This may seem silly to you but this is WOTC being smart. Current fans are not players, they do not play D&D.
Sometime ago it became cool to be "geeky" what ever the fuck that suppose to mean, worse thing that ever happened to our hobbies. Now we have "gamers" that played 10 games of LoL 5 years ago but they identify as gamers.
How do non-players become geeks? They buy trash, they will buy mugs and t-shirts and salt shakers and advertise how much of a geek they are.
Why try to cater to those who play and care for the game, those are hard to please, they are demanding and they are putting a lot more thought in to games then the creators are willing to.
Case in point, a girl that I've known for more then a decade had a lot of star wars and harry potter stuff on her desk. Obviously I started talking to her about SW, she did not even know who Palpatine was. She and those like her are the money makers that are easily pleased.
They make the brand their identity, despite not knowing anything about it, and then chase people who actually cared about the brand away, until it is nothing but a hollow corporate shell of itself. Then they move onto the next brand like locusts.
Yep.. we used to have hobbies where we can keep to ourselves. I suppose because its the few things we cherished. Most people that liked gaming/anime/pop culture were legit nerds that got bullied at school by bullies that arent into gaming/anime/pop culture... now. Now.... these bullies are liking anime/gaming/pop cause its cool and are bullying us out.
Mugs are one thing cause fans like that crap, and the mlp crap is simply considered pushing it because bronies, but this kiss level crap is probably worse than what cod is doing, and as far as I know Gene Simmons may have tried to play it smart.
Edit: I do not know why I was downvoted because I was saying this shit is stupid.
MLP crap sells really well, generally speaking. G4 at least. I see no issue with catering to bronies because it's a tried and true (and sincere) market, if a slightly out-of-date one, and as /tg/ knows, /mlp/ does like their tabletop games. I think /tg/ made three of 'em for /mlp/, though I can only remember the name of Poor Unfortunate Foals off-hand.
Selling out to normies is the real concern. Both show drift from their central audience, but one is showing drift towards another niche product, keeping the focus still narrow and dedicated, while the other drifts towards generalities and vagaries of the mass market, diluting the product.
You can sell a chocolate cake to people who like mint without compromising the idea of a chocolate cake, but you can't sell one to a mass market that contains people who simply do not like chocolate, so you remove all chocolate from it. A mint chocolate cake is still a chocolate cake. A chocolate-removed chocolate cake isn't one.
I know this is off topic, but I am trying to avoid a very hot topic that causes infighting in the .win network despite the fact most users on kia2 came from reddit and had no issue with it in the past...
This may seem silly to you but this is WOTC being smart. Current fans are not players, they do not play D&D.
Sometime ago it became cool to be "geeky" what ever the fuck that suppose to mean, worse thing that ever happened to our hobbies. Now we have "gamers" that played 10 games of LoL 5 years ago but they identify as gamers.
How do non-players become geeks? They buy trash, they will buy mugs and t-shirts and salt shakers and advertise how much of a geek they are.
Why try to cater to those who play and care for the game, those are hard to please, they are demanding and they are putting a lot more thought in to games then the creators are willing to.
Case in point, a girl that I've known for more then a decade had a lot of star wars and harry potter stuff on her desk. Obviously I started talking to her about SW, she did not even know who Palpatine was. She and those like her are the money makers that are easily pleased.
imagine voluntarily talking to a woman
Yes, tits are known to suck the IQ from a person.
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More and more I miss the days when it wasn’t cool to be nerdy. It has to end right? A lot of habits should eventually go back to being niche right?
I hope so, but it may be to many years away. Happy new years.
Happy New Years!
They make the brand their identity, despite not knowing anything about it, and then chase people who actually cared about the brand away, until it is nothing but a hollow corporate shell of itself. Then they move onto the next brand like locusts.
Gatekeep what you love.
Yep.. we used to have hobbies where we can keep to ourselves. I suppose because its the few things we cherished. Most people that liked gaming/anime/pop culture were legit nerds that got bullied at school by bullies that arent into gaming/anime/pop culture... now. Now.... these bullies are liking anime/gaming/pop cause its cool and are bullying us out.
Mugs are one thing cause fans like that crap, and the mlp crap is simply considered pushing it because bronies, but this kiss level crap is probably worse than what cod is doing, and as far as I know Gene Simmons may have tried to play it smart.
Edit: I do not know why I was downvoted because I was saying this shit is stupid.
MLP crap sells really well, generally speaking. G4 at least. I see no issue with catering to bronies because it's a tried and true (and sincere) market, if a slightly out-of-date one, and as /tg/ knows, /mlp/ does like their tabletop games. I think /tg/ made three of 'em for /mlp/, though I can only remember the name of Poor Unfortunate Foals off-hand.
Selling out to normies is the real concern. Both show drift from their central audience, but one is showing drift towards another niche product, keeping the focus still narrow and dedicated, while the other drifts towards generalities and vagaries of the mass market, diluting the product.
You can sell a chocolate cake to people who like mint without compromising the idea of a chocolate cake, but you can't sell one to a mass market that contains people who simply do not like chocolate, so you remove all chocolate from it. A mint chocolate cake is still a chocolate cake. A chocolate-removed chocolate cake isn't one.
I agree, do not know why I was downvoted though...
For a person who gets into as many shit flinging contests as you do, I don't see why you still pay attention to votes.
I know this is off topic, but I am trying to avoid a very hot topic that causes infighting in the .win network despite the fact most users on kia2 came from reddit and had no issue with it in the past...
I just don't get you Able. You never see me complaining about downvoat score. Ever. I don't care.
For as many strong opinions as you seem to have, I would think you'd be past caring too.
No idea. Shills? Gene Simmons fans?