I will not argue that this prize is necessarily a bad one. This may be a huge online championship tournament, but talk about the incentive!Ĭontrary to Magic’s prize pools (online and physical), national tournaments for the Pokémon Trading Game award scholarships to its winners. Check out the kinds of prizes MTGO is offering for the Magic Online Championship: 2011 Magic Online Championshipġst Place – $25,000 USD, one complete digital premium foil set, and one complete digital standard setĢnd Place – $17,000 USD, one complete digital premium foil set, and one complete digital standard setģrd-4th Place – $9,000 and one complete digital standard setĥth-8th Place – $6,000 and one complete digital standard setĩ-12th Place – $4,000 and one complete digital standard set How did they do this you ask? The answer is tournaments! When participating in MTGO tournaments, a meager 2-person tournament victory awarded the victor 2 or 3 booster packs! Increase the tournament size and that number of booster packs increases! It was a challenge that I could not refuse.īut wait, there’s more. MTGO, in my opinion, provided me with the incentive to invest money into a “virtual” product. I want to win, and I want to win prizes if I’m going to spend money. I’m not looking to just have fun (even though fun is an important aspect of any game).
Why pump my precious paychecks into a game, when the return I’m getting is just “having fun”. The “I” word has long been a part of what drives us as human beings, and it directly influences the daily decisions that we make. What MTGO provided was a key element to influence anyone to actively participate in a game: INCENTIVE. That tough decision was made easy after taking a look at the model that Magic Online created. But of course, my Magic crazed brain got the best of me. It’s hard to justify spending money on something that isn’t physically in your hands. It would essentially be a deck of cards that doesn’t even exist. It wasn’t the fact that I was spending money, but that I would be spending it on a virtual product. So, what was stopping me? The answer was a very easy one: Spending money.
Being a longtime Magic The Gathering player, I wondered if it would be worth it to ditch the physical card game and give it a go online. “To play or not to play? That is the question.” – A line I will borrow (and slightly edit) from our good friend William Shakespeare.
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