Fallout amusement.
Well, we're 5 days into the announcement of DDM being scrapped and overhauled and it's interesting to see the results:
Everyone likes the PC packs idea.
A lot of people have changed their tune in regards to less random monsters and are now calling out for more randomness for lower pricing. LOL! FOOLS! Only now do you realize the folly of your lack of economic sensibilities. Randomness kept the quantity high and the prices low. Now we have a lower quantity at a higher price and for what? One visible mini. Oh well...I'm well past the point where I need armies so this is better for me per se.
The store owners are reasonably worried about the visible mini screwing up the randomness and disrupting sales. Fears of cherry-picking are pretty common across the board for that matter.
The singles sellers on the internet have responded by starting to jack up their prices on formerly cheap commons in response to the decreased supply anticipated in the future. I've seen commons go from $1.00 to $8.00 in price in the past few days of site scouring. I still expect they'll settle to an average of $3.00 eventually.
There is no exodus happening. Having checked ebay, no one is panicking and selling off their collection out of bitterness. The doomsayers who predicted that it would end like Mageknight failed to understand that unlike Mageknight, DDM's prices were fueled by the RPG market demands first. Pretty much everyone who collected them did so with the intention of using them for the RPG first or anyways so there's no need to sell them off. They are still just as valuable to us.
Me, I'm looking forward with curiousity to how this will turn out. The upside is that the value of my spares collection is starting to climb so that's a good thing in my books.
Everyone likes the PC packs idea.
A lot of people have changed their tune in regards to less random monsters and are now calling out for more randomness for lower pricing. LOL! FOOLS! Only now do you realize the folly of your lack of economic sensibilities. Randomness kept the quantity high and the prices low. Now we have a lower quantity at a higher price and for what? One visible mini. Oh well...I'm well past the point where I need armies so this is better for me per se.
The store owners are reasonably worried about the visible mini screwing up the randomness and disrupting sales. Fears of cherry-picking are pretty common across the board for that matter.
The singles sellers on the internet have responded by starting to jack up their prices on formerly cheap commons in response to the decreased supply anticipated in the future. I've seen commons go from $1.00 to $8.00 in price in the past few days of site scouring. I still expect they'll settle to an average of $3.00 eventually.
There is no exodus happening. Having checked ebay, no one is panicking and selling off their collection out of bitterness. The doomsayers who predicted that it would end like Mageknight failed to understand that unlike Mageknight, DDM's prices were fueled by the RPG market demands first. Pretty much everyone who collected them did so with the intention of using them for the RPG first or anyways so there's no need to sell them off. They are still just as valuable to us.
Me, I'm looking forward with curiousity to how this will turn out. The upside is that the value of my spares collection is starting to climb so that's a good thing in my books.