game either way? Benevolent scientist warrior women?
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characters, bad art, and everyone in the story fiction talking like west coast hipsters, presently. Some might add gratuitous racial diversity to the list, but that's been in Magic since the beginning so I don't think you can count it. (the brand started in the 90s) -
Less overtly political is them simplifying the game constantly to be more "inclusive." (e.g. Killing man's burn and removing combat damage from the stack, if that means anything) This, plus the shitty cardstock and horrid balance are probably what's killing the sales.
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...since nerds usually put up with soy, I mean. Hell, they put up with a literal pedophile cabal in the tournament organizing and judging orgs. (don't ask). Still, if you wanna see the standard of modern magic world building, look at this:https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/truth-names-2015-01-28 …
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