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completely off topic rambling into the void about card game and my room mates
I kind of can't fathom how anyone enjoys Magic: The Gathering. I know this to be a function of the people I play with, but it's affecting how I see the game as a whole.Some guy a while ago taught me how to play and gave me one of his decks to keep. He was very sweet and is actually one of the very first people to ever gender me correctly without me having to ask. I'd kept this deck and never really used it until I got here. The room mates play a lot, so I pulled out the deck. I got absolutely sweeped, but it was okay I guess. They let me borrow some of their decks to try and it was okay I guess. They were stronger than my decks and I won a couple times, and it was okay. The thing that gets me is they seem to be almost entirely motivated by making decks designed to piss each other off.
I went to a couple cars shops with them just to look around. And I was shocked at how many times one of them would find a card and say "oooooooo meler come look at this. Dont show [friend] it'll make them sooooo mad. I'm getting it."
After that I realized just how much of every single one of them playing this game just loves to make playing the game as not fun as possible for everyone else. Why? Why even play the game at that point?
I went through the bulk at one of the card shops cause apparently that shit so cheap they give it away for free if you don't take too much. I grabbed 10 cards I liked to go in that one deck the guy gave me. Just swapped out some of the worse cards and kept an eye on the mana costs. And I just played a game with it. And I think I got super lucky, cause I won, and it wasn't even close. But now they're down there theory crafting together a deck designed to completely counter my deck so bad that I'll never want to use the deck again. And it's like. That's my one deck. I'm not spending any money on this god damn game.
They simultaneously practically beg me to play with them, but want to make my one deck completely unusable just because I beat them once with it. Fuck this.
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It's true it's a function of the people playing, but it's an attitude that's unfortunately pretty common in the game. There were people in my old playgroup who made decks that weren't even designed to win, just to make the game as unplayable as possible for everyone else at the table.... and like yeah at that point that person is just a shithead. It's shithead behaviour to only be able to have fun if you're making other people not have fun.
yeah, no game exists in a vacuum obviously but it's especially the case with games like MTG and when there's such a sizeable chunk of the player base with this kind of an attitude, a corpo like WotC is gonna make certain design decisions that cater to that portion of the playerbase to keep them playing. It's especially been the case within recent years that wotc seems particularly unconcerned with their game actually being fun to play
.... I dunno if there was a point I was getting at, but like yeah it's a player problem but also yeah it's also a game problem and players acting like that does impact the game as a whole