Recent content by Ruiner

The only thing I find inappropriate and offensive is people using playmats in the first place.

I'm not tossing my hat into the overall debate here, but the one thing that I find extremely troubling about this situation is how, assuming this is how it went down ( and PokePop would have likely made another "factual correction" here since Gino did bring this point up ) then it is pretty...

I want to approach this in a slightly different manner than some of the people posting here already have. I am not going to look at this directly as being a case of Mees vs Gino/Jon. I know Mees in passing, have never spoken to Jon, and have always had pleasant personal experiences with Gino...

JohnnyBlaze is right here actually. It all depends on whether Nintendo cares about doing anything with the site. Wizards of the Coast forced a shut down on the program Cockatrice for Magic ( which is essentially the same thing as PlayTCG ). I'll be interested to see if Nintendo decides to crack...

Which is fine if a party were to be offended and report an issue. I'm pretty sure that is how, uh, literally every other online game I've ever played has handled the issue. The fact they are actively reading through casual conversation without prior cause alone is a scary breach of privacy in my...

Well, here is a new one. For those familiar with Pokemon Online, you know about the lovely "non-optional" language filter. I understand the purpose of this. Having played Magic Online, I know how angry and verbally abusive players can become during the course of a game. Pokemon not only has a...

As someone who has played the game through every qualifying structure we have had, and qualified for the first 9 World Championships in a row before retiring from active play this year, let me say that I disagree with you. While I too have stopped playing this game competitively to go play...

I think that, being players, we do overestimate what percentage of the market we make up. I've had this argument used against me countless times when I try to make arguments for why organize play needs better support. Look at it this way, simply. Look at the # of registered POP IDs active in the...

Finch: Rather than flood the market with dirt cheap Yanmegas, you can use a model more similar to what magic does with their reprintings, the From the Vault series. They are a limited print run of valuable cards, some obv more valuable than others, which they retail for roughly 50ish. This gets...

Finch: Markets potentially being unstable does not mean that decisions should be made to ACTIVELY destabilize them. The housing market crashed, but I think everyone would agree that if decisions could have been made to PREVENT this, it would have been for the better. If the housing market...

Adamisclassy: Remind me next time to write incomplete, vague, or otherwise irrelevent posts next time, simply to keep them shorter, opposed to ones including actual valid thought. No problem. Waynegg took a post by someone complaining about their issue with this release, which while coming...

I have mixed feelings as well on this. I'm all about trying to keep cards "affordable", but a 40 dollar price tag ( only higher on site around major tournaments such as Nationals ) is far from taboo, and Pokemon has had those price tags on cards for years ( Blaziken EX in 2004, Mew EX in 2006...

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Exactly what Veg said. Trying to search your deck out is just brutal. I'd rather just see a text box open with the card names to highlight then have the program screw up trying to do the cutesy use of every card's card art flickering by you as you try to "search". Pretty, but...

Well, after finally getting some "games" in today, I was thoroughly depressed that the program is...well, leaving a LOT to be desired. As someone who was very supportive of the concept of a Pokemon Online, I am very disappointed to see that this "program" is the end result. People have been...

I suffered a round 1 loss and all of my opponents did poorly throughout the event so my tie breakers were really bad. Had I won against Ross in r7 I'd have gotten 21st. So I scooped to Ross because he started 4-0 and could make top 16 due to good resistance. Glad he made the most of it! Well...