They have massively underprinted the last Eevee-related set as well. They know what they're printing and they're not clueless. They're not worried about underprinting Shrouded Fable, because there's like 5 people who care about the DLC legends. This is not a "conspiracy", this is basics of how collectibles operate. A lot of other TCGs, including Magic, Lorcana, Sorcery, are doing the same thing. The only difference is that Pokemon now owns a printing facility, so they really have no excuse.
Product selling out = Intentionally understocked is the most hilariously poor understanding of basic economics. Do you understand what a "supply" and a "demand" is?
it’s actually not due to the lack of printed products but the about doubling of demand and people who are now entering business with distribution who never had any part of it. Also if you haven’t been told enough itll take 6 more months for these prints to even be seen so it obviously will get worse with destined rivals before it gets better
Saying "there not clueless" doesn't prove your point. I understand being upset but your not giving any actual evidence they purposely under printed it and I have a feeling you don't have experience in the logistics of a multi million or billion card production company. Saying you know how "collectibles operate" isn't proof either, the biggest example I can think of that had people pushing this conspiracy theory that they throttled manufacturing is amiibo, which later had them produce so many later on they ended up in bargain bins and nobody cared... and nobody said they did that purposely to push the aftermarket down or some other nonsense
Yea if we look at past experience it took about 9 months at least before major restocks happened from what I would consider the closest in size being the covid boom. Thinking they can react within a month just because they own a printing plant now is insane. If nothing changes in a few years then I'll concede but I highly doubt that'll happen.
Good thing you're having fun when reading things that nobody wrote. But do try to figure out who has absolute control over how many cards get printed, including the actual facility when that printing happens. I'll wait.
I'm not upset at all, because I'm not planning to buy any of it.
Appreciate the patience but there's no need to wait boss - I'm here to explain it for you.
Actually, Pokemon cards in North America are printed by Millennium Print Group, which TPCi owns. In Europe, they're still printed by Carta Mundi, which is shared with a lot of other TCGs. So yes, in Europe, they could have issues with supply, as companies have to book sets at least 6 months in advance, and the plant is working on multiple games at once. Regardless, both Magic and Pokemon would be considered their top clients.
This, coming from you of all people, is my new favourite thing on this website. You just needed me to explain basic economics to you. Thank you for never failing to make me laugh with your complete lack of self-awareness buddy
I did, you could easily find it with the search feature that the Inspect Element should have.
The only way I could see that happening is if short-term investors managed to learn how to manipulate the prices of base-rarity exs and similar Ultra-Rare cards, the only thing that works against it is the sheer number of base-rarity exs that are pulled at any given time.
Some people are destroying cards, others are buying sealed product and never opening it. Competitively, people will be living off of premade deck products only. You need people to open product and market singles to have access to them, which is becoming harder to do.
I can confirm that there is a stored position value in the Pokemon Center queue. To find it, you have to first Inspect, then click the Network tab. You should see some incoming packets. The easiest way to check position is to simply click the magnifying glass and type “pos” in the search bar. The results of the search will show the pos of each packet. Alternatively, you can look at the data of each packet individually by clicking on them. It isn’t hearsay, this is real. The largest number I saw when queueing is 1.7 million, but I dipped after securing an ETB so I’m not surprised it would get up to 2 mil. It was probably 75% bots but 500,000 is still a crazy amount of real people.
PREACH. Why the hell was Destined Rivals dropped on their site Monday, of all days?? I was at work damnit, and there is zero precedent so the actual fans were caught with their pants down
i was asleep when it dropped, i didnt get the discord notification cause its broken but i woke up to the email, thankfully i was able to get one but still if i didnt hop on immediately as soon as i got some random email at 8:15 am on a monday i wouldnt have gotten it.
This is a perfect example of someone passionately talking out of their rear.
Yes, TPC shares some data about how many cards they print. For the entire year, from all the sets in that year. You're thinking they're printing every set equally?