Comments on: Insider: Toxicity and the Bottom Line https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/12/insider-toxicity-and-the-bottom-line/ Play More, Win More, Pay Less Tue, 18 Jan 2022 01:49:21 +0000 hourly 1 By: Pete Casella https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/12/insider-toxicity-and-the-bottom-line/#comment-1941288 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:39:46 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=84977#comment-1941288 In reply to pi.

This is particularly with competitive scene turnouts, with the number of players attending Grand Prix events and similar competitive tournaments. For specification of total players overall, we were around 6-7 million players from 1999-2008, with Mirrodin block damaging the game and causing many players to quit due to the availability of cards and unruly price spikes.

The numbers from 2008-2012 doubled from 6 million to 12 million players (based on DCI total numbers), and from 2008-2014, the numbers more than tripled from 6 million up to 21 million.

]]> By: Pete Casella https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/12/insider-toxicity-and-the-bottom-line/#comment-1941287 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 20:35:02 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=84977#comment-1941287 In reply to Matthew Whalon.

I’ve been consulting from Chicago, but a lot of what I wrote was based on the real-time experiences of my time in Lakeland. Fortunately, the LGS scene in the area has improved, but directly within Lakeland, there are limited options.

]]> By: pi https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/12/insider-toxicity-and-the-bottom-line/#comment-1937351 Sat, 23 Dec 2017 10:30:56 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=84977#comment-1937351 “The number of active players in the community is estimated to have more than tripled between the release of Zendikar and the release of Return to Ravnica, and to have tripled once more in between the releases of Return to Ravnica and Theros.”

That implies that with the 12 million MaRo recently stated we were at 4 million before RTR and at 1.33 million before ZEN. Do you have a reference for this? This seems very low.

Otherwise a very worthwhile read, thanks.

]]> By: Matthew Whalon https://www.quietspeculation.com/2017/12/insider-toxicity-and-the-bottom-line/#comment-1937319 Sat, 23 Dec 2017 07:11:00 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=84977#comment-1937319 Good article, but I was under the impression you were no longer affiliated with Johnny B’s…? Also, there are at least a half dozen other LGSs within a half hour to 45 minutes proximity of Lakeland, so the LGS scene there is not so dire, thankfully 🙂

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