again, as I've said in my previously, I think that we should avoid assuming the death of paper magic until everything is overrobertleva wrote: ↑3 years agoI think a lot of people are HOPING this is true, but I just dont see it lasting. Consider the following 2 points:motleyslayer wrote: ↑3 years agoLarger events might not happen until probably next year at the earliest, but they're not going to be dead. They are probably still an important part of the game
FNM and casual paper Magic certainly aren't dead. There is still a non zero amount of people that prefer to play in paper rather than play online. This could be either they do not want/are not able to invest in an online collection or they prefer the social interaction of playing in paper. So paper Magic will allow people like that to fulfill those needs.
1) Large tourneys: Even if covid disappeared completely tomorrow CFB is gone and it will take a long time for someone to fill this role, we are talking years not months. And that cant even begin until post covid whatever that means.
2) Small FNM events: Prior to covid these places were struggling. Can you realistically see these (or any other edge case small business) coming back with covid 2 on the horizon?
(1)While it may take time for someone to takeover Magic Fests where CFB Events left the void, there are other large event series out there, I.E the SCG tour, the F2F Open Series. I don't know if they'll contract Magic Fests out to one specific store in the future as this happened but I can see them returning to the old model where there would be multiple stores that would run GPs, depending on location
(2) While there will be some people who may not attend FNM due to fears of the "second wave of Covid", which I assure is a reasonable fear and probably could happen. However, I don't think it will keep events from firing even in smaller markets. There will be people who will not to see their stores struggle and have been waiting to get out of isolation so they can play with their friends. I'd imagine some stores may provide incentives to play at their store again as well, since this is their income that could be affected by loss of numbers
Again, let's try and avoid discussion on this as the "death of paper Magic"