It’s not really children that make these price tags. Trading card games have pretty lucrative secondary markets with the values based on the cards potential in strategy and tournament play as well as scarcity.
Personally I’m a magic the gathering guy and the main reason I don’t do tourney is is that I neither can nor would pay $120 for the 4 cards I need to make my deck competitive.
It’s not really children that make these price tags. Trading card games have pretty lucrative secondary markets with the values based on the cards potential in strategy and tournament play as well as scarcity.
Personally I’m a magic the gathering guy and the main reason I don’t do tourney is is that I neither can nor would pay $120 for the 4 cards I need to make my deck competitive.
I know the value isn’t actually placed by children, but it kind of indirectly is because that’s literally half their market.
Or at least it used to be a few years ago.
Either way people are shit.