Subject: Thoughts from a concerned player
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:28:15 -0500 (EST)
From: rich_smith@webtv.net (Richard Smith)
To: custserv@wizards.com
CC: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com

To All--

Are all the rumors true??--no interrupts, mana pool, etc. in 6E??  As a
Type 1 player, I've seen the game go thru a lot of changes.  If even one
of the rumors are true, there will be drastic changes in the game as I
have come to know it.  The stability of Magic is hard pressed with the
celerity of the expansions you have been releasing--I actually do not
play T2 because I do not have the time to devote to all the playtesting.
I do, however, still buy boosters and singles of newer sets as they come
out and do keep abreast of the latest M:TG news.  I have even gone so
far as to continue playing after all of my friends have quit altogether
and moved on to bigger and better things.

I am concerned that the game I have come to enjoy and put a lot of time,
money, and effort into for many years has become a mere shadow of what
it once was.  The asshole players you hear about on the Dojo are a real
problem as well--I believe that WOTC has the control to do something
about this.  If a person, even a PT player, has been seen and proven to
be ruining the game environment, TAKE AWAY HIS DCI PRIVILEDGES.  Maybe
if a PT loses the access to the prize money for a couple of months they
would shape up.  If it drives these people away, so be it.  They are not
good for the game anyway.  Hell, they did it to Mike Tyson.

Now to the subject I had intended to talk about.  I do not play in many
big tourneys--just the small T1 tourneys I can still find these
days--but I am going to have to "hang up" the deck if the game continues
on its current pace.  It would be such a shame to see a great idea from
a very intelligent man go to waste as so many have in this corporate-run
decade.  Greed is the first step towards failure, Wizards of the Coast.
Do not let it get the best of you.

--Rich Smith
rich_smith@webtv.net