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My name is Thiago and this is Diario Planinauta
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A few days ago Professor, of Tolarian Community College
Magic: The Gathering World's biggest Channel
posted a video about the relationship between Wizards and the Latin American MTG community
with a strong focus on the Brazilian community.
This video happened because at the beginning of July the Professor was in Brazil
brought by CFB, to participate in the Grand Prix São Paulo 2018
which, by the way, was the biggest GP ever held in South America.
And in this video the Professor demonstrates a lot of what he could feel being in contact with the Brazilian community and some people from the neighboring countries to Brazil
and what he was able to conclude is that we are feeling abandoned by Wizards of The Coast.
While watching the teacher's video, I felt a mixed feelings
since I agree with a lot of what he said, but in many others, I felt that he got too heavy.
That's why I decided to make this video.
I do not want to rebut the Professor's video, on the contrary.
I am deeply grateful for a person like him to care so much to our community
asking Wizards to invest more in our community
What I'd actually like is to supplement your video with a few different points of view
about what the Professor saw and felt about this relationship we have between Wizards and our community
I play Magic, more or less, since 2000
when I first came into contact with the game on a bookstore stand at a Book Biennial.
Since then, I stopped and went back to playing several times
but only in 2015 I stepped for the first time in a Magic local game store
And it was in that year that my life began to change dramatically because of this game.
At the end of this year I had an amazing experience while visiting the Comic Con Experience
one of the largest Geeks / Nerds conventions in Latin America
where I had the pleasure of meeting Carol Moraes and André Manenti
the two largest producers of Magic content for Youtube in Brazil
And I only got it, because the Wizards invested in a gigantic stand
where people could know the game, learn to play
and even had several different attractions such as cosplayers
as our world champion Carlos Romao
and some icons of the nerd culture as Jovem Nerd and Azagal
And it was there, at that event that I decided to become a MTG content creator
It was seeing that stand, knowing those people, I decided to dive into the community
and share my vision and my experiences about the game.
The following year they came again with a stand, this time, even bigger
and instead of bring two youtubers
they brought many content creators
I can remember at least five that were there.
among other attractions too
These were the first two examples I had when returning to Magic
that yes, there is a concern and an investment in our community.
And I know that the Professor agrees to it.
But what I wanted to understand is why we passed on this feeling of total neglect for him
Maybe it's because we only have one GP per year in Brazil
and only two GPs in South America
That's true Wizards. We need more events being held here
Our community is too big for this.
But, we need to remember that last year, we had 2 GPs in Brazil
And this year the organization changed
now who organizes the events is the Channel Fireball
and maybe she came with caution this year
performing only one event
but I'm sure they were surprised positively with the size of the Brazilian community
and I have high hopes that next year we will have two or more GPs in Brazil
and furthermore, we can not forget a detail
last year was the first official coverage of a GP in Latin America
The GP was broadcast worldwide on the official Magic channel
and this year they repeated the dose, bringing more structure
making an even greater investment
and allowing a Brazilian team to be assembled to participate in this coverage
still talking about GP
we can not forget the creators' corner that happened last year
in Porto Alegre GP and in Sao Paulo GP
which was a great success, as the professor said
however, we can not say that we did not have any recognition
maybe we do not have the investment we would like
and nor the recognition that we would like
but to say that there was no recognition, neither is it true
In both GPs we went out in articles on the main page of the Wizards website
which was a good highlight for us, content creators
Perhaps this feeling of neglect is due to the innumerable delayed prereleases
or materials that do not arrive
or even at the cost we pay for Magic in Brazil
and, indeed Wizards, we had a lot of difficulties getting to play Magic
but can we just blame Wizards?
Many people try to give solutions to dribble the Brazilian bureaucracy
But we know that everything is not as easy as it seems
I do not think the solution is to Wizards send the material well in advance
First because we do not know how soon Wizards already sends this material
And second, even if she sends this material well in advance
nothing guarantees that this material will arrive in time
because we already had products that were stuck in customs for several years and years!
and it took a long time to get into the hands of the LGS
some other people think the solution would be to open a factory in Brazil
so that the cards can be printed here
but have you ever stopped to think about the cost of this really happening?
bring equipment and supplies from outside Brazil
set up a factory in Brazil, to produce the material here
it might not be worth the cost x benefit to Wizards
Many may feel abandoned because Wizards do not support stores as well.
But I do not agree too much with that either.
I think there has never been as much store support as there is today.
There are two distributors of material to meet the growing number of stores
and an exclusive team at the Brazilian office to serve the stores
Talking about it, did you know that on Thursday before the GP
It happened a workshop organized by the Wizards for all retailers in Brazil?
Yes, it happened! And that shows a bit of concern for our community.
Talkin about retailers support
it is very curious that the same community that complains of neglect by the company to their country
also have a huge difficulty supporting their stores
I know there are very bad stores and storekeepers around here.
and I do not want to generalize the subject
however I do see a large amount of players attending stores daily
that do not support them
Players who think that the store is forced to sell the cards at the lowest price
and complain if it makes a higher price
Hardly compliment when the store goes the extra mile to exceed your expectations
But when there is a problem, instead they try to resolve with the store, they complain openly on facebook.
Sometimes they spend all day in the store casually playing with friends and when it comes to buying a cookie, or soda, they go to the neighboring establishment!
Well, I do not want to go any further in this matter
but I would very much like you to reflect on this
Maybe we feel abandoned because we have one of the largest content producing communities in the world
with youtubers, podcasters, streamers, cosplayers
among many others
and even the, set after set
we have to "fight for crumbs"
since we received so few exclusive spoilers
which are a great tool to promote our channels
While in the United States, many content producers receive more than an exclusive spoiler per collection
and even smaller producers than the producers here, also receive
I understand that American content producers talk to the whole world.
while we Brazilians speak only to our community
but we know that when a video is well done
or when content production is well developed
this content reaches much more than just the Brazilian community
In addition, we do not have expressive support from Wizards USA regarding both physical and digital materials for the production of our content
I think this relationship still needs to improve a lot.
Still, we can not say that Wizards has abandoned content creators in Brazil
only in the last two years have I seen the Wizards take two content producers to the United States
to participate in major events
one of them even met Wizards headquarters
meeting people like Melissa DeTora, Mark Rosewater
other content creators from all over the world
this would be a dream for any Magic player
in addition we still had small actions
as in the release of Conspiracy 2 and Archenemy Nicol Bolas
where Wizards invited some content producers to take part in these actions
Anyway, it looks like I'm wanting to defend Wizards, but that's not the case
I just want to show another point of view about this relationship.
I want Wizards to invest more and more in Brazil
because I want to see my community growing more and more
And I, as a content creator, want Wizards to give us more and more support, so we can do a better job.
And although I think we deserve much more
I can not say that I feel neglected
When, in the short time I have inside the community
I see so many investments being made
I want to end this video thanking the Professor once more, for the caress for our community
and reinforce a phrase he quoted in his video
Here in Brazil, Magic is not about Wizards, Magic is about players
or rather, in my opinion, the Magic is about the community!
If you want our community to receive more support
do not forget to play your part too
support the good LGS, support the organizers of events
support the judges
support the various social inclusion groups
and support us as well, content creators
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