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6 years ago I got about 70 dollars on my limited pokemon card collection from when I was a kid (like 2000-2001 era) with only a few good ones. I’m pretty damn sure I spent more on the starter box + other packs combined than that lol. On the other hand, I actually used part of that money for a new graphics card, so it was in general a pretty good time.
I know this is The Onion, but I just wanted to share. I can’t imagine anyone making any actual money off these things unless they have been playing speculative investment from card #1 and never bought a pack in their life. Yet people do seem to talk about the card game as if it’s some lucrative thing. 🤷
P.S. as an aside, did anyone else have any difficulty getting the right group of friends who actually cared about playing the cards instead of collecting them? I had maybe one friend who liked playing the card game as it was, but we had to make a special rule about evolutions because we didn’t have enough cards to make it make sense (Something about playing certain energy cards to sacrifice an introduction of a evolution directly, I can’t remember exactly how we did it or if it was any good at all.)
6 years ago I got about 70 dollars on my limited pokemon card collection from when I was a kid (like 2000-2001 era) with only a few good ones. I’m pretty damn sure I spent more on the starter box + other packs combined than that lol. On the other hand, I actually used part of that money for a new graphics card, so it was in general a pretty good time.
I know this is The Onion, but I just wanted to share. I can’t imagine anyone making any actual money off these things unless they have been playing speculative investment from card #1 and never bought a pack in their life. Yet people do seem to talk about the card game as if it’s some lucrative thing. 🤷
P.S. as an aside, did anyone else have any difficulty getting the right group of friends who actually cared about playing the cards instead of collecting them? I had maybe one friend who liked playing the card game as it was, but we had to make a special rule about evolutions because we didn’t have enough cards to make it make sense (Something about playing certain energy cards to sacrifice an introduction of a evolution directly, I can’t remember exactly how we did it or if it was any good at all.)