Comment on Wizards of the Coast denies, then confirms, that Magic: The Gathering promo art features AI elements | When will companies learn?

drdiddlybadger@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That sounds pretty cool too.

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  • thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    MTG cards can already get pretty wild, to the point that some card combinations almost rewrite the rules of the game.

    I hate to think what sort of mad abilities LLM hallucinations would create.

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    • match@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      May I introduce you to Loadingreadyrun’s RoboRosewater Master’s Cube Draft

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    • Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I remember seeing someone making a set a little while ago. As far as balance, you’d probably have to crowdsource it.

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• grahamja@reddthat.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think all of the card games with random pulls are a bit of a ripoff.

  The RPG crowd is the lead in pirating or flat out making their own rules and barely spending money. They just need rules and dice. You need a small group, and there really aren’t tournaments so you can play it however you want.

  Table top war gaming in the middle is being filled with indy 3d printed miniatures and home made rules that can take over local scenes pretty easily. 40k still dominates the space, only because most people act like its the only game (it is by far the most common already) and you can buy the minis from most any hobby store. The tournaments are huge, and sometimes the biggest tournaments even dictate the rules just as much as the game seller and most people want to play “tournament legal” armies only.

  MTG and other card games are the only thing keeping most hobby stores alive and prints money. it is entirely on for whatever reason, people just want to buy another booster. It is as bad as gambling if not worse, you don’t even know what you are buying. It should be even easier to pirate and print your own resources to play card games but somehow it is a huge money maker because as always, people flock to the largest group of gamers in their space.

  Indy RPG and Skirmish tabletop games make boat loads of money for small groups of people and it is easy for them to run circles around larger game manufacturers. Things like 40k and MTG where there is such a huge following of people who might not necessarily care and just want to go to massive tournaments it is much harder to challenge those established followings.

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  • apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is as bad as gambling if not worse, you don’t even know what you are buying.

    To be fair, booster packs are designed primarily to be used to play in limited formats like draft or constructed. People buying boosters to try and pull expensive cards are doing themselves a disservice by not just buying or trading for the singles they want.

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• General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes, it makes to do this on purpose. If they convince their customer base, that handmade is better, they can keep down hobbyists and indie devs. With an image as a “premium brand” one can also charge higher prices, though that may be beside the point in that business.

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  • oconnordaniel@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Right? And it’s so easy to say from the start “Yeah, one of the Artist used some AI on some background items.” And just own up to it. AI is at the level of ‘Everyone is doing it’. All you have to do is make some vague promises of “We’ll try and do better and catching poorly done AI in the future” and everyone would just shrug and nod.

    It’s the unforced error of lying about it that’s the bad part.

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