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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 6382842" data-attributes="member: 45197"><p>Hiya.</p><p></p><p> I'm with Talath on this. I think the problem isn't that WotC is "dropping the ball", so much as it is the current (last 15'ish years) development of the "gotta have it <em>NOW</em>" generation.</p><p></p><p> I have worked with some young (less than 30 years old) folks...and having any (and I mean <em>any</em>) semblance of patience is frequently lacking in them. I like to challenge them sometimes; I bet them they can't just sit there for 5 minutes. No reading, no cell phone checking, no surfing the net...nothing. Just sit there in the lobby and watch people go by (I work in a major hotel here). So far, nobody has been able to do it. Not a single one of them...most of them refuse to even try because just the *thought* of having to wait makes them uncomfortable.</p><p></p><p> Anyway, I think this is the same situation. We have folks who grew up in the "always on, always available, always instant" generation. When the world doesn't conform to what they learned as "normal" growing up, it's a bit...lets say disconcerting...and they react negatively. So, when they have to wait for the MM to come out, then wait again for the DMG, then wait again for the GM Screen, etc, they get agitated because they aren't used to it. They never really learned patience because they never really had to. Then again, they could just be people without much patience to begin with...and that crosses all age, upbringing, etc, barriers.</p><p></p><p> Me? I could easily wait another year for the MM to come out, then another year after that for the DMG. Wouldn't bother me at all...it'd only be two years...and that is a rather short amount of time in the big picture.</p><p></p><p> One more thing; I think 3.x really messed up with how the game is perceived. When it first came out I predicted this; I predicted that the way WotC was modeling their product line, it was going to create role-players that didn't actually "get" the game. I basically said it was teaching the next generation to buy products to add/fix stuff in the game...as opposed to what all us old farts learned (which was to add/fix stuff ourselves for our own games). So now we have the situation we have; people so used to having product at their finger tips for every little thing, and now when they don't have it they don't know what to do, leading to frustration, and they blame WotC for that frustration. Add that to the "always on/instant gratification" generation and you have the beginning of a perfect storm. </p><p></p><p>^_^</p><p></p><p>Paul L. Ming</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pming, post: 6382842, member: 45197"] Hiya. I'm with Talath on this. I think the problem isn't that WotC is "dropping the ball", so much as it is the current (last 15'ish years) development of the "gotta have it [I]NOW[/I]" generation. I have worked with some young (less than 30 years old) folks...and having any (and I mean [I]any[/I]) semblance of patience is frequently lacking in them. I like to challenge them sometimes; I bet them they can't just sit there for 5 minutes. No reading, no cell phone checking, no surfing the net...nothing. Just sit there in the lobby and watch people go by (I work in a major hotel here). So far, nobody has been able to do it. Not a single one of them...most of them refuse to even try because just the *thought* of having to wait makes them uncomfortable. Anyway, I think this is the same situation. We have folks who grew up in the "always on, always available, always instant" generation. When the world doesn't conform to what they learned as "normal" growing up, it's a bit...lets say disconcerting...and they react negatively. So, when they have to wait for the MM to come out, then wait again for the DMG, then wait again for the GM Screen, etc, they get agitated because they aren't used to it. They never really learned patience because they never really had to. Then again, they could just be people without much patience to begin with...and that crosses all age, upbringing, etc, barriers. Me? I could easily wait another year for the MM to come out, then another year after that for the DMG. Wouldn't bother me at all...it'd only be two years...and that is a rather short amount of time in the big picture. One more thing; I think 3.x really messed up with how the game is perceived. When it first came out I predicted this; I predicted that the way WotC was modeling their product line, it was going to create role-players that didn't actually "get" the game. I basically said it was teaching the next generation to buy products to add/fix stuff in the game...as opposed to what all us old farts learned (which was to add/fix stuff ourselves for our own games). So now we have the situation we have; people so used to having product at their finger tips for every little thing, and now when they don't have it they don't know what to do, leading to frustration, and they blame WotC for that frustration. Add that to the "always on/instant gratification" generation and you have the beginning of a perfect storm. ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]
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