by Cartomancer
louper wrote:
If you value your time, then you spend the $28 (in the USA, anyway) to buy it and move on. If you can buy materials, design all the cards, and get it all made for less than $28 after taking into account the hours you'll spend doing the cards alone, well, be my guest.
I do value my time, but being unemployed at the moment I probably have more of it to go around than others might. It's also £30 over here and, not $28. So there is a reasonable mark-up on it comparatively.. Then there are the two expansions which are about £12 a pop.
So being unemployed and facing a price-tag of £54 or there abouts, a big part of me personally would consider this a worthwhile enterprise (as I own a printer loaded with plenty of toner, and have a couple of packs of cardstock just gathering dust). That's just me though, and I did make it clear that I wasn't suggesting that this was a viable course of action for everyone. It just struck me that the ease with which this game in particular could be reproduced is amazing.
I do however also take on board your point that a lot of games could easily be reproduced if you were so inclined.