Which is what I said, House Rules. Some would adhere to it, others would just shun it. If he forced the change, though, like changing the filters for Movie Block to ban
Galadriel, LR (which is not a card released in the last sets, btw...), for instance, players that didn't like the change would reverse back to GCCG and bam, and just like that, we now have two places where people play online again. It might seem nice, but since it IS a dead game, stuff like that fragments the community (for instance, if I decided to play on GCCG because of it having the official formats, I wouldn't keep playing in two places, I'd just stick with one).
As for "there's nothing wrong with trying to balance the game", yes, there is, it is actually, by all meanings known, "wrong", as in "illegal", as in "they don't have the authority to do so". They can do it, but not force the change as "This is what Official Format X looks like now", but rather "Hey, we're having a Movie Block tournament where
LR is banned/changed, if anyone wants to join".
As for not having an Official source anymore, there's a difference between Official Sources not caring/not acting, and not existing. If you want to prove me wrong, I say get a company to release booster packs for a new LotR TCG Expansion. Use the pictures, the templates, the mechanics, etc. Sell it on the market, and see what happens when legal action is taken (and rest asured, if you do make any kind of profit - heck, even if you don't, depending on their legal department -, it
will be taken).
I just want to explain that my problem is not with having House Rules. My problem is all the threads that read "Hey, me and my friends are fixing format X, or card Y, and this is where we're at. Jump in! Let's change the game and make the formats better!", while they SHOULD read "Hey, me and my friends don't like X, Y or Z about the game, so we're making a playgroup that plays differently; if you want to try some games like that, give us a shout.".
The only way I'd actually endorse forcing a Format change by the Community, on Gemp, would be if every single person in the world that finds their way to either Gemp and/or here agreed to make change X. All of them. Not one exception. If one person said "but I like to play
LR in Movie Block!", then it's over, official format keeps
LR. Because THIS would actually asure we're changing stuff to make the game better to every single individual playing it, not catering to the likes and dislikes of whatever group of people doesn't like X, Y or Z.
Until someone actually tries to pull this off, I take it as my job to keep pointing out they can't do what they are doing, lest people that play and enjoy the game get pissed off when some wackadoodle change is implemented, like "Shadow players can't add burdens anymore", because a group of individuals decided they didn't like to play against Corruption because it messes up the ARB decks, and since no one spoke against it, it "passed".
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