Why was this so addicting?

Why was this so addicting?

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Booster packs were a fucking scam.

It's literally gambling

I still buy but mostly for the art

Charizard was like the Willy Wonka Golden Ticket back in the day, it was all a kid could want.

I bought some new packs out of nostalgia and got a ton of rare cards, it's just not the same.

Addictive

Same reason this is.
MTG is more fun anyways.

>Had a thick stack of those cards
>Mom sells them for 20€ to a rancid little kid

Im still salty.

Tfw I made a fortune buyimg and selling rares in school. And by fortune I mean enough to buy a new vidya game each week

Addicting isn't a word

Because booster packs is gambling. Even moreso with Magic the Gathering. It's plain and simple: young kiddo walks up and pays $5 for a booster pack and either pulls something of monetary value or not. I'm surprised companies have been allowed to get away with children gambling for years now

Reminder that the base set is getting reprinted in a few months

>addicting
It's addictive, you fucking retard.
Also, it's because the anticipation and the reveal causes psychological stuff. It's the same reason they use cliffhangers in TV shows and you tune in next week.

Game of Thrones was a god at cliffhangers.

>monetary value
What were you a jew kid?
I just wanted cool looking cards

>tfw bought almost a thousand YGO/Pokemon cards
>never played with them
I just liked opening boosters and hoping to get a cool looking card

I made a fortune selling those on ebay back in the day. Damn if I used all those exploits I knew back in the day to their full potential I would be a millionaire now.

The only thing I regret is the price the things will probably be in say 20 years down the line esp if you kept them in good nick

Whether or not you pulled cards for personal or monetary value, these cards do have that kind of value whether you like it or not.

I don't think boxes and booster packs are scams because you have the option to buy cards and skins indivdually without randomness. The random aspect just allows you to get a 300 dollar card for like 5 bucks

Of course but I didnt care about that
Adults gamble for money, I gambled to get nice cards and then trade them with friends

>these cards do have that kind of value
Literally only if it's an incredibly rare one that's viable in the current meta game and even then only as long as it stays in rotation. Afterwards they're all nearly worthless aside from misprints and the like.

there is a bit of cocaine in the packs

Just imagine how horrible it would if they would get damaged or you lost them trough the times because of all kinds of reasons but instead you made a quick buck with them and never wasted another thought on those card.

That's why it's gambling. You pay five bucks and either pull something of huge value or complete shit

>open up a booster pack
>that fresh card smell every time

>mfw

I miss the tcg, I should go back to it sometime

>buy cards for the first time in 20 years
>walking back home I see everyone is playing pokemon go which I have no interest in whatsoever, walking past them with my pokemon cards in hand, feeling detached from everything

Its an abstract kind of feel

>were

>skins
>addicting to buy in any game
LOL, esports faggots

I just quit CS:GO since they fucked up the ranking system. I've been playing Enter the Gungeon almost non-stop ever since.

>tfw own one of these and they're only gonna go up in value

feels good man

PTCGO is surprisingly accessible for a free TCG.

>the smell of the new cards
>the feeling that you might have a super rare in your pack
>you may be the new king of the school playground with your new Salamence Ex card
>kids would sell their mother to have it
>feeling like a drug dealer when you opened your file full of card

Open it, post cards.

I looked it up looks like japan got something but couldnt find anything US wise

>school playground
>Salamence

Is "addicting" an American thing? I've never heard anyone say it in real life but on the internet I see retards typing it all the time.

Listen up kid back in my day we had charizard and mewtwo and we were damm happy with what we had?

Things are addictive, and you can thank our public school system and common core for teaching kids shit grammar.

grammarist.com/usage/addicting-addictive/

>The use of addicting in place of addictive is a common peeve among people who care about these things, but it isn’t an error, and no doubt there are many readers who have no problem with it.

Oh look you are all grammar nazi faggots

Streaming some yugioh season 1 right now.

Weebcrew.moe

What the heck is common core, i have been reading this a lot recently. Im not American BTW.

tfw scammed a kid out of a mewtwo movie edition card

anyone know how rare those things are?

also to be fair he was trying to scam me first

>Salamance EX

It's made to be so.

No, I think he meant literally addicting.

Isn't common core incorrect? How are there two sides to a math problem?

>was

So it's a completely redundant word that only rose to prominence because of poor American education?

>Grammar Nazi
I bet you use "I could care less" too, faggot.

>Hurr I only know gen I do I fit in ???
It's just that this one was one of my favorite you dumbfucks.
Of course I have gen I and 1st editions cards.
Everyone and their mother have gen I cards.

>I dont know shit about how languages work

Go fuck yourself smartass

Common core is the government deciding what and how our kids need to be taught.

>school playground
>Salamence

>Gen 3 : March 19, 2003
I was 9 and I collect pokemon cards since I'm 5.

Not true I also know gen 2 but after that I lost interest kid

I have a shit ton of gen 1 cards somehow and I didn't even start playing pokemon until last year.

>Started collecting when Gen 2 was released
LOL

This is a 25+ board get out

>kid
Eh I forgot that Sup Forums was full of 36 yo manchildren who now hate pokemon because of Go.

>born in 1994

Are you aware that the majority of this board is less than 20 ?

Yes kid

>30 something
>still shitposting on 4kek
I don't know if it's a good thing or not.

Are you aware that it is the opposite?

Prove it

>Missed the peak of Pokemon's popularity in the late 90s
I genuinely feel sorry for you.

There was a strawpoll a few month ago, and the vast majority was between 18 and 20.
Maybe, but I still enjoyed it.

sub or dub?

>Buying booster packs
When I was in elementary school and Pokemon cards were first released my mum bought me 1 pack.
Everyone at school had Pokemon cards which everyone would trade and play against each other. We made these stupid bets where we'd each throw our card at a wall and the person's card closest to the wall would win the opponent's card. I got really good at this shit and ended up winning half the cards in the schoolyard.

I never paid a dime for these packs.

>Common core is the government deciding what and how our kids need to be taught.

It must have existed for decades, then.