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Re:How Idle Heroes Made $100M in a Year by the_af on Monday May 06, 2019 @06:45PM (#19844705)
I don't know. Magic the Gathering, while flawed, is a real game that can be played with skill. These online "games" have barely any game in them at all; it's very telling that in many of them you essentially spend money to bypass the tedious parts, which is actually all there is (as well as buying trinkets, skins, etc).

If there's anything to compare these kind of "games" with, maybe it's precisely with online gambling. They are thinly disguised online gambling, which makes them worse in my book.

Re:How Idle Heroes Made $100M in a Year by esyir on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @03:27AM (#19847292)
Speaking an ex- and now current MTG player, it most definitely has a strong gambling aspect to it. If you've hung around box openings and such, you'll see the same highs and lows, especially right now when an IN PRINT card can and will retail for > 1000 USD.