For me, it's all about the spin. Critiquing the game is fine, productive, and fun. It's when there is this explicit or implied tone of "FFG F*ed up and I know what they did wrong and how to fix it" in a thread that I have to think: (a) then find a new game to play, or (b) if you're so savvy, why don't you have an amazing game on the market with your name on it.

Because quite frankly IP control is done BY the rich, FOR the rich, and its very hard for someone with good ideas to get into the industry without ANY money behind it, even if they have better ideas . Ive seen TON of great ideas on here, but because the mouse owns SW, we are lost without those ideas.

You don't need to buy an intellectual property to make a great game. M:TG was nothing until it was something.

In fact, buying an IP is cheating/irrelevant; all you are getting is instant brand recognition; you still need to invent a great game or the whole project is an expensive wonder-dud.