"Skylanders toys are like a 108Kb unlock key that can be hoarded by former Beanie Babies speculators." I lost a fortune on those Beanie Babies! I'll never forget... One day at a toy store, I happened across "Pounce", the cat Beanie Baby. It captured my attention instantly. "I'll buy them all!" I said to no one in particular. A young boy was crying as I left the shelves bare, Pounce upon Pounce cradled in my arms. As it turned out, he wanted Pounce too... (Being the gentleman I was, I sold it to his mother at a 20% profit). I knew then, if one child would cry over it, this was going to be the product of the year!
(long comment part 2) I tried to tell my bosses, "We need to sell these! We MUST!" I shook Pounce, to make my point. "Look at this! Superb design, masterful craftsmanship! It shames our own products!" (We sold Furbies). "We must buy out TY! (the Beanie Baby company)", I pleaded. But no. The board of directors called me crazy. "No one wants toys that can't talk!" They said. "TY is nothing compared to us!" And I watched TY grow... and grow... Soon enough, Furbies were yesterday's news. Kids were putting them in microwaves for fun. Meanwhile, Beanie Babies had become the hit product I knew they would be. I resented TY... If only my company had bought them, we (and I) would be the ones swimming in money. I desperately wanted a piece of TY's success, the success I knew belonged to me... So I personally bought 30% of TY the moment their stock became public. If they could continue to grow, I wouldn't completely miss out! But disaster struck. It was uncovered that Beanie Babies were stuffed with asbestos. Worse yet, kids were eating them and getting poisoned. TY went down faster than those poor kids did. I lost all the money I had put into TY. Every penny. Anyway, money-based success in video games could be good. Remember Cow Clicker (the Facebook game)? Good times, collecting all those 100$ cows. If only they could fight your friends cows. I'd always win, if I had friends.
Are people reading the same article as me? It seems like a very convoluted way of saying "special editions are overpriced"... by calling it a lie? How is saying it is "for the fans" a "PR" lie? A collectors edition is for the fans! You may consider it a bad deal, but no one is lying there. It's a different issue entirely. Also, the phrase "suspension of disbelief" is way out of context here. It doesn't apply outside of games. If someone is excited for the next Madden, what are they suspending their disbelief of? Again, who's lying? Who? Maybe I'm insane. My doctor says so. My cat says so. So go ahead, tell me I'm wrong. I just... I don't know anymore.
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