Decided to change this post, I dont think my sarcasm would have provided any good.
I suppose we get caught up in the fascination of condition and PSA 10, with the rarity and monetary value that comes with it. OP is just sharing that he got a nice pull with an annoying print line on it. I wonder if when we tore open packs as kids if wed ever had noticed something like this. Im pretty sure not.
Its almost sad to think about how im guilty myself of addressing what condition something is in as almost first priority. First binder I bought about 5 years ago I had for 2-3 years before I even took a card out to see its condition. It didn’t exist in my head to do so
Collecting sports cards is more of an American thing or at least way more popular in America so popular they created a company called PSA which stands for Professional Sports Authenticator in 1991 and other grading companies.
I think everyone would be disappointed with a print line like that,including players and even kids.Any thing that effect the front of the card or picture
If it was a bit of edge wear or whiting on the back or off center maybe not as much.
Nothing is wrong with your sarcasm. You made valid points on the realities of Pokemon cards. Its freshing to see something outside of the hivemind.
There is just alot of people in the Pokemon world now a days that live in a bubble. They dont think like a regular person. They have unrealistic standards and always expect perfection. Where this attitude came from, I have no idea, but people involved with this game forget that its made by human beings. And all human beings have flaws.
I would call it the “Instagram mentality”, to where everyone should look perfect and happy all the time, which is so bogus that its not even funny. Pokemon cards shouldnt be like instagram models and need to look all perfect. They are just pieces of cardboard that exist and nothing more.
There are definitely more collectors of pokemon than players, casual or otherwise. But to say that no one plays the TCG when TCG tournaments are literally the source of some of the rarest and most desirable cards in existence is a bit silly I think.
Ah yes, wanting your card to not have print lines or damage out of the pack = living in a bubble & not thinking like a regular person. Ostracize those who disagree with your opinion! Why won’t someone please think of the poor companies?!
The cards are printed by machines, not handmade. What’s even better is that people actually do support the human beings! I think it’s amazing Atsuko Nishida designed Pikachu and Mitsuhiro Arita made this blessed illustration; that’s why it hurts when the art is obstructed by a print line. Also, no one said they wanted perfection, in fact, I actually specified the opposite in my previous post. The Instagram comparison is super wonky imo and I really don’t wanna go into detail about why it’s wonky because I honestly shouldn’t even have to. Whose expecting who to just shut up and be happy all the time with what we get?
On the contrary! Most of the reprint list are tournament playable cards that the competitive community is clamoring to get their hands on for building old decks, like Rocket’s Admin, Luxray/Garchomp, Donphan Prime, Mew EX, Tapu Lele. I’ve seen a lot of people disappointed with the selection for this list but it’s an incredible homage to 20+ years of competitive TCG.
And if some of these cards end up with bad print quality, even more for the players
English cards, at least those I own, don’t have those print lines. I’m not saying that English cards all don’t have print lines, clearly the OP already shows that, but that it’s ridiculous that every single Japanese V and VMAX I got from different sellers (4) had print lines. With textured cards, maybe you could say it’s the way JP prints them, but V cards are pretty much the same no?
So I don’t see how bad English quality can still avoid print lines and how great quality Japanese will always have print lines. And maybe I’m exaggerating off of a small data pool, but 15-20 cards from 10 different sets and 4 different sellers is ridiculous, and they are NM like I said, besides the print lines, that seem to only bother myself I guess, from the feedback from here.
Children will see it and either not care or show their friends and wonder what it is. And I guess everyone is bringing up PSA 9 because everyone is basically saying if it gets graded it’ll get a 9. Which, the only issue I can see with it is the printline which is not that big of deal, especially if the card is going to get printed to hell.
Even without the party Pika, this is the weirdest thread on E4 by a mile. Guy literally complains about printlines and mediocre print quality (the most mind-numbingly obvious, understandable, non-fleeting, non-ethereal thing ever) and gets torn a new one for it. So much for complaining about outrage.
Alternate thread:
“Hello there Mr Raves, too bad you got a printline, but modern is not really printed worse than it was before, and you should expect some degree of it on at least 30%-50% of the cards you pull, you wouldn’t be happy if every card came without them”
“Yes Sir I know Sir, I was just venting because it was a pretty chase card with such a gnarly printline Sir”
“Hohoho, don’t we all sometimes! Meeeerrry Christmas!”
Also, there is a difference between established flaws and flaws so rare and unique we call them errors. Naturally, it is all subject to individual preference, interpretation and appreciation, but there is distinction nonetheless.
You all know this of course, you just pretend like you don’t understand the distinction (or even weirder, don’t approve, as if it is somehow hypocritical to enjoy one production flaw but not another) for purposes of “winning” this thread.
Kids eyesight is actually BETTER than ours in many ways. The idea of a kid seeing a printline, comparing it to his friends card without the printline and going “hmm, I wonder what this weird extraterrestrial thing of wonderment is, maybe I pulled the cubist funkist interpretation of the card, it certainly doesn’t bother me at all, I have never painted a picture in my sketch book before so I don’t have a concept of what it means to draw a line right across a painting” is laughable.
