Ever since we started The Game Crafter we’ve always been marching toward better and better quality. We’re steadily improving our technology, our processes, and every aspect of our products. Today we’re announcing two huge advancements along those lines.

First, as of yesterday, we printed our last card on our existing card stock. As of order #69282 (and possibly some orders before that) we’re pleased to announce that we’ve upgraded to the very best card stock in the industry. It is used by thousands of games around the world, including ever popular trading card games. It is a 305 gsm card stock with a black core. The black core means that no light can pass through the cards regardless of what is or is not printed on either side. It has vastly better edge quality, slightly better finish, shuffles better, and has better snap than our old card stock. We did a blind test by printing a deck of cards using our old stock and this new stock and let unsuspecting people give us their opinions of each. 100% of the people in the blind test preferred the new card stock. Not only that, but you (our community) have voted for us to make this switch.

This new card stock is slightly more expensive, so that got us to take a look at what we were charging for all of our components that are made out of card stock. The good news is that the vast majority of them were priced exactly correctly.

However, some were priced too low. For example, our poker cards have been the same price since we started the service 6 years ago, despite our costs going up dramatically over that time. As a result some prices have had to increase. As an example, our poker cards will be increasing in price by about half a cent each.

But just as some prices had to increase, some prices were able to come down a bit. For example, our square cards were able to drop by almost a cent a piece. Our servers are recalculating the costs of all your games now, but you can check out the new pricing on our pricing page.

As the headline said, card stock is not the only thing improving. Today we can also announce that our bulk pricing has just gotten ridiculously better. First and foremost, you now get our best bulk price at 100 units rather than 250 units! In addition, bulk pricing starts at 10 copies instead of 25. And finally, bulk pricing discounts get better at intervals of 10 rather than 50 copies. As an example, you used to have to buy 50 copies to get the discount you can now achieve at only 20 copies!

Enjoy!