FreedomFrisbee
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There's like nothing that suggests they're making less and less money. The current playerbase of MTGO isn't moving to Arena. Probably ever.
But there's plenty to suggest this? The very existence of Arena suggests that WotC feels that the MTGO zenith has long since been reached, curtailing redemption could be seen as them needing to shore up the margins, they haven't released numbers on it for years, they don't get separate advertising budget anymore, treasure chests and all the changes brought with them could also be seen as needing to shore up the margins, the list goes on and on.
I could buy that the current playerbase might largely not transfer over, but only because I didn't realize how small the MTGO playerbase actually was. 300k registered users in 2007, 5 years after release. That's an abysmal number for something as huge as magic and speaks to the fundamental failure of MTGO as a whole. Zero players could transfer over and it would still be hilariously easy for Arena to eclipse MTGO.