You don't need to take it so personally.

I am confused though. On the one hand you defend them not producing a completion set because it would hurt sales of core sets, and then in the same breath you explain how a completion set would be pointless because people would just buy a second core anyway. That seems to be contradictory to me, and I still think that the player base should have the option.

Also, you're kind of twisting the issue. I'm not talking about being dissatisfied with the core set (I'm not, its a great product) I'm talking about people being dissatisfied with the lack of options to complete it. How many of those people who happily advocate a second core set would do so if the option for a completion set was available? Obviously we can only speculate, but the current way people are reacting to what is available doesn't tell you how they would if further options presented themselves, a fact you seem to acknowledge when you talk about harming sales.

I think the game is great. I'm trying to point out ways it could be better.

All I have actually said is 1) The coreset does not contain complete playsets 2) It would be cost effective to produce a completion pack at a profitable mark up 3) I do not find the current state of affairs to be very customer friendly

To clear up confusion:

As the sole purpose of a completion pack is to cannibalize sales of the Core Set, FFG is unlikely to go to the expense of producing any such product. If they did, I would still recommend to new players that a second core set is a better dollar value. These two opinions aren't in conflict. (Although I would predict a new dissatisfied vocal minority who would immediately cry foul that FFG is gouging their customers because on top of the Completion Pack and initial Core Set, a whole other Core Set is needed to get additional copies of cards like Hedge Fund, Diesel, Easy Mark, Beanstalk Royalties, Armitage, Sure Gamble, and other staple cards. There are always malcontents.)

1) a necessary sacrifice in order to have playable decks for all factions in a single box while keeping it at an accessible price point.

2) I very much doubt it it would be profitable for the game line as a whole or for that product in particular. If it were, FFG would have tried it for one of their many LCGs, and they never have.

3) You're free to feel that way but you're being shortsighted and selfish. You want the company to go to the additional expense (and the overhead for a new product of this scale is not insignificant) to bring out a product that lets you need to spend less money overall.

And when it's pointed out that from a business perspective this is a stupid idea, your response is "you're substituting apathy for wisdom" because I'm not jumping on your particular bandwagon. The company exists to make money. From a business perspective a product that is workable enough to get the customer engaged but not so self-contained that they only ever have to buy one or two other products...that's what the core set is supposed to do. The Core set should leave people both loving the game but also unsatisfied with only that batch of product. If being profitable is "not very customer friendly" I really have no consolation to offer you.

So as far as taking it personally goes, I'm not taking it personally, I'm just not dignifying an argument that basically boils down to someone saying "nuh-UH!"