Didn't realize the point of Player Rewards was to get players into the game. Oh wait, it's to reward the people who play the game.
Agreed
Top Cut at BR has nothing to do with this—And what makes you say they won't reprint it elsewhere? All they did was add 600 copies to the circulation. This CANNOT be a negative thing. Nowhere did they say they will not be reprinting it elsewhere.
Reprinting them as league promos is not a negative thing either. It makes them easier to get for everyone else and helps get new player into the game or those who cant afford to drop a large amount of money on the game but still want to support it.
Explain to me how releasing 600 more copies of the card makes it harder to acquire?
The umcommon print of Pokemon Catcher is out of print. The set is not being printed anymore. That makes it hard to get. You can still find Dark Explorers packs if you look hard enough for them but the catcher is that set is harder to get then the uncommon catcher because it in every other third box. This catcher, while its adds 600 to the current catcher are harder to get then the gold catcher because the top 100 in each age group with the most PP will own them, two per player. Those players wont trade those cards. Those catchers are further out of reach to us players then the gold ones. All versions of catcher are hard to get, explain to me how they aren't.
Ways TPCI has made this game cheaper to play:
-Mewtwo/Darkrai/Rayquaza Tins.
-Upcoming Plasma Tins.
-Juniper, Cheren, and N are all available in multiple sets.
etc.
I'd say that's quite the generalization you've chosen to make. There's been bad decisions, but you absolutely cannot say they haven't been accompanied by good changes.
The tin promos are easy to get. Catcher is not. If catcher were a tin promo then it would be easy to get. Most EX cards are more common then Pokemon catcher. In the case of Juniper, cheren, etc. This is like comparing apples to oranges. If Juniper and co were printed in one set, that is no longer in print then a gold SR version was printed of them which is harder to get then the uncommon prints and then the player rewards version of them were given to 100 players in each age group, then you would have a argument because they would be as hard to get as catcher.
The big difference is those cards have many different reprints that are easy to get. You dont have to play with full art supporters to be competitive. You dont have to play with reverse foil cards to be competitive. You can pay 50 cents to 1 dollar and buy junipers you need for your deck. However, to be competitive, you need catchers (subjective), but the lowest print of the card is hard to get.
TPCi has made a
few good choices. Releasing Mewtwo EX and other meta EX cards were by far the best move they made. If they are willing to ruin resale values of their own sets to make cards easier to get, then why not reprint catcher, the one card to really impact the format.
Anyway, these are Player Rewards. The goal is to reward Players for playing the game. I don't necessarily agree with the Top 100, but it isn't the end of the world. Is it too much to ask for people to accept that they didn't earn them and just get on with their lives?
I agree with this but is is too much to ask people to just look outside their own situations for once. Again congrats to those who earned them. Perhaps they could have stamped those cards as "top 100 Play Points" and give league leaders the normal league promo catchers just for playing. Everyone win.
