Is there anything which can "destroy" the hobby?

[JoshHamilton]

Ebola

 

[lambert58]

It's all about the money. Once companies can't make money on something they leave it behind. Maybe someone tries to come in to save it, but look at other past things like rubik's cube. Sure they make them still, but they can't be found everywhere & they quality is not the same. And yes Baseball cards have been around a lot longer, but nowadays, businesses move faster than ever and if something doesn't make a profit it will be cut from production.

 

[Dilferules]

Something ridiculous like $100-$500 packs. Oh no wait...

Something ridiculous like tons of cards so rare that nobody can ever have the hope of a complete collection of their favorite player. Oh no wait...

Something ridiculous like a dozen barely distinguishable parallels in every product that make it more of 'an exercise in tedious frustration' than 'fun' to collect your favorite player/team. Oh no wait...

 

[mlbsalltimegreats]

Something ridiculous like $100-$500 packs. Oh no wait...

Something ridiculous like tons of cards so rare that nobody can ever have the hope of a complete collection of their favorite player. Oh no wait...

Something ridiculous like a dozen barely distinguishable parallels in every product that make it more of 'an exercise in tedious frustration' than 'fun' to collect your favorite player/team. Oh no wait...

I Think if Topps were to Monopolize eventually it would destroy the Hobby...Oh no wait....

 

[predatorkj]

I don't think, like many others, the hobby could truly be destroyed. In my estimation, the biggest kick in the gut would be if it came out that all gu/autos were fake. I think at this point the gu is kind of a lost cause anyways but the autos would be a big deal. Sure there would still be set collectors and insert/parallel collectors. But it would do some heavy damage to an already unsteady hobby.

 

[gamecockfanatic]

only the end of the human race (literally).....

 

[mrmopar]

bumping this one too...we discuss this now and again. Hobby is still here...

 

[Shaggy]

bumping this one too...we discuss this now and again. Hobby is still here...

Crazy how this thread first started in 2014. No one know 6 years later it would blow up!

 

[smapdi]

2020 was genuinely weird. For about 72 hours after they canceled the NBA season, everyone was predicting dark days for the hobby, including me. The explosion that happened coming out of that was the exact opposite and completely unexpected. Things have returned to something close to pre-pandemic normal, except pricing and print runs of new product are still warped. I suspect they'll be cutting back on print runs this year. No going back on the pricing, though. They like those monies.

 

[Dilferules]

Oh how innocent I was when I was annoyed by only one dozen parallels per product.

 

[OakAth]

Two words, digital cards.