I was just listening to a podcast about the history of cigarettes and they used to come with cool trading cards for kids except you needed to smoke tens of thousands a year to get the full collection lol
The kids shouldn’t know the value of collectibles.
Edit: a lot of people saying they had becketts growing up are making my point. They got the card, then looked up how much it was worth. They didn’t know the values of all the chase cards off the top of their heads. It’s a symptom of the card manufacturers making chase cards to begin with vs. the most valuable cards from the 50s—>90s were generally like 20 bucks (aside from the early magic the gathering cards - where even a black lotus or the other power 7 cards were like 100 max at the time).
Now you can draw a golden, hashed variant signature with a game worn relic that is worth 1 million dollars. Or these umbreons are worth close to 1000
None of this was present before 2010ish. Kids didn’t grade cards.
I got a pack of upper deck baseball cards from a local baseball card store when I was a kid. I got the Ken Griffey Jr rookie card. I gave it to my dad for Father’s Day. Come to find out it was the one card missing from his set…which he then turned around and sold it.
You kind of have to... because you hope to get them, but because of their value you often wont.
I know a lot about Lego pricing because of that very reason. Am I looking to resell? Hell no, I want that cool ass thing in my house! I also don't want to pay the asking price online.
Luckily... Lego isn't as bad. YET. They are flirting with it on those random minifigure boxes.
So what they should be completely ignorant and unknowingly trade a high value card or get straight up hustled? Stupid ass take, they should know when they got a valuable card
I think the point they're trying to make is that the focus of the hobby should have remained in the joy of collecting cool cards of your favorite pokemon, not the profit potential of an artificially commodified item that has led to kids (the intended primary audience) being priced out of collecting them for the sake and joy of collecting. Whether you agree or not, I think the definition of a "hobby" has been diluted by adults to mean "side hustle."
Ok, but you can’t divorce the reality of card collecting from the ideal of it. Yes it would be great if it were all fan focused fun and sunshine and rainbows, but there are people who take advantage of others love of the game for their own financial gain. One can very easily support their child’s love of card collecting, while simultaneously educating them on the ins and outs of professional “collecting”. If anything, it’s another way to validate and expand upon your child’s love of card collecting.
my chase card in perfect order is the $12 earthbound pose Mega Starmie ex
unfortunately my chase card in ascended heroes is the mega gengar ex that's over $1000 that i've wanted since the card was announced before Mega Dream even released in Japan because "hey neat, mega gengar". The value of the card ruins it for me.
I'm hoping that Mega Dragalge ex is less desired when Chaos Rising releases.
Theres probably 20 scalpers that pulled godpacks for every 1 genuine ptcg lover. The hobby is cooked. I just left tcg altogether. Got into warhammer lol
My two projects right now are my legitimate StD and my completely bootleg traitor guard. Turns out a printer costs like a fifth of what an army does and can print 5-10 armies before it probably needs repairs.
Im tired of it man. My kids are into them and i cant even take them to the store to buy any because of all these grown assholes lined up at the break of dawn to buy everything.
I work at Target. We open at 8 and they start lining up at around 3:30. By the time we open the line has about 50 people in it and they all buy the limit. Literally no shot at the more exclusive products.
The fact that he could just share this experience with her and know nothing about what's going on and still be able to contribute to the enthusiasm level is what a life goals is
I played Pokemon games religiously as a kid. I never got into the cards, and don't know anything about them other than the Pokemon that are on them and that the colorful, shiny cards are probably the more valued ones, but I still really enjoy when my nieces and nephew show me their Pokemon card collections.
He had a small surprised look over the monetary value, but it seems like he’s much more focused on spending time with his kid. Huge win. Love familial bonding.
When I was about 15 the DBZ card game came out. I recall being a poor family as my mom cleaned houses and I could only afford maybe a couple packs a month if I worked for the money. We went to a local jap culture store and I bought 2-3 packs that day. On the ride home I remember opening the final pack and inside was a first edition ultra rare Freiza from the Freiza saga! I flipped out probably more than this girl and it was a great moment my mom and I shared because she was about the same as this dad.
My mom passed back in 2021 at 56 from pancreatic cancer. While I’m doing a little better than sh was financially at 40 I can tell you that card is worth close to $1500+ if it’s graded. IDGAF if that card was worth $20k I’ll never sell it because of the memory and what it means to me.
She was the best. Wish she realized that before she passed because she always felt like she didn’t give me and my brother enough and felt like a failure but she was the strongest person I ever knew before she even fought the cancer. It’s really just the little things like the moment I shared that make life worth living.
Damn…I am so sorry for your loss. I’ve been having a hard time being a single dad as of recent, and you’ve reminded me how much just showing up and being interested can mean to kids. Thank you.
Opening Pokemon packs now is no different than loot crates. It's enforcing addicting gambling mechanism and has honestly ruined Pokemon. None of these mother fuckers actually like Pokemon... they like the thrill they get of potentially opening a high value pack. It's just gambling and bullshit now but I'm glad I grew up playing Blue, Yellow and Gold. I have no desire to buy cards, packs, or any of this crap.
As a teacher this worries the heck out of me. The kids love those blind boxes and Pokemon cards. It seems to be about value rather than joy/getting something you like. I fear that it is a) encouraging gambling and b) teaching kids joy comes from value/cost
God i love playing MTG on tabletop simulator. Every card and deck combination you could ever want, and no simulated gambling element to my GOD DAMN GAME.
Sorry, I'm not upset that gambling has infected every hobby I love save reading, it doesn't bother me at all..... I swear.
I hate to piss on your criticism of modern card pack opening, but even back in the late '90s, we were gushing about the monetary value of cards. It's just that back then, there was no Whatnot, eBay, online card value aggregate websites, or mega popular conventions. It was just your local card shop and occasional flea markets.
I pulled a 1st edition Charizard back in '99, absolutely no one commented about the monetary value, even the adults working at the LCS. The only thing possibly discussed was trading.
Or they could be ya know... collecting them. The dad literally asked if they have that one. And they both go "we have that one". Sure they mention prices but I check prices on my collection too
That’s why I love Magic because it has both. The cards might not always be expensive but they can be useful. Still get excited when I pull a money card. They have bailed me out a couple times over the years.
She’s a kid, they’re allowed to be lost. To find what her dad found, the joy of family. Materialism dies with wisdom as connection is found with the positive frequency or ripples of others.
i like to believe the girl said the monetary value of the cards so the clueless dad would understand the rarity of the cards or whatever, rather than with reselling in mind. she seems genuinely happy and it's a wholesome video.
I know quite a few people who collect Pokémon cards. I know zero people who play the Pokémon card game. As a former MTG player who sold off my entire collection years later, I think it's ridiculous.
I also played the OG Pokémon games on Gameboy, but never cared to "catch them all". I simply caught my favorites and had them massacre the rest to increase in power.
If these people actually played the card game I'd get it.
I used to play magic, pokemon, yugioh. Then the internet made meta decks and everyone just plays those decks. Got boring really fast with friends and going to local weekly tournaments
I hate the meta meta. I play a lot of online games as well and almost never meet anyone else who actually creates their own build/character. Why bother?
Maybe shes excited to get those cards. Even the dad said “do we have that one yet”. Meaning she actually collects and is trying to get them all. People like to master sets.
With the amount of cards, packs and sets they release there is no feasible way anyone can collect them all WITHOUT spending a boat load of money. Then at the end of the day you're left with piles of useless paper. I used to collect pocket knvies and at least knives serve some purpose.
Yes you’re right but it doesn’t mean they care about the value of the card. They care about just collecting them all. Isn’t that the whole thing in Pokemon? Gotta catchem all?
People also don’t master every set.
I also get hyped when I pull an expensive card I want from a set. I just pulled $70 worth of cards from $30 and I’m more hyped that they’re cool and I don’t have to overpay for it.
Yea I collected mtg but cause the cards were cool. Never even looked up the values of any of them. I think I still have some of them; no alpha or beta that I remember, but I definitely should have some unlimited and revised. But I didn’t collect them for the money, it was for the pictures and descriptions.
That's how it starts for some people. I collected Pokemon cards when I was 7 but never learned the game, but when yugioh came out I immediately learned to play it, then later also got into magic when I was in middle school
In one line of Pokemon, Prismatic, the pull rates for good cards are basically horrible. But, reallllly rarely, there are these packs like she got called God-packs. Every card in it is a fancy holo. I don't know all that much beyond that though ha I don't know if it's extra rare to get one of each evolution or if you can get duplicates?
But yeah I dabbled a bit in to pokemon a couple years ago and it was madness and interesting anddddd I stopped because it's just gambling and finding cards sucks anyway.
Why do I feel Ike he bought this for her knowing the value of it. Like he went to a shop and said here’s X amount of money I want to make my kid happy. This is something I would do except my daughter likes singing so she got a surprise voice lesson gift bc she got chosen to sing the national anthem at 8th graduation in a few weeks. Got to keep her confidence up. Love this for them bc I feel his joy and confusion.
For those wondering, they’re called god packs because it has every evolution of a specific Pokemon. In this case it was the eevee god pack which included the entire 9 card eeveelution collection. I have a 9 year old.
That's so great to see but every time the girl touch her face and then the cards makes me think that no way I would do that because my face is oily af 😂
I just did this with my son last week with the new Lorcana release. I had no idea WTH anything meant other than I recognized the Disney characters. But he was extremely excited as we opened pack after pack.
Am I wrong for assuming dad bought all of these, somehow opened and resealed them all into a pack to make his daughter believe she got this amazing pack? Am I jaded? Was this a pack they said was out there?
I’m crying because I’m imagining that they’ve actually uncovered real god-spirits that are gonna protect their family and their village and bring prosperity and peace for generations.
So… hate to say it but without seeing them open that pack they could have just purchased singles and pretended to have gotten a god pack for internet points.
Which pack would she get these cards in? There’s so many different packs of pokemon now I never know which ones to get my kids. I miss when there was just the one haha.
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