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Quote:Yep, but then again you and I are not the main target audience. Ten years ago you might have been more likely to switch.

And there's exactly the error.

Who can afford D&D stuff? I would say, sure as hell not students.

D&D has aged with it's audience, I would say.

Younger people play younger, more economic games.

That's why Pathfinder and Warhammer 40,000 are doing so well right now.

Quote:Seems like you are making alot out of complaints against a single product.

Yeah, because it was the ONE gaming book I really looked out for.

Can't remember when I have been bummed about something so trivial since my teenage days.


Quote:This is what I have been trying to convince people on other Old School Forums about. What WotC does affects us all. Thing is, D&D is the product most likely to recruit new people into the hobby. Without new blood, conventions will dry up, game designers will look elsewhere for jobs instead of selling awesome products through minor companies for no profit in hope of one day working for WotC (where you actually get paid!), people stop coming to forums and in the end it is ove

And there I highly disagree. The hobby is not depending on D&D.
If the D&D brand retires, other games will take its place.

The thing is, though, the hobby is changing from a high-profile, higly expensive game exercise,
to a more basic and economic, "casual" nature.

Online piracy, as well as all the legally free stuff is covering any gamer's basic needs already.

(Just think of the completely free Talislanta library in combination with an ipad.)

Books to be bought have to be exceptionally good. Wizbro has simply overslept the change of the tide.
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