Not. Another. Dime.

Hi, everybody!

Most of you may know me only from encountering my decks in the wild. A select few I have had the honor and privilege of playing with as coalition mates. I have had highs, and lows, with you all, and have slogged through the mud with the best of you.

Some of my proudest gaming moments have come in MTGPQ: Winning Saheeli Rai in my last event in silver. Helping to found a top ten coalition. Witnessing the creation of the "I Hate Gun Bunny" fan club. Reaching out to and helping recruit the founder of the "I Hate Gun Bunny" fan club. Having a confirmed one turn AI kill by one of my decks.

But recent, and not-so-recent, events have made me reconsider what these accomplishments have cost me. With that in mind, I went back through my bank statements, and found the total cost.

$1,374.70

For a lot of you, that's probably a ridiculous sum of money to spend on a game, and I would tend to agree with you. For a select few of you, that's peanuts compared to your own expenditures. I am not posting that figure to brag, or belittle anyone. I am posting it to inform D3, Hibernum, (going forward, I'll refer to them as D3H) and anyone else who cares, that that is all they are ever getting. You are losing the whales, D3H, and along with them a sizeable chunk of the rest of the player base.

I've played since almost the beginning, before QB even existed, and runes could actually buy cards. Back when drop rates weren't ridiculously low. I've experienced every bug that's plagued this game, every card nerf, the very few buffs that have been handed out to cards (GR was my very first mythic, and that was when it kinda sucked). I have grown to love the game far more than I than I probably should. I played paper magic for years (Legends through Weatherlight) and found the mix of lore, artwork, and visuals (for what it is, this is a truly beautiful game, artistically speaking) to be a wonderfully addictive pastime for over a year. In that time, however, I have keenly noticed the utter lack of transparency and feedback given by the game developers. The notion that D3H doesn't listen didn't get spun out of whole cloth, nor did it manifest overnight.

This community has so many great ideas available that would improve the game it's not even funny. Yet D3H chugs along their own path, heedless of what their customers are telling them they want. The recent interview given regarding the state of the game, and the allegedly tremendous support and feedback that occurs between you and the player base is laughably pathetic. If you truly believe everything that interview contains, you are delusional and cannot be helped. If that was misguided marketing spin, it calls into serious question your ethical position in relation to the player base. Are you truly willing to lie to that extent to make money? That will end in failure, as it always does.

You have one more chance to redeem the relationship with your players, the lifeblood of your business. Choose wisely.

As for me, I've made my choice.

Not. Another. Dime.