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<blockquote data-quote="Nomad4life" data-source="post: 2988759" data-attributes="member: 28645"><p>I don’t disagree with any of the points that have been made thus far… And yet I’ll still wager that I could walk into any gaming convention in the country and the majority of the gamers there would have a sense of what I mean by “old school” and “new school.” Sure, there is potential for miscommunication- and a wide range of it, no doubt. But the same is true for the concepts of “light” and “dark.” Are those terms of no value?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, I think there is a strong parallel between these points and the whole “pornography vs art” merry-go-round of rhetoric. There is ancient artwork that would fit our modern day concept of pornography, and modern day pornography that poses as art. Problematic, yes, but not a signal to throw such terms into the flames. Those terms still "mean" <em>something</em> to most people.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And here, I think, is the real problem. Not the terms “old” or “new” school themselves (as relative terms among casual gamers) but the use of these terms as a marketing ploy. In a way that I can’t really seem to articulate, it is almost as though the term “old school” caries with it a bizarre kind of “authenticity” as if to say “See? This product is <em>the real thing!</em>” That could be problematic.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nomad4life, post: 2988759, member: 28645"] I don’t disagree with any of the points that have been made thus far… And yet I’ll still wager that I could walk into any gaming convention in the country and the majority of the gamers there would have a sense of what I mean by “old school” and “new school.” Sure, there is potential for miscommunication- and a wide range of it, no doubt. But the same is true for the concepts of “light” and “dark.” Are those terms of no value? Well, I think there is a strong parallel between these points and the whole “pornography vs art” merry-go-round of rhetoric. There is ancient artwork that would fit our modern day concept of pornography, and modern day pornography that poses as art. Problematic, yes, but not a signal to throw such terms into the flames. Those terms still "mean" [I]something[/I] to most people. And here, I think, is the real problem. Not the terms “old” or “new” school themselves (as relative terms among casual gamers) but the use of these terms as a marketing ploy. In a way that I can’t really seem to articulate, it is almost as though the term “old school” caries with it a bizarre kind of “authenticity” as if to say “See? This product is [I]the real thing![/I]” That could be problematic. [/QUOTE]
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