I don't know how other sites do this, but spoilers for VSRealms and the Yahoo Group are unpaid. The "payment" we get is being able to see the card first and do the initial investigation into how the card fits into the overall game.

When someone posts the spoiler and discusses this, it is taking this away from me. I am no longer Indiana Jones exploring uncharted territory. I'm Fred Jones standing in line with the rest of the crowd.

And if a discussion has already taken place about the card? And all the points you were going to make have already been made?

I can hear someone saying "Come up with something new to say about the card." Sure. I'll also come up with something new to say about Bat-Signal, Puppet Master and Terra while I'm at it.

Not applicable. If you posted the equivalent for a card, it'd be something like "DJL-022 - Superman, Avatar of Peace", not "DJL-022 - Superman, Avatar of Peace (Rare): Team Superman/JLA, Flight/Range 17/16, Ally: Whenever a protected character you control becomes powered-up, it has invulnerability this attack. Leader: Characters adjacent to Superman have flight."

Well, not all of us are professional writers. Some of us have day jobs, families and lives and fit this in when we can. For me, saying things that are 'groundbreaking' is my crutch that makes up for my inability to devote real time to writing up card previews.

Speaking of real work, it's time for me to get back to it.

Even If they are spoiled and I may or my not have seen it, Seeing the Artwork will still be christmas for me, stu.
I do have to agree that all the anticipation about new cards is taken away, negating that that new-car-smell-pre-release experience.:(

It's really unfortunate, this whole spoiler debacle. it makes UDE look like schmucks, and I really don't think that they are schmucks. But yeah, the spoiler is out, and whether you like it or not, there is no stopping it.

Like Abu Ghraib prison photos, some people think they shouldn't be seen, some think they should...but they're out there. Pointing fingers at people who post spoilers or info from the spoilers isn't going to help. It's too late for anything, except for UDE to be more careful about who has access to the spoilers in the future.

This phenomena is not exclusive to card games. The music industry suffers from bootleggers and advance copies and promos becoming "spoiled." It's tough to keep fanatics from finding out about the things they are fanatic about.

Get used to it. Information wants to be known. It's not our problem to police ourselves here. It's UDE's problem to keep its secrets secret.

Does metagame have more hits to its site than this thread? If so then nothing is spoiled....

Dont look at it if you dont want to. All this it ruins it for me. Your the one looking at it in the first place.

who in their right mind wouldnt want to see it?

nonsense.

Quoted for truth.

I have to wonder myself how much the impact of the rumors of certain players getting the spoiler early had on this whole scandal.

Metegame lays down the Law!

If you go to their site, you will see a Policy Update saying that UDE Members who fail to forward and destroy spoiler info on a new set (before official spoiler release obviously) within a 24 hour period will be suspended from play.

Get them Boy! Sic 'em! (laughs to self)

i think that it is a shame that the list got spoiled but thats happened, of course ive read it but i think rather than complain about how its unfair to the writers cause some one has leaked it eariler the writers should be looking at ude saying "what the hell happend!!".
Do ppl who are fans of the game want to see the list?? of cause they do if they didnt why would they be intrested in the game, and once some one has seen it of course there gunna spoil it they want to talk about it its natural, i jus hope that ude learn from this and try to keep better raps on there sets in the future.