u/anaveragebest

I’m not saying don’t use AI to build, create, explore ideas. I think it’s used pretty widely right now across the industry and you should be using it too.

BUT: Stop RELEASING (on steam or wherever) or self promoting your terrible clone, using bad pixel art, where everything looks AI. Seriously, it’s not going to be a success, nobody is going to play it, you’re kidding yourself if making a copy of another game using a clearly detectable AI image generation scheme is going to do anything other than hurt you, and saturate the market further.

Put some effort in, or just walk away. Building a good game is never going to be easy, or we would have people making a hit game constantly.

I've been trying to find packs to buy for my son who's 7 years old now. I used to take him out to buy a pack whenever daddy (me) was going to buy magic cards, and if he had done really well that week in school. I've gone to several shops and stores, and it's always been sold out for months now. I'm not really sure what to do other than buy singles. Can anyone tell me why it's so bad?

For reference I did try to spend some time researching it, but it sounded like "artificial scarcity", or something to do with the profitability of new packs? This doesn't happen with magic so I'm not really sure I understand the issue, could someone fill me in on why, and more importantly how I can go about getting a conceivable newer pack for my kid?

This isn't for pity or empathy but my son is autistic, and I've lately just been going on my own to try and find packs at the store because of the massive disappointment he has if we go together to pick one out and it's completely empty. So if there's some alternatives that would work that I could resume going together with my boy, that would be ideal.