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1 year ago ::
Apr 08, 2012 - 5:35PM
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Humility is a social skill.
Indeed, nice one! 
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1 year ago ::
Apr 08, 2012 - 6:51PM
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Humility is quite the dilemma. In either case, being humiliated by others or being the one to humiliate them, it's immature, unprofessional, and there are serious consequences to it. In the workplace, this is absolutely unacceptable. Anyone who works with other people, if they justify humiliation, they're sure to be a danger to the team. That's not what teamwork is about. A team does not divide against themselves; a team must operate as one, together in perfect synchronicity.
it really shouldn't surprise me that you don't know what humility means.
He might be taking his meaning of humility from...well... Humility  . That dragon sure looks humiliated.
Besides not knowing what humility means, I don't know any numbers, but I'd imagine that getting any kind of job at Wizards would be tough. It would be very competetive. Looking at dozens (if not more) of resumes, the easiest way to eliminate a decent number of them would be to dismiss those without degrees as unqualified applicants. Yes, you might be highly intelligent, personable, and creative, but you have not taken the steps needed to be a professional in the field. Like it was previously stated, go out and get a degree (a useful one, unless you enjoy working at a book store or something). If you don't get into Wizards, hey, at least you have a degree.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 09, 2012 - 5:37AM
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In those card design tournaments that Wizards hosts occasionally, YMtCers actually don't do very well.
You can't be so sure they don't do well, it's my personal theory that Kenneth Nagle was a YMtC member prior to his employ with the company. In an interview he even admits to being a regular on the forums.
What you say could be true to a great degree. You know, this thread could easily prove why YMtC memebers don't do well. It's possible that they've fallen from the grace of the R&D team due to extensive tests of their character (for example, how they respond to negative critism). After all, Wizard's office is a very tight space, and being around a negative or socially unpleasant person is the last thing they would want. As you can see, they aren't too nice to me. You can't pick and choose when it comes to this kind of action, there's no justification, there is only do and do not. As far as they're concerned, if you guys would treat me like this, you have the potential to be this sour to everyone; in this process, one becomes identified as a danger to themselves and others, exempting oneself from a job which requires extensive social skills and social tolerance. In summery, when it comes to socially demanding jobs, nice guys (or gals) finish first.
Based on my own experience, it could be that they lack the prequisite understanding in the sense that Wizards (and Magic: the Gathering) isn't just a game, it's a business. In my experience with them, they apply no aspect, no sense of business intelligence in any of their individual designs or product developments. They're just putting together abilities they think are fun or powerful, naming them, and finally tagging the design's unique ability set (operating function) as their own. On a side-note, they don't often apply the most fundamental aspect of the game's principal, flavor. Their designs (more often than not) have no flavor, no meaning, no theory as to how it might exist realistically. Again, they're just abilities thrown together and named. I can tell you that alone can exempt someone because that's the most important element when it comes to the creative side of the game. Juxtaposed with the business side you'll that flavor "counts as half your grade" because product appeal is the most important element for the business aspect.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 09, 2012 - 5:42AM
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This post is really just to spread awareness of the position. Maybe someone here on the forums (like Zammm) would like to take a shot at it. It's also for others to share their opinions of the subject. It's not complain and it's not to display any aspect of supremacy (in the sense that despite I lack a college degree, I'm more than qualified for the job in all aspects of business and social intelligence).
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1 year ago ::
Apr 09, 2012 - 8:35AM
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One lesson: Humility is not the same as humiliation.
Another lesson: When in doubt, get a college degree. Even when not in doubt, get a college degree.
Yet another lesson: No one likes being around a person with a huge chip on his shoulder.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 09, 2012 - 8:40AM
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This post must be a parody of the entitlement mindset that is so pervasive in our current culture. Do you have any idea how many people in the world would like to make a full-time career out of this game? Surely you realize that Wizards can afford to be very picky. They could surely require a Masters in a technical field and have no trouble filling the position. Here's an idea: if you want your dream job, go out and get the qualifications instead of whining to a discussion forum about how Wizards is really missing out on a great "people person" because they have the audacity to require some level of demonstrated technical competence.
Then to further suggest that they have not business sense... Have you the foggiest clue how long they've sustained a very profitable business? Have you been to events and seen how many people of all ages pour into stores to exchange dollars for little cards with pretty pictures? Your criticism of their business practice is so remarkably out of touch with reality that I'm forced to conclude the post is a parody.
I'm not quite sure why I felt compelled to respond. I'm sure that was it was two wasted minutes.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 09, 2012 - 8:40AM
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I’ve removed content from this thread because trolling/baiting and harassment are a violations of the Code of Conduct. You can review the Code here: www.wizards.com/Company/About.aspx?x=wz_...Please keep your posts polite, on-topic, and refrain from making personal attacks.You are welcome to disagree with one another but please do so respectfully and constructively. If you wish to report a post for Code of Conduct violation, click on the “Report Post” button above the post and this will submit your report to the moderators on duty.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 09, 2012 - 3:02PM
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One lesson: Humility is not the same as humiliation.
Another lesson: When in doubt, get a college degree. Even when not in doubt, get a college degree.
Yet another lesson: No one likes being around a person with a huge chip on his shoulder.
I'm really sorry you feel that way about me. I do my best to always bring out the best in myself and to bring out the best in others. I see all people as equal (being capable of equal good as well as equal evil) and the defining factor in that, is if that person chooses to bring out the best or worse in him or herself (or if that person allows another to bring out the best or worst in themselves). Wizards is an equal opportunity affirmative action employer. I'm pretty sure that means they do not discriminate and they base a person's worthiness on performance rather than merit.
I'm not accusing anyone, this is only for speculation, but it's a underground rumor that Alexis Janson was a victim of discrimination and Kenneth Nagle was the recipient of unfair favoritism. In my investigation (of the contest), Nagle's designs weren't anywhere near worth the grade they were given; this judgement is based on my many years of experience with Magic as a player, and my culmination of experience with Magic as a designer and developer). In closing, college isn't the answer always. God forbid that I would give a college degree more credit than it is worth or that I would let earning a college degree go to my head (in the case that I did earn one).
This post must be a parody of the entitlement mindset that is so pervasive in our current culture. Do you have any idea how many people in the world would like to make a full-time career out of this game? Surely you realize that Wizards can afford to be very picky. They could surely require a Masters in a technical field and have no trouble filling the position. Here's an idea: if you want your dream job, go out and get the qualifications instead of whining to a discussion forum about how Wizards is really missing out on a great "people person" because they have the audacity to require some level of demonstrated technical competence.
Then to further suggest that they have not business sense... Have you the foggiest clue how long they've sustained a very profitable business? Have you been to events and seen how many people of all ages pour into stores to exchange dollars for little cards with pretty pictures? Your criticism of their business practice is so remarkably out of touch with reality that I'm forced to conclude the post is a parody.
I'm not quite sure why I felt compelled to respond. I'm sure that was it was two wasted minutes.
I see that you've taken personal something I have said. So first of all, I'm really sorry for upsetting you. To address the issues you've stated, I want you to understand that I'm not obsessed over Magic in anyway. It's not really my dream job in any sense. Next I want you to take into consideration that which I have stated above (the company policy regarding employ). To answer the next statement in sequence, I was referring to the YMtC members and not to Wizards in the statement I made regarding "business intelligence". If you want, could you please give that post another read-over to understand it better?
However, in regards to Magic itself (as a business), they were very lucky to make it out of the Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh! craze alive. Those two games nearly laid Magic to rest. The only thing that kept the game around was the fact that the company (Wizards of the Coast) had a sentimental value for the Magic brand, and they kept the product in production despite the sales losses and at their expense.
Finally, I want to again state that I am in no way complaining. Also, I am in no way attempting to insinuate that the company needs me in any form.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 10, 2012 - 8:20PM
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This post is really just to spread awareness of the position. Maybe someone here on the forums (like Zammm) would like to take a shot at it. It's also for others to share their opinions of the subject. It's not complain and it's not to display any aspect of supremacy (in the sense that despite I lack a college degree, I'm more than qualified for the job in all aspects of business and social intelligence).
It is abundantly clear from your original post that the reason you started the thread was to lament how you will not be able to get the job, and even if you did how unprepared you are to accept the offer. Obviously a post that should have never been made and an immediate disqualifier for the job; if you will post about topics like this with your own personal information for all of us to pick apart, there is no way you can be trusted with sensitive corporate knowledge regardless of how qualified you see yourself to be.
If jobs like this one are what you want to do as a professional, then you need to grind it out. Work on a degree, gain some relevant experience and move to an area where this type of work is hiring (Austin, Seattle, San Fran, etc). In other words, earn the oppurtunity instead of whining.
That's what the rest of us have to do. If you aren't willing then keep buying those lottery tickets, maybe you will win and you can go work for WOTC as a free intern.
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1 year ago ::
Apr 10, 2012 - 9:36PM
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Wizards is an equal opportunity affirmative action employer. I'm pretty sure that means they do not discriminate and they base a person's worthiness on performance rather than merit.
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Honestly this really makes it look like you also dont know the meanings of 'equal opportunity', 'discrimination', and 'merit'. You arent being discriminated against if you are being judged based on what you personally have or havent done. It is entirely acceptable for them to not consider people who arent qualified.
Completing some form of post high school education has pretty much become a necessity. Kids are coming out of high schools having difficulty with basic algebra and english. It doesnt even have to be an education directly relevant to your desired position. Even just the fact that you were willing to go to classes and do work shows that you are at least probably reliable enough to show up at work everyday and do your job.
What performance do you want them to judge you on? Posting your musings on a forum is not the same as actually having a job doing game design. Basically you're saying they should just hire anyone who applies regardless of qualifications and then decide whether or not to fire them based on how well they do.
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