Veedrock- posted...
benbeverfaqs posted...
Pokmon TCG is gambling. A 4.50 booster pack can contain 1 worth of cards or a 150 card worth the same or more than a whole box of 36 booster packs. Which can be easily sold for money.
Those prices are defined by a secondhand market, not the producing company itself. If the company doesn't assign value to the individual cards, every booster pack is equal.
Same applies to loot boxes.
I wouldn't say it does, actually, because the contents of loot boxes aren't tangible. The only value anything in there has is the value the player assigns to them (or when there's a secondary market, the value assigned by that market, but for simplicity's sake we'll say this is a case where there's no trading). If they player gets something they don't value, then they've gotten no return at all on the box's cost. Cards at least are worth the paper they're printed on, however trivial that may be.
That, and where a secondary market is inevitable for physical goods, those cards will have value regardless of whether or not the company assigns it. With loot boxes, though, unless you can trade the contents, there isn't going to be that secondary market there's therefore no value to the items beyond the player's desire.
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