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<blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5835485" data-attributes="member: 54877"><p>More useful information is handy. The more you can get, the better. But there are two different kinds of data here, and the more they get mixed up, the less reliable both are. There are the recordings of preferences, perhaps with a bit of followup for how serious those preferences are held and other related bits. With those, you want a reliable market survey, or you might as well admit you are throwing darts. </p><p> </p><p>Then there is involved discussion, which may tease out nuances--both for the participants in the discussion and the designers. These are potentially valuable as insights or areas to explore, not hard examples of what will sell or not sell. </p><p> </p><p>Whether those posturing will "buckle" or refuse to buy is irrelevant. Loud posturing by some minority doesn't tell you squat about what will sell--except perhaps that if you see enough of it you probably do need to do a serious market survey to see how widespread that posture is. Other than that signal, the posturing is counter-productive, because it is the exact opposite of looking for any kind of nuance or insight in the design itself. <strong>Once the signal has been sent, all future posturing is harmful</strong>. So the real question for any useful posturing is whether the signal has been received or not.</p><p> </p><p>This is, BTW, exactly the same kind of relation all the OGL hoopla has with doing a good design. Some people don't care. Some people care a lot. Some people care for the reasons they state. Others have unstated agenda(s). How licensing is handled can, of course, affect sales a little or a lot--and thus it matters. But it says nothing about the inherent quality of the new edition itself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crazy Jerome, post: 5835485, member: 54877"] More useful information is handy. The more you can get, the better. But there are two different kinds of data here, and the more they get mixed up, the less reliable both are. There are the recordings of preferences, perhaps with a bit of followup for how serious those preferences are held and other related bits. With those, you want a reliable market survey, or you might as well admit you are throwing darts. Then there is involved discussion, which may tease out nuances--both for the participants in the discussion and the designers. These are potentially valuable as insights or areas to explore, not hard examples of what will sell or not sell. Whether those posturing will "buckle" or refuse to buy is irrelevant. Loud posturing by some minority doesn't tell you squat about what will sell--except perhaps that if you see enough of it you probably do need to do a serious market survey to see how widespread that posture is. Other than that signal, the posturing is counter-productive, because it is the exact opposite of looking for any kind of nuance or insight in the design itself. [B]Once the signal has been sent, all future posturing is harmful[/B]. So the real question for any useful posturing is whether the signal has been received or not. This is, BTW, exactly the same kind of relation all the OGL hoopla has with doing a good design. Some people don't care. Some people care a lot. Some people care for the reasons they state. Others have unstated agenda(s). How licensing is handled can, of course, affect sales a little or a lot--and thus it matters. But it says nothing about the inherent quality of the new edition itself. [/QUOTE]
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