Forum - View topicINTEREST: McDonald's Japan Apologizes After Pokémon Card Offer Runs Into Trouble
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Sakagami Tomoyo
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Dunno what they were expecting to happen...
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mrsatan
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This is why we can't have nice things. I detest scalpers.
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Flared
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What did they think was going to happen...
So glad I got out of collecting TCG around 20 years ago, as these days it just feels like a nightmare. |
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Sinxi and heylog
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I do wonder if its more of "your grown up and social media being a thing" plays into it, I won't doubt these things existed 20 yrs ago |
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Flared
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But also, how are kids (the primary target audience for Pokémon TCG at least) meant to get into the hobby when adult scalpers are buying up everything before they can get their hands on them? It will just dissuade kids from buying them, and possibly in the future only adults will be buying them. Back when I was a kid in the late 90s/early 2000s, Pokémon TCG was of course really popular but you could always find the cards if you looked around enough. Nowadays they are all bought by scalpers the second the store opens. |
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TokimekiCrisis
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Given how scalpers tend to operate (throwing air tag GPS trackers on the trucks and cars shipping the product so they can folllow them and know when they get to a store to restock, Discord servers they pay to join and get pinged when restocks happen by other scalpers/insiders, bots to mass order from websites , etc) technology certainly has helped people do it more effectually than what was available 20 years ago. Especially the trend of scalpers using sites like YouTube or Tiktok to sell their packs to viewers and opening them on stream for content. Back then most scalping was your local card shop seeing YGO or Pokemon were selling well so they upped the price because what alternative was there? You'd pay 5 bucks for a pack instead of 3 because they were the only store around. TCG companies are not blameless though. They've leaned in on doing timed or limited releases and sets a lot more than what was going on 20+ years ago. ETBs were not a thing until 2013. Pokémon Center stamped promos weren't a thing until a few years ago. Pokemon themselves absolutely encourage this kind of behavior a lot more than they ever did back in the 90s and 2000s by doing tons of timed, limited edition, exclusive blink-and-you'll-miss-it card releases |
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Aura Ichadora
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It makes me wonder, given how terrible this went in Japan, if TPCI and McDonald's is going to bother bringing this promo to the US. Although I'm sure they're still going to. They didn't really do or say much when the 25th anniversary promos ran and we saw the exact same thing happening (lines, wasted food, fighting, etc), and given the current bubble and knowing how limited these were in Japan, I can imagine the same thing will happen here but possibly worse.
It's a real shame. I love the Pokemon TCG, so much so that I became a Pokemon Professor this year, and I love collecting the cards as well as playing the game myself and helping out kids with their collections and decks, but the current landscape makes things just so hard. I really hope this bubble pops soon so maybe it'll actually be easier for fans to get cards without paying scalper prices. But with the 30th anniversary coming around the corner... I can't imagine it will anytime soon, and again, it's a shame. |
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Exodus007
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I'd make it a requirement to eat the damn burger before allowing any cards to be given.
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