(Sep. 29, 2020 4:36 AM)DinoBurst Wrote: I absolutely hate random booster. I know this is practiced in many games especially trading cards. But the idea of having to pay for parts that you don't want, in order to get the parts that you want, it really sucks. It is an unscrupulous way of making more money by toymakers. Besides, it also teaches kids gambling at very young age.
If I am the head of any Consumer Rights Association, I will push to ban this unfair trade practice.
Random Boosters are more like blind bag toys. You know you will get one of the pictured options, nothing else. Though there's one or two things they're pushing, most other options are roughly worth the same amount and guaranteed picks can be sold for more than market price for the booster. Uncertainty and variance is
far lower, and usually each bey has at least one good part somewhere.
Trading card games are a different matter altogether, as the value of each pack is very highly variable especially once you include super rare cards/foils/hidden cards into the packs. The amount of variance there is absolutely insane, with the vast majority of packs worth a net loss if you resold their individual cards and a few that are worth the whole crate of card packs by themselves. This is usually not worth doing unless you really know how to flip cards well as you can wind up getting absolutely nothing of value from them, and that's also a big reason why they can be a gambler's trap.
If they made random booster beys include only the best parts, then why ever bother buying anything else? They have to include parts that people aren't so interested in or else they drain potential from other releases, or make some options far too valuable compared to others and increase variance too much. Most random booster beys are roughly equal to one another in value, so there's no real failing point where the customer loses much from their purchase for a "bad pull". If there's no true loss, then is it unfair? I'd say no, it's not. You got into that with full knowledge and a small variety, not a very limited selection from over a hundred or so options like trading cards.
If all you care about is competing just stay clear of random boosters and let everyone else enjoy the fun. It doesn't have to be meta to be fun after all, and Random Boosters are all about that. Heck, I said it with the last random booster too. Getting kinda tired of repeating that even.
Cincinnati-based Organizer, and owner of every single currently released TT Burst bey part in at least one color. Hard to think of anything I don't have from MFB either...