Quote Originally Posted by davelin View Post
I guess I've gotten you to admit what they are doing is illegal. Or buying from a third-party doesn't make much of a difference. I'll count those as minor wins. I'm not judging you, I'm trying to explain your actions has reprecussions for the rest of us. You say that you don't plan on selling or trading them, but what's the guarantee that is even true or will be true forever? What if someone steals your cards or you decide to sell out?

Let's say that it's true you won't ever release them to the wild but so what? The prescence of these degrades the confidence of these in the open market thus people will only feel comfortable buying these from reputable vendors. Demand goes up, so does price which exacerberates the problem you were hoping to "solve".
You just said this had nothing to do with morality, you said this had to do with me breaking the law. And now you realize I'm not breaking the law, and you are telling me this is about morality. Which one is it?

Your claim that demand will rise because of fakes which exacerbates the problem, but this is totally baseless. You have no tangible evidence that what you are saying is true. Do you understand that? Historically, counterfeiting does not affect true values of products. This is true with Pokemon cards, this is true with Nike Dunks. This is true with Magic the Gathering cards.

Bed Decks Palyer, I'm sure you are a great father, and a hard worker at your job and I really mean that. I'm not a father and I work fewer hours than you, but I don't see why that means when we play MTG you should have an advantage. This just goes back to my gameplay argument. I don't need to waste real money I don't have on cardboard. Passable proxies allow me to do this.

It sounds like you guys just don't want me to have as much fun as you guys did, because "I didn't work as hard" but that's stupid, and working hard outside of gameplay shouldn't be a criteria.