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Title: Magic apparently is at ~$200 million in revenue per year Post by: Ingmar on February 08, 2012, 03:18:38 PM http://www.icv2.com/articles/news/22100.html
That's a pretty impressive amount of business. Would love to see what their operating expenses are. Title: Re: Magic apparently is at ~$200 million in revenue per year Post by: schild on February 08, 2012, 03:38:24 PM I can nearly guarantee the cottage industry that is second-hand Magic cards is bigger than $200M.
I feel like Wizards is missing out not having a giant global store and interconnected app for all other stores to plug into and sell shit while Wizards takes a tiny % of each sale. Title: Re: Magic apparently is at ~$200 million in revenue per year Post by: Thrawn on February 08, 2012, 05:14:49 PM I feel like Wizards is missing out not having a giant global store and interconnected app for all other stores to plug into and sell shit while Wizards takes a tiny % of each sale. This + a really good MTGO marketplace for even more money they are practically throwing away. Or a better overall MTGO in general I guess. :uhrr: Title: Re: Magic apparently is at ~$200 million in revenue per year Post by: naum on February 08, 2012, 07:11:12 PM I can nearly guarantee the cottage industry that is second-hand Magic cards is bigger than $200M. I feel like Wizards is missing out not having a giant global store and interconnected app for all other stores to plug into and sell shit while Wizards takes a tiny % of each sale. I remember spending a December in St. Paul some years ago, visiting the Mall of America on one really frigid night and stumbled into a Wizards of the Coast store… …I believe they went out of business a few months later. It was as large as any game store I can ever remember being in, and was filled with nothing but Magic, D&D, and related trinkets… Title: Re: Magic apparently is at ~$200 million in revenue per year Post by: Miasma on February 08, 2012, 07:48:02 PM I can't imagine the expense of printing out cards is too much so 200 million in revenue is probably pretty great.
Title: Re: Magic apparently is at ~$200 million in revenue per year Post by: Thrawn on February 08, 2012, 08:16:06 PM I can't imagine the expense of printing out cards is too much so 200 million in revenue is probably pretty great. Also consider that drafts and other events are firing constantly in MTGO pretty much 24/7. These packs cost just as much as the real ones but are just digital product. Unless I'm missing something obvious Magic Online has got to be a huge cash cow for Wizards which has always made me even more bitter that it's so crappy in so many ways. |