OGW leaks & massive Judge suspensions

[jmlima]

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Honest question: How many people do actually read the spoiler articles? I either go to a summary site or I skim over it to look for the card image without reading the rest. All while Adblock is enabled. Sure makes a difference for their hype engine/ad revenue.

I'm a pretty atypical player (or so I think), but I do not read any spoiler articles (dribel), much less their (wotc) fantasy fiction which is absolutely appalling. I also do not check any websites, just check the MTG salvation header where they conveniently have all the spoiled cards. And because I would not touch Standard with a long pole, I don't give a toss about how new cards integrate into the standard environment which what most spoiler articles seem to be about.

*rant below*

In fact, most articles on MtG suffer from the same issue, for every good one, you have 99 (if not more) crap ones. Most of the guys writing them seem to need to write regular pieces and they suffer from the classic 'what is there more to write about?' syndrome. One of the best recent examples I've seen is this article:

http://magic.tcgplayer.com/db/articl...r=Craig+Wescoe

Adds crap all over the 1345885 articles previously wrote on this, makes dodgy groupings of decks, provides nothing new.

Even if you're writing on world news for a newspaper you struggle with this syndrome, much more if you're writing on a flipping card game in competition with 345768 other online writers.

[Lemnear]

What is the reasoning behind letting judges know of cards before they are announced? How does that benefit WotC? Do the judges provide some form of useful feedback? I'm under the impression these cards are already printed and in packs by the time they are being leaked to the public at large.

Exactly. This is the next coming of the New Phyrexia godbook spoiling except that WotC gave it to judges instead of a writer (and world champion). So they lied then they said they stop the practice of handing out these advanced info. Even more ridiculous, that they shit on the playerbase with their hate-article in regards to spoilers, but now they shit on the volunteers who keep the game running as well, simply because these fucktards hand out the info to start the shit themselves.

[rufus]

... I also do not check any websites, just check the MTG salvation header where they conveniently have all the spoiled cards. ...

The only real annoyance with that approach is that sometimes cards end up on in a discussion (and without rules text) before they're at the salvation spoiler.

[Tammit67]

Exactly. This is the next coming of the New Phyrexia godbook spoiling except that WotC gave it to judges instead of a writer (and world champion). So they lied then they said they stop the practice of handing out these advanced info. Even more ridiculous, that they shit on the playerbase with their hate-article in regards to spoilers, but now they shit on the volunteers who keep the game running as well, simply because these fucktards hand out the info to start the shit themselves.

No, judges do not get spoilers in advance. This is not a godbook scenerio, this is someone from WotC leaking info.

[Aggro_zombies]

Yeah, I think we've reached the end of productive discussion here.

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