Japanese card shop management sim "You’re a Scalper, Aren’t you?" lets you interrogate suspected scalpers and choose between profits and moral integrity
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What does 'scalper' mean in this context? I only know what it means for event tickets
There's a big problem of scalpers buying collectable cards and re-selling them for ridiculous prices. It's especially a problem for Pokemon TCG since that has a massive kid audience who are being unfairly shut out.
Nintendo are the real bastards here, trading cards are gambling for children. Every "rare" card costs 10 yen to print but are kept artificially scarce to boost corporate profits at the expense of child gambling.
I've never understood why card gamers don't like proxies. Now everyone can play.
I've never understood TCGs when games that don't rely on gambling exist and are really fun.
Proxies seem like the only reasonable way to play a TCG.
Me and my buddies play a lot of magic.
We only use proxies, while sticking to all the other rules. $0!
Same basic concept, someone who buys up as much of a limited, high demand item as possible and resells it at significant markup.
capitalism
They are people who should be scalped in the cartel context.
With Earthbound inspired trippy BG effects? Hmm... interesting!
Nice. Here's the Steam url in case anyone wants to wishlist it.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4774580/Youre_a_Scalper_Arent_You/
I couldn't find it on Itch or Gog.
lol, a capitalism simulator, from a “small business.”
How do you cause explosions?