CGB: "I'm retiring" -- CovertGoBlue talks about his (future) retirement, frustrations with Standard and 3-year rotation, and content creation plans
CGB: "I'm retiring" -- CovertGoBlue talks about his (future) retirement, frustrations with Standard and 3-year rotation, and content creation plans
CovertGoBlue talks about his frustrations with the 3-year Standard rotation, and how difficult it has been lately to create Standard content.
Talks about his decaying Twitch audience and plans to move more content in YouTube. He mentions his distress in playing Arena in general, and how he doesn't necessarily want to play a different game mode in Arena.
He's will place more emphasis on Commander content. Optionally will make content elsewhere, something different or new that he is more interested in.
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I’ll admit to being a part of the problem, back when I seriously played for the first time I was big mad about the “short” rotations. Leaving for a bit and seeing what a long rotation actually does has completely changed my perspective. I don’t blame the guy, the proof is in the lack of viewers if nothing else.
Thoughts on content creators growing increasingly discontent or does his clout allow him to do this? Would a Tarkov “the video” effect happen or is Hasbro just so corporate and tone-deaf nothing can make them listen?
At this point I think it would be worse as far as consumer confidence goes if they reverse and shorten standard again. But at the same time, I honestly think they need to if they want to keep it fun, at least on Arena. Arena is just fundamentally not the same as paper games, the fact that you can play so many games on Arena affects things like a meta feeling stale much quicker.
I honestly don't really know what they can do -- they need to keep printing chase mythics to sell packs, but the shorter rotation meant that fewer people wanted to invest in standard paper cards so they lengthen standard, but a longer standard makes Arena too stale and too frustrating to play. It's arguable if any of this will have the stated effect of increasing paper standard play.
I think the real solution here is to stop printing insane chase mythics in every set, but they can no longer do that even because they increased the cost of booster boxes so much, there needs to be a compelling reason to buy them at MSRP. If consumers stop buying them at MSRP and WoTC is forced to lower the play booster box price, then I think consumers ultimately win but it will come at some unknown price, either to the teams building the game or the game itself.
@mike @GinAndJuche I think the problem is more from the demand side: there aren't enough reasons for players to care about Standard.
Yea I think you're right. Honestly the last time I was interested in Standard was when Theros Beyond Death came out. I bought into Selesnya Enchantments right before Covid. Since then, regardless of Covid, I have not felt any desire to get into Standard at any point. In fact it pains me to see cards like Sheoldred still around and having to still deal with those.
@mike It's no big events that people attend, but many more pay attention to. It's no local events that you regularly need to play standard to care about it.
When tournament magic isn't driving a decent % of player attention, and Commander replaces that, people wont care about standard.
Couple that with IRL drafts being such a bad option compared to Arena drafts and it's hard to get IRL drafts to fire.
This is very unhealthy for stores, and it affects card availability.