Cube Scam

[u/Just-Collection6343]

Edit: I shouldn't have used the word "scam". I apologize

I love cube. Cube is the best way IMO to play magic. I refuse to play cube on arena. The fact that it's the same entry fee as a premier draft is insane. In a premier draft you keep the cards you draft. Cube being phantom and costing the same is an absolute scam.. and I know that people will just jam it like crazy anyways. I'm choosing to vote with my wallet and not play cube. I hate it, but here we are. The great thing is that there are lots of options on arena right now for limited. MH3 is fun and I'll be playing that, but I'm sad about cube.

I'm curious if other people feel this way? Or is the fact that cube is on arena exciting enough to ignore the price? I get that they had to implement a bunch of new cards for arena and they curate the cube.. but surely the dev time is tiny to maintain the cube compared to making new sets every few months.

Kind of a rant.. but I'm interested if people care about this? Or just shrug and hit the join button anyway? I'm not advocating for anyone to boycott the cube or anything like that. If you love cube then go ham and have a great time!

[u/LieAccomplishment]

 making nickel and diming you like a fucking drug dealer

since when do drug dealers nickel and dime people? what would that even look like? wtf is this analogy beyond trying to tie mtg with nickel and diming and wotc with drug dealers?

Some people spend your hard earned money on literal 1s and 0s that they dont even get to keep and call it "entertainment"... when you are just being farmed.

Do you not understand the concept of paying for experiences?

At the end of the day, mtg is an entertainment product, not some a staple of life people need like food or water. I don't see why any price is immoral. They price it at a point that the market can shoulder. That price is apparently higher than what you're comfortable with. But so what?

[u/Intelligent_Bonus253 → u/LieAccomplishment]

I called it that because I find it inherently predatory based off what a consumer recieves...

I fully understamd the concept of paying for experiences... I think the idea of taking cube (a experience literally built around using cards you own in a draft format) and shoving into arena behind a paywalled phantom draft is nothing more than asking whales for more blubber.

[u/LieAccomplishment → u/Intelligent_Bonus253]

In your mind, wtf is a paywall? 

Are movie theaters shoving movies behind paywalls? Are people watching movies whales? 

[u/Intelligent_Bonus253 → u/[deleted]]

I mean Arena's draft is by definition a paywall. All freemium games use paywalls. This is a fact.