Dies to Removal

Speaking of which, does anybody actually have verifiable evidence that this dispute has anything to do with Hasbro? I remember hearing an internet legend that they were basing the whole thing off third-party software and it would bite them in the ass one day, so I'm still on the fence that it's even about the cards.

Cockatrice allows the people who would spend $20 for their right to play to skip that step and just play it for free, though.

I don't know, as bad as MTGO is, I would go to it over Cockatrice if I was looking to do anything more than playtest against myself or a friend. Also, I like playing for prizes and making there be a point to the competition. I think there are a shit-ton of players with that mindset, and I imagine they all care as little about Cockatrice being free as me.

Jobs.

They're awesome like that.

Like bitching that the quality of Magic has declined over the years while simultaneously saying that you should have the ability to pay less (or in this case, nothing) to play the game doesn't make sense to me.

I mean, I guess I've already gone on record as saying I don't like 'trice so this shouldn't come as a shock, but (assuming this isn't just a smokescreen or unrelated and that WotC is in fact trying to shut them down) I think this train has been too long a'comin' as it is. I know first hand how hard it is for a brick-and-mortar to compete with an online as it is, and having that option be free as well really does hurt the bottom line of both the corporation and the tertiary company structure.