I am really starting to enjoy this topic, there are just a few questions I have to those who disagree with everything the Bucks did with this deck release.
1. There is no point in saying they should change their business model, without offering up alternatives and what would be better in your opinion. There are plenty of things wrong in todays world, but when people criticize without some sort of constructive opinion, nothing really is accomplished except making one of the parties feel better because they got to express their emotions.
2. In my opinion, this deck release is very different than other releases, for the simple reason that the main reason for producing this deck is for the Magi-Con convention. USPC has a limited run correct? So what are the Bucks going to do with the extra decks that are not given out at the convention? Keep them and take an economic loss? or release a very limited amount so some of their fans can get them. If it was up to my, I cannot say that I would have chosen to keep an extra thousand or two decks laying around and forgo the profits from selling them.
3. Yes, I can sympathize with how annoying it is to have items in your online cart and it being sold out by the time your are ready to purchase, it sucks, but shit happens. Everyone is pointing out the fact that they had them in their cart and were still not able to buy them, to me there is no difference between that and if they had a system that would allow items in your cart to be on hold.... because, most likely, the same people who could not complete their purchase would not have been able to add the decks to their carts in the first place with the new system.
4. I think it's a bit silly to equate an online shopping cart with playing cards to food in the supermarket. I mean, these are two totally separate items, one is ~56 pieces of paper with ink, the other is a necessity to live, If someone stole a deck of cards out of my shopping cart if they were for sale at the supermarket, I would be mature enough to really not give a shit because I know there are more important things in life.
In short, IMO, the decks were printed for a convention, the bucks knew they would have a small batch extra, sold what they thought would be the extra amount, after the convention attendees received their decks, found out they had about ~500 left, sold those to their fans online as well.
From my view, D&D is not intentionally out there to piss people off, what they did with the sale of the Magi-Con v2's makes sense if you don't jump to conclusions about how they are out there to screw their fans and build a, quite honestly, dumb reputation of being the quickest sell out of decks. As I stated before, I am willing to bet the the first 500 or so decks from most high profile releases sell very quick as well and is just not noticed since there are more being sold. Go ahead and try to boycott their products, but from what it looks like to me, even if 50 people say they will never buy D&D products again ( which some of them would because boycotts never work properly ) I doubt that would make much of an impact in their bottom line, if any.
