It’s the same with any fad, spectacle + interaction + collectables + artificial scarcity, and baby we’ve got a grift going.
The only thing that matters though is if the consumer believes the value they get out of the grift is worth the money they put in. Pokemon is a good grift.
Ok, but pokemon is $35,600,000,000 ahead of the next biggest media franchise ever. While I don’t know every single name on the list down to $1B, none that I know are based on catch them all and mostly children gambling.
Yeah, what’s your point? We’re not talking about all media, we’re talking about tcg’s and collectable fads, you know, the subject of the posted meme and comment thread? It was your comment!?
It’s the same with any fad, spectacle + interaction + collectables + artificial scarcity, and baby we’ve got a grift going.
The only thing that matters though is if the consumer believes the value they get out of the grift is worth the money they put in. Pokemon is a good grift.
Ok, but pokemon is $35,600,000,000 ahead of the next biggest media franchise ever. While I don’t know every single name on the list down to $1B, none that I know are based on catch them all and mostly children gambling.
Want a card? Buy a pack. Get the card you wanted? No. Buy another pack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media_franchises
Yeah, what’s your point? We’re not talking about all media, we’re talking about tcg’s and collectable fads, you know, the subject of the posted meme and comment thread? It was your comment!?
Honest question, in media franchises, to what would you compare the pokemon gift?
Bayblade, Magic the Gathering, Digimon, Yugioh, Pogs, baseball cards.
Basically anything that has a randomised collectible component that you can’t purchase individually from the provider is gambling.