Comments on: Monopoly Sells Its Soul to Visa http://www.moneycrashers.com/monopoly-sells-its-soul-to-visa/ Personal Finance Blog, Your Guide to Financial Fitness Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: seanhttp://www.moneycrashers.com/monopoly-sells-its-soul-to-visa/#comment-3026 sean Thu, 27 Jul 2006 16:41:05 +0000 http://moneycrashers.com/?p=164#comment-3026 I see I wasn't the only one who <a href="http://irregularpayments.com/2006/07/26/monopolys-soul-sold-to-visa/" title="my thoughts on Monopoly's change" rel="nofollow">noticed this news</a>. Definitely agree that this is a really sad move on Parker Brothers part; Visa, on the other hand: Wow, heck of a marketing move! <blockquote cite="Erik">They will get it ingrained into their head that swiping the card is so fun and so easy.</blockquote> This is where I think Parker Brothers is making a huge mistake. The fun part of playing Monopoly was playing with all that fake cash. I just can't see kids being all that excited to swipe a card through a card reader. Twenty years from now, if anyone's playing Monopoly anymore, I'll just about guarantee it won't be the VISA Debit Card version! I see I wasn’t the only one who noticed this news. Definitely agree that this is a really sad move on Parker Brothers part; Visa, on the other hand: Wow, heck of a marketing move!

They will get it ingrained into their head that swiping the card is so fun and so easy.

This is where I think Parker Brothers is making a huge mistake. The fun part of playing Monopoly was playing with all that fake cash. I just can’t see kids being all that excited to swipe a card through a card reader.

Twenty years from now, if anyone’s playing Monopoly anymore, I’ll just about guarantee it won’t be the VISA Debit Card version!

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