Anyone else frustrated with the amount of people who are opening and playing with WotF cards?

I am one of them so... no ?

3 hours ago, bsquinlan said:

Anyone else frustrated with the amount of people who are opening and playing with WotF cards?

I can't fault the people opening product if they have been given the opportunity. I can't say I would pass up that opportunity either, with so much anticipation built up and such. However, I do think we are having a local gaming store issue right now. FFG (finally!) published a release date and discussed the issue a bit in the open in a move that I will call - better late than never. FFG is able to get product to distributors and they make sure it doesn't get impacted by the holiday shipping issue many of us feared would cause a delay...and they are repaid for those efforts by (seemingly multiple) LGSs that are breaking street date.

The real question is: what will the consequences be? How will they handle this situation? Breaking street date seems to be a big deal when it comes to different industries (video games, DVD/Blu Ray, etc) and I assume the same is true in the gaming industry. I'm not sure what the consequence will be...but I am in favor of something happening.

This is why generally if street date is broken you are supposed to be hush hush about it. If i ever get something early from my FLGS they always say "Just dont go onto FB or anything about it yet"

I'm very pleased product is out, only so that I can start planning on what singles to buy/hunt for when the set launches. I wish FFG would do a full set spoiler like Magic does the week before the set launches, but since they don't... I'm okay with this.

3 hours ago, Atomisk said:

I'm very pleased product is out, only so that I can start planning on what singles to buy/hunt for when the set launches. I wish FFG would do a full set spoiler like Magic does the week before the set launches, but since they don't... I'm okay with this.

I agree.

Atleast on SWDestiny website, about half of WOTF is spoiled. Half. Thats a lot of cards that could be absolutely insane we have no clue exists yet.

To be honest, is anyone surprised? With a street date of July 5, which may as well be a national holiday for all the "work" that's going to get done, can anyone really fault stores for cracking them early? Half or more of their customers that would normally be around for a launch date are going to be on vacation.

49 minutes ago, kingbobb said:

To be honest, is anyone surprised? With a street date of July 5, which may as well be a national holiday for all the "work" that's going to get done, can anyone really fault stores for cracking them early? Half or more of their customers that would normally be around for a launch date are going to be on vacation.

In fairness, people might just not even realize what the "official street date" is, since this might be the literal first time ever an FFG product showed up early or even on time, and not late.